Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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are spent here going over details necessary before the student can receive his degree. Whether you were here one year or four, you saw the campus in nearly every stage of growth and bloom: sweltering summer days, the first cool days of October, grey November heralding sleet and snow, February vascillating between cold and warmth, rough March, then spring at last. Through it all the grounds crew, headed by Mr. Harry Johnson, the ianitors, directed by Mr. Dick Lawsong and the men in the heating plant were performing various duties. A tree has been cut here, a new one planted there, evergreens enhance the new facade of Fell Hall, every- where we see evidences that the campus caretakers were never idle, always keeping us proud of the ap- pearance of our college. All bills must be paid through Miss Ferne Rose- manf' Those who had actual dealings with the finance realized a little more than most the tremendous task she had, the cashier's window, to most of us, was merely a place to pay our fees on registration day or to cash a small reimbursement from home. just across the corridor in the room marked simply Business Oflicefl Mr. Lawrence Irvin, business man- ager, Mrs. Ruth Clem, and Miss Helen Russell dis- posed of pyramids of work such as only a university can create. The Hrst time you remember seeing the Bureau of Appointments was that day when you, a freshman, were taken on a campus tour. It meant little then, but you noticed later that seniors and some sophomores made daily pilgrimages to that mecca of job-seekers. Credentials,. recommendations, pictures,-these were the headaches turned over to Mr. John Carrington, Director of the Bureau, to become the very thing we were looking for. Miss Sarah Fox and Mrs. Lorene Back Row-Mr. Irvin, Mr. Mead. 0 Front Row-Mr. Law- son, Mr. johnson, Mr. Speers. 0 Miss Brenneman, Regis- trar. 0 Mrs, Meeker, Mr. Carrington, and Miss Fox-The Bureau of Appointments. 0 Mrs. Clem and Mr. Irvin-The Business Oiiice. Meeker helped to keep the ofiice running smoothly. Only those intimately connected with these people can know the tremendous amount of work required for the eiiicient functioning of these oHices. NVithout their vigilancy, Normal students could not enjoy smooth sailing in their college careers. Everyone has a distinctive activity, yet everyone cooperates in a spirit well worthy of commendation. So it is that janitor, registrar, oiiice girl, business manager-all these and more-work together to make our college life a path unhampered by falling boulders and impassable ruts. ' fe.. -a .Q '.,,. ,, fig? pw-V' 19

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,-xg' r, 'Q 63' ' ROUTI E ADMINISTRATIO Smooth Fzmcfionifztg Depemlf on Them The men and women behind the scenes: The reg- istrar sitting at her desk in a neat oflice, the grounds crew mowing the campus, the cashier handling the money, the fireman working in the heating plant, the school doctor feeling the pulse of the student body, the night watchman passing long hours in vacated buildings, the business manager with all sorts of financial matters, the recorder who can tell us Qand hiring principalsb every grade we made, the director of the Bureau of Appointments, who is besieged by men wanting teachers and teachers wanting men wanting teachers,-these are the persons who make up that indispensable part of a university, the routine administration. The registrar, Miss Elsie Brenneman, and the re- corder, Miss Ferne Melrose, share the same office in Old Main where enormous file cabinets make us gape at the thought of facts they contain. What a dis- covery to find that on a desk not too far from the door was a card for each person in school, telling where he or she was at what hour. What nerve it took to stroll in p2lSt Miss Elba Zanni and Hip through the alphabetized unknowns until that certain name stared up at you, and you found that Fate hadiplaced you both in North Hall at the same time! Long hours Dr. Cooper, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Breeding XVatch Campus Health. 0 Tellaro, Cole, Prange, Dippel, and Gathmann. 0 Registration Day-Get Your Text Books Early! 0 Bark Ro-w-lVest, Miss Sluder, Miss Melrose, Bauer, Mrs. King. 0 Front R0-waMiss Boundy, Miss Zanni, Miss Russell, Miss Roseman.

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li Blick Rau'-Xlitchell, Catlin, Klershon. 0 .lfliddle Rau'-Johnson, Runge, XVheeler, Clark, Fish, Porter, Mr. Hibler, Callahan. 0 From Rout-Finley, DePew, Orr, Stephens, Rieger. UDE T COUNCIL If Had Four Prexier- and L1 Finger In Eveagf Pie Student Council was a panorama of elections, vacan- cies, and re-elections this year with four presidents and four vice-presidents holding oflice. Only stable member of the vascillating ofhcers was secretary ,lean Nlitchell. President Bob Yon Bergen commenced Council activities of the 1942-43 school term and under- took the responsibility of organizing the Council, as- signing duties to various boards and committees and getting the work started. Holding Council membership were seniors: jim Finley, Patil Harris, Bernice Danforth, and Ray Runge. The juniors elected Emilie Dutczak, Evelyn Rieger, Dorothy Catlin, and jean Mitchell. Sophomores boasted .lane Caviezel, Phil Porter, Corinne Clark, and Dick Dorsey, and the freshman representatives were 20 Dick Price, Mary jane Fish, Lem Callahan, and Robert Mershon. Ex-oilicio members were Viderfe editor Avery Stephens and Illdex editor Lois Wheeler. Came Homecoming and the Council members were found busily working on plans for the alumni registra- tion booth. Congenial Mr. Francis Hiblcr, sponsor of the Student Council, was the originator of the Good Neighbor policy between l.S.N.U. and Wesleyan. The Council saw to it that the Homecoming bonfire was a Normal monopoly by drafting the usupermenl' of the campus to guard it. Another offspring was The blinxuapropaganda for the pep session before the lVesleyan game. Von Bergen announced his withdrawal from school on November 16 because of ill health and resigned as president. His position was filled by vice-president jim Finley. Rusty Harris succeeded jim as Vice-presi- dent. .lim took charge with characteristic efliciency and the activities of the Student Council were sys-