Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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college policy to a changing world ough, A.B.g Charles Belcher Rugg, A.M., LLB., Elisabeth Mc- Arthur Shepard, SB., Robert Fiske Bradford, A.B., LLB., Ada Louise Comstock, 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 and Eleanor Hayward, S.B., M.B.A. Go-between for Corporation and student body is affable President Bancroft Beatley, who participates at length in student activities. A familiar ligure at M1c and Neuu dances, he also wields a mighty ping-pong paddle, and is star batter at the annual Faculty-Student Baseball Game. Active in the educational field Mr. Beatley also helps out in the civilian war effort, and manages to devote some time to his hobby, a miniature model railroad. Past-master of the neatly- turned phrase, Mr. Beatley combines tact with a keen sense of humor. His particular domain is administration, instruction, and college policy. Benign and understanding, Dean Jane Louise Mesick presides over student welfare, scholarships, and residence. A good sport, she is always ready to lend a sympathetic ear to student projects, prob- lems, or complaints. Miss Mesick also participates actively in civilian war work, via the Red Cross, aid to war-prisoners, and her job as Executive Secretary of the Medical Division of Civilian De- fense in the Boston area. Since 1940, Dr. james Mead Hyatt, Professor of Physics, has been Dean of the Graduate Division. A favorite of the students, Dr. Hyatt is known for the extreme lucidity with which he lectures and a knack for making science meaningful to his classes, Dr. Hyatt recently made Ellen Richards Club history by his vocal rendition of Sweet Adeline, followed by an encore on an air column device, recruited from the laboratory for this special purpose. Jane Louise hlesick, l'h.D., l,itl.ll., Dean The Dean dallies with Miss Woodill ,IHIIICS Rlead llyall, Ph.lJ., Dean of the Graduate Division llll

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Bancroft Beatley, AAI., Ed.D., I,itt.D., President ur administrators adapt HE SIMMONS CORPORATION is keeper of a sacred trust. They received it from fore-sighted, practical John Simmons, a Boston merchant who provided in his will for the founding of a women's college that should give instruction in art, science, and industry best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an inde- pendent livelihood. John Simmons' works set the pace, and formed the matrix from which the future aims and purposes of the embryon- ic college were to be indelibly impressed. In 1899 the Corporation was organized, and three years later the doors of the first modern college of its kind in the country were thrown open to students. Guided by the watchwords, Art, Science, and Industry, the Simmons Corporation has done a good job. Its particular jurisdiction lies in questions of administration, finance, and property, for the discussion of which it holds several yearly meetings. just how faithfully the Corporation has followed the spirit and letter of the founder's will may be seen in the record and achievement of Simmons graduates, the readiness with which the college was geared to wartime needs, and in the well-balanced fusion of tech- nology and liberal arts that characterizes its program. The Corporation consists of the following members: Henry Le- favour, Ph.D., LL.D. ,John Washburn Bartol, A.B., M.D., Eiueritu.r,' Mary Eleanor Williams, Henry Edmund Bothfeld, Treu.furer,' Carl Dreyfus, A.B., Charles Milton Davenport, A.B., LL.B., William Emerson, A.B., Art.D., Chiziriniing Francis Prescott, A.B., John Stanley Ames, A.B., M.F., William Brooks Baker, A.B., LL.B., Clerlzg Bancroft Beatley, A.M., Ed.D., Litt.D., Prerident ofthe Collegeg Erwin Haskell Schell, S.B., Edward Frost, Rosamond Lamb, Richard Mason Smith, A.B., M.D., S.D., Ruth Hornblower Green- I t if to their credit their they proceeded with prudence and eizution, keeping .rtep with the profeefionnl progreirf of zoonien, hut ut- teinpting no .f17l'ilIfJ in ndzfunee of the pnrizde. The whole proeerr nzuft he tenti1tiz'e, u'rote Hemp' Lefti- rour, firft prerident of jiinnnonf, when the eoiiege zone heing orgizniqed. You Inuit expert nzirtulzef und pnrtiizl fniluref. You hnre hoth to erente nzizrketf for your produetr and jityour produetf to the dennind of the exifting niurketf' Thif if hufineff tulle with it vengeance. But it tellf the Jtory. .Slinnnonf hier izizodyf heen preoccupied about finding new nnzrlzetf for it.f produetf Cg7'eIefZ!e1f6'.fD, nf ure!! nf about fitting there products, to the deinnnd of the exirting nnzrket. AJ iz rule, hon'ez'er, it u.s'e.r loentionr other thnn thi.r to dexerihe the proeere. The will of john tfiinnionr, el wealthy Horton inerehnnt, uhieh provided the fund! to endow zrhnt Nlr. .Siinzinonr cuffed .Sifll!lll0l1.f lfenfnle Coiiege, .rhouxf elenrfy that he did not gforeiee if-lm zroznen noufd inter do in the world or hon' they would he ednented to do it. This, doeunfent, druzrn in 1867 .mid in pnrt: ll is ini' zrifl to found und endon' nn inffitutzon. . .for the purpose of touching medicine, inuiie, ll,1'11ll'fll1ig, defigning, telegruphmi, und other hrnnehef of nrt, .reienre und indnitry heit rulenfuted to enuhle .s'choinr.s' to nequire nn independent !Il'f!f!l0lllJ.U Peg petitions the president 10

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Anne lNIcHenry Hopkins, A.B., BLD. Director of Health What is a colle e made of? HE PROBLEMS of Wall Street seem petty after looking over the duties that the Comptroller's Office handles every day. Mr. Richmond K. Bachelder has the main responsibility of taking care of the college's day-by-day finances. With his staff, he must also super- vise the issuing and payment of term bills, the upkeep of the college buildings and property, and, greatest headache of all, the rationing problems of the school. This year the oflice took over the distribu- tion of ration books to resident students who go home in vacation periods. Class accounts, publication expenses, and sizable club contracts are another side of the duties of the office. With members of the staff doing everything from signing commuters' special rate blanks to acting as notaries public, it is easy to see why the office is one of the busiest every day in the year. The Health Ofiice is where girls take their sniffles, headaches, and such accidents as result from hitting a thumb instead of the curtain rod nail with a hammer. Dr. Anne McHenry Hopkins, assisted by Dr. Elsie Brown, supervises all the routine cases and, in addition, conducts the yearly physical examinations of Freshmen and Seniors. Nurse Gilson is the unofficial morale booster who gives out sound advice with prescriptions and pills. In the Health Labora- tory, Mrs. Mary Hill takes blood tests, makes analyses, and gives lamp treatments. X-rays made by Mr. Stearns in his laboratory are sent here to be read and studied. The personal interest which every- one takes in each girl is typified by her complete health record kept on file in the office. The Recorder's Oflice, under the care of Miss Marjorie Burbank, Doris M. Sutherland. Miss Barrett., Adniission and Guidance lllargaret K. Gonyea, S.B., Registrar illl