Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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“Aline e The Bookstore became filled with people as the students filed out of chapel. The mailboxes had been filled under the watchful eye of Miss Goddard making sure that the girls would have their mail before their first class. Upstairs in the Administration Building the typewriters were beginning to click as the secretaries made ready to start another day. “I’ve got to see the Dean right away,” gasps an anxious student. “Ah, patience and fortitude,” Jackie Boucher and Miss Bryant must say to themselves as they try to find free moments in the schedules of the day’s appointments. Down the hall Miss Ziegler is busily working to enroll in Wheaton another group of freshmen.

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Wiss Colpitts Her life is centered around the social activities and problems of the Wheaton community. Our happiness and welfare are the chief concern of Dean Colpitts. Whether it be staying up nearly all night to make sure of the safety of all her girls, making delicious French cocoa and Christmas cookies, or keeping Honor Board warm with mittens, it is for us that she is working. With her big shaggy dog accompanying her, she is seen at meetings, enlivening the group with her sense of humor. The difficulties with which she is con- fronted by the students are met with understanding, and oftentimes an unhappy girl is changed into a smiling one by an appropriate anecdote. She is never too busy to extend a friendly hand at the college dances or receive visitors from the community. Among these visitors are two little boys who call on her regularly and one day took her a basket of eggs a month early so that she wouldn’t be forgotten by the Easter Bunny. It’s three cheers for our Dean of Students, Miss Colpitts. ‘The enthusiasm with which she has entered into campus life has made her a part of all of us here at Wheaton. 15

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ile Over at one end of the dining room is Miss Lincoln’s office. Her desk is filled with requests for dinner guests, outlines of the work to be done by the staff in the different dorms, lists of trunks to be brought and sent, along with plans for the coordination of the dining rooms. She is a busy lady. The library is full of them too—busy ladies, that is. Miss Eden and Miss Merrill keep everything in perfect command with the help of the other assistants. The lovely arrangements of the season’s flowers exhibit the artistry of Miss Higuchi’s hand. There is a little room in S. A. B. where Miss Clark holds forth keeping the name of Wheaton circulating. All proud parents and alumnae are able to hear of the college activities through her efforts to give information to newspapers and promote radio programs in which the college participates. “Strike one,” called Mr. Fillmore down behind the chapel as the dorms’ spring baseball season is under way. Our chief umpire is always on the job whether it be on the hockey field or attend- ing to the various duties that keep the college plant functioning properly. As the lights go out over campus and the clos- ing bell rings the girls at Information must breathe a sigh of relief. But it must be discour- aging when they think that they have everyone safely tucked in and then find one stray who absolutely can’t get back for another hour. Never are Miss Dunham or her assistants heard to com- plain, although their task is often a weary one. A busy place is this campus of ours. Everyone is doing his job to uphold the smooth function- ing of an active community. They are a fine group, these people who make up our adminis- trative staff.