University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

Page 30 text:

Beki LtsiER Bhnnett men ' s STUDEni OFFICERS Bert Lester Bennett President James Stevenson Peck Vice-President Ira Samuel Gambill, Jr. . . . Secretary-Treasurer J 0 »ONG on perspiration and short on acclamation might well be the epitaph of this year ' s Student Council. Headed by efficient, energetic Bert Bennett the Council started its year ' s work early in the summer sessions and then went on from there to compile an enviable record of achieve- ment. Hard work and plenty of it was the Bennett key to success as the Council set about the mammoth task of acclimating each new student to the Honor System and the Campus Code. Working through the extensive freshman orientation program, the Council started its indoctrination campaign before the new men had time to settle into University routine. Countless letters had been written during the summer months preparing counselors and freshmen alike for what was to come. Small groups of new men were brought up before the Council each night during the fall quarter until every man in the freshman class had been thus contacted. All ramifications of the Honor System and the Campus Code were explained, test cases were utilized to show the methods of the Council and questions were encouraged. 26

Page 29 text:

WOODHOUSE Dr. Rex Winslow William D. Carmichahl Rbove the Rest E. ' ILLY CARMICHAEL left a lucrative seat on the New York Stock Exchange several years ago to come back to his Alma Mater as Comptroller. Since then he has guided the University through a period of critical financial anxiety. Called invaluable by the administration and the Navy, he has done top-notch work in consolidating friendships for a beleagured University. REX WINSLOW, fast-talking, cracker-jack economist brings to his classes a freshness and clarity that his students do not forget. As much as any teacher, Winslow has pointed the way to students confused on a war-geared campus. A refreshing, exhilerating professor, he keeps his classes above the usual hum-drum level. Students may never know what is going to happen next, but they keep coming back expectantly. Burdened by no pedagogical illusions, Winslow knows and likes his students — and they like him. Because he has been a stimulus both in his actions and his chats, DR. EDWARD J. WOODHOUSE deserves a real place on this page. His classes — held out-of-doors whenever possible — have been termed easy by many, but they have made a more lasting impression than many a fact-filled memory course. Always ready for a chat, always ready to recommend the book you want, always up to the minute on everything from world-affairs to the chances in the game with Duke, Dr. Woodhouse has been the ideal college prof in every sense of the word.

Page 31 text:

During the first regular session of school, following the orientation program, an almost in- credible drop in the number of freshmen brought before the Council for infractions was observed. So successful did the program appear to be, that it was expanded to include transfers from other schools who had entered the University in the upper classes. Once again a notable decrease in violations occurred, and the Council decided to exert its influence to see the system perpetuated in Carolina student government. Much along these same lines, the Council attempted during the year to cooperate with the Faculty-Executive Committee in seeking to effect a complete understanding of the Honor System between student leaders and faculty members. A great deal of constructive work was done in ad- justing new men to conditions laid down by the University examination plan. For the enlightenment of the general student body typical cases were aired through the medium of the Daily Tar Heel : critical estimates and comments were welcomed by the Council. With the continuation of this publicity, started last year, and the complete development of the orientation program, the doors to the Council chambers were further thrown open to the stu- dents with the result that Mr. Average Student is at last beginning to realize the constructive work that is taking place within the highest student governmental organization at the University. As things look now, this understanding is leading to an appreciation which in time should be reflected in a thoughtful and intelligent exercise of the franchise in the annual election of men to the Council. GOVERnmEriT First Ron; Left lo Right: Steve Karres, Steve Peck, Bert Bfnm i i. llill.l . |i illN KiLPATRICK. Second Row: Harry Allen, John Henley, Don Hfnson, Dotson Palmer. 27