Moody Bible Institute - Arch Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Mr. Roy Shervy, Registrar and Director of Admissions Miss Alice Lindsley, Assistant Mr. Allen Biddle, Assistant ADMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION Fourth floor of Crowell Hall received a new look this year as the office of the Registrar and Director of Admissions and the Student Record office became one unit. Mr. Shervy, Director, expressed satisfaction with the new arrangement. Besides keeping the records of all the students who have ever attended the Institute, the Registration and Admissions Office registered Day and Evening School students, gave academic advice, helped stu- dents arrange schedules and made certain that the necessary requirements were met for graduation. In the keeping of these records Mr. Shervy was aided by Mr. Allen Biddle, Assistant Registrar and Director of Admissions; Miss Alice E. Heck and Miss Alice Lindsley, assistants to the Registrar; and Miss Vivian Martin, Assistant to the Director of Admissions. Miss Vivian Martin, Assistant Miss Alice Heck, assistant

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Mrs. LeNelle Ballbach heads the department of Dean of Women, and also acts as an adviser to the Women’s Student Council. Student housing is managed by Miss Mary Waldo. School academics is under the direction of Mr. James Adams.

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This view of the open stacks leads from mis- sionary biography to political science. Miss Henrietta Watts, assistant librarian, checks the card catalogue in research project. In between studies, Jim McGee catches up on his sleep. Librarians, Miss Anna Regier, Miss Virginia Lee, and Miss Henrietta Watts, coordi- nate library facilities to student needs. LIBRARY Often packed in the evenings, the reading and refer- ence room on the fifth floor of Crowell Hall gives priority to Bible, theology, Christian Education, and the Christian ministries. Circulation in this library of ovér 65,000 volumes averaged 400 volumes per week, or a total of around 32,000 this year. In addi- tion to the regular library books, a Chicago Public Library deposit lending service was frequently used. The Periodical Room on the sixth floor received over 400 current periodicals and several Chicago daily newspapers. Dr. Culbertson has observed that ‘‘next to the faculty, the library is the most important part of the school.” ; Accordingly, the Institute with Dr. Alfred Martin as adviser to the library, continued its search for a head librarian. The library staff consists of: Miss Anna Regier, Assistant Librarian; Miss Henrietta Watts, in charge of cataloguing and ordering books; Miss Virginia Lee, Supervisor of the Periodical Room; and ten student assistants. 19