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

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(1) The Dean interviews a prospective student; (2) Mrs. Hyatt, who speciahzes in schedule cards and graduation requirements; (3) Miss Groff is concerned with record transcripts and corres- pondence; (4) Miss Faraday and two N.Y.A. workers busy themselves with dictation and general clerical work Dean Menhennett s office is our cfioice for tfie next to the busiest — if not tfie busiest — place on campus. It would probably be your choice, too, if you knew of all the big and little details that are handled there. The Dean and his secretaries plan, administer, and answer questions concerning class attendance, schedule adjust- ments, and selection of elective fields and courses. h owever, these are only the general phases of their work. They real ly escort us through our entire college career, from the time when we are prospective students being interviewed, submitting credentials, and taking entrance examinations to the day when we graduate four years later. Actually they work for us beyond that point, because they are often helpful in placing many of us in teaching positions or in submitting transcripts of our college records to the graduate schools. In between Entrance Day and Commencement Day, there are four years of registering us, preparing student and faculty schedules, typing and mimeographing exams, handling special permission coses and excuse slips, attending educational conferences, arranging for ex- tension and evening courses, carrying on a voluminous correspondence, and publishing catalogs and bulletins. Last but not least — in our opinion, at least — there ' s the matter of recording our grades in the various subjects and sending our reports home. e{25ic-

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Mr. Winfield W. Menhennett, B.S., M.A. Registrar and Dean of Instruction April A, 1942 To the Class of 1942: As the SERPENTINE of 1942 is delivered to the members of the senior class, you are coming close to the end of four great years — years filled with XA ork and ploy, sunshine and shadows, joy, happiness, growth, and development. It is doubtful if any other four years can be so important and meaningful to you as these. On that bright autumn day in September, 1938, when you came to West Chester, little did you or we dream that so many and so great changes could come during your college career. It is true that then we were in a time of change. Standards were in a state of flux, and many new values were being created. Some were then pointing out the fact that this world of ours was showing symptoms of serious illness. Today it is really ill. On Tuesday, May 26, when, as graduates of West Chester, you leave the auditorium, you will face a world demanding the best you have to offer through a life of courage, devotion, and service. The forces of destruction have threatened your country, your homes, your freedoms and liberties. They have bidden you to become their slaves. Today you cannot waver in allegiance and loyalty. The path of duty is clear cut and exacting. I am confident that you cannot and will not fail at this crucial time. Tonight, as I write to you, the Class of 1942, there keeps coming to my mind a bit of verse which means much to me. Perhaps to you, too, it will have a message. One ship sails East, another West By the selFsame wind that blows. ' Tis the set of sail and not the gale That determines the way it goes. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As we journey along through life. Tis the set of soul that determines the goal And not the calm nor the strife. My sincere wish for each member of the class is that his or her soul may be set and atuned to the plan of hlim who created and directs the universe. May the constant prayer of all be that each may see the path of duty clearly, that each may have the courage and will to follow that path through a life of service. With high hopes for the future because you — men and women — love liberty and freedom, cherish fair play and justice, and stand for righteousness and honor, I say to you, Success, happiness, and a noble life. Cordially yours, WINFIELD W. MENHENNETT C3{24}

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MRS. CLYDE KING, B.S., M.A. Dean of Women MISS RUBY F. BOGGS, B.S., M.A. Adviser to Women U 4 Wi o He4t Being a Dean of Women or Men is no easy responsi- bility at best, because of t ' ne varying personalities in- volved. Evidently, tfiough, tSsre must be compensations in tfie work, because our present Deans fiave been with us for several years. The Dean of Women and Adviser to Women have numerous duties to perform in directing the maintenance of harmonious living in Main Dorm. Seeing to the happi- ness of about five hundred forty-six girls living under one roof, OS well as fifty-three girls in outside college homes is quite a task. It becomes necessary to devise systems of permissions, signing in and signing out, cleaning, hos- pitality, office files and correspondence, fire and air raid precautions, washing and ironing facilities, preparation and serving of food, hygienic arrangements — all to take the place of the care that parents and a home would offer. There is so much to do, in fact, that a corps of student workers must help the Deans. In addition on attempt is made to provide employment in outside homes in exchange for room and board, for those girls who otherwise could not afford a college education. Seventy-five girls were helped in this way this year. The Dean of Women has also been chairman of the SAA-sponsored College Calendar Committee,- this position entails arranging for all sorts of social enter- tainments for men and women students. Records for the juke box are provided by this committee, but a more important phase of the work is the Friday night enter- tainments at which varied programs from outside the college are presented: everything from a hypnotist to a movie in French or an illustrated lecture on birds. MISS CIDNEY TOWNSEND and M?S. ELSIE KEECH Dor.Tiltory Sjpsrvlsors oi26|c