Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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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

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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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The faces above you look bland and smiling but carefully hoarded behind those pleasant masks are statistics, figures and theories which know all about YOU! They have us Tagged for memory, motivation, flights into fancy and Freudian slips of the tongue. Somehow, however, in the midst of their mazes, graphs and figures, they have all managed to main- tain their own identity. You can’t miss Mr. Shipley. . -he will be carrying a raincoat and supporting a cigarette but not smoking it. If you are still not sure, you cannot miss the long, low “Hi”. To find Miss Rickers just hunt for someone much to peppy to keep up with, speaking fourteen syllable words in fourteen languages. . .all with a Russian accent. Famous for any number of things, we will remember her for eye opening lectures, brain crushing exams, Slavka, her tempermental convertible, and irresistable charm. Miss Amen, famous for her hospitality and cookies, is head of this perspicacious crew. She is wonderfully friendly, as she tries to make budding Gesell’s out of all of the majors; but we harbor a suspicion that her heart belongs to the nursery school. Speaking of the nursery school, we can’t mention the Psych Depart- ment without a few words of praise to Miss Brooks, Miss Fleisher and Miss Thompson who manage to keep things calm and their charges happy while the majors busily observe their activities through a one way screen. After we have learned all there is about the small children, we go on to Mr. Nourse who, Page twenty-two with his kindly manner and slow drawl, in- structs us in the ups and downs of teaching. If you like coffee at Marty’s, a good sense of humor, and the Brooklyn Dodgers, you can’t help but know Miss Schonbar. Life in the classroom with Miss Schonbar is refreshing and informative; life outside is full of laughs and amazing numbers of friends, Wheaton has always been famous for her English Department, and four years of good, solid reading and listening will verify her rep- utation. Mr. Sharp is the head of the Depart- ment, and as such is an inspiring combination of wit and erudition which makes his classes a “must” on any major’s course cards. Mrs. Boas loves a “‘well stored mind”, and there is no better example than her own. Keeping up with Mrs. B. is no less than a mental marathon, but somehow when the bell rings she never seems out of ideas. She is alert and so quick that she can make any of us feel stodgy, but her effect on us is as stimulat- ing as a cup of coffee, and she makes us want to run home and read and read and read. Mr. Earle brings us the quiet, Thoreauean contemplation, and his continuous search for new ideas makes his classes delightfully like a symposium, We can think of no one who more carefully and hopefully merges knowledge of the past with hopes and plans for the future than Mr. Earle. Probably the most quoted man on campus, he makes us think and actual- ly enjoy doing it.