Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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N - ,' V . . ,, . g,f',. -1 V. ru ff' 'rw ,ff ,ff 'it ii lfgtertita M travis t P my tr f LL.B.g William Emerson, A.B., Art.D.g Francis Prescott, A.B.: John Stanley Ames, A.B., M.F., William Brooks Baker, A.B., LL.B.g Bancroft Beatley, A.M., Ed.D., Litt.D.g Erwin Haskell Schell, S.B., Edward Frost, Rosamond Lamb, Richard Mason Smith, A.B., M.D., S.D.g Ruth Hornblower Greenough, A.B.g Charles Belcher Rugg, A.M., LL.B.g Elisabeth McArthur Shep- ard, S.B.g Robert Fiske Bradford, A.B., LL.B.g Ada Louise Com- stock, A.M., LL.D., Litt.D., L.H.D.g Abbie Edith Dunks, S.B., Arthur Perry, A.B.g Eleanor Cassidy Keegan, S.B.g Eleanor Hayward, S.B., M.B.A. For the students, the Corporation is symbolized by President Bancroft Beatley, Dr. Beatley enters into student affairs at dances QMICI, this yearj, suppers, and, most popular of all, at the annual Faculty-Student Baseball Game. Active in education circles and in the civilian war effort, he still finds some time for his stamps and for the huge miniature train set he has in his Belmont home. President Beatley's jurisdiction is over administration, instruc- tion, college policy. The Dean's is over student welfare, scholar- ships, and residence. Dean Jane Louise Mesick is friendly, un- affected, and very busy-busy not only with all the student prob- lems, but with Red Cross work, aid to an English prisoner in Germany, and the job of Executive Secretary ofthe Medical Division of Civilian Defense in the Boston area. Dean ofthe Graduate Division since 194.0 is Dr. James Mead Hyatt, physicist and lecturer extraordinary, who combines administrative ability with proficiency in the laboratory. Jane Louise Mesick, Ph.D., Lill.D A modern college, the first of its kind in the country llll

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tddgy llaneroft lleatley. l'ltl.D., l.it I ,X L C x -' V. is. . John Simmons was a Boston merchant fdatcs 1796-18719 who lived on Tremont Street with his wife- Anna, his sons, john, Theodore, and Lorenzo, and his daughters Alvina and Mary Ann. He is best known to students by an oil portrait that hangs in the President's office and is occasionally reproduced in the .M1ze.t, and by the terms of' his will, which provided for the establish- ment of' a college for females that should give instruction in art, science, and industry best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an independent livelihood. John Simmons' words were subsequently engraved on the seal of Simmons College C Art, Science, Industry, around an oak tree that has a lamp oflearning beneath its branchesl when the College was founded in 1899. Classes began in 19o2. The first students wore long skirts and rode to their dormitories in horse-drawn cabs, but they were entering a modern college, the first ofits kind in the countryethe first to provide professional, as well as liberal arts, training for young women. The Corporation was established in 1899. Today it consists of twenty-five members, men and women, who meet several times a year in private to discuss questions of' administration, finance, property, and the like, and once a year in public eeat Commence- ment time. The Corporation includes: Henry Lefavour, Ph.D., LL.D.q john W'ashburn Bartol, A.B., M.D., 1:'111e1'z'tz1.f,' Mary Eleanor VN'il- liams, Henry Edmund Bothfeldg Sarah Louise Arnold, A.M., Ed.D.g Carl Dreyfus, A.B.g Charles Miltoii Davenport, AB., X bool' for the President A toast lo the Graduates A caller for the Dean Ito! I HH, -- X , , . , . t n 12 t.-xrrrwrvrrr-'r 'P' 1 'Y'

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t takes a heap ' One ol' the busiest oflices at Simmons is that of Comptroller Richmond K. Bachelder, chief active financial officer ofthe College, through whose hands go all bills, checks, scholarships, and loans. His staff supervise all the College buildings and grounds, including the residence halls and the downtown schools. Student organizational accounts are checked monthly by Mr. Bachelder and Stu-G Treasurer Jean Thompson, and the Comptroller has a veto power over club contracts ofany consider- able amount. This year the war added to comptrollency difli- culties, lor everything relating to government rationing was hand- led through this office. During Midyears, Mr. Bachelder proudly announced that the main building and all the residence halls had been converted to coal heating. The Health Oflice, under the supervision of Dr. Anne Mc- Henry Hopkins and Dr. XNinnilred Chase, is a clearing house for . Q M all complaints from broken toenails to the measles. Nurse Carolyn Q5 r'14:tgff ,a f- G ' Robinson is always in attendance, cheering patients with her quiet manner and the efiicient swish ofher uniform. This year the Anne McHenry Hopkins, xl.D. customary individual conferences with the Freshmen were omit- ted, but not the routine physical exams given Freshmen and Seniors, nor the Seniors' conferences. Associated with the Health Office is the Laboratory in which Mrs. Mary Hill makes blood tests and analyses and develops X-rays. I This year saw the creation ofthe new Admission and Guidance Ofiice, exclusively lor the use ofFreshmen, under the direction of Miss Doris M. Sutherland. This office came into being during lndoclrinalion Information Computation A pl 44, 4 A' ! I 0 I llgl