Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Chief coordinators of our academic and President Beatley, Mrs. Beatley and Dean Clifton welcome freshmen dur- ing Orientation Week. 00 }

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Narinder Kaur Keith of Punjab, India, re- ceives a warm welcome to the Simmons family by Roberta Schuette and Dean Clifton. Year after year, long after we ' re gone, the faculty and administration remains, a necessary part of college life. The group shared our worries — scholastic, social, vocational and financial — and looked for the road to success. The faculty and administration, extremely busy and interested, were seldom too occupied or uninterested to enter into student affairs — suppers, teas, the annual student-faculty baseball game. FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION

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social life Simmons is just the right size college to permit personal contact between individual students and the individual officers of administration; we feel that we know our administration — Mr. Bachelder, Dr. Readdy, Mrs. Broadcorens, Miss Sutherland, Mr. Needham, Miss Hanson, et al, not by name only, but as friends who direct the policies of the college we have attended. President Bancroft Beatley gave the class of ' 51 a welcoming talk when we were freshmen, and another one when we were seniors. In between those four years we have learned about Mr. Beatley ... we know about his hobby of model railroads and his aversion to coke, we admire his forthright stand on faculty freedom in this era of faculty oaths, we like his sense of humor, and we appreciate his ability and efforts as a major administrator of the college. Never too busy for a word with YOU President Beatley inspects a new addition to his library with obvious pleasure. First Lady of Simmons, Dean Eleanor Clifton, came two years after we arrived, and we still like to call her our new dean. Very nicely and capably, Miss Clifton has assumed the burden of her twenty- four hour day — she is responsible for the administra- tion of residence halls, through Stu-G she helps to guide student activities, and as a member of the faculty committees she helps to determine college policy. In worthwhile community activities where her judgment and experience as a dean are especially valuable Miss Clifton represents the college. When a student has personal or financial problems, Miss Clifton helps through advice and direction. As a kind of liason function, Miss Clifton manages to interpret the college to student and parents, student and parents to the college. Socially, we got to know and meet and chat with Miss Clifton in the receiving line at formals, the various teas, faculty dinnets, and student entertain- ment programs she attends — we like her for her spontaneous informal manner and youthful spirit. And, knowing Miss Clifton, we are sure Simmons will remain in good hands after we leave. Ul }