West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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MAINTENANCE In order to provide a physical plant worthy of the educational set-up it houses, a staff of trained and efficient manual laborers is an essential requirement. Since the construction of the first buildings more than sixty years ago, many men have been constantly employed to keep them in as excellent condition as possible. The grounds themselves, beautiful as they are, are the result of careful leveling and grading and the constant removal of unsightly refuse. HERBERT CHAMBERS Chief Steward Mr. Chambers and his competent group of workers have the dead leaves that collect beneath the trees and hedges removed,- they have the snow shoveled,- and they have the grass cut in season. Occasionally when the masculine faction becomes obstreperous and breakage results, the force comes into action and makes immediate reparations. Another phase of this service includes janitorial work. hHalls, classrooms, the gymnasiums, and other buildings must be kept clean and sanitary. These functions require earnest labor and efficient use of time and energy. The students and faculty owe a considerable debt of gratitude to the maintenance department for supplying favorable conditions under which to study. Last year saw the completion of the much needed athletic fields, and this year the men ' s and women ' s tennis courts have been reconditioned. The old grandstand on Wayne Field, which has outlived its useful- ness is slowly but surely being demolished. This year marks the end of the transition period in West Chester ' s development,- next year will witness a revolution, not only in the curriculum, but on the campus as well, for the new building program is slated to take effect immediately, and an efficient maintenance department will do much to aid REBECCA DISSINGER Matron in its speedy completion. Twenty-seven

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Jui CLARENCE McKELVIE Personnel Director PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT An entirely new administrative office, the Personnel Department, fias functioned very competently regardless of its novelty. Besides superintending the bevy of N.Y.A. , workers and directing the placement of I g those persons who hold student help jobs, T I tfie department has taken upon itself the task of creating a part-time employment bureau to aid needy students by providing them with odd jobs from time to time. Not content to stop there, it attempts to arrange for summer employment for a limited number of applicants. Statistics gathered by this department prove its efficiency by showing, insofar as can be ascertained, that no other college in the United States, with the ex- ception of Yale University, has 3313% of its student body holding paying positions. KITCHEN Approximately two-thirds of the twelve hundred undergraduates at West Chester, like college students everywhere, spend some part of every day complaining about the meals in the dining room. Never once do they stop to marvel at the variety of it, or the efficiency with which it is served. They do not seem to take into account the fact that the dietitian spends over four thousand dollars weekly to feed about the largest group of people who ever ate in the same room at one time. But more than this, she manages an immense staff of student waiters, chefs, dishwashers, and a large group of women who clean and set the tables. A moment ' s thought w the conviction that here is a very important job well done. ROBERTA MACK Dietitian brine Twenty-six

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Mr. Powell, Miss Griffith, Mrs. Gregg, Miss Lumis, Miss Colladay, Mr. Roberts Mrs. Patton, Miss Robson, Miss Finegan, Mrs. LaRose, Miss Young, Mrs. Thompson BUSINESS OFFICE Those who are acquainted with the intricacies of accounting can appreciate to some extent the enormous problem which confronts the business office of the college. The employees use a seemingly innate mathematical dexterity in allocating those funds which accrue from the contingent fees of the students and the other necessary bills to the dining room, the power house, the laundry, the li- brary, and all the depart- ments of the faculty. The payrolls of the N. V. A. workers and all the student help are also handled here and through the department ' s watchfulness, the neglectful student is impressed with the importance of paying what he owes. The successful operation of any social, educational, or business enterprise is depend- ent upon a structure of mathematical figures and the careful fashioning of those figures in as much black ink as possible. Our business office, understanding these principles, harmoniously adjusts the financial necessities to the other phases of the college administration. Mrs. Clayton, Mrs. Draper Emon Postles, Bursar Twenty-eight