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

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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

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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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Kiendl, Rossi told Dean Strozier that he put the onlyr two Republir vans on campus in the same 0mm. Democrat Strozier exclaimed: wWhat have I done? Rassi watches preparations for the- Annual OJ'i'rek Picnic in Hutch- inson Court. Her husband. Jim Neuman. is :1 Bl. House Head. Birenhaum 100k a leave-of-absence to help further a Ford Foundation project. Registrar William Scott Uiimself a Director in the 193055i stepped-in as Acting Direclor, as he had in the Summer when Birenbaum was on vacation. In the Winter. Birenbaum was gone. for good, appointed Dean of Stu- dents at University College downtown. Imo his oHice came the newly- appointed Ivy Leagueish Director of Housing Arthur Kiendl. On an economy move. Kiendl retained his Housing poslj In a few days Director Kiendl found his hearingSelhe activities of the Activitiesi thce were rolling again. Students found the new Director a sympathetic, unconniving adviser on their organizational problems, with a new conception: a unified program of student activities, the beginnings of which only vaguely seen this year.