Whittier College - Acropolis Yearbook (Whittier, CA)

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FACULTY Dr. Smith-Few schools boast within. their history department an embryonic Alpine climber such as he, whose academic enthusiasmfor Stubbs and Henry Adams includes clambering upon the blackboard in pressing home a principle to a delighted student audience. Dr. Henley-A Carolina boyhood or competition among basketball players may not relate to current economic problems, but used as illustrations, they have caused Dr. Henley's students to forget sometimes the novels they carry to other lectures. Charles B. Spaulding, sociologist, is an- other man of the brief case. His long legs have been seen to take the five porch steps of Redwood at one leap. Dr. Coffin is one of those few professors who have the courage to let the students speak themselves. Panel discussions are his prime enjoyment. His pince-nez and manila folders crammed with lecture outlines are seen on OXy's campus as well as in Founder's Hall. Dr. Baldwin has, perhaps by employing words found useful in discipline of Ward- man Hall, discovered his own gentle talent of evoking improvement in psychology students. J. Gustav White's office is to the right of that big palm tree of Redwood library. Vocational counsels, aptitude tests, and Y. M. C. A. secretaryships are his specialties.

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FACULTY Dr. Nila B. Smith-She is responsible for building up the education department to the high level it now maintains. This year she is in New York City supervising the publication of her new books. Mr. Alfred Jones-Who brings first- hand experience and practice directly to the college because he is at present superinten- dent of the East Wfhittier school district. Miss Kavanaugh is small and neat, thor- oughly believes her education theories. Hails from Columbia and lets you know it. Her famous last words: 'There ought to be legis- lation against it. Miss Jenkins-Who supervises the kin- dergarten, mothers the dorm, keeps the books and generally manages the Broadoaks school in a dependable manner. She likes brown playsuits, Hawaii, and her Ford coupe. Mr. MacDonald-Genial, plump, and plenty of smiles, the ex-principal from Oregon enjoys teaching facts, facts. He conducts the now-required course on com- munity excursions in a novel fashion. His favorite alibi: Let's integrate, the courses. Miss Rice-We all look up to her. You actually learn something from her. Possessed of an intense enthusiasm for her work, she just makes you enjoy upper-grade curricu- lum. Would-be cribbers have discovered her photographic memory.

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FACULTY Miss Haroldson's movements in the musical world are followed with interest by her Wliittier friends. And speaking of movements, this violinist sways to her music -with a grace Worthy of emulation by the students of the posture exercise classes. John Harlow Mills-His is a well-nigh insatiable thirst after knowledge, and he has not yet depleted his over-supply of ambition. Even now when he has completed a lecture, he can be seen hurrying up the hill to hear a fellow-professor deliver another one. Miss Lohmann-Here is little of the traditionally over-delicate artist, and it's true one might at Hrst think of an American co-ed majoring in P. E. by the hearty jolliry of her Ways. Dr. Evans- Praise God from Whom all blessings flow . . . If Wliittier students excel at this hymn, it is because Dr. Evans' good humor goaded us on to full volume. Miss Van Loan, who knows just how it is, prepares education majors for the shock of adolescents singing in their various de- grees of rhythm and pitch. . Mrs. Carroll Clevenger is one of the champions Whittier sends in to defend a near-lost piano art from the insouciant at- tacks by one Marx brother.