Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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dr. will w. orr, president This volume of Argo increases in Value as time separates you farther and farther from your college career. Today (June 3, 1 957 — Commencement) the faces of students and professors, their gestures and peculiarities, are well known to you. These will begin to fade tomorrow. The tomorrows ahead will make heavy demands on you. You will be de eply engrossed in whatever you are doing and time will begin to change friendships. It is then you will really appreciate this volume. By the fireside on a winter night in 1974, or 1981, or 1990 — you will finger this book and love it. Love it? — yes — if it awakens in you the recollection of having done your best, and been your best in college. It is my sincere wish for you that the memory of your college days will always be pleasant — and that the God, Whom we have tried to hold up before you while you were studying here, will sustain and keep you all your days. Now, from our Alma Maten Long may she live, our Mother Fair, Westminster! Fling to the breeze her banner White and Blue! Halls of our fathers, home of hallowed mem ' ries. Our Alma Mater, glorious, grand and true! Sincerely yours, Will W. Orr 26

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dean of women Mrs. Martha B. Whitehill, Dean of women ot Westminster, exemplifies the quality of character every college woman strives to attain. In September of 1949 Mrs. Whitehill ' s influence was first felt as she served as residence director at Ferguson Hall, continuing in that capacity for six years. For the past two years Mrs. Whitehill has very capably served as Dean of women. As such she is adviser to certain women ' s groups on campus, student conduct committee, and student council, Mrs. Whitehill feels a closeness to the students which is obviously mutual and says that if she has ever been of any help to them it is far exceeded by what they have meant to her. Mrs. Whitehill has found a new and wonderful life working among students at a Christian College. Considering counseling to be her fundamental job, Mrs. Whitehill finds many oppor- tunities to do so opening to her as she works together with the various groups she sponsors. This year Dean Whitehill headed the extra-curricular life committee, the special group of faculty members and students who organize the social calendar for the academic year. Educated at Grove City College Mrs. Whitehill went directly into teaching remedial work in Pennsylvania schools. Before she was married Mrs. Whitehill taught in a country school and the Freedom public school system. During World War II Mrs. Whitehill taught this same type of work in the Aliquippa public schools. Possessing a talent for music, more specifically, voice, Mrs. Whitehill directed school choruses and choirs previous to coming to Westminster College. 28