Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Members of the Campus Center Board dig into their juicy steaks served in the President’s Dining Room. on one side. The entire lounge is magnificently furnished with thick, soft carpeting, supporting handsome couches and chairs. The comfort of the furniture is proven by the large numbers of sleep- ing students which can often be found in them dur- ing the morning. These sleepers are usually inter- spersed among a group of studiers getting in some last minute preparations before heading off to class. Eating, sleeping, and making merry—the lounge and Great Hall combine to support all of these di- versified activities. The normal dining area is not the only place in the Center providing dinners; the President's Din- ing Room shown above is the site of many small, private banquets. Although intended as a private room in which the President could entertain dis- tinguished lecturers and other guests, it has gotten a great deal of use from local service groups, col- lege clubs, and simply private groups of hungry people. The picture above shows the dining room decked out for a fine steak dinner. Partaking of the repast are the members of the Campus Center Board, an advisory body intended to aid the admin- istration and Mr. Kleis in increasing student use of the many varied facilities of the Campus Center. There still exists one more Campus Center struc- ture which supplies tasty foodstuffs; this is the Scarlet Inn, shown on the following page. The Inn offers mainly short orders and that mainstay of the college campus, coffee. Open from 7 a.m. until 10:30 p.m., the Inn acts as the hub of activity in the Center during any hour of the day. Morning and afternoon find faculty, administration, and secre- taries taking their coffee breaks at the Inn’s round tables or side booths. This hangout acts as the home of many a lab-weary science student pausing l

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Employees find time to browse through their merchandise with a customer in the college bookstore. by Saga Food Service under the direction of Mr. Paul Kleis. Mr. Kleis and his aids provide a total of twenty meals per week—three on weekdays but only two on Sunday—throughout the college year for those with contracts. Faculty members, guests, and anyone else not holding a meal contract may eat individual meals on a cash basis. The number of faculty members and guests attending often 6 turns the average meal into a stimulating conversa- tion which can adjourn to the comfort of the nearby lounge or simply remain at the tables. Here a word about the lounge might well be in order. The entire south portion of the first floor of the building is devoted to a lounge area, where students can relax in informal discussions or card games, and can also make use of the excellent piano

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ee ee Students and Uncle Sam’s recruiters alike find time for leisure, conversation and a cup of coffee in the Scarlet Inn. Mrs. Rutledge smiles up from her desk where she acts as receptionist and handles the switchboard. in his calculations to ponder the meaning of a coke or cup of coffee. Here too reside members of our faculty, eagerly awaiting an intellectual slip by some Inn-sitter so that they may proceed to devour him. Here we see the personification of that Wa- bash informal attitude and sp irit that is so hard to define, as student and professor blend together over a cup of coffee to point out errors in the Wall Street Journal's financial analysis, in our foreign affairs, in a recent chapel program, or in a letter to the editor. Here the Wabash spirit lives. Down the hall from the Inn, (see page 6), is a labyrinthian room called the Bookstore. Twisting about the shelves of paperbacks can often be seen Dr. O’Lessker, manager of said establishment. The shelves are piled high with books ranging from Shell Scott to “The No Plays of Japan,” with a pre- dominance of books of the latter quality. Living up