James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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ment of the instrument was under the direct supervision of Mr. Whitelegg. It has a clear, brilliant tone and is ever an incentive for intelligent musical appreciation. Maury Hall has been known to us as Maury Science Hall, and through the years the growing student body and even more expandmg home economics body resulted in very crowded working conditions in this build- ing. So, half of the science department was moved to Wilson Hall to enable the home economics department to expand. Besides expansion in room space, a complete dietetics laboratory was built in Dr. Phillips ' s lab room. The equipment consists of a six-unit kitchen. Each unit, which will take care of four students, is built in the shape of a U. There are base and wall cabinets where from blackboards we once copied dissecting instructions. The working surfaces are of pressed wood, the sinks of stainless enamel with swinging faucets. A new gas refrigerator, three gas stoves, and three hot point electric ranges are part of the six-unit plan. Black and white with a suggestion of red is the color scheme. Flower Shop China is an artistic addition. We remember how, between Wilson and Reed, the wind used to nearly blow us down to Main Street, and how, when going from Wilson to Reed or Maury on stormy days, we would be rained upon. How, then, could we fail to realize progress in the new cloisters bu;lt there for our comfort. In the spring we noticed beauty in the ground imp o ements laid out by landscape designers. Few of us, however, noticed the copper piping in Maury Hall. A d we scarcely realize the steady, gradual addition of books into our library, numbering about one thousand books a year. We have also made progress in personnel. Dr. Paul Hounchell came to our Education department from the State Teachers College of Alabama, and a little later. Miss Lois Pearman, from the State Teachers College at Denton, Texas, joined the staff of Home Economics teachers. Miss Mona Lyon, from Peru State Teachers College, Nebraska, is our instructor in commercial subjects and handwriting, offered for the first time this year. He who does not advance, falls back; he who steps is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up. . . . Miss LoclfWooJ at the organ . . . Another view of the organ . . ■ Scene in the new Home Eco- nomics laboratory . . . Junior Hall . . . The Cloisters. 15

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Samuel Page Duke, President PROGRESS, 1936-37 IT is from the far-seeing eye and far-reaching ideals of the president of a college that progress in giving the students cultural and material advantages originates. Persevering effort and a genuine regard for the happiness of others must be, it seems, the qualities of a person who procures the thmgs of beauty and useful- ness for the enjoyment of those who work m contact with him. The first addition to campus this year was the new dormitory. Junior Hall. With an enrollment of eight hundred nineteen, six hundred eighty-seven of whom were boarding students, it was greatly needed. A thing of beauty it is! Those of us who watched the ant-like transportation of clothing and personal belongings of Seniors from Johnston Hall to the new Senior Hall, and who marvelled at the charm of such a college residence, can well appreciate the consideration Dr. Duke gave to making Junior Hall even more charming. The rather confining color scheme of green walls and doors was transformed in Junior Hall to brown, which has made the choice of room decoration unrestricted. Two upholstered chairs, sound-proof plaster, and three hundred dollars worth of evergreens around the dormitory are other significant items. Thirty-nine pictures were acquired from the Federal Arts Project of the P. W. A. Half of these pictures are oil and water color paintings, and half are etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts. The pictures were given to the college as an indefinite loan from the government. They have been hung in places frequented by large groups of people, and are essential cultural additions to our campus. Probably the most appreciated evidence of cultural progress, and that most enjoyed, is the new Moeler organ, which was installed in Wilson Auditorium in January. The organ was designed by R. O. Whitelegg and built by M. P. Moeler, Hagerstown, Maryland. It is a beautiful four-manual organ of three thousand four hundred pipes, varying in size from three-eighths of an inch to sixteen feet in length. The tonal develop- 14

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THE OFFICERS OF WALTER J. GIFFOKI) PH.n. Dean of the College IIKXRV A. CONVERSE PH.D. Rci istrar ANNIE U. rt)t)K A. M . Dean of Women RAYMOND C. DINGLEDINE Secretary of the Faculty CLARA C. TURNER A. M . ictitian and Director of the Dininn Hall H. K. CIBBONS ILL. Biisini ss Manager BESS T. HAMAKER RACHEL F. WEEMS MARY R. WAPLES PEARL O ' NEAL Assistant to the Business M . I). R.N. B.A. Manaarr School l hyslcian School Nurse Librarian 16