Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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Officers of Administration Joun Encar Park, A.B., D.D., LL.D. President MiriAM Feronia Carpenter, A.B., L.H.D., Litt.D. Dean SARAH BELLE Younc, A.B., L.H.D. Registrar; Secretary of the Faculty BARBARA ZIEGLER, A.M. Secretary of the Board of Admission Etma Dorotuy LITTLEFIELD, A.M. Dean of Freshmen WixLuiAM Francis Cuase, A.B. Treasurer Maser ExvizasetH DUNKLE Bursar Board of Trustees J. Epcar Park, A.B.,D.D., LL.D., Preszdent of the Board Norton Hersert M. Purmmpton, V2zce-Preszdent Norwood Sytv1A Meapows, A.B., Secretary Waban WiuiaM F. Cuasz, A.B., Treasurer West Newton Freperick H. Pacz, A.M., D.D. Waltham Henry H. Crapo, A.B. New Bedford Frances VoseE EMERSON Boston CHANNING ti LeCOx eh Doelleb), Boston JosepH H. Sorrpay Dedham JouHn Kirktanp Crark, A.B., LL.B. New York City Harriet E. Hucuess, A.B. New York City HeLt—en WikEAND Cote, Ph.D., L.H.D. Winter Park, Fla. Lovis SawyER Nicuots, A.B. Batre, Vt. SIDNEY W. WInsLow, JR. Brookline Ricoarp P. CHapman, A.M. Wellesley [11]

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telephone in each hand, nods toward the flowers on the desk, and fishes the keys to the Mary Lyon record cabinet out of the drawer. Mrs. Potter meticulously figures out the bus and train schedules from Norton to Kalamazoo and back, or tells someone what's playing at the movies in Taunton. At regular intervals, a voice over the house phone says, “Hello. This is Eleanor Tracy at Information. We've a telegram for you ...”’ Leaf after leaf is ripped from the calendar. Course card after course card is placed on Miss Shumaker’s desk in the Registrar's office. Miss Wheaton reads the latest New Yorker while waiting for her conference with the Dean, and chats with Miss Barker who can—wonder of wonders !—work and talk at the same time. Once inside, there are amaz- ing small animals on Miss Carpenter’s desk, and the serious business of overcutting or a changed major is topped off with a lively story of Bruin, or Lion’s latest antic and an invitation to come over to Hollyhock House. The President's office remains something of an inner sanctum, but the Wheaton girl catches occasional glimpses of Dr. Park as she goes past the window on her way to class, and other glimpses of Miss Remick through the open door of her office. And sometimes when the door of the President’s SarAH BELLE YOUNG Extma Dorotuy LitTLEeFIELD office 1s open, she can see the green walls, and the fireplace, and the portrait of Eras- mus. Perhaps her first acquaintance with the Alumnae Appointment Office comes when, after spending the summer as a camp coun- cillor, she fills out a summer work blank there. As the years slip by, she dons cap and gown and begins to think about appoint- ment pictures. Miss Ridlon’s twinkle be- comes more and more a part of every day, and the Wheaton girl finds herself coming more and more often to Miss Wadham and Miss Garfield for assistance in her problems of references and recommendations. Downstairs in the Administration Build- ing is Mr. Cutler’s office where she brings lamps that refuse to function and posters in need of framing. Here too is the postoffice, that torture of the hopeful female, and here the bulletin boards with their announce- ments and warnings and ‘‘Please sign be- low’’ signs. The Bookstore is one of the focal points of a Wheaton girl’s life. Whether she has lost her last pencil or gotten a run in her last pair of stockings, Mrs. Perry is her salvation. She spends hours trying to per- suade herself to buy a special edition of her favorite poet and then has to force herself not to. Maybe she succumbs to The New Yorker instead. [ 10 |

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College Government Association CaroL SMITH Tue College Government Association has this year continued the work begun last year with the abolition of the reprimand system. It has striven for greater consonance with the students and has done much toward stream- lining the rules of the college—not to the extent of impetuous modernization and sud- denly extreme leniency, but rather with an eye to removing any ambiguity of statement in rules now binding. It is a process of sim- plification and reinforcement. Regulations which have become obsolete and unnecessary through lack of use have been crossed from the books or so reworded that they fit into the present scheme of things. This has been C.G.A.’s main task this year. The executive offices of the association were held this year by Carol Smith, presi- dent, Bettina Conant, vice-president; Marion Browne, treasurer, and Marion Price, secre- tary. Every Monday evening the Student Cabinet of C.G.A., composed of the officers, House Chairman, Social Chairman, and Student Auditor, meets in the Doll’s House to discuss cases that have come up. The name of the offender is never disclosed so that judgment must be impartial. But Cabinet is only the judicial branch of C.G.A. There is also the Board composed of the House Fellows, Dean, and Cabinet, which has legislative duties, and Council made up of C.G.A. officers, the Social Chair- man, and representatives of each class and various campus organizations, which is a deliberative body. The problems and cases confronting C.G. A. have been many this year as every year. Penalties have not been lacking, but there has been a genuine reason for each one im- posed, and if they seemed hard it is only be- cause of C.G.A.’s belief in the universal truth that punishment which is either not felt or easy to evade is no punishment at all. Routine work is usually taken for granted, and we seldom realize just how detailed and comprehensive are the functions of C.G.A. We hop aboard the Saturday bus to Boston with very little thought of the planning necessary to the trip. We accept the various systems of recording Chapel cuts and keep- ing track of week-ends with a placid disre- gard for bookkeeping. And the routine goes on smoothly; the House Chairman checks over the sign-out book and telephones In- formation before she goes to bed, the assis- tant House Chairman arises betimes on Sun- day morning to post the church sign-up. From the first day of college in the fall to the last signing out of the Senior Class in June, C.G.A. is a continually active organ- ization. This year for C.G.A. has been not only a matter of routine, but also a busy and com- plex furtherance of the new policies insti- gated last year.