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

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assistant Director. At the beginning of this year Mrs. Newman assumed the whole responsibility as Director, and Director of Housing Allen Austill iwho was director of Admissions and Placement at St. John's College before he came here in 1955i took on added work as assistant Director. A 101: of phrases originate at this University and are abbeviated here: 0MP, SSA, FTF, SG, ISL, SRP, B-J. . . . There has come, though, from the outside, three letters: IBM, which have ceased to represent any agency except the Exmineris ofiice. However inaccurate be this mechanistic concept, students incorrigibly think of the Examiners, OfEce as operated by machines or some kindred form of inhumanity. That this proposition is false is demonstrated every year when Examiner Benjamin S. Bloom ap- pears to say some words of encouragement to enter- ing Students. Associated with Bloom in the Exam- ineris OEICE are Supervisor of Research Hugh Lane, Allen Austill, Director of Student Housing Lionel Holmes, Bookstore guide to be- wildered students, works over the records uDlBBS ON THE com WHEN YOU'RE THRoueHP

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tions of all students lfrom high-school prospects to post-Ph.D. researchersl in all stations le.g., bOth potential draftees, and real veterans are consideredl in every way. There is one Associate Dean, John P. Netherton, and three AssiStant Deans, Mrs. Ruth 0. McCarn, Robert C. Woellner talso Director of Vocational Guidance and Placementl, and William E. Scott lalso Direcror of AdmissionsJ Working under Dean of the College McCrea Hazlett are the twen- ty-thtee advisers to students in the college tSenior Advisers: John C. Mayfield, Russell B. Thomas, Margaret Kraemer, Donald Mciklejohn, and Wil- liam C. Bradburyl. The position of Associate Dean was created this year, and to fill the vacancy left by Netherton as College Dean of Students, Hazlett was brought up from the English faculty. Stephen B. Wood remaincd assistant Dean of Students in the College. When Scott switched from his position as Regis- trar to that of Director of Admissions, young David L. Madsen, once assistant to the Registrar, took his place. Part of the work of the Registrar's OHice is the keeping of permanent records, receiving and sending out transcripts, Ievying registration fees, advising on selective service, planning and execut- ing Central Registration, and regulating Convoca- tions. For last year only Dean Strozier acted as Director of Student Activities, with Mary Alice Newman as Looking from a diEerent angle at regular transaction being made between John Lyon and cashier, in the Bursarls Oiflce 99 3g ' N 9.3: Jog ll? ' -6 it v , o .- oats; iiiid ' 49 w Evidently Mary Alice Newman funds that being Director of Student Activities has its lighter moments Miss Dorothy Demon, Auditor of all stu- dent acrivity accounts 11

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Director of Public Relations, William V. Morgenstern George H. Watkins, Vice-Ptesident in charge of Development Assistant Examiner Eleonora J. Kaufmann, Col- lege Examiner Knox C. Hill, and Divisional Ex- aminers Myles Friedman, Roger Pillet, and Get- trude Weisskopf. The two subsidiaries of the Dean of Students' Office which are concerned with physical matters are the Student Health Service and the Department of Physical Education. Director of Student Health is Dr. Henrietta Herbalsheimer, who oversees the work of some 14 physicians and a psychiatric social worker. T. Nelson Metcalf retired last year as Di- rector of Physical Education, and chosen to take his place was Walter M. Hass, former football coach. Hass is also chairman of the menis physical educaction program; Edith Ballwebber is chairman of the women's program. Although not centered in the Administration Building, that part of the administration which deals With the library system is as nearly important to the people here as the Bursaris ohice. Under the general supervision of Library Director Herman H. Fussler, the library system of the University is divided into two parts: Readetsi Services Division tunder Stanley E. Gwynni and Preparations Divi- sion tunder John M. Dawsom. 13