Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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The distance between Robert Joseph Fisher ' s type- writers (pictured below) in the Methodist Historical Collection in the Merner-Pfeiffer Library and the giant IBM machine in the newly refurbished Business Ad- ministration quarters in Ritter Hall is a great one in- deed. The Business program offered through both day and night school is one of Wesleyan ' s most popular courses of study. The Office Machines course with its automatic gears, ringing bells, heavy electric cords, and revolving disks fills the unexperienced viewer with a feeling of awe. It is difficult to imagine a more congenial person than Mr. Hutson, Director of the Evening College and renowned IBM operator. Miss Hedley has this year added much charm to this previously all-male depart- ment. Then there is Judge Puett with a pipe in one corner of his mouth and homespun philosophy in the other.

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The biggest excitement in the Science com- munity has been occasioned by the preparatory efforts for the construction of the Fisher Hall of Science (below). Also housed in this building will be the Math Department which this year has been concerned with developing a program in Modern Math. A seminar (above) began formal work which will be culminated by a Modern Math Institute held during the summer. Headed by Dean Bowhng, the Math faculty, consisting this year of Mr. Ketron and Mr. Senn, began for Math majors a regular working semi- nar which has sparked much interest within the department.

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Moffitt Hall, the home of the ingenious English Department whose many creative efforts are re- flected throughout this book, is also the location of Wesleyan ' s Art Department. Headed by Mrs. Martha Hale, a well-known artist, the Art De- partment adds much sparkle to campus life. The top of campus hill was brightened this year by the modernistic art work designed by Mrs. Hale and applied to the Moffitt Hall shutters by her students. In abstract form the drawings illustrate the vari- ous aspects of Wesleyan ' s art program. Mrs. Fred Puett, teacher of Arts and Crafts, has a studio which is a fantasy land. Her collection of student-made art work makes it a wonderful place — like Disneyland — for just visiting. There a but- ton can become a flower, rags a doll, or dripping candle tallow a painted picture. Over it all (above left) broods Nocatula. Whatever the circumstances Nocatula is a fine old girl. R. V. Jennings in his poem entitled Hu- moresque may have captured her indomitable spirit in his refrain: The hag Nocafnla sifs High in the limbs of the oak, Grinning her toothless grin: She knoiL ' s uhat the shouting is all about I Whether you like this or her Indian-maiden image doesn ' t really matter — because either way she knows . . . !