Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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DEAN RUTH STEELE BUFFINGTON The role of friend, guardian and confidante of some three hundred girls is not an easy one and frequently may become a trying one, but the active cooperation and friendly advice of Dean Ruth Steele Buffington have helped many students over the stumbling blocks encountered in the course of any college career. In addition to these duties, Miss Buffington is also official college hostess and consulting adviser of the Judicial Council, College Government Association Board and the college body in general.

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PRESIDENT MARY ASHBY CHEEK To relate and coordinate activities of trustees, faculty, stu- dents, alumnae, and friends of the college is the time-consuming task of President Mary Ashby Cheek. As the head of the administration, she acts with the Board of Trustees in outlining general college policies and in determining the general program of major college events. She presides over convocations of the college, meetings of the faculty, chapel services and other more informal college functions.

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COLLEGE GOVERNMENT The College Government Association gives to every Rockford College student a chance to participate representatively in deciding the policies of the government under which she lives while in college. Members of the faculty and officers of the administration are also members of the Association. Under their guidance the students have an invaluable opportunity to develop a sense of governmental organization and responsibility which closely approximates their duties as American citizens. The Association is headed by an executive group, the Board of the College Government Association, whose duty it is to discuss problems of the student body and to make recommendations to the administration, faculty, college organizations and to the Association. Since college activities are so closely interrelated, it is generally true that every person in the student body, the faculty and every organization in the college has at least one representative among the Board members who include the officers of the C. G. A., the faculty representative, presidents of all the classes, of Tolo, Y. W. C. A., Dramatic Club, W. A. A. , Forum, and of the town students and house students. With the adoption of a new constitution in March 194f, student government superseded college government. The Student Government Association consisting only of students is headed by a board consisting of officers of the S.G.A., presidents of the four classes, and house and town student presidents. The editor of Purple Parrot is a non-voting member. Under the new constitution, all clubs and other organizations are represented in the Council of Organizations.