Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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C. W. Kreger Martha Jaques G. P. Wright Administrative Assistant Auditor Student Organizations Director News Bureau W. C. Smyser R. L. Duncan H. C. Christofferson Registrar Comptroller Acting Director ot Admissions

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i Dr Robert J. Miner Miss Bertha M. Emerson D INISTR TI E OFFICER A new administrative position arose on the campus this year with the appointment of Dr. Robert J. Miner as Director of Student Affairs. Dr. Miner has had a rich and varied background which began with his under graduate days at Dartmouth, where he received the A.B. degree. Following that he took graduate work in the School of Business and Finance, receiving his Masters in business education. After four years travelling about the country for a Boston importing firm, he was appointed Comptroller of Pacific University, Forest, Oregon. This was a general exposure to education, involving registrar work, teaching Freshman English, and supervising residence halls. His next stop was Chicago, where he worked as sales engineer with the firm of W. H. Miner, Inc. With a desire to return to guidance and personnel work, he entered Columbia and took his Doctorate in education with a maior in student coun- seling. Evidence of his capacity for work is seen in his holding three part- time counseling iobs while working on his Doctorate. Associated with Miami since 1923, Bertha M. Emerson, Associate Director of Student Affairs, has seen the University in its most expanding years. Miss Emerson's academic career began at Simmons College, from which she received the B.S. degree in l9lO. After working as secretarial assistant to President Lowell at Harvard, she taught in the secretarial department at Simmons, and was later connected with the alumni office of Carleton Col- lege, Minnesota. During the same year in which she came to Miami, she was awarded the Masters degree at Radcliffe College. One of her early proiects here was organizing the Secretarial Studies Department. From i923 to l943, when the navy took over many dormitories here, she was head of hall at Wells. ln addition, she has taught in the Secretarial Studies Department.

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THE E IOR CLASS lT's been wonderTull There were Those TirsT hecTic, hoppy bewildered doys ol Treshmon week, Those TirsT closses, Terrifying in Their impersonoliry, The TirsT sighT of lvliomi's compus, ond oll The Times you goT losT, your TirsT doTe oT TuTTy's, your TirsT Ivliomi doince, The TirsT Time grodes come ouT. And Then The Tolling snow, ChrisTmos vocoTion, losT srudy oT The dorm, The long winTer doldrums Till spring vocorion when sTudies seemed so hopelessly dull. Perhops dll This hoppened Tour yeors ogo. Perhops iT wos Tive or six or seven-ond The disTonT scene becomes even dimmer seen ocross The Tields ol Normondy or The beoches of Gucidoconol. Bur now iT oll rushes bock in iTs Tull Tlovor, ond mingled wiTh iT ond superimposed on iT ore The oTher yeors, The some cycle wiTh yeT ci difference here ond There. And ThoT losT yeor! You hurried Then, con- sciously or nor, To suck The losT sweeTness from everyThing you did, becouse you knew iT wos The end oT someThing wonderful. You sTudied hord-perhops To bring up your poinT overoge Tor Phi BeTo Koppo or groduoTe school, perhops becouse eorning oi living is sud- denly so imporTonT, perhops becouse you ore o veTeron ond know now whoT on educoTion meons os no oTher con. You worked hord oT your ocTiviTies. As heods of mosT of The compus ocTiviTies, you TelT ThoT sud- denly oill The responsibiliTy ol The universiTy resTed on your shoulders. As IvlorTor Boords ond O.D.K.'s you knew ThoT The younger compus generoTion wos woTching, ThoT you musT corry on ThoT indefinoble buT universolly TelT someThing, The lvliomi TrodiTion. Your closs oTTicers ond your Homecoming royolTy, Bill Shonk ond Eileen BolTon, were represenTciTive of you, ond so The compus cheered Them, You looked obouT you, memorizing every siTe, unconsciously moking your mind o phoTogroph olbum Tor yeors ohecid. You donced ogoin ond ogoiin-you hounTed oll The compus hongouTs. Perhops The one who wos wiTh you will olwciys remoin so To help you remember. Perhops o Tew yeors from now, should you chonce To meeT, you'll hove Trouble recognizing him or her. IT wos youTh ond liTe, ond you enjoyed iT while you could. And now, suddenly, iT's over. You're sTcinding The Big Doy fs,