University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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am mses'zw f Any play. or registration day Fmrls long lines waiting in the Bursai'la' 03hr. guard over the many records of the studenfs career. Across the hall is the Bursar's Office, a modern bankmlike room, characterized by long lines of stu- dents, employees queueing to transact their fmancial business. with the University. A combination bank, currency exchange, loan agency, the thce tpresided over by Bursar Albert E. Cottent thrice a year be- comes a phozegraphic studio when portraits for the University's Student Identification Cards are taken -a classic example of the Post OHice School of Modern Art. Registrar Smtt doubled in brass for two quarters this year uhen he took over functions of Director of Nudent .trtivities.

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Housing a myriad of administrative agencies with which the student comes in contact are the Admis- sions, Office, the Registrafs thce, the Bursafs omce. The Achnissmnsf Ohice and its Director, Valerie C. Wickhem, the student first meets. Here his appli- cation is checked, his entrance examination scruti- nized, until at last the 0K? is given: the student may enter the University. The average entrant First meets the Registrarts Oihce in a strange setting: Bartlett Gym. Thereto, at the opening of the Autumn Quarter, moves the chine to accommodate the mass of students preparing pro- grams. In more normal times, however, the Regise trar has his efhce in its customary location: Adminis- tration Building 103. Here William E. Scott stands 2i Admissions, Regtlctran Bursar Valerie Wickhem heads Office of Admissions. de- termines whether applicant is qualified to enter, undertake work at the University. Bursar Cotten handles University Fmancial trans- acttons, presides over modern. bankrlike office familiar to all students.

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26 Student Activities Office In the Student Activitit-s' OfEmu 1951-55 was a year of personnel change. In the Spring, Mrs. Grace Schoelm left her job as Secretary to chome Secre- tary to lhe Billings Hospital Chaplaim subsequenlly a full-time housewife. Parl-lime housewife. pinl-mizc. jovial Hulh Lev Wegener replaced her. A year later she uar- gone: at lhir writing Srudrnt Arlivitie? OHM: had hung-out the Hvlp Wanted sign. In the NJ 1's. Mnjlin IPH when her hthlmml PrnI'w-4n' of Mellitine Xulumn. :5. wislant Dirvc-lor Alma F. J. Mullim wa- aplmintetl PrE-r-idunt 0f Hllimer Direclor Kiendl, who succeeded William Hiren- haum in January, mills over a problem in his Reynolds Club Olilce. rfnllegew the I'niu'rsilyE sister institution in Mt. IJarmH, In. Her nut'rmior was a pert. perky biond with 3 Ph.D. in l-listnry, Wary Alice Newman, '10? Rosa. 1n the utur1m 211m. Director William Manin