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

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The Busiest Office at the College MR. WIXFIELD V. MEXHEXNETT, B.S., M.A. Dean of Instruction and Registrar To THE Senior Class of 1943: It is a real privilege to extend to you my greetings as your college life at West Chester draws to a close. This book, your Serpentine, will bring to each of you many memories of four happy years. Mingled with the many pleasant memories will be a host of thoughts that like ghosts will not be downed. These thoughts will bring to all a realization of the grim realities of the present and of the immediate future. The world of 1959, which you knew as freshmen, has passed from the scene, never to return. A new world with new and expanded horizons has come to take its place. This new world appears to be different in size, in shape, in social and in human relations. Old values have disappeared. New values and new disciplines, sterner and more exacting in nature, are now a part of our every-day life. In this new order of life problems hitherto dormant have arisen and will continue to arise. These problems will demand the best that human life can give. The foundations of our society have been shaken. This is especially noticeable in such areas as religion, family life, educa- tion, economics, government, and la the art of living together. Many tasks now face each of us, and the successful completion of them calls for our closest cooperation. You, members of the class of 1943, have unique opportunities. In your four years of college life, you have witnessed changes more Important and significant than the total changes of another generation. I feel that you will be sensitive to the myriad opportunities which will be yours You will be builders, conscious of the needs for real service. Give to life the best that you have and life will reward you. I wish for each of you the ;oy and happiness that comes when life Is lived nobly and completely. Cordially yours, WINFIELD W. MENHENNETT T uenl )

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The President Speaks To THE Members of the Graduating Class: Four happy years in the College now come to an end. We hope you have reaped a fine dividend in an arouseti curiosity, enlarged mental horizons, and lasting triendships. Naturally you are anxious to take your place in a larger world. Our present world needs you and millions of others like you with your youth and vision. We know you will face life with a little humor, a great deal of pity, a ceaseless curiosity, a love of beauty, and a sense of comradeship with all men. Hundreds of our graduates, including some of your classmates, are on the fighting fronts around the world. They are serving our country with honor and defending us with valor. We owe them a debt of gratitude that obligates us to perform our duties courageously at home, helping them to build the good life for all. If we at home fail, their sacrifice will have been In vain. There Is no all-inclusive formula for what Is good in life. Perhaps this thought, which has often helped me, partially sums it up: What is the real good? I asked in musing mood. Order , said the law court; Knowledge , said the school; Truth , said the Wiseman; Pleasure , said the iool ; Love , said the maiden; Beauty , said the page; Freedom , said the dreamer; Home , said the sage; Fame , said the soldier; Equity , the seer; Spoke my heart full sadly: The answer is not here. Then within my hosom Sottly this I heard: Each heart holds the secret I Kindness is the world. Each generation must shape Its own destiny. For each generation the good life Is a chang- ing pattern, and yet the elements are constant. Search your own hearts and capture the ideal values of life: kindness to one another, tolerance, understanding, good-will, and comradeship. Make these treasures the mainspring of your own life, and all mankind will be blessed. Cordlallv vours, CHARLES S. SWOPE Dr. Swope at his desk Miss Euna Ball, Secretary to the President Miss Makie Svenson, Secretary to the Preiidenl, succeeding Miss Ball 582-! 5 Nineteen

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i liss Groff de otes most of her time to correspondence — a job in itself. iMrs. Flyatt hard at work on schedules. One office familiar to every person on campus, students and faculty alike, is that of Dean Menhennett. Between our first interview before entering college and the last, the long awaited one con- cerning an available teaching position, our contacts with the Dean are many. His advice is sought on our various problems, big and little. We realize there is a vast amount of work done for us both directly and in- directly, but we cannot realize the num- ber of details handled here. From past experience we are aware that the Dean and his secretaries concern themselves with class attendance. They plan, ad- minister, and answer questions concern- ing this as well as schedule adjustments and selection of elective fields and courses. Another service about which we are vitally concerned, especially at the end of each semester, is that of recording our grades and sending them home. Actually, the Dean and his staff work for us beyond our four years in college. So many times they are helpful in plac- ing us in teaching positions, and they often send transcripts of our college records to graduate schools. A new member ot the staff. Miss Strode, hard at work and enjoying it. That extra load means a lot of work. Dean Alenhennett helps Wiggie and the Thomas twins make schedule adjustments. Twenty-one