Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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In Memoriam WILLIAM BYRNE BROWN, M. D

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gilfm- C A1515 iuidion TlIe extra-class life of Stephens is administered through Civic Association whose membership includes all students on caInpus. Working in collaboration with C.A. are the nine major divisioIIs: Administrative Council, Campus Service Board, Pan-Hellenic Council, Student Congress, Independents, Council of Class Offi- cers, Student Activity Board, Board of Publications, and the newly formed War-Peace Organization, which is a temporary emergency division. Dr. Merle Prunty, head of the Extra-Class Division, states tlIe motivating and basic idea behind this division. In a democratic society, persons are all-important. Therefore, providing opportunities for the balanced and diversified growth of the individual is one of the most important responsibilities of the college. These oppor- tunities necessarily must be by the needs, interests, and capacities of each person. Approximately one hundred and fifty organization units O11 the campus provide a wide variety of growth Mrss Vrousr p BAKER 5- 3 'W . Miss VIRGINIA PAYNE tt! h MISS VIRGINIA SCOTT . MISS FRANCES S ILKNITTER Page 23 DR. MERLE C. PRUNTY experiences but also offer leadership opportunities for approximately eight hundred girls. The Extra-Class Ofiice maintains a two-year record of the extra-curricular participat.ions of every student as a means of encouraging adequate individual participation and as a protection, at the same time, against uoverloadsf' The success of a student in extra-class activities is evaluated by the faculty and sponsors of the campus or- ganizations in much tlIe same manner as success in class activities is evaluated by instructors. The Extra- Class Division is in reality a laboratory in high-grade, cooperative, communal living. ' During the war emergency various organizations within the Extra-Class Division are building their projects around a variety of war activities. As a con- sequence, the new emergency division of Civic Asso- ciation on war-peace activities lIas been developed. Its major function is to stimulate and coordinate all war-peace functions on the campus.

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AGL 6114, jyfzydiccaf gicfucozlfion The Division of Health and Physical Education is principally concerned ivith the prevention of disease and the building of sound physical health. An important function of this division is the Student Health Service. Its facilities now include a hospital for those needing special care and a student clinic for persons seeking medical advice. Dr. Dudley A. Robuett, Columbia physician and one of the foremost surgeons of the Middle West, is acting chairman of the health staff which includes three other doctors and an adequate corps of nurses and laboratory technicians. This year Dr. Florence Ma- honey has assumed a large share of the responsibility of the Health Center. The aims of the Student Health Program are to teach each student the essentials of preventive medicine and the fundamentals of personal and community hy- gieneg to provide each student with practical experience in nursing suited to the needs of family and community life, and to provide efficient health service for the care of all students on campus. P08625 Dn. DUDLEY A. fRoBNE'rT A unique aspect of the health program is the super- vision of the diet tables. The diets are regulated to help students gain or lose Weight safely according to their particular health needs. Working in close harmony with Health Education is the Physical Education staff, directed by Miss Wilma Haynes, who is also in charge of the state physical fitness program. Physical fitness has been stressed more tl1an ever this year, and the increased amount of student participation during open hours has indicated the success of this program. Three hours of physical education each week are required of all students 'throughout their college course. Medical and physical examinations in the fall determine the type of recreational activities best suited to each girl's needs. Courses offered at various times during the year include fencing, field hockey, archery, bad- minton, baseball, basket ball, boating, canoeing, body conditioning, corrective gymnastics, golf, dancing, recre- ational games, riding, soccer, swimming, tennis, and volleyball.