Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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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

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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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The Libraries Stephens College has developed a unique plan for distribution of library books according to departmental needs. Thus libraries have been provided in twenty- seven buildings throughout the campus. The depart- mental or divisional libraries include general science, communications, home and family, social studies, and language. Dr. B. Lamar Johnson, dean of instruction, is head librarian. The language library is unusual in itself, for it includes not only reading material, but also listening records as practical audio-aids for language students. The Audio-visual service of the library is under the direction of Dr. Robert de Kieffer. The purpose of the department is to supply projectors and to circulate films and records for clubs, campus meetings, and class- room work. The communications library, which includes the Hattie Jean Falk memorial collection, offers a large number of volumes to students interested in journalism and creative writing. It has become a resource center for all work in communications. The general library includes two listening rooms and a complete file of records that provide everything from boogie-woogie to Beethoven. It contains also the personal library center where girls can borrow books to keep in their rooms all year. This plan has helped to stimulate reading interest and to make recreational reading an important part in the life of every Stephens student. The College subscribes to 300 magazines and nine newspapers, which are distributed among the divi- sion libraries. In addition to providing books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and records, this library also has pictures, slides, films, radio transcripts, and a micro- film edition of the New York Times. Dr. B. Lamar Johnson Librarian and Dean of Instruction The method of placing books where they are needed has greatly increased the number of books borrowed from the libraries. During the years from 1927 to 1932 each Stephens student borrowed an average of 9.27 books per year from the Stephens general library. With the decentralized system, however, the average number of books borrowed by each girl per year is now 35.00. This is convincing proof that the system is suc- cessful. P. R. M. ARMblRO.NG Registrar In the Travel Office Virginia Payne Secretary of Permissions Page 19