Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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SkooK. Kothci Kirkhrrtlf. Pi ' .ibodv. (. ' nmcron . B.irbiiio, Kii !ic ' ll, Ncvin, Davis Speech Department — Dr. Albert T. Cordray, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., known to his students as Teacher, is head of the Speech Department and Director of the summer school prof;ram. All students who h.nve attended school during the summer know what a splendid job he has done. Dr. Cordray has been with Westminster ' s faculty since 1928, teaching Speech, Stagecraft, and certain English Literature courses. Assistant to him this year is Donald Barbe, R.B., A.M., Speech Instructor. Under the direction of Dr. Cordray and Mr. Barbe, the Little Theater has presented several plays, and the new radio club. X ' RW, Westminster Radio Workshop, was organized. Physical Education Department — Westminster ' s Physical training program is in charge of Miss Lola Sewall, B.S., M.S.; Secretarial Science Department — What ' s your major, sec- retarial science? So s mine. Lot of us, aren ' t there? The answer to that one seems to be meet the demand , and that ' s just exactly what the Secretarial Science depart- ment is doing with its accelerated program whereby require- ments may be met in two years. Head of the Secretarial Science department is Mr. Russell N. Cansler, B.S., L.L.B., M.A., who, although busy as Director of Army and Navy training program on campus, still had time to teach shorthand, and courses in methods of teaching com- mercial subjects. Mr. Robert F. Galbreath, Jr., B.B.A., teaches business English, bookkeeping, salesmanship and typing. New- comer to the department is Miss Elsie Leffingwell, instructor of shorthand and office practice. Science Department — Sounds of marching feet led to the Science hall where the Army boys, stationed on campus, spent much of their time. Hov. ever the Science hall was not void of civilians, as men and women both spent afternoons in lab and returned with the smell of chemistry following. The Physics Department alone spent more than seven hours a week on each ASTP man. Dr. James A. Swindler, A.B., A.M., Ph.D.; Dr. John G. Moorehead, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., aided by Dr. Donald C. Matthews, B.S., Ph.D., instructed army, navy, and civilians in the physical sciences. Students are lead through the mysteries of Chemistry by Dr. Harlow Osgood, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and Dr. Edward A. Metcalf, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., while they are familiar with Dr Charles Freeman, Professor Emeritus, A.B., Ph.D., L.L.D., who IS frequently seen strolling on campus and in the Science hall. Biology students study comparative anatomy under the direction of Dr. Donald C. Matthews, and botany from Dr. Bert E. Quick. A.B.. Ph.D., Builtenzcrg Botanical Gardens, Java. ★ Coach Grovcr C. Washabaugh, B.S.; and Mr. Harold E. Burry, B.B.A., M.Ed. Girls ' first semester gym classes were held in New Wil- mington ' s Community house under the instruction of Mrs. Glenn Taylor, A.B.; who was later replaced by Mrs. James Gahagan, B.S. With the departure of the ASTP men from campus, girls ' classes were resumed in the gym under the former army in- structor, Mr. Burry. The strenuous army drills caused many aching muscles and weary bodies, but great interest was shown in the new program. Exercises, marching, basketball, mushball, swimming and other sports made up the sports program for women. 16

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Odii k. I recinan. Su i ml I it Muf jt r. Mclcalf. M.iitlu VN, Osgood. Moorche.id Cordray. Bathe Math Department — Nothing is more important today in the training of the members of our armed forces than a thorough understanding of mathematics. This has been stressed in all the army and navy specialized training programs. This year, our ASTP and naval air cadets joined with civilian students in unravelling the mysteries of algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry. Head of the department of mathematics is our dean of men. Dr. Harold L. Black, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Dean Black is a member of Sigma Xi and the American Mathematics Society. The assistants in the mathematics department are Miss Lola Sewall, B.S., M.S., who also is Residence Direcctor of Ferguson Hall, J. Bycrs King, B.S., Mrs. Willard Sarver, B.S., and R. Glenn Hall, A.B. Mr. King. Mrs. Sarver, and Mr. Hall arc newly added mathematics teachers. Modern Language Department — Head of the Modern Language department is Miss Mary Elizabeth Stewart, A.B., A.M., French instructor. Miss Stewart traveled widely in Germany, Switzerland, and France, is familiar with the build- ings and art treasurers of those countries, and is deeply con- cerned with their fate. Mr. Walter Beberich, A.B., A.M., studied in Germany, came to the United States in 1926, and to Westminster in 1933. He is an ordained Baptist minister. The German prof IS looking forward to the end of the war when he can take some of his more interested students to visit Germany where they can put his teachings to practical use. Buenos Dias, senorita, may be your greeting from Spanish professor T. R. Wiley, A.B., A.M., new instructor this year. His experiences in Europe, Mexico, and South America form a more personal, concrete touch for his classes. Music Department — Westminster ' s Music Department is a separate and essential department of student curriculum. All that noise one hears issuing from the conserv represents as hard concentration and work as preparation for calculus class, for that half hour piano lesson is important in the future of a music major. Director of the Conservatory, Mr. Donald O. Cameron, B.M., M.Ed., teaches violin, theory, and harmony classes be- sides directing the college band and orchestra. Other members of the music faculty are Miss Dorothy Kirkbride, B.M., A.M., M.A., piano, counterpoint, music history instructor; Mr. Alan B. Davis, voice instructor and director of the a Capella choir; Miss Ada Peabody, B.M., A.M., teacher of music methods, and director of Girls Glee Club. Replacing the late Dr. Gordon Balch Nevin, composer and organ instructor is Mr. Clyde English, organist at Sixth Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. Part lime instructors include members of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and Mr. Dallmeycr Russell of Pittsburgh Musical Institute, teacher of piano. News Bureau — Keep Westminster on the map is the News Bureau s slogan. Typewriters click, addressographs klump, felephones buzz while Mr. Michael Radock, college publicity director, thinks up new ideas to keep Westminster in the favorable eye of the public. Assistants Doris Klein, Jean Brown and Paul Krakcwski arc kept busy typing stones about Towering Titan victories, fraternity elections, and professors ' idiosyncrasies. Newstips about students ' part time jobs and absent minded professors are continually being sent out by the News Bureau to the Associated and United Press for ccast to coast dis- tribution. If your picture was in the paper when you helped pick apples last fall or when you helped in the War Fund campaign It was because the News Bureau was on the job. Mike ' and his assistants are kept busy snapping pictures of every college activity. They were on the spot when the sophomore journalism class put out the Globe and when Interfratcrnity s able fireman extinguished the fire ' in the organ loft during the organi- zation ' s chapel program. The News Bureau keeps a complete file of students activities and majors and a pictorial and narrative record of Westminster with clippings from tri-statc newspapers. 15

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Seems odd that they ' re leaving us now, doesn ' t it, these people who have been here longer than any of us, have seen more of Westminster than most of us, have loved their life here with the rest of us? They have some irreplaceable memories of that life. They will always remember snowstorms, Madison Square Garden basketball games, spring violets at the Manse, football rallies, ice skating at the cut. May Day processions, comprehensives, fraternity house-parties. They can ' t forget that they cheered at a Mock Convention, danced at spring formals, sang in concerts, argued at a War Aims Conference, had bull sessions until three, acted in Little Theatre productions, acquired keys, pins, and white cards. They have seen their friends go off in groups of twos and threes and twenties and thirties to join the armed forces. They have stood in gray dawn singing Tell Me Why , helping their class- mates form a permanent picture of Westminster. They have seen special graduation services in autumn and mid-winter. They have watched the change from Westminster — peacetime — to Westminster — wartime, more consciously, perhaps, than the rest of us, and have cheerfully helped effect that change. But maybe to them it isn ' t a change. To them it will always be the place where they spent their happiest days — Westminster. 17