Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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, to To- ips, 'rell for son. lent eau, t 16 3 .ff Miss GRACE CURTIS 66 STUDENT receives as much educa- tion in human relationships in her residence hall as she does in the class room, said Miss Grace Curtis, head of Residence Counselors for the past nine years.' As counselors, advisers, coordinators of hall activities, the twenty-tive residence counselors and the twenty- two assistant counselors are extremely important in the lives of Stephens students. Under the Stephens philosophy of, education for the individual, the residence counselors give instruction through-the extra-curricular activities of the girls in their halls. Thus, in a true sense, they are Stephens out-of-class teachers. Residence Hall Counselors Among the stated objectives in the program of the residence counselors are intelligent participation in stu- dent government, achievement of maximum individual development for the student, and provision of extra-cur- ricular experience for each student which will enable her to adjust successfully to group living. The counselor helps plan and coordinate all of the activities within her own hall and those which involve the campus as a whole. At the annual Fall Conference, held in late August, the counselors meet to discuss the program for the com- ing year. During the year they hold bi-monthly group meetings to discuss current problems. The policy com- mittee meets twice a month to form the campus-wide policies of the group. The counselors also send repre- sentatives to all the major faculty committees on cam- pus, and serve as advisers to the Council of House Man- agers and the Senior Sister Council. Through their widespread activities on the Stephens campus, the residence counselors form an important branch of the educational program. As out-of-class teachers, they provide an important part of the edu- cation in human relationships which is found outside the classroom. Page 25

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Public Relations HE Public Relations Department, headed by Robert J. Sailstad, keeps the alumnae, parents, and educators all over the country informed regarding the aHairs of the College. Through a carefully organized program of systematic publicity, the News Bureau with Mrs. Peggy Phillips as director sends out newspaper re- leases to home-town newspapers and national magazines concerning both the work of the entire College as well as personal news stories about individual students. Photo- graphs for all public relations releases are furnished by Mr. Townsend Godsey who this year published a book, Free Lance Photography, featuring many photographs taken here on the campus. In addition, the public relations staff continuously works to keep all the members of the Stephens family interested in current and future developments here on the campus. Special reports, student publications, lit- erature about the Twenty-Five Year Plan, and movies and slides of campus life are distributed to those inter- ested. This past year, the Department published a bro- chure entitled Chartered for the Future as a part of the nation-wide program which calls for an 818,000,000 building and endowment fund. Public Relations field representatives keep in touch with the 30,000 Stephens alumnae and patrons located in every state in the Union and many foreign countries, Their objective is, first, to arouse a wide-spread interest Cumfm ign Office MR. ROBERT f. SAILSTAD in the affairs and projects of the College and, second, to organize that effort for the support of Stephens To- morrow. VVorking with Mr. Sailstad are Mrs. Peggy Phillips, director of the News Bureau, her assistants, Darrell Meyer, Mrs. Una Lilleyg and the campaign directors for the current year, Philip C. King and Lawrence B. Avison. The Public Relations Office is located in the Endowment Building at Tenth and Broadway. The News Bureau, however, continues to operate from its old offices at 16 College Avenue, News Bureau I Page 24 i li li l i l tior doe Res cou the twc the phi cou acti the 'Ike Q L f ' : , . 1 ki, 1 -' c. W i . -,A .' , -V I , ' -W I ' 1 fr 4 , Y 4 , , A' i ' ,fig We ' . v I ' ' 2 ,i .7 ',. ff, ' l 'l ., by ' ' ' f l if V? fi' - X? L '1 l af- rw ,475 r 1 mu' ' f wg ,, , 3- k ,V M 5 4 -- 9 1 w f X f., ' - l A, 1 .sg ' ef , 4 4 : ' Q ' ' , '. - ' i ' , M X 5' 9 1 ' W rr'-N - 1 1 l P : V

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. ,,,. -.. -..-x .-.-x..-.,,'ax1: 35.-?........,-,...: ,, !fvg-f:-:...-.5bL:,...,sg-e-..,,......,.,,,.,.-...-, Libraries IBRARIES and books are found in all parts of the Stephens College campus. It is sometimes said that the College aims to locate books so that every time a student turns around, she will trip over a book. This goal has been achieved to the extent that there are libraries in every building on campus except two-the Audi- torium and the Heating Plant. The libraries range in size from thirty thousand volumes in the General Library, located on the ground Hoor of North Hall, down to the six or eight books that a resident of Aviation Hall Cor some other dormitoryj might have in her personal library. The General Library in North Hall includes, besides books, three thousand phonograph records, Hve hundred pictures avail- able to students for loan in their rooms, and the general catalog- ing department to which more than three thousand new books were added this year. Among the other libraries are the division libraries-Social Studies Division Library on the ground Hoor of VVindsor Hall, Science Division in Hickman Hall, Home and Family Division in Sloan Hall, Foreign Language Division on the ground floor of Lela Raney Wfood Hall, Communications Division in Sampson Hall, and the Visual Education Library in Hickman Hall. -un DR. B. LAMAR JOHNSON The importance of the Visual Aids Library is shown by the fact that over five thousand reels were shown to students during the 1945-1946 school year. An indication of the relationship which the College believes the librarians and the teachers should have is sug- gested by the fact that the Dean of Instruction is also Head Librarian. Dean B. Lamar Johnson feels that the library is a necessary part of teaching. In 1939, his ideals, along with those of others on the library staff, were set ,j forth in a book entitled Vfitalfizing a College Library. , The librarian at Stephens College indeed has an opportunity to become more than casually acquainted with teaching: she knows teaching by observing its re- sults as students work in the library, she studies current course outlines, she visits and participates in classes, she has both informal and regularly scheduled conferences with teachersg she is a working member of faculty work- fhops and of departmental groupsg and she participates in planning and carrying out the teaching program. Page 26 f2:1?f a e t k the Q quali Ivan lege, style cann are f 1 Year' l'i0n3 bit Hari tells Kress and , UD s are , Drogr C0urs riage nique The backg Sh0L1lm throw Page 27