Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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We dedicate this year’s Nike to Dean Eleanor Barker in an attempt to express our appreciation for all her courtesies and kindnesses to us. AI- though a major director of the college’s three- ring circus, she has not let her position take away her faithful interest in our student activities be it from class hockey games to a meeting of IR C. We have had many meetings with her in her office under the Ad building’s big top but whether our meet- ings were for advice or reprimand, we have always come out being all the better through her reasoning and experience. Her trust in us as students and as in- dividuals has been expressed in her encouragement of an Honor System at Wheaton. Miss Barker acc epted the position of Dean during the war years of 1944-45 so she therefore had the added responsibilities of certain wartime restrictions added to her regular offices. The continuity of our college life was consider- ably eased through those high tension years by her quiet guidance. Now that we have entered the post war period she has been among the first to try and re- turn Wheaton to a prewar basis. In thanks to her recognition and just appraisal of our problems we dedicate this yearbook. Page eleven