Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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Admissions Counselors The major purpose ot the Admissions Department is to help select a capable student body, from widely distributed areas, in order to bring together on the campus a representative group of American college women. The standards employed insure the selection of students who will profit most fully from the type of education provided at Stephens. The staff of sixteen counselors is headed by J Scott Hemry who joined the faculty in 1Q28 and became Director of Admissions in 1945. The admissions counselor is often the first member of the Stephens ' Tamily to meet a prospective student and her parents. After talking with the girl, her par- ents, and her high school faculty, he makes a compre- hensive report on her interests, needs, qualities of per- sonality, home background, and other items of infor- mation helpful to the student ' s faculty adviser and hall counselor. These admissions counselors spend a cer- tain amount of time on the campus, particularly during the opening weeks, when they cooperate closely with other counseling agencies. After school opens in the fall, the field man helps many of the new Susies solve any adjustment problems that may arise. As the year proceeds, he endeavors to keep in touch with the progress of each girl from his area. In January the admissions counselors are again on campus for confer- J Scott Hemry ences with students and faculty and, of course, to par- ticipate in The Faculty Show. They return to the campus early in May to assist each student in evalu- ating her year ' s work, and to sponsor the memorable Old Missouri Barbecue during Commencement Week for the visiting fathers. Baker Baltzer Brown Carr Draper Gallemore Gardner Kyd HiLDEBRAND McClard Phillips Stockdale Trefz WlBLE Williams Page 23

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Mr. Frank W, Dearing A. i.LL OF the financial affairs of Stephens Col- lege are supervised by the Business Department. It is the duty of the Business staff to collect student fees, other financial obligations, and to disperse the collected funds. The Book Store. Student Bank, Post Office, the Dietetic Service. Country Club, and all repairs and maintenance of college property are under the general supervision of the Business Department, subject to the Business Department approval of the President, stated Frank W. Dearing, Comptroller of the College and Secretary of the Board of Curators. Assisting Mr. Dearing in managing business affairs are: Thomas A. Utterback, bursar; Mrs. Elma G. Barton, paymaster; Mrs. June R. Tull, secretary to the comptroller; Mrs. Minnie J. Christman, assistant bursar; Mrs. Hazel Baurichter, assistant bursar in charge of student employees; Mrs. Lucille P. Sonksen, bookkeeper; Miss Dorothy Hanson, assistant pay- master; Miss Jessie Kyd, postmistress; William Day, president of the Student Bank; Mrs. Vauncil Ketchum, cashier of the Student Bank; Mrs. Elizabeth Bryson, Mrs. Virginia Campbell, Mrs. Thelma Johnson, and Miss Marjorie Warren, tellers of the Student Bank; M. W. Sparks, manager of the College Store ; Mrs. C. W. Musgrave, assistant manager of the College Store; Henry M. Belden, Jr.. superintendent of buildings and grounds; Mrs. Frances Ronayne, supervisor of dormi- tories, and S. K. Hartley, engineer. Miss Zoe Harris. Chief Dietitian and Director of Food Service aids the Business Department in the plan- ning of meals, purchasing all foods and departmental supplies, overseeing full-time employees and student helpers in the department, and supervising four dining halls, separate preparation units, a laundry, bakery shop, main office, and an accounting office. On Miss Harris ' Dietetic Staff are: Miss Juanita Shuck, dietitian of Tower Hall; Mrs. Bess R. Damon, dining room supervisor of Tower Hall; Mrs. Mary Anderson, food preparation of Senior Hall; Mrs. Inez Buffington, dining room supervisor of Senior Hall; Miss Lila Hartley, dietitian and dining room supervisor of Laura Stephens Hall; Miss Pearl Peterson, dietitian and dining room supervisor of Terrace Hall; Miss Desyl McCahon, director of storerooms in Dietetics Office; Miss Carrie Davis, dietitian; Mrs. Mabel Anglen, ac- countant in the Dietetic Office; Mrs. Hazel Bell, Mrs. Kate Jacobs, and Mrs. Elizabeth Miner, assistants to dining room supervisors. Miss Harris Director of Food Service The Dietary Staff Page 22

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Miss Grace Curtis T. HE Residence Counselors, headed for the past nine years by Miss Grace Curtis, are in reality Stephens ' out-of-class teachers. The twenty-four counselors and twenty-two assistant counselors are college graduates, and are appointed with full faculty standing. These counselors work in cooperation with teachers and ad- visers to help each girl make the most of her oppor- tunities in all phases of her college experience. The Residence Hall Counselors Realizing the significance of a good hall program in maintaining school spirit, the residence counselors assist each girl as fully as possible to maintain high standards of good citizenship, to use her time wisely, and to develop a mature attitude regarding her own physical and mental well-being. They study and dis- cuss residence hall problems; they hold special confer- ences with hall members and hall groups; and they instruct senior sisters and campus leaders in the duties which they will be expected to fulfill. This instruction is given each spring through a leadership course in which emphasis is placed on the basic principles of psychology as they apply to the problems of guidance and leadership. A new project, headed by Miss Mary Omer, was introduced this year for the purpose of training assist- ant counselors who look forward to residence hall counseling as a career and who wish to prepare them- selves for the duties of a major counseling position. Through their widespread activities on the Ste- phens campus, the residence counselors constitute a significant sector of the educational program. As ' out- of-class teachers, they provide an important part ol the education in human relationships which is found outside the classroom. Conference in Counselor ' s Office Page 24