Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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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

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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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First row: Miss Elizabeth Adams, Miss Grace Allardice, Mrs. Elsie Anderson, Miss Jean Baer, Miss Mary Chamberlain, Mrs. Martha Cooper Second row: Miss Grace Curtis, Miss Loretto Cusack, Mrs. Mae DePree, Miss Florence Gilchrist, Mrs. Madelin Grover, Miss Cathryn Henry Third row: Mrs. Josephine Loucks, Miss Frances Matz, Miss Margaret McCaul, Miss Marie Moore. Miss Ruth Mostrom, Mrs. Ann Nickells Fourth row: Miss LoREN. Parrish, Mrs. Audrey P.atrick, Mrs. Frances Potts, Miss Mary Skinner, Miss Claire Sudderth - ' Pn .A «? V:V : rage 25