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

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Mrs. Murray ami Howard Strauch check Homecoming plans. Alumni Office Mrs. G. E. Murray, Alumni Secretary, heads the Alumni Office staff which keeps the records for more than twenty thousand alumni. She is assisted by Howie Strauch, presi- dent of the class of 1950. Mrs. Dorothy Long edits the alumni magazine which is published bi-monthly with a circulation of approximately six thousand copies. The magazine is concerned mostly with alumni news and keeps the alumni informed on Wesleyan activities. This office also has the duty of planning alumni meetings and reunions at Fall Homecoming and Winter Homecoming and send- ing Commencement invitations. Keeping in touch with twenty thousand alumni is the joh of the Alumni Office staff. Left to right: Mrs. Helen Lin- coln, Virginia Barber, Mrs. Esther Merrill, Mrs. Elizabeth Freshwater. 26

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Department of Religion Today, all Wesleyan students meet for one hour three times a week to hear some of the most prominent persons in political, academic, and religious fields. These meetings, which con- stitute the largest required chapel in any American university, have a historical basis as old as the university itself, for the first meeting of the college students was a chapel service. The underlying idea at the beginning of these chapels was the Ohio Wesleyan family at prayer. In the early years, there were two chapels a day and later five chapels a week, each of which included a short worship service. Now, one chapel a week is a religious service, one has an educational basis, and one is spon- sored by student government. We have reached beyond their religious significance alone, to grasp common knowledge and common experience. These chapel experiences, perhaps more than any other part of our college life, tend to give unity and loyalty to Ohio Wesleyan students and graduates alike, and some of the programs prove to be long remembered. 28