University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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l l i l.r:wls. S'roN15, STEVENS, Buxxsiniz, Funxiansox 3 Rinoizwmx Hicss, NlcCAu'rifiY, Knit., I owzau. TUDE T GOVER ME T ASSOCIATIO The Student Government of the University of Nlissouri is the incorporated organization of the entire student body. Its purposes are to foster campus traditions and regulations which aid the University to retain a hold upon the memories of its alumni and extend further its far-reaching influence, to correlate the student activities in the various schools, colleges, and organizations, to impress upon the attention of the State of Missouri the value of supporting this institution, and over all to instill and main- tain student loyalty to University of Missouri standards. The functioning groups in control of the Student Government Association are the EX- ecutive Department, consisting of the Student President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treas- urer, the Legislative Department, consisting of a Student Senate elected under a system of pro- portionate representation from the nine schools and colleges in the university, and the Judicial Court, consisting of the five high-ranking stu- dents in the School of Law. Page 20 Among the many activities of the Student Government Association are the sponsorship of University dances, conducting of the annual Homecoming, and the supervision of student publications. This year a book exchange, man- aged by the Association to enable students to buy and trade books to their greatest profit, proved very successful. ROBERT XV. BLACK P7'fJ'Ii!iB7Ll

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ALBERT K. HECKEL Dean of Men - Dean Albert K. Heckel had served as Dean in Lafayette College for seven years when he came to Missouri as Dean of Men. Prior to this he had taught history in Pennsylvania Teachers' -College and Northwestern. He holds A.B. and A.M. degrees from Roanoke College and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Aside from his classroom duties as teacher of citizenship Dean Heclqel is primarily concerned with tendering personal advice to men students, supervising their conduct in general, and actively overseeing all men's extra-curricular activities. His advice is very instrumental in shaping pur- poses and results in the fraternity system, and he serves as particular advisor to several men's honoraries such as Blue Key, Q.E.B.H., and Phi Eta Sigma. ' x THELMA MILLS Director of Womenis Affairs Miss Thelma Mills assumed her duties as Director of Women's Affairs in September, 1938. She came to the Missouri campus well qualified to take the guiding part in womenis activities. After spending two years as instructor of English in Tientsin, China, she returned to America to act as director of women's dormitories at the University of Wyoming. She then took an A.M. degree at Columbia University and was called to Whitman'College, where she served as dean for eight years. During the past year Miss Mills has suc- cessfully fulfilled her capacity as Director of Women's Affairs. Her efforts to articulate the affairs of such organizations as Mortar Board, Women's Panhellenic Council, and Independent Women's Qrganization to women's activities as a whole have been well received. Miss Mills, furthermore, has put into application a consider- able number of popular new ideas. l Page 28

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I JONES, CIIENOWYTH, TRAPP, YVI-IITFIELD, KOCIITITZKY, STINE, BAUMGARTNER BIRD WVILLIAMS FROUG, GIBBS RICE GEISERT STEPHENSON 7 J J 7 5 VVELLS, REARI, PUGI-I, KUNZ, LIPPARD, SCI-INAEDELBACH, SHEAR Achieving its century of progress in less than thirty years, the Women's Self-Govern- ment Association rounded out in this centennial year another program of projects designed to benefit women students, all of whom are con- sidered members of W. S. G. A. The council, an energetic group of twenty- two women, is chosen on the merit system. Al- though the W. S. G. A. is composed of all ALICE KUNZ .P7'6,l'fdE7Ll .G.. women students, it is the council which sponsors an impressive array of commendable projects. It regulates, for one thing, all house rules for women students and determines closing hours for women's houses. To enforce these rules, the council this year established a judiciary board of hve members. Other projects carried on were registration day assistance for new students, the Co-Ed Carnival during freshman week, assistance with freshman orientation, re-establishing the Stray Greek society for members of sororities not represented on this campus, conducting regular meetings of the house presidents? council for women not in organized houses, sponsoring the Second Annual Skirt Swing, the only University girls' bid dance of the year, featuring the crown- ing of the Knight Owl, acquainting freshman women who did not participate in any campus activities with the possibilities of those activi- ties, and sponsoring of the Christmas Doll show and the Christmas Carol session. Miss Thelma Mills, director of student affairs for women, is the group's advisor. Page 30