Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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Student counselor Mary Marie Glaser gives her freshman tounsellees advice about Southwestern rules and customs Miss Helen Evers, faculty adviser, counsels one of her freshman advisees concerning his curriculum problems PROBLEMS AIRED HERE Simple and friendly as is the atmosphere at South- western, freshman students need practical guidance when they come to the campus. With this need in mind the college authorities have planned a system of coun- seling new students. Each student, new or old, has a faculty adviser who helps him plan his program of studies. This adviser follows his academic record through the year and is ready with encouragement or advice whenever his advisees come to him. Mrs. Mildred Skinner, counselor of women, helps all girls with special problems. The girls turn to her for advice of every kind, for she is not a disciplinary officer, but a friend. Dean Russell Grow is at present serving as counsellor of men. All freshman girls are divided among a group of upper class girls, called student counselors, who before school begins in the fall write to their counselees wel- coming them to Southwestern and offering advice. Be- fore registration begins the counselors talk with their groups, answering questions and giving suggestions. They encourage the freshmen to bring to them any problems which arise later. President of the student counselors this year was Mary Marie Glaser and other counselors were janet Allen, Dona Bettis, Mary Lois Fulton, Ruth Gross, Bette Jones, Genny Jones, Lois Mae Miller, Velma Miskimen, Gladys Morton, and Doris Mossman. In addition to this program, the Student Christian Association has sponsored a Big and Little Sister proj- ect, which Dorothy Snare directed this year. New stu- dents are aided in adjustment to college life by the older girls who introduce them to the rules and cus- toms of the campus. Page 15

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STANDING ROO LY Southwestern's first big postwar yearf Upperclassmen and professors accustomed to small wartime enroll- ments have yet to recover from their amazement at the crowd of veterans which flocked through Richardson's portals last fall. The biggest freshman class in the Moundbuilder school's history swelled this year's en- rollment to over GOO. Classrooms and dormitories over- fiowed with eager students. The auditorium was filled every Wfednesday and Saturday at chapel and assembly time, and on special occasions every inch of standing room was filled. The congestion in the rotunda and in front of the bulletin board became one of the minor problems. Labs had to be divided and Monday after- noon classes hecame necessary. The dining room at Smith Hall could not seat a sufficient number and a cafeteria had to be arranged. The chow line was an old story for the veterans but an innovation for the other students. The people of Wiri- field opened their homes generously to provide rooms for single students. Married veterans, however, had difficulty finding apartments until attractive quarters for their use were opened at Strother Field. Although the sudden infiux of students has caused a few inconveni- ences, everyone is happy to see the swarms of youthful figures hurrying up and down the '77. Southwestern is back to super-normal-plus! The Chapel of Rieliartlfun llall with all the seals filled is one of the evidences of crowded eoutlilious at S1llllllM'PSl6I'l1 .L.....Al , aiu- N.: P iii 'S.f. .AW X

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AGAIN -ME THE In every college scene men oulnumber women, and the frnnl straps uf Rivllzlrmlsoll Hall is nu excepliun ,- . . ,, ,