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

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UIESLEVHII DEHIIS Ohio Wesleyan's three deans not only satisfactorily perform their duties of keeping student life running smoothly, but also have loe- come a part of the Ohio Wesleyan spirit and tradition. Not only to upperclass women, with whom she comes in close Contact during their years in Monnett, but to all Wesleyan women, Miss Mary Helen Fretts, the Dean of Women, is a good friend and adviser. Miss Fretts understandingly advises Panhellenic Council, Women's Student Government, and Mortar Board. Mr- Sheridan Dean loseph Somerville is connected with more student activities than he can recall at once. He is adviser to all of the student committees, Interfraternity Council, Student Council, and the discipline com- mittee, one especially concerned with students. Wesleyan men find Mr. Somerville interested in all their problems and affairs. Harold I. Sheridan, Dean of the College, in ad- dition to assuming the duties of the President dur- ing his absences, found time to be the Sig Eps' most distinguished pledge of 1941. As head of the Education Department, he keeps in constant touch with student life. Miss Fretts l ,, Mr. Somerville

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BOIIRD OF TRUSTEES Ohio Wesleyan's Board of Trustees is the body which actually manages the school. Their close Cooperation with the faculty and heads of the university is of great importance in keeping alive the spirit of Ohio Wesleyan. The trustees direct the activities of the school by electing its officers, by confirming appointments, and by approving advancements in the ranks of the faculty. In 1841 the state legislature granted Ohio Wesleyan its charter, which provides for the election gf the trustees by the Methodist Conferences of Ohio. At present, eighteen trustees have been elected by the Ohio Conference, nine by alumni, and nine by the trustees-at-large. This year, Iohn W. Hausserman was elected to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of Burleigh Cartmell. The board meets twice a year, usually around Thanksgiving and at Commencement. In order that the Board of Trustees may be more efficient, its president appoints standing com- mittees Which are interested in the specific phases of university life. President Burgstahler is a member of all of these committees. Officers of the Board of Trustees for l94O-1941 were Iohn Edwin Brown, president: H. O. Yoder and C. B. Mills, vice-presidents: Donald B. Watkins, secretary and assistant treasurer: and D. I, Hornberger, treasurer.

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DDRITIITURV DEHIIS The dormitory deans are those people of Ohio Wesleyan's administrative staff whom the women students of the university admire almost above all others, largely because they are in the closest contact with them. Yet these are the same women who receive with good grace the greatest share of the minor complaints on the part of the students for the very same reason: they are the closest and therefore the easiest people upon whom to place any Miss McCue blame' It is true, however, that at heart every Wesleyan student realizes and appreciates the helpful spirit Of G11 our deans. Their task of considering individual needs and rights, together with those of the Whole QFOUD in our community living, is not an easy one, and the challenge is met by them all with kindly insight. Every freshman girl leaves Stuyvesant Hall with the firm conviction that there is no other person who CCII1 ever quite equal Miss Montgomery's tactful helpfulness, only to find that the Monnett and Austin deans have the same understanding kindness. The girls living in the cooperative houses find the same fine Spirit in their deans. Miss Montgomery Miss Schoeppe