Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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HEY CRGANIZE BY SE ES The men. too, have their own special interests, and belong automatically to an organization which takes care of them. The Associated Men's Students is not so prominent or evident an organization as the AWS for the simple reason that men have other outlets for their interests in varsity and inter- fraternity athletics, but it does play an impor- tant part incampus life, whether or not even its members are conscious of even the fact that it exists. Sponsored by the men each year are the barn dance, fsee pictures elsewherel, which serves to relieve the post-exam weariness, and the AMS formal. This year the men went through much red tape and suffered much agony as they dickered for Alvino Rey, who was iust beginning to climb into popularity. Winning out over bookers and movie studios, they got him and put on one of the year's best formals. One phase of AMS that nearly all men bless at one time or another is its loan fund accumulated from dues and the proceeds of dances. and which is under the administration of Dean Nicholl fshown in center picture lending some to a student caught in a tight spotl. Money also goes towards the athletic program, to help buy insignia and awards. to send Pomona athletes on special trips, and to subsidize the handbook. This year the AMS sponsored Christmas gifts to British war orphans. Administrators of all this, promoters of the AMS formal and of the barn dance, and sub- sidizers of much campus activity are the AMS pres- ident and vice president, Whit Halladay and Grant McCully, shown right to left in the top picture.

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TO MAKE IT ALL ' Until Betty Reed presides as nominations are made at an infrequent but then busi- ness-like AWS meeting. In background are officers and board members Frances Fox, Martha Ann Hubble, Ginny Rodenbaeck, Phyllis Morgan, Charleen Eller, Rosamund Robinson and Alice Weekes. Marnie Waller and Pat Gratz complete this coordinating AWS board of women's campus leaders. requisitioned for government use, Important WAA business rests as treas- the AWS station wagon remains at the dis- urer Dibby Heron. vice-president Carol posal of the south campus for a quick trip Benton, secretary Dotty Iones and presi- to Los Angeles, or a weekend at Halona. dent A1 Weekes relax over a cup of tea. COMPLETI Class organization takes care of many interests, and membership in the Associated Students of many more, but there are still other interests that belong exclusively to men or to women, which don't brook sharing. The women, for instance, not having sororities. and having their own ath- letic program to promote, and needing specialized vocational guidance and counseling, organize the Associated Women Students to coordinate their activities for the sake of efficiency. Incoming freshman women are initi- ated formally, and the big events of the year are the Christmas formalt and Women's Day. Mortar Board and WAA and the religious council are AWS affiliates. This year Betty Reed headed up the activities. Her successor is President Ruth Myers. The residence council, stern recorders of the break slip, call two culprits on the carpet under the AWS-rule-enforcing chairmanship of Virginia Rodenbaeck. ii

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The word FREE above this door at Harper, though part of a quotation, is sheer irony. 30 WITH 37, THE To finance activities they will have in common, incoming students dig down for S7 student body dues. thus make themselves acting members of the As- sociated Students of Pomona College. Detail work for all A. S. P. C. activities is carried on in the office right across from the Coop, where Graduate Man- ager William Howard and his secre- tary, Mrs. Helen Throne, pictured be- low, serve as custodians of all student funds, and advise representatives of campus organizations as to how much money there is to be spent and the most profitable way to spend it. Eight hours a day these two are kept busy issuing purchase orders, checking in- voices, paying salaries, and making out tax reports and payments. They are representatives for the athletic de- partment, make out sport schedules, arrange for officials and team trans- portation, and keep all records of game results and awards. In short, the execu- tive committees make their plans, then ask Mr. Howard whether or not there is enough money to carry them out. If there isn't, they stick around, and after a while, he will always find a way. fi IIIHII s in-.. um A-J - EY? i SED' Q irq ' r