Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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F.rst rata: Mr. Scott R. Timmons. Mr. J. D. El.ff, Mr. Ben D. Wood. Mr. J. L. Morrill, M,ss Geneva Dr.nkwater. Mr. Thomas Second ro o: M,ss Prudence Cutr,ght, Mr. Alv,n C. Eur.ch, Mr. James R. Angell. Mr. W. M. F.tch, Mr. R. L. Smith, M,ss Kate TA rd?r Mr. Hugh Stephens. Mr. J. P. Hetzler. Mr. Donald M. Nelson, Mr. John A. Robinson. Mr. Robert L. Sutherland. Mr- Frank Dearing, Mr. G. Ellsworth Huggins Beverly Hills, California; Scott R. Timmons, attorney at law, Kansas City; and Thomas H. Beck, president of Board of Directors, Crowell Publishing Company, New York. Honorary life members are G. W. Hum- phrey, Kanas City; Mrs. E. S. Pillsbury, St. Louis; and Mr. J. H. Roblee, St. Louis. During the past quarter century Stephens has been working under an experimental program directed and inspired by former President James Madison Wood. Through the complete cooperation of the president and the Board, these years of accomplishment in new meth- ods and procedures were rounded out in 1947. That the Stephens College Board of Curators is a planning Board is well illustrated by the achievements of the past twenty-five years, for these have been planned achievements, representing the best thought and effort of the faculty and administration motivated by fixed educational ideals. But the Board concerns itself not only with the problems of the present but the problems of the future as well. Last year, with the capable and experienced direction of newly-elected President Homer Price Rainey, the Board launched a new 25-year pro- gram of development and set up appropriate adminis- trative procedures to realize its objectives. The broad outlines of the new plan of educational advancement were unfolded to the public in July, 1946, by Mr. Hugh Stephens. He said in part. Twenty-five years ago we found a changed world which emerged from the first world war . . . Today, as we look ahead to another twenty-five years, we face the challenge of another post-war period with new and more numerous demands and responsibilities. What we did before we must do again. . . . But we must be equipped and strengthened to do it in the most complete and effective way possible. . . . The College must undergird its activities with adequate capital resources if it is to serve fully and effectively the needs of young women of tomorrow. Page 17

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Mr. Hugh Stephens T HE governing body behind the scenes in the administration of Stephens College is the Board of Curators. It is composed of men and women distin- guished in all walks of life and from all parts of the country, who believe profoundly in the philosophy which underlies the Stephens program of general edu- cation. Board of Curators The members are: Mr. Hugh Stephens, of Ex- change National Bank in Jefferson City, chairman; Mr. J. D. Elliff, Professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, vice-chairman; Mr. W. W. Fitch, attorney at law, St. Louis; Mr. J. P. Hetzler, retired merchant, Columbia; Mr. R. L. Smith, master farmer, Fulton, Missouri; Mr. G. Ellsworth Huggins, manufacturer. New York; Mr James R. Angell, public service coun- selor of N. B C, New York; Mr. John A. Robinson, banker, Miami, Oklahoma; Mr. Alvin C. Eurich, vice- president of Leland Stanford University, Stanford, California; Mr. Ben D. Wood, director of the Bureau of Collegiate Educational Research at Columbia Uni- versity, New York; Mr. Robert L. Sutherland, director of the Hogg Foundation at Austin, Texas; Miss Pru- dence Cutright, assistant superintendent of schools at Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mr. J. L. Morrill, president of University of Minnesota; Miss Geneva Drinkwater, of Charleston, Missouri, former professor of history at Vassar College; Miss Kate Stamper, public school edu- cation, Moberly, Missouri; Donald Nelson, president. Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, Left to right: Hug i jt.;= ' hens, Frank Dearinc, R. L. Smith, Scott R. Timmons, J. D. Eliff, Homer P. Rainey, Miss Geneva Drinkwater, J. P. Hetzler Page 16

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Dean Marjorie Carpenter T here are just two reasons for the existence of Administrative officials. They are supposed to render service to both students and faculty by caring for details connected with the running of a college. They are also expected to furnish some leadership in establishing policies. Neither one of these functions amounts to any- thing unless the students are aware of the importance for all of us in cooperating with administrative rulings. Administration Sometimes this cooperation needs to take the form of recommending needed changes. And always, in a democracy, it calls for free discussion and the recogni- tion of established law. In an experimental college like Stephens there is an unusual opportunity for working with a type of education which is different. This does not mean that we abandon the standards of academic achievement. On the contrary, it means that those standards are kept unusually high because every indi- vidual girl realizes for herself that the quality of her work is important for her and for society. The Administration has set up a framework within which each Stephens girl has an opportunity, with her adviser, to think out her own goals. She has an oppor- tunity in her dormitory to experience group living. She has an opportunity in her classroom to acquire skills and knowledge. Student officers and faculty adminis- trative officials stand ready at all times to make the framework strong. It is our hope that, as a result of her campus experience, each graduate goes into her com- munity equipped to be the sort of citizen who under- stands the purposes and methods of democratic ad- ministration, who understands herself, and who is ready to take on whatever responsibilities are demanded in serving her community. — Marjorie Carpenter Mary Bigelow Assistant to the Dean Alumnae Office Staff Mary Coleman Atumnae Secretary Page IS