Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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Put up the nets, string the tangled ropes into a neat pattern that will catch the tum- bling trapeze artists as they climb along the swinging bars. Shout instructions to perfect their acts and. give grace and continuity to their actions. These are some of the many and varied duties of the faculty. They weave the designs of intellectual understanding into the unformed and searching minds of the stu- dents who climb through the air. They ad- vise as to the twists and turns and short cuts that will give the performers the dexterous appearance of professionals. And they open up avenues of exploration for those who wish to climb to the top of this three-ringed circus. They are kind, big-hearted people who want to give their knowledge, to set it to work in order to build other circuses and to put nets under all the erratic climbers of the searching world. Instead of the uniformed attendants of Barnum and Bailey who change the settings of the arena and help cage and uncage the animals, Whea- ton’s attendants are like a many-colored kalei- doscope that changes hue with the encircling sun, and place their props with deft hands and minds of intellectual perception into neatly Page twenty labeled boxes filled with crossword puzzles. They have the keys to a life that is new and better, old and worth remembering. They have all the things that make Wheaton a real circus, a great performance. . .the “greatest show on Earth”. When you hear the jingle of keys coming down the long corridor of the Science Building, it can mean only one thing, Dr. Lange is ap- proaching. As head of the Zoology Depart- ment Dr. Lange not only lectures and super- vises laboratory work, but spends most of her spare time tending the ill-fated chickens of many a forgetful student. Her well-stocked mind leads the students into many interesting and colorful conversations over a cup of tea brewed on a Bunsen Burner. Unwrap your fingers from your tired pen- cil, cram your fifteen pages of notes into an hour lecture that might easily have been three, and you'll know you’ve just had a ses- sion with Dr. McCoy. But compensating for this fatigue and the endless hours with cats and formaldehyde, is Dr. McCoy’s charming

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home that becomes a haven for the harried Zoo majors. To the student who is interested in what makes a turtle tick or a salamander spawn, Miss Chidsey is the gal for you. And when indoor exploration leaves you cold, Miss Chidsey will take you down to Woods Hole. If plants give you palpitations, patter along with Miss Leuchs and Miss Barrows. Across the woods and fields you fly to find many plants and trees to identify. Calculate, theorize, contemplate, organize. . . all this is found in the physics you took when you were lectured by Dr. Shook. A two-wheeled bike will lead the way to where Dr. Evans would like your mind to stray. Miss Marshall will be there, test tubes will clink, filled with innocuous liquids that no one would drink. If it’s dramatics you want, go to Miss McKee who combines a poor memory for the mundane with an enthusiasm for acting which is open- ing up quite a few eyes. A walk in the woods will doubtless bring you face to face with Mr. Ramseyer, the aesthete who strangely manages to get down to business in a classroom, and a stroll through the library will bring an encounter with Mr. Cressey, fact finder of the Socialogists. No circus performer is equipped until she is adept in languages, well, at least one. Wheaton’s circus offers many artists to help you with the act. Miss Littlefield will take time from the freshmen to teach you the nack of bonvivant in French. If speaking Spanish fluently is your ambition, Miss Breton with her pep and vivacity can charm you into Don Quixote in no time. No good performer is finished until she ‘“‘understands Russian”. Dr. Vakar will help you learn Russian and “under- stand Russia” at Marty’s any Tuesday after- noon. Page twenty-one