Missouri State University - Ozarko Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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Q years, has He was l946, and 'ies as the ervice, the it service, a, and the ze, Kansas, five years. iall, Butler, 2 school at ary grades school at zation, and ork at the ship of the BY HILLS Secretary DQllll Oli LUCDMQH Since l92O the office of the Dean of Women has been in the capable hands of Dean Bertha Wells. Her tasks have multiplied as the years pass, until now she not only is the women students' advisor, but also is in charge of social affairs on the campus, advises students in their search for rooms, assigns lockers and distributes locker keys, and conducts an increasingly larger lost and found department in her office. A A DEAN BERTHA WELLS Perhaps the most difficult of her duties is the VIRGINIA POTTS Secretary to the Dean supervision of social affairs, which includes assign- ing rooms for meetings, keeping of an accurate date book of social activities, and chaperoning the formal dances given by the social organizations. Miss Wells handles all these problems with dis- patch, and helps immeasurably in the smooth run- ning of school activities. Dean Wells is from north Missouri, attended Kirksville High School, and received her A. B. from Drury in l9l5. She taught Creek and Latin in Lamar High School before coming here to teach languages. I5

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l i l L l 5 l f 5 , 5 . l i il l l l i il l I i l l l I i l l , i l l l llDlVlllWl5TlQllllVC DCllli A Dean Willard j. Graff, in a brief two years, has become practically an institution at SMS. He was installed as Administrative Dean in August, l946, and has had delegated to him such responsibilities as the general administration of student personnel service, the administration of field service, placement service, alumni activities and records, mail service, and the coordination of public relations. DEAN Wil-1-ARD 1, GRAM: Dean Graff came here from Independence, Kansas, where he was superintendent of schools for five years. Before that he held similar positions at Marshall, Butler, and Dixon, Missouri. Having begun his teaching career in the elementary grades of a village school at LaRussell, Missouri, he had experienced first-hand educational problems from ..the elementary grades through the junior college level before coming here. Dean Craft was born and reared on a farm near Carthage, Missouri, and attended high school at Sarcoxie, Missouri. He graduated from this school in l93O, with a degree of B. S. in Education, and received his Masters degree at the University of Missouri in I934. He also did graduate work at the University of Colorado, and served for two years as chairman of the Committee on Citizenship of the National Education Association. MISS ELIZABETH HOLT MRS. HAZEL PONDER Alumni Secretary Appointment Bureau ' RUIZY HILLS sslstant ecretary i Vl RC Secretar

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For a number of year, Mr. Lee H. Morris has capably filled the posi- tion of business manager of the college. He has numerous duties, such as custodian of physical prop- erty of the coHege, supervhor of the plant system, director of the operating staff, purchasing agent for the college, general supervisor of the cafeteria, the college book- store and similar auxiliary enter- prises, and director of student em- ployment. This last duty perhaps brings Mr. Morris in closest contact with the student body, for he hires S l L.H.MORMS Business Manager acts as Treasurer of the Board of Regents. QUSIHQSS lVlllllLflGQl2 -QUDITGIZ l i Presiding in the college auditor's office is Mr. W. ,lj Auditor Baker, who has for some time successfully handled the money on this campus. Those first-of-the-term incidental fees are received in his office, as well as special fees col- lected from music students and those taking laboratory work. ln addition to collecting the various fees, he also acts as a disbursing and depositing agent for the school. All 1 N checks from the college l PAUL KEENE Assistant Auditor go through his office, and depart- mental funds are deposited there, along with funds of campus organi- zations. Mr. Baker makes a quar- terly financial report to both state and national officials, acts as Secre- tary of the Board of Regents, audits institutional and group accounts, is the administrator of staff retirement funds and the hospitalization plan, and handles other details relating to financial records of the college. the student help necessary to the ISABEL- BAYLESS Secretary successful operation of a school of this size. ln addition to the above duties Mr. Morris W. I. BAKER DR. RICHARD R. XJ Guidance Dir guidance p charge of t of Naval P enlisted cl, Associatior Welfare V VQ A bus Office, a d advisement protect the lAMES B. ll Veteran's P