Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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The Office O It has happened to you. . . . Remember? You were walking or running to chapel, depending upon the weather or the length of your last class, when suddenly over your left shoulder you heard a tapping, very gentle, but distinct. Fulling up short you found yourself at the door of Hast building. What's up? you asked yourself. I’ve paid my bill (or have I?) . . . perhaps I have a rebate coming for something (I hope) . . . no. maybe they want me to sign my army check, or my NYA check. Maybe it's the Dean (roll call). Prexy? better go in and see. You do so. Through a glass window with a little round hole, muc like one in a theater ticket office, you hear the reason for the summons. Friendly jean Douglas, secretary to the dean, or Mrs. Horner, reliable, interested, judicious, has done the tapping. Simply and effectively another snarl in your college life is un- tangled. If the call leads you upstairs to the president's office, you cannot help hear the chatter of typewriters, the booming of a musical recording from Skipper’s studio (or perhaps the booming was Skipper himself), the tuning of the strings from Skilbred's quarters, or the efforts of some studious pianist. In the president's outer office you meet still another person. Miss Crane, who has kept the affairs of a greater man than you or me in order for many years. This is our office staff. Unsung, unheralded, they keep the books that ultimately give us our degree. —15—

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RUSSEL B. REYNOLDS, Major of Infantry, U.S. Army Professor of Military Science and Tactics LAWRENCE SKILBRED Instructor in Violin .7 dealer in strings PAOLO H. SPERATI, Major of Infantry, U.S. Army Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics A fine disciplinarian EDWIN WHITE WEBSTER, Ph.D. Professor of History A woodsman of note WILSON ROBB WOODMANSEE, M.A. Registrar Professor of Mathematics in admirable teacher —14—

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Autumn 16—