Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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Alumni To date. Ripen alumni have success- fully organized eight distinet Alumni organizations. The groups are as listed: Chicago Edward T. Pares, presi- dent. Other officers elected in a recent meeting, on January 31. to be exact, are: Secretary-treasurer. Miss Ruth Fehlandt. '28. Executive Committee: Trustee Wil- liam R. Dawes. ’84; Kenneth Falconer. 32: Edgar Raddant, '32. At this time fifty alumni, former stu- dents. and other friends of Ripon at- tended a dinner in honor of Dean Grace G. Goodrich in the Old Town Room of Hotel Sherman in Chicago. At the meeting following the dinner, it was moved and approved that the Ripon almuni group merge into a more inclusive ‘ Ripon-in-Chicago Club” which would take in not only gradu- ates. but also ex-students, trustees, and parents of present and past students and former residents of Ripon. T h c approximate membership of the or- ganization before merg- ing into the new club was sixty. The mem- bership now will no doubt increase in great numbers. Milwaukee Har- old Haun. president. Meetings are held frequently in Milwau- kee and the approxi- mate membership is one hundred and fifteen. Chippewa Valley Henry Christofferson. President. Kenosha - Racine David O. Jones. Presi dent. The last meeting of this unit was held at the home of President Jones at Racine Wednesday. January thirtieth. Special guests were Dean Goodrich, Dr. Mack T. Henderson, and trustee Dr. D. Ken drick Roberts. Lakeshore—Dorothy Zufeldt Mikal- afsky, President. Madison -Harold A. Engel. Presi- dent. Twin Cities Nellie Sanford New- comb. President. New York Rcinhold Gehner. Pres- ident. The New York group numbers about forty. Most of these organizations have a meeting at least once every years. The meetings are usually held in some one of the officer’s or member’s homes, and besides having a jolly reunion, they keep up the work of interesting high school students in their old Alma Ma- ter. Other than these eight alumni or- ganizations. many of our sororities and fraternities have alumni groups that meet and interest stu- dents in their particular houses. A publication, given the fitting name. The Ripon Alumnus,’ is is- sued in the months of January, March, June, and October of each year by the Ripon Col- lege Alumni Associa- tion. The editor is Clemens E. Lueck, ’2 3. Association officers arc President. Howard 13. Temine. Racine: vice president, Mrs. M. L. Aldridge, Stoughton; treasurer, Harry A Cody, 33. Ripon. and secretary, Clarence G. Busse, 29, Green Lake. —14—

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Infirmary hi time of need— home away from home. Twenty-six cases of scarlet fever on a college campus in the middle of the second quarter is not a situation over which to breathe sighs of relief; but the Board of Trustees, faculty and student body found some comfort and satisfac- tion in the college infirmary, which had been organized not long before the epi- demic broke out. Due entirely to the efficiency of the staff , the outbreak was cut off and recurrence prevented. The cases were light, and but one patient suffered from the after effects of the dis- ease. When the shadow of epidemic and plague hovers not over the campus, the infirmary readjusts the bones of ath- letes. serves as a convalescent ward for students suffering from study-shock, assures freshmen that homesickness is not an incurable disease, and some- times is the clearing house for class and chapel excuses. Located on the ground floor of Bart- lett. it consists of two rooms for men. one for women, and a doctor's and nurses’ office. The faculty women fur- nished the girls' room as a dedication to the memory of Mrs. Robb Wood- mansee. and the R” Club financed the equipping of one of the men s rooms. Its staff consists of Dr. Edgar C. Barnes and Dr. Paul L. Eisele, who give unlimited time to the needs of the students, and two registered nurses. Miss Annette Kewley and Miss Marie Alberts, who are hired on a full-time basis. The infirmary is part of the newly created Department of Health and Physical Education, and is under the directorship of the head of the depart- ment. Carl H. Doehling. 13—

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FERA and Student Jobs The FERA is designed for students who. without its help, would be unable to continue their education, and con- sists of allotted sums paying up to $20 a month for each individual, the max- imum amount to be earned being $150 a year. This plan is supervised by federal men in each state. The sum al- lotted to each college amounts to 5% of the student enrollment. Thus for Ripon it allows for the employment of about 36 people. The fund is adminis- tered in each institution by its presi- dent. and only those in actual need are considered for em- ployment, an investi- gation being made into the financail sta- tus of the applicant. The institution itself does not receive any specific benefit from this fund and no reg- ular employee can be displaced by an FERA worker. The type of work is termed as that which is ‘socially desirable. The fol lowing are some of the projects included under the FERA: Histories of insti- tioiis. Biographies of fac- ulty members. Social center research. Laboratory research. Tutoring Indexing and filing. Stenography. Recreation. Adult education. Social service. Tree surgery. Community planning, etc. Theoretically, it is fine, and in most The ranutil labor siilt of FF.R.l cases it has worked out admirably. One weakness, however, in the case of some of the incoming freshmen, is that they have not had enough experience and do not know how to work under their own initiative. I Ienee they must be carefully guided and their work over seen. The following is a statement from Coach Carl H. Doehling who is in charge of the FERA in Ripon College. “The plan at Ripon worked out satis- factorily, although the same diffcultics have presented themselves Here as in national PWA and CWA work, in w h i c h workers themselves did not feel it necessary to extend their greatest effort. In general, however, there has been a very consci- entious effort made by the majority. Without its help. I question whether at least fifty students could have attended Ripon this year, and I hope the plan will be continued.” One of the most important features of the work is that be- ing done in Lane Li- brary. Linder the di- rection of Miss Jose- phine Hargrave, librarian, issues of the College Days arc being indexed for reference work. Indexing and filing, and the mending of books, plus other duties in the library, has given work to numerous students. Many students are thus benefiting by the practical experience gained in the various departments, along with the financial aid that is derived. —15—