Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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six . . . seven . . . eight! Eiglit o ' clock and tlie Prot. listening tor that last stroke of the chime places a check after the name of some absent Johnny who missed the alarm. Too late for the roll call, a sleepy student fumbles with the doorknob, crashes into class and trips over a row of feet as he gropes for his seat. Afternoons bring long hours in smelly labs with always the wishful thought that maybe some day one of :very fifteen min- utes a weary lab student checks his watch to see if by any possible chance he has missed one of the quarter hour chime tunes, and imagining what he could do to one of Mount s doughnuts. An empty coke bottle rests beside a pile of disorderly notes and a student, dreaming of villain- ous profs, mumbles snatches of crammed learning as he tosses in his sleep. And then . . . finals. r I I n smelly labs with always the wishful thought that maybe : J J JjO J fiJ J these budding chemists will blow the place to bits. E

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Above — UR. BLACK. Aciiny Dean. Left to right — DKAN KELSO. DR. GAL- BREATH, DEAN TURNER. -y , and ail the ea id- He IS so many things: deliverer of beautiful sermons . . . champion apple picker . . . after dinner spellbinder . . . multiple committee head . . . airplane observer . . . above all, our President, Dr. Robert Ferguson Galbreath. With endless energy, he is devoting himself to homefront activi- ties. Not only does he write countless letters to Westminster ' s service men, but he keeps a scrap- book of their pictures. Besides doing farm work himself, he has aroused students ' interest in cul- tivating a college victory garden. Truly if we can learn by example, we can Imd no hotter model than Dr. Galbreath. He is in our hearts and in the hearts of all Westminsterites who have known him. When Maxwell R. Kelso, dean of the college, now serving in the U. S. Navy as a Lieutenant Senior grade, rose in morning chapel, students listened carefully; he w. s the authority on the Army ' s latest decision, the Navy ' s new ruling. In our unsettled state he inspired confidence, served well to quiet those wild rumors, and calmed us in general. Tiiis year the Dean had a great responsibility. liis job at any tune is hard, and with Naval Cadets on campus luider his authority, he had more to do than ever before. Dean Kelso patiently explained all changes in the plans of the armed forces, planned accelerated courses for men who were soon to leave tor service, and all in all, tuned the college to a faster, wartime pitch. When Dean Kelso was called by the Navy m March, his many duties were turned over to two members of the faculty. Dr. Harold L. Black was appointed Acting Dean and Mr. Russell N. Cans- ler was named Director of the Navy War training program on the campus. She ' ll understand, . . . this is the hope of the girls who each day walk into Dean Mary E. Turner ' s friendly office. They find it is easy to talk with her, and their troubles smooth out. No accident, this, for Dean Turner ' s long experience with college women stands her in good stead. We will always remember her as a representative of the most pleasant part of our college life. That long talk over our troubles . . . the before-dinner prayer, these and many other things we associate pleasaiuK ' with our Dean of Women. 12