Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Everett, Gardiner, Wells, Woodman Marshall, Dunning, Loomis WALKER MEMORIAL COMMITTEE JouN BartTot DuNNING, Chairman Epwarp Fisk EVERETT, JR. Joun Dick GARDINER WesLey Horace Loomis, III ARS function of the Walker Memorial Committee has been stated and restated over a period of many years. This year there is a change in the duties of this body. Its primary work, of course, is to govern the social activities and meetings in the Walker Memorial Building. By a vote of the Insti- tute Committee, the duties formerly carried on by the Points System Committee have been incorporated in those of the Walker Memorial Committee. The Points system is a device for control- ling the positions which an individual stu- dent can hold in the various extra-curricular activities. It is based upon the assumption rc WaLTON HarPER MARSHALL, JR. ARTHUR Epwarp WELLS, JR. HARRISON SPRING WOODMAN (resigned 8 ) that to hold a large number of offices is not fair either to the individual holding them or to the organizations. The duties already laid out for the Walker Memorial Committee are and probably familiar to most of our readers. The committee has charge of the assign- ment of all rooms in the Walker Memorial Building as well as the Hangar Gym. They supervise all the social functions. The Walker Memorial Committee is truly an influence in undergraduate life and does much to enhance the benefits available in the student center, the Walker Memorial Building. numerous

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DISS A IV Ballard, Manson, Holladay, Bemis BUDGET COMMITTEE Louis PHinippE Houuapay, III, Chairman Joun BurLer BALLARD Bre of the financial conservatism of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, it is o f particular interest to observe how the large financial requirements of the many campus activities are controlled. For this purpose, the constitution devised by the student government has provided the Bud- get Committee, which is given authoritative control over the expenditures of all activ- ities which derive their revenue from tuition allowances, and which has supervisory con- trol over the self-supporting activities. From the tuition received each term by the Institute a definite amount is set aside and turned over to the Institute Committee to be spent on such activities as do not operate in revenue-producing fields. ‘These activities at the beginning of the year sub- mit budgets, which are checked and con- solidated by the Budget Committee, and reported to the Institute Committee. The Hat LAwA.LuL Bemis 153 ARTHUR JAMES MANSON, JR. approved budget then becomes the financial control for the year’s activities, and the committee spends the rest of the year in checked and controlling these budgets, in addition to supervising, at all times, the activities which are self-supporting. Since the M. I. T. Athletic Association is the largest user of funds, its treasurer is ex- officio a member of the committee, while the treasurer of the Institute committee is the president of the Budget Committee. Two juniors, elected by the Executive Commit- tee, form the remainder of the Budget Com- mittee, thus forming a compact organiza- tion to deal with the financial problems which arise. During this year, every activity has been curtailed because of prevailing conditions, but by adequate control, the Committee has been able to allow the most possible money to be devoted to student uses.

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Pflanz, Dauphiné King, Stockmayer, Daley, Loomis JUNIOR PROM COMMITTEE WaLTER Huco StockMayEr, Chairman PauLt WiLuiAM DALEY ‘THONET CHARLES DAUPHINE Henry Fiske Kine WesLEY Horace Loomrs, III Louis WILL1AM PFLANZ, JR. ae? outstanding features marked the Jun- ior Prom of the class of 1935. The first was that for the first time in many years, the Prom was held at the Statler Hotel, rather than in the Walker Memorial. The second was the discarding of the custom of selecting a Prom girl from some show play- ing in downtown Boston. More than 250 couples attended the dance, and, in the hallowed manner, con- tinued dancing until the gray dawn; many fraternity houses served Prom breakfasts to conclude the dance. A tea-dance in Walker Memorial and many private dances on Sat- urday evening concluded the most brilliant ey) week-end of the social season at Technology. Mal Hallett and his orchestra furnished the music for the dance, which began at ten- thirty March 16, and continued, including the traditional Prom dinner, until four- thirty in the morning. Another unusual feature was the broadcasting of this or- chestra’s music over a local radio station during the dance. Members of the Junior Prom Committee, who planned, prepared and carried out this dance, were: Walter Stockmayer, president of the junior class; Wesley Loomis, II; Henry F. King, Louis W. Pflanz, Paul W. Daley and Thonet C. Dauphine.