St Olaf College - Viking Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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, l STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE '95 141 X.. ?2f 'M Mr. Blv. Miss Luis Brenna IoHN M. BLY, registrar, was known to the students primarily as the patient listener to pleas for additional hours and as the one responsible for sending out the semester grades. In addition to his regular work, he taught courses in General Applied Psychology and the Far East, hlling the latter course with many interesting first-hand anecdotes. Having been superintendent of a secondary Chinese school for twelve years, his major interests were still in Chinese affairs and language. He has visited Iapan four times, spending a three months wedding trip there. VVhile a student at St. Olaf, he was two-year editor of the Messenger. Lois Brenna, his assistant since 1935, made the tables and summaries of registration and gave the students information as to their academic standings. Wearing his sheepskin coat, Edward C. Cook, kindly Doc, was often seen climbing the gymnasium stairs to his office, where, as director of the student health service, he held independent sway. Known to the student body for his abrupt announcements concerning health lectures, he also delivered required hygiene lectures and taught as a professor in the department of Physical Education. I-Ie has been very active in scouting, and recently received the highest award, the Silver Beaver. Our two cheery nurses, Miss Canutta Stolee, director of the hospital, and Miss Nina Hielman, were new this year, having served previously in a St. Paul hospital. Liked by all for their unfailing good humor and helpfulness, Stolee and Red made friends easily and were as sympathetic with the scared Frosh girls as with embarrassed senior fellows. Dr. Cooke, Miss Canutta Stolee, Miss Nina I-Iielman as ' REGISTRAR

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REPRESENTATIVE Inez Ifrayseth, Katherine Dvckcn, Avis I.ee FRIENDLY ASSISTANTS to the Business Staff were Inez Frayseth, who liked guns and puns and dogs and hikes: and Avis Lee and Kathryn Docken. Usually seen together, they enjoyed college life as much as the students, and found fun in the most matter-of-fact business transaction. As FIELD REPR1zsENTAT1vE of St. Olaf, C. B. Helgen visited this year about one hundred and ninety high schools in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, giving vocational guidance and helping to prepare courses for college-bound students. His kindly optimism was known and appreciated by those in his office, for his familiar greeting was, Is everybody happy? President of Gale college for two years, he started Waldorf Iunior College with nine students and served as president there for nine years. Besides editing the Bulletin and keeping up the mailing list of the alumni, he had a remarkable stock of information on St. Olaf graduates. FIELD BUSINESS OFFICE ASSISTANTS

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'P' 'ser QQ I .-e Mrs. Reep. Mrs. Burgh, Mr. Houkom, Miss Mauseth, Miss Rasmussen, Charlotte Stolee WITH THE PLANs for the new library coming closer to realization every day, head librarian Alf I-Ioukom found his tasks steadily increasing, but his ready wit and eagerness to serve the students made them doubly enjoyable. The library now houses 50,000 volumes, with 2,000 new books added this year. Because he possessed a vast store of knowledge, Mr. I-Ioukom's opinion was often called for by the American Library Association. Especially dear to him is his little son Alf, who a few years ago won the first prize as the most beautiful child in the United States. Serving in the St. Olaf library for fourteen years, gracious Mrs. Bergh was a faithful follower of Mr. Houkom's instructions. Since Mr. Bergh was a member of the choir, they used the 1913 European choir trip as their honeymoon. Miss Otelia Rasmussen, with her generous and enthusiastic spirit, kept the reading room a cheerful and quiet place to study. Naturally a lover of young people, she said that she was fascinated by her work of tending to the 400 periodicals and 25 newspapers. Brilliant Miss Viola Mauseth continued the recataloguing of the library, completing this year the making of 35,500 Library of Congress Cards for 12,000 volumes. This is her third position as a cataloguer. Miss Charlotte Stolee assisted her in this exacting work. Mrs. Reep aided the students with the reserve books. She was also politically well informed, having been recently the Republican Committee Woman for Minnesota. LIBRARY BOOK STORE Mantra' Fosseixr would also have liked a bigger estab- lishment, as with his four helpers he braved the after- chapel rush in the book store and supplied the students W , with everything from bobby pins to pennants. His pretty and efficient full-time helper, Miss Mildred Holland, came to us from Slayton, Minn.