University of Wisconsin Stevens Point - Horizon / Iris Yearbook (Stevens Point, WI)

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aintenancc Behind the scenes of an institution such as ours are the people who carry on activities that make things click and tick and mighty comfortable! They keep us clean they keep us warm—they keep us safe. When we stop to think, we appreciate it all; but we get to be pretty much matter-of-fact and take-it-for-granted about such things. Which all goes to say that we ought to stop and we ought to think and why not say Thanks” while we re at it? Mr. Stein, the wizard of the heating staff, is responsible for making the wheels go round; and a better job was never done. He has spent spare time trying to compensate for everyone’s gripes about the weather for the last twenty years. The busiest man in school is Mr. Parks who is in charge of the maintenance staff. He has a solution for every difficulty and is especially handy with locks—not picking them; fixing them. COMMITTEES HARD AT WORK . . . THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS PRESENTED . . . Page 28

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THE OFFICE STAFF Miss June Lindeman came here in 1938 as office secretary. She and Miss Van Derra have enjoyed many picnics and one unforgettable trip together. She likes photography and naturally, movies, which are an example of the best photography. Her favorite pastime is reading. The financial secretary-treasurer of the college board of administration, Miss Carolyn Rolfson, has a job to keep her really busy. However, in her spare time she has many interesting hobbies. She collects old glass and china, too but limits her choice to old blue glass. She likes to travel and has seen both the East and West. In 1935 Miss Rolfson and Miss Swallow went to Alaska together. It was a thrilling trip where Miss Rolfson undoubtedly had time to be active in her favorite sport, skiing. Miss Mary Jane Van Derra, Secretary to the Advanced Standing Committee. She was a freshman here in 1936 with the graduating class of 1940. Miss Van Derra is fond of classical music and blows her own horn, a cornet. She makes all the trips with the college bus and otherwise to hear the personalities in the worlds of music and dramatics. She enjoys reading—has started a library of her own. She likes the out-of-doors—rides horseback, tapdances. Exploring Our State, a radio series, was a very interesting account of various localities in Wisconsin, written and broadcast during 1938-1939 by Miss Marie Swallow, Secretary to the Placement Committee. Wisconsin is Miss Swallow’s hobby. Her broadcasts were designed especially to acquaint the radio audience with our state, its natural resources and beauties, its people, human interest stories, and history. She is very much interested in present day affairs, economical, political, conservational, and personal, and is unusually well prepared to talk or write on any of them. She has traveled throughout the continent. Miss Swallow is a poetess of considerable talent, too. In Exploring Our State she included many of her own poems which accurately distinguish her as one who really knows and loves her state. ...THE WINNAHS! O'DOHERTY, VANDYKE, SPLITEK AND OLSON . . . SENIOR Pase 27

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UPKEEP-TO YOU! John, the Janitor, is the friend of every student and all the teachers. He has one of the jolliest personalities around school. Every returning student is assured of a warm welcome from John. To the children attending the Demonstration School, Frank is the most important man in the college. Why? Because he’s Santa Claus every Christmas. Besides that he’s the handy man and jack of all trades at the Demonstration School. Every Dormite will agree that life at Nelson Hall wouldn't run half so smoothly without Tessie. She always has a cheery word and a sunny smile no matter what the time of day, and she has never been known to refuse to do a favor for one of her girls. ’’Service with a smile” seems to fit Mr. Davis. He’s the practice teacher’s friend. You'll find him any time of the day somewhere in the training school, but you’ll have to look. He should patent his noiselessness. Besides her many duties at the college, Mrs. Jonas finds time for hobbies— baking birthday cakes for the Home Ec staff and raising flowers. It is her thoughtfulness of others that has given her a place in the hearts of all those associated with C.S.T.C. MEN'S GLEE CLUB DOING CONSIDERABLE TRIPPING ABOUT THE COUNTRY . . . Pase 29