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

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A EN OF STRATAGEM AND RESOLUTION

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STEREOSCOPIC VIEW I ' HE darling of the West Chester State Teachers College campus in September 1935 was the pink-cheeked, clear-eyed, tow-headed Freshman Class. Our childish enthusiasm knew no bounds even with advent of dinks and bows ' . We were indeed problem children for our patient advisers, Miss Lois Clark and Dr. James Andes. As we grew, we had to have an interpreter for our infantile dialect, and so we chose Master Tommy Middleton as our president. As we passed the baby stage. West Chester was no longer a novelty to us, for as Sophomores we more than ever personified the name of wise fools ' . How- ever, in spite of our schoolboy ' s pranks, our precocity had to be acknowledged, especially in the person of Gerry Brennan, our newly elected leader. During this eventful year the All-Star Course was begun and received with such applause that we have made it part of our education. With the ambition of youth, the Junior Class took upon its growing shoulders new responsibilities, new duties, and new tasks. The Junior Prom materialized in the form of a French cafe, and we called it Chez Les Apaches ' . We thought Sally Twaddell to be the epitome of beauty and charm and named her Queen of the Junior Prom . As we were growing so was our Alma Mater, and ground was broken for our new Recitation Hall. The May Day activities were taken over by our class and executed with the finesse of a veteran. The success of that year under the leadership of Harold McSparran was a preview of what was to come. With an air of expectancy, we came back to West Chester in our last year. No more the baby dumpling , no more the prankish barefoot boy, no more the gangly youth but the well-polished man-about-town, the Beau Brummel, the dandy, we were the envy of all the underclassmen and the pride of the adminis- tration. Mr. Robert Haines, Esquire became our president. The Family Album began to take form with Mr. Ralph Miller in the editors chair. This year we again witnessed the arrival of many notable personalities on our campus, guest artists of the All-Star Course. Proudly we heard Helen Martin sing the honored role in the Christmas Carol Service. Members were stricken with a strange jungle fever, which was climaxed with the Congo Safari , an unusual and entertaining week-end. Full grown men of property, we had a philosophy of life that was devised and presented by that eminent philosophic gentleman, Mr. Fred Halla, in You Can ' t Take It With You . With Recitation Hall completed, and the cornerstone laid, the end of our college year was drawing near. Class Day and finally that challenging Commencement brought our happy family history to a close. t 1 2 .

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ADMINISTRATION nnO the casual observer who watches the numerical growth of the college and who yet sees no downward trend in the organization accompanying this growth, it would seem almost paradoxical that there is no lack of efficiency in the force that guides the destinies of West Chester, as it continues to function in its same smooth, unperturbed manner. It is with a note of gratitude and deep appreciation that we look behind the scenes and attempt to make a crude analysis of that machine, which, by its in- comparable efficiency and unremitting efforts, has truly played Good Samaritan to a great institution. It would be unjust to attempt to classify the various organizations which go to make up our administrative body according to the work they do, or what they have thus far accomplished. All have worked together in an integrated, harmoni- ous fashion with one common goal, the betterment and enhancement of West Chester. For this great work we congratulate and hold in esteem those bodies that have contributed to the administrative needs of this college. To the Governor of our state, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Board of Trustees, the President of the College, the Dean of Instruction, the Personnel Staff, the Faculty, the Business Staff, the Maintenance Department, the Health Service, the Student Senate, other student governing bodies, and to any other organization that has in any way aided this college, we are indebted. The work which they have thus far so nobly advanced is indicative of a truly great organization. Gl]4}c