Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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D R AND MRS S O P E R Comfort, hospitality, and good cheer fairly radiate from this picture of Dr. and Mrs. Soper, taken in their home. It is this very feeling of welcome and ease that impresses visitors in the Soper home. As a hostess, Mrs. Soper ' s gracious and frankly unassuming manner is a pleasing complement to Dr. Soper ' s genial- ity. By virtue of her position as wife of the president of the university, Mrs. Soper enter- tains not only members of the faculty but also students and parents. Hers is the key position in establishing friendly and understanding relation among professors, students, and parents. Dr. and Mrs. Soper through their informal contacts with people con- nected with the university carry on the justly famous tradition of good fellowship at Ohio Wesleyan. Ik -=[2

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T28II f. Names and Pictures: that is what a college Annual is. The names and pictures are those of college buildings and college men and women — students with the faculty added to complete the picture. We all realize that the buildings would be of little interest were it not for the people connected with them. A college is a group of people gathered together for a commonly accepted purpose: to secure an education. And one of the most important features of an education is association with other people. The volumes of Le Bijou, as they come out from year to year, are a pictorial record of what is of su- preme importance in college life — the stu- dents and the faculty, who constitute the col- lege, and will be forever changed because of that association of four years within col- lege walls. — Edmund D. Soper 20]:-

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Guiding the destiny of Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity is the all-important function of the Board of Trustees. Members are elected to the board by the alumni or by the Ohio Confer- ences of the Methodist Church. President Soper is an ex-officio member of the board by virtue of his position as head of the univer- sity. Being the legal owners of the college, this influential group meets twice a year to consider policies and suggestions submitted to it at these times by its committees. Among these nine standing committees, which are appointed by the president of the board, are those on investment, development, faculty and instruction, and student welfare. Eight of the groups meet at call while the ninth com- mittee, being the one on investments, meets every two weeks to keep the financial affairs of the university in good order. An executive committee elected by the board of trustees carries on the business of the group in between the semi-annual meet- ings. To the combined activities of the board and its capable committees is due the efficient and progressive way in which the university operates. IP BOA O F TRUSTEES :[22].-