West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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BILL MCTORSON Student Body President IDA COOPER Student Body Vice-President SHARON FISK Executive Council Secretary Student Government The University ' s student government acts as the most powerful voice some 6,000 students have in the functioning of the University. Started in 1921, and reorganized under a new constitu- tion in 1952, student government provides for three sepa- rate departments of governmental activity: the student executi e council, the student legislature, and the student court. The purpose of student government is to sponsor and organize activities and projects, help co-ordinate the work of other campus groups, represent the student body to the faculty, administration and off-campus groups, and to pro- vide students with experience in organization, human rela- tions and democratic self-government. Through newsletters, open meetings, and suggestion ses- sions, student government establishes a clo.ser liaison with the students. Increasing in efficiency, activity, and respon- siveness to student needs, student government is growing in its role as the representative of the entire student body. FRESHMAN ELECTIONS, sponsored by Student Government, are watched quite closely by the upperclassmen . . . their motives being several. ' Beat Pitt 3,000 times.

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and Directors CHESTER A. ARENTS M.E. Dean of the College of Engineering BORIS C. BELPULITI B.S.P.E., M.S.P.E. Director of Mountainlair RAYMOND W. COLEMAN Ph.D. Dean of the College of Commerce CLYDE L. COLSON LL.B., S.J.D. Dean of the College of Law RAY OSCAR DUNCAN Ed.D. Dean of the School of Physical Education and Athletics ROBERT BARCLAY DUSTMAN Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School WELDON HART Ph.D. Director of the School of Music 1 COL. JOSEPH ERNEST PAYNE B.S. Professor of Air Scierice PERLEY ISAAC REED Ph.D. Director of the School of Journalism EDWARD JERALD VAN LIERE M.D., Ph.D. Dean of the School of Medicine ARMAND RENE COLLETT Ph.D. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences ESTON KERMIT FEASTER Ed.D. Dean of the College of Education J. LESTER HAYMAN JOHN OLIVER KNAPP JAMES S. MONCRIEF JR. Ph.C. M.S. B.S. Agr. B.S. Dean of the College of Director of the Agricultural Professor of Military Science Pharmacy Extension Division and Tactics HARRY ROSS VARNEY Ph.D. Dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics

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Executive Council Composed of the president and vice president of the stu- dent body and the presidents and vice presidents of the senior, junior, sophomore, and freshman classes, the ten- member executive council serves as the advisory board to the student body president. It has the power to create such class organizations as deemed necessary, and submits for approval to the student legislature the arious class functions, special programs, and projects. Not a small part of executive council ' s job is the investi- gation of opportunities for student government services. COLLECTIVE SPOKES who organize campus activities and projects Seated, (left to right): Polly Kessel. Senior Class Vice-President; Sharon Frisk. Sophomore Class Vice-President: Bob Brown. Senior Class President. Standing: Jack Bowman, Freshman Class President; Ida Cooper. Student Body Vice-President; Tom Tandy. Sophomore Class President; Mary Harris. Freshman Class Vice-President; Bill Victorson, Student Body President; John Frisk. Junior Class President; Jane McMillion, Junior Class Vice-President. 25