Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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RUTH DARNELL, President Wes Gea OME of our nicest memories of freshman fall are closely connected with the ac- tivities of this organization; the blue-badged guides, the open air picnic, and especially the Candlelight Service. The land-star flames, dark lake, evening-calm beauty, and the fun of singing hymns together amid it all is typi- cal of the good feeling that flows from our Y.W. Candlelight Service and Vespers represent one phase only. Grand speakers which the whole college community enjoys are ‘‘Y”’ invited. In October there was T’an Pin Pin of Yenching University, and in November Wang Tse-Fu discussed the place of the Chi- nese students today. Henry T. Cadbury, professor at Harvard, spoke on the work of the American Friends Service Committee. Afterwards he answered many questions informally over coffee served in Hebe Parlors. Dr. Park, Hornell Hart, professor of soci- ology at Duke and Rev. Leslie Glenn of Christ Church in Cambridge are all on the Y.W. speakers list. Everyone knows about Practical Aid. We've all saved money by purchasing our easy chairs in the second-hand store in Lar- com basement, and stopped by the Lost and Found to see if the right mitten had been col- lected from the special box in the post office. These all contribute to the fund which Y.W. yearly distributes. Practical Aid can report a goodly commission from its activities as furniture salesman and candy shop (after they went on a strictly cash basis), and even Lost and Found makes a profit from the spring auction of unclaimed goods. Y.W. charities are numerous, World Fel- lowship gave away six hundred dollars to Pine Mountain Settlement School, Bettis Academy Hudson School, Bryn Mawr Summer School, and the Far Eastern Movement. There are collections of old clothes for the Norton poor, and now for the Friends of France to distribute. There’s the scholarship for the refugee student to which candy-selling profit goes, and this year Y.W. contributed to the Herbert Hoover fund for Finnish Relief. All this, and a certain amount for an At- tleboro colored church that had long been in extremely poor pecuniary position. Then there were the usual contributions to ailing children, mostly in need of glasses, through the district nurse, and to local scout groups. Other ways Y.W. has helped the community of Norton are providing the Night School (which presents a diploma and refund to those who successfully complete the course, usually English), and the Play Club. Student Industrial (another phase of “‘Y”’ activity) arranges for a group of working girls to visit us from the New Bedford ‘‘Y”’ and we had a fine time chatting together in the social room, going in the pool, and later having a more formal discussion of problems of immigration and unemployment. The present officers of our Y.W.C.A. are Ruth Darnell, president; Jean Nevius, vice- president; Mary Rhodes, secretary; Elizabeth Gibbs, treasurer. 24a

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CRG AAS N Ass meeting in lower chapel a few days after our return in September intro- duced the College Government Association to us. Priscilla Howard, the president, appeared impressive in cap and gown and we stood in awed silence until she and Dean Carpenter were seated. Their speeches discussed the system of set penalties we have had. We were filled with enthusiasm when the possibility of experimenting by abolishing these penal- ties was set before us. Mass meetings give us a wonderful feeling that we really take part in our student government. This year the College Government Asso- ciation has gone further than ever before in removing itself from the position of police force. For example, we were all given neatly printed blue charts so we could keep track of our own chapel and class cuts. C.G.A. Judicial Board has taken on the added work of judging each case individually, and trying to do without campusing as a penalty. It really is much better this way. Last year there were, up until spring vacation, forty-seven cases of campusing, and this year there has been only one (for details read your local paper, or the Dahl cartoon). This year’s officers, headed by Priscilla Howard, president; are Mary Igleheart, vice- president; Eleanore Beane, secretary; and Alice Canby, treasurer. They and the eight House Chairmen make up Cabinet, and then there’s Council, con- sisting of C.G.A. executives and heads of organizations. Cabinet has met more often this year be- cause of the excellent policy of discussing with a girl such offences as carelessness, lack of cooperation in attitude, and infringement of rules instead of letting the problem drift until a particular offence has been committed, and automatically imposing a set penalty. So far this year the Board (Dean, Cabinet, and House Fellows) has made no changes in PRISCILLA HOWARD, President rules, and changes in policy put into practice by Cabinet and Council have worked very well. Aside from the usual smooth running of C.G.A. bus, signing out, church check and other systems, we have this Association to thank for contributing to furnishings for the Press Board and Nike rooms in S.A.B. Also C.G.A. has voted to pay Information Office to call local theaters each week so we won't travel all the way to Taunton to find that the Charles Boyer picture just left and theres'the- Mive Little Peppets in its’ place. There are spiffy new ash trays and lamp- shades for the social rooms, and it was C.G.A. that appointed the committee to work out a seating chart for the trial formal seating plan proposed by News. Wertevoroud vols the way that C.GuAluis continually awake to our changing needs, be it for reliable movie information, or simpli- fication of rules which were college tradition before Hebe started sporting an electric light bulb instead of a dish of rain water. en

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Senior Class officers announced September 28 “liewasa thes best; (of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of in- credulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Dark- ness....’’ The class of 1940 entered Wheaton when the atmosphere of international politics was surcharged with tension and dissonance. The conclusion of the Ethiopian war, the out- break of revolution in Spain, and British diplomatic defeats made imperative the stand of the United States for defensive preparation. While the shadow of instability and un- certainty fell over the world, one hundred and fifty-seven freshmen were privileged to enter a liberal arts college for unprejudiced instruction in the ideals of democracy, free- dom, and the will to believe. In these four crucial years, the importance of gaining knowledge, a fundamental personal philoso- phy, and of enriching our lives in every pos- sible way has transcended the significance of the traditional campus scene. Perhaps more than any other class, the ninety-nine members of the class of 1940 will graduate from Whea- ton on June tenth with the knowledge of a common ideal. Our atrival at Wheaton coincided with the anniversary of Dr. Park’s first ten years as President of the college. This we discovered at luncheon, which also disclosed every tenth girl in the tweed jacket suit prescribed by Mademoiselle. Jackets were exchanged for evening dress in time for the freshman ban- quet, where an awe-inspiring senior presided at each table, and officers of each organization explained why +¢heir activity was the most exciting on campus. These same officers later introduced us to the Alma Mater at the Mary Lyon sing. We passed in rapid succession through handbook quizzes, physical exams, the “‘Relatives’’ party, and Freshman Skits wherein Gerry Kane distinguished herself as a dastardly villain. Our first Community meeting was conducted by Miss Burton in the absence of Dean Carpenter who was on sab- batical leave. Shades of the prison house be- gan to close about us as the sophomores com- manded us to wear sandwich-board identifi- cation signs, and two of our non-conformists were forced to wear huge red bows in their hair. But then a new planet swam into our ken as junior sisters, old and infinitely wise, revealed the possibilities of butterscotch rolls, tandem bicycles, and visits to the Arboretum. Gradually we grew familiar with the violent- ly opposed Roosevelt—and Sunflower groups, the sight of the Hindenberg floating majesti- E25