Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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you must thank for that bright-penny look about the building after a full y ear of enthusiastic and energetic use. From time to time C. G. A. stepped out of its conventional role as monitor of the college to play hostess to the students. On the fateful evening of November 4, while Wheaton Democrats strutted merrily in the Science Building, optimistic Republi- cans took their knitting and swarmed into Plimpton Hall to attend the C. G. A. elec- tion party. After watching three hilarious cartoons and listening to election returns, they dunked their sorrows with fat dough- nuts in great cups of coffee. The year 1940-1941 saw the success of the new formal seating plan, whereby Seniors take the place of the former faculty heads of tables, who are now invited as guests. The system has worked out to the satisfaction of both students and faculty, since it has none of the former ceremonial stiffness and claims a more natural atmos- phere that promises to give it a permanent place in the Wheaton scheme. On the second Tuesday evening of each period C. G. A. held coffees after dinner. In mid-February C. G. A. held its proce- dure party, an opportunity for the painless housecleaning of the ancient and musty procedure files of campus organizations. Well fortified with brownies and cokes, the officers invaded the Cage and emerged with newly-typed procedure cards, for the gratetul reference of future generations. This spring The Wheaton News, in coop- eration with C. G. A., published a special election issue, containing a list of all candi- dates for offices together with an account of their activities. This not only put more spirit into the voting, but also made the decisions even more difficult and exciting, and probably a little fairer. The enthusi- astic voting assured us that at least here on our campus the democratic system is still reigning supreme. All in all, this has really been a banner year. For improvements and innovations, for understanding and spirit, it has rarely been surpassed. And, in spite of the many facets ot our personalities, C. G. A. has managed to blend us into a unified whole that is the spirit of Wheaton. Monday Night { Page 13 }

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This year, resplendent in its new, psy- chologically-designed quarters in S. A. B., the College Government Association began the task of carrying out and modifying the policies inaugurated last year. Every Monday night, impressively capped and gowned, Cabinet gathered around its shining table. The officers, Evie Fay, President; Eleanore Beane, Vice President: Jane Wrather, Secretary; and Helen Lewis, Treasurer, discussed Wheaton’s policies with Social Chairman Betty Brown, and the House Chairmen, Agnes Sheff, Eliza- beth Bowman, Jean Hare, Carol Tilling- hast, Margaret Joy Tibbetts, Margaret King, Hastie Price, and Ruth Hirschland. With our best interests in mind C. G. A. aimed for a larger degree of self-govern- ment among us, with fewer restrictions and penalties. This year they claim to have borrowed their theme song from Gilbert and Sullivan in their endeavor “to make the punishment fit the crime,” whenever such evils were necessary. The number of penalties that the Council did find it necessary to inflict was so small that it illustrated a victory for our new liberal system. As results of C. G. A. Board meetings, when the Dean, House Fellows, and repre- sentatives from classes and organizations joined the Council, innovations which are hoped to facilitate campus activities were presented for our approval. For instance, it was decided that more members of the junior class should be enabled to have ex- perience as members of Council. Therefore, the position of Junior House Chairman of Everett was created and it was decided that the Social Chairman should be elected from the junior class rather than the Senior. The Board also suggested that the Junior House Chairman of the White House should hereafter be elected by the student body. The ambitious Council undertook a complete renovation of the point system in order to assure more equal distribution of positions in campus activities. Another innovation was made in estab- lishing the S. A. B. House Committee to look after our popular young addition. It is Jane Williams, the chairman, whom Evie { Page 12 }

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Somewhere toward the end of your pre- college summer came a letter that said, “Welcome, Ji] sis.”’ And that was your first contact with Wheaton and with C. A. Well, then, C. A. (and we hope you're not stil] calling it Y. W.) is here to help you make that initial climb to fourth floor Everett, and to point out the Dimple and S. A. B. Your lamps and your chair and probably your hassock came from the second hand store. At the C. A. picnic in the Archery Field you gota taste not only of hamburgers and onions, but of firelight, the pines, and campus singing. There’s the candlelight service in the early fall. You remember the silence of Chapel, and later the shimmering of tiny lights afloat on Peacock Pond. C. A.’s everywhere and into everything. Perhaps we should mention such speakers as Louise Morley (yes, she’s Christopher’s daughter), Ben Coles, who'd only been back from China a week, Howard Thurman, War Relief Betts and the Labrador Browns, all of whom pleased us so much. Grant Noble opened the marriage lecture series and was so popular that we overflowed the Yellow Parlor and landed in the auditorium. We attended conferences at Smith, Benning- ton, Washington, Boston, and Northfield, and are going to O-At-Ka to tie up the season. We joined with British War Reliet and J. R. C. in a simultaneous drive bring- ing World Fellowship alone over $1800. In Norton we help the district nurse collect clothes, and keep the infirmary stocked with magazines. Lost and Found, Night School, the Riding Meet Dance, Nursery School, and even the candy in your dorm are part of C. A. So you see, you can’t get away from it anywhere. C. A. bas fun planning vespers and par- ties and auctioning off the best of the “unclaimed” from Larcom basement. The officers who met in the new office in S. A. B. this year were: Betts Gibbs, President; Middy Hollis, Vice President; Hunter Hearne, Secretary; and Molly Rhodes, Keeper of the Moneys. { Page 14 }