Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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ALUMNI The Alumni Association was established in 1872 to promote and encourage a close relationship among the administration, the trustees, the faculty, the stu- dents, and the alumni of the University. Headed by Charles A. Lee, jr., alumni field secretary, and Miss Winifred Hughes, executive secretary, the Omce is a service and information bureau. It not only informs graduates about doings on campus, but it also helps to insure the future of the University by maintaining widely scattered local branches, composed of loyal and enterprising Syracusans. The Ollice keeps in touch with the Syracusan in serv- ice by sending out news letters, three of which have already been published. A service file records the names of these servicemen. If word is received of the death of any graduate, a letter of sympathy is sent to the next kin, and a notice to the Chapel. During the year, voluntary contributions of members of the Association are received by Mr. Lee, and make up the Alumni Fund. May Crandon I ... I Winifred Hughes, Charles A. Lee, Jr. VARSITY The Varsity Club was founded in 1933 to stimu- late interest and foster high ideals in athletics among the alumni and undergraduates of the University: Its membership, composed of those men who have won a varsity letter in either a major or a minor sport, has since grown to over a thousand. Direction of the organization is in the able hands of William G. Kennedy, president, and Miss May Crandon, execu- tive manager. An official publication, the Varsity Club News, is sent out quarterly. Before the war, the Club used to sponsor smokers on Colgate eve and reunions on Homecoming week-ends. Miss Crandon, known to scores of Syracusans as Auntie May, regrets the severe cutting of the athletic program, but she is looking forward to many more Syracuse victories, after the great Allied one. She is very proud of the fact that when former varsity men come back to campus, they always make a point of going up to the Clubis oflice in the gym to say hello.

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h Hulbert W. Smith TRUSTEES All of the policies of Syracuse University are decided by a group of sixty-three people-the Trustees. Mak- ing up this governing group are alumni, members at large, honorary members, and Chancellor Tolley, the one ex officio member. Due to the widespread loca- tions of their respective homes, the trusees meet as a whole but twice a year-in early November and dur- ing Spring Commencement week. However, an execu- tive committee, consisting of eight members, all Syra- cusans, and headed by Mr. H. W. Smith. meets once a month to decide immediate issues and work out de- tails of procedure. The honorary members are the mayor, governor, Bishop, president of the Alumni Association, and commissioner of education. The trustees are chosen by one of four ways for a term of six years. It is so arranged that rotation of members will take place every year. The twenty-eight alumni trustees are chosen at a National Alumni con- ference. A second group is composed of the five honorary members. The remainder is made up of Methodist trustees, selected by the Patronizing Con- ference of the Methodist Church, and by delegates at large chosen at the annual conference of trustees. The present executive committee is composed of Mr. H. W. Smith as president, Mr. George Arents, Mrs. Robert J. Burdette and Mr. C. S. Woolworth as vice presidents, Mr. Lewis Ryan as secretary, and Mr. George E. Van Dyke as treasurer.

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Seated Dean M Eunice Hilton, Miss Marjorie Smith Standing Miss Jean Templeton, Miss Elsie Penfield Miss Anne Calder, Mrs. Eleanor McCurdy Miss Doris Seward. With the peacetime staff of the Office of Men's Affairs gone off to war, the work of the office has continued under the direction of Acting Dean Frank Piskor and Professor Lewis W. Crawford. Campus men still get the intensive attention their wartime personal, educa- tional, financial, vocational, and Selective Service prob- lems require. In cooperation with the Academic Deans, Dean Piskor arranges for all withdrawals when men are inducted, and through correspondence, takes care of many of their educational interests. In cooperation with the Academic Deans, he selects those men in scientific fields, whose deferments will be supported by the University. Both he and Professor Crawford are planing postwar programs for men. GOVER FACULTY Prof. Lewis Crawford Acting Dean Frank Piskor The competent and understanding staff in the Dean of Women's Office has been the counsel and back- bone for almost every activity on campus. A five- point service program consisting of guidance and help with personal problems, plans for housing, adequate social activities, a social educational program, and vocational advice, is offered to women students. Miss M. Eunice Hilton, Dean of Women, and her competent staff insure the coed a happy and successful college career. The social program is supervised by Miss Penfield, and Miss Templeton is sorority and vocational guide. Miss Calder is in charge of week- end permissions and city women's activities, and Miss Seward leads the Chapel group.