Union College - Golden Cords Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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L. VV. Welch l Marie Anderson 24 Ilegistrar's Ilffice Gets Facelifhand New Registrar Dr. Lowell W. Welch, alumnus of ,32, accepted last spring the duties of Dean of Admissions and Registrar. Since 1945 he has been the Dean of Student Affairs at Union. VVelch continued this year in his re- search of dropouts of Union College. According to Welch, approximately two-thirds of the students that begin at Union as freshmen do not graduate from Union. Une-third of these drop- outs have found denominational em- ployment, while the others have fin- ished their education elsewhere or have not graduated at all. For the first time this year, Welch used the college's new IBM machines in the registering of students and keep- ing the students, records together. He said that certain jobs are speeded up and efficiently improved by the IBM machines. We handle a larger number of students without more help. But we havenit found it possible to cut down Anita Keith

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.. -. ,.', -1 . f3'gi!'Qf!21zYf?4ffff4'A m W'f uiu. ii 3 u ,,,M Aw,, , .,,, , 4 1 . - V, . , V. isa-143 QM - QQ' Roy Crawford V. F. Mage, Gott leads UB Business Force Besides completing course work to- ward his Ph.D., George Gott, Business Manager, is an elder at the College View SDA church, a Sabbafh school teacher, member ofthe College View finance committee, and a member of the Kiwanis Club. T h r e e or four days a month he spends off campus visiting the Denver cam-pus of Union College or Union's S100,000 apartments in South Dakota. Conventions take his time, too. Gott attended the wage-hour convention in Washington, D.C., was a delegate to the General Conference of Seventh- day Adventists, an d attended the American Economics Association in San Francisco, California. v Unionys building program kept his attention the majority of the time this year. There were three building proj- ects: science addition, new high-rise dorm., and the library-music hall addi- tion. More construction has been car- ried on these past four years than in any previous four-year period in the history of the college, praised Gott. According to Gott, Union College spent over 32,000,000 this year on its building program. Roy W. Crawford, assistant business manager, replaced Lee Allen last No- vember when Allen accepted a job in the treasury department of the Ne- braska Conference of SDA. Prior to joining the Union College faculty fam- ily, Crawford spent two and a half years as personnel director for the New England Sanitarium and Hospi- tal at Stoneham, Massachusetts.,Craw- ford says that hisnfavorite hobby is fishing because he e nj o y s getting away from everything for a changef, In addition to accompanying Gott to the Denver campus, Crawford attend- ed a convention in Milwaukee, Wis- consin, for student financial advisors. Changes in the department includ- ed the addition of a file to coordinate the student's work position both on and off campus. According to Craw- ford, this will enable him to know when and where there is a job vacan- cy and which students need work. Virgil F. Mayer graduated from Union in 1950 and joined the admin- istration in 1957 as accountant and assistant business manager. Assisted by 13 part-time employees and one full-time assistant, Mayer divides his time three ways: between the Book- store, the Accounting Office, and the Business Office. Gardening is his hobby even though he confesses he doesn't have much time for hobbies. In his spare time he takes graduate work in economics at the University of Nebraska. This last August Mayer joined Crawford at a convention for student financial aid officers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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on help as compared to the pastf' In April, Welch attended the Ne- braska Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers. He also attended the National Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers in Denver and the Nebraska University and Col- leges at Wayne State College. He is a member of the American Personnel and Guidance Association a n d the American College Personnel Associa- tion. This year he visited all the acad- emies in Union College territory help- ing the seniors with the college admis- sions requirements which included entrance tests. Welch also visited An- drews University, Columbia U nio n College, and the University of Ne- braska, studying W a ys of adapting data processing to the college record office. juniors and seniors benefit most from the untiring help of Miss Marie Anderson, academic counselor. Miss Anderson received her B.A. from Un- ion College in 1928, and did graduate work at Northwestern University and the University of Southern California. She has been at Union as registrar and counselor since 1944. Stamp collecting is her favorite past time, while growing softball-sized tomatoes in the summer is her season- al joy. Besides standing in for the academic dean when he is unavailable, Miss An- derson attended the National Regis- trars Convention last spring before re- tiring from Unionis Registrars Office. Miss Anita Keith is the assistant reg- istrar. She and Lois Bayley, Welchis secretary, are the only other full-time workers in the Registraris Office. By rearranging the office, installing service windows, sliding open to the second floor hallway, we cut down a lot of noise and confusion that we had in previous years, said Miss Keith. Six posture,' chairs and six walnut- stained-plastic metal desks were add- ed to the office along with the new fluorescent lights. I 'su ...J X .H Heller Heads Denver Bampus Miss Ruth Haller, who heads UC,s nursing school at Denver, spends her time recruiting teachers and students, checking upon the janitor, renting the school,s apartments in Denver, order- ing supplies for the school, handling disciplinary problems, counseling stu- dents about students and faculty about students, and clearing her desk of ad- ministrative papers. Three out of every four weeks are spent in Denver, while the other one is spent on the Lincoln campus. She Ruth H alle-r has been with the Union 'College nurs- ing school for over 634 years and has been associate professor and chairman of the Department of Nursing for the past year and a half. Within the past year she has attended ten conventions on nursing. As if she doesnit have enough to do during her year-round program, she skies twice a month, knits sweaters, and expands her knowledge and ex- perience in the field of photography.