Old Dominion University - Troubador Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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 Joseph C. Chandler. Scrap to all Division athletes, could always be found in the gym or locker room instructing his gym classes or at his desk in his offico straightening out for a swim meet or coming baskelball game. Scrap” coached tho track team and last year's swimming team and directed all athletic events for intramural participation. Mr. Chandler took his B.S. in Physical Education at William and Mary and later earned his M.A. at Columbia University. His collogo teaching caroor bogan at William and Mary, Williamsburg, with gym class instruction. Mr. Chandler was later transferred to the Division where he coached intramural sports as well as regular classes. Scrap and his roster of collegiate stars in baskotball, swimming, baseball and tennis will be romomborod for thoir school-spiritod contributions in sports events. Barbara Ann Phillips, assistant to Mr. Haywood in the Coun-ciling Office, began her career in counciling work here several years previously. Before joining the Division staff. Miss Phillips attended Bates Collogo in Maino, and Boston University. With an M.A. in psychology, she left the New England grounds. Anne Ball, psychometrist, was fresh from studying in our hal-lowod halls. Some of the Sopho-moros romomborod hor going through French, Spanish, philosophy, and more, finally selecting psychology for her field of concentration. While a student she had worked part-time in the counselling offico. She graduated with the 1945 award for language and in '46, the Cotillion award for the greatest contribution to tho college. You who are student veterans quickly discovered tho value of the Guidance Department, of which John Charles Haywood was tho supervisor. Dividing his work between keeping appointments and making new ones. Mr. Haywood was able to offer you a listening ear and some carefully considered advice. Enforced by training at Bowdoin College and an M.A. from Boston University, plus experience in instruction at the Divisions. he possessed a studied and capable skill in dealing with problems. As advocations, Mr. Haywood chose badmitton. gardening, and pipe collecting, and, of courso, spending off school hours with his wife and young daughetr. Mary McWilliams Wells came to the Division with a B.S. obtained at Northeast State Teachers' College and a masters at Missouri Univorsity. She instructed Secretarial Scionce at Lambuth College in Tonnessee. She landod hero in '44, where her habitual smile made you romember her.

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A distinguished biologist and teacher. Dr. Robert N. LeFevre joined the Science Department at the Division in 1946. Heading the Biology Dopartmont. Dr. LeFevre conducted lab and locturo procoduro all through the past year and taught sovoral classes of his own. Dr. LeFevre was invited to the Division on the basis of his past training and long experience. He eagerly put these qualities to use for your benefit. After classes, he remained long hours at school to prepare lab experiments and demonstrations for the overcrowded sections. To you he was both congonial and accommodating. The pensive eyes behind his thin glassos and tho solemn smile on his lips wore two of tho things which encouraged you to do your best work in his class. Ono of tho sovoral ncwcomors to tho Scionce Dopartmont this year was Biology instructor Jethro Manly. A graduate of William and Mary, Williamsburg, he received his B.S. in 1937 and entered into a career of biological study and research in different areas of the state. Mr. Manly instructed lecture classes and labs this year, unveiling the mysteries of underground stems and diatoms. With overflowing labs running as late as 5:30 in the afternoons Mr. Manly hovered over microscopes cheering you on with your wierd dissections. Those of you who spent tho fivo-hour-weok Biology course in Miss Mildred Griffith's class learned the strange wonders of everything from amoebae to dogfish. She eagerly coaxed you when you wavered over stabbing a frog or slitting an earthworm. Miss Griffith was one of the Department's mainstays during tho year of Hygiene and Bacteriology students. Miss Nancy Fisher arrived at tho Division all energy and drive, having graduated from tho Mothor College in 1945. Through the Fall she poundod tho hockey and archery routines with hor girls or ran the softball diamond. With tho advent of Wintor sho drillod you with basketball, badminton and swimming in warmor quarters. Spring found her tripping tho cement tennis courts. Between bells you noticed the team members sprawling comfortably in her office. Beneath the dangling arms, legs and heads were ruffled slip-covers that Miss Fisher had made to decorate her room. In her painted chair before a desk strewn with sports equipment you reached Miss Fisher, checking hastily over grades and attendance. It was all in a day's work! Furthermore ... for rocroation Miss Fishor engaged in . . . throe guossos . . . ! Sports.

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Small Shrimp Eggleston waited, rocoivor at her ear. while Evett Allen, junior phychologist, found the necessary 'phone numbers. Thoro wore people to be located, equipment to be ordored, and orders to bo chocked. Unannoyed, Mrs. Norma Hamilton, Chief Clork. scanned records of your entrance or aptitude exams, or compiled them. When the records wore ready to be filed, Travis Bell took post at tho big cabinet. Marilyn Meeks, industriously tapping at the typewriter, saw to it that lists were accurate and ready for use. Scanning tho bare, green shack from the outside, however, you usually had to stretch your imagination to considor the technicality, detail, and effort that worked behind the simple littlo tosts that determined your ability or intelligence. Your notices of class changes and class drops — in fact, the record of any conflict concerned with finance or statistics landed usually in that active room supervised by Mr. Baylor. Virginia Nichols, activo dramatic club mombor, guarded the safe, wrote your receipts, and kept as occupied as possiblo. Another staff vigllanto, Elizabeth Mc-Pherrin, could be seen often tapping away rapidly at her typewriter . . . bills . . . bills . . . bills . . . while Jean McPherrin and Mahgaret Lukens unshuffled piles of registration cards, report cards, ad infinitum into orderly stacks. Throughout tho year the Business Office was tho vital machinery bohind the smooth progress of your schedule. No one could pass tho year without spending a few hours of waiting in the Academic Office. Sara Booth answered phono calls and your questions. Or she sold you school tickets, and ofton mailed letters. Trotting in and out the door with information and a friendly smile was Ellen Kasler, Mr. McDonald's secretary, and wife of the sophomore class prosidont. Mary Lee Lawson, the tall blonde receptionist, could bo spotted in her rest poriods sipping a Pal in Bud's. And Willie Abrams, the boon to all teachers and publications in need of message-sending, refreshment, supplies, or mimeographing, spent his time from horo to there, often landing in the little stock room in ihe Academic Hall. I