William Jewell College - Tatler Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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, ff 252222 ., ' -i' jolm Gemo Memorial Chapel Through the stained glass windows of Gano Chapel the sun makes patterns of color across the silent audience as the heads bow in prayer during the morning chapel service. The lift of the short inspirational period helps the students through an otherwise endless round of classes and study. It brings a welcome break as well as thought-pro- voking meditation. Before and after the chapel program the students Hnd an opportunity to chat, for since chapel is the only gathering which includes all the students, except those especially excused, it affords the only real chance for this fellowship. Named for Iohn Gano, an intimate friend of George Washington and a chaplain in his army, Gano Chapel has stood since 1926 as a symbol of the Christian education and fellowship which is the basis of William Iewell College. Here the students meet three times a week for a brief service in which the President usually delivers a message, but occasionally introduces well-known speakers from outside the college. Also during the year, various members of the faculty have been given Twelve -- -li ' N 1 M- L . . X . , x g ., - ' 'illill llll If ,fill llnretj W01'nL1ll L.-L5 4---- ,QFZIL I Hall - formeriv 1:1 W-: n . L - X Chapel lmildifzg. f, , .-ffrazplgii .- -gif- 'T-. Q' lgsv-Q gf- -g,..h- X..-A , -- - S S.- an opportunity to speak to the student body and the Student Senate has presented several special programs. On the stage of Iohn Gano Chapel the William Iewell Players present their productions to an audience of students, townspeople, and this year, cadets. The stage is equipped with excellent light- ing fixtures, dressing rooms, and other facilities needed for successful presentations. The Tatler Revue and the evening program on Work Day also made use of the chapel stage. On the second floor of the chapel building are found the ofhces of the administration of the college opposite the entrance to the balcony which enables the auditorium to seat 1100 people. ln the basement of the spacious building are the Co- op and the William Iewell Press. As it stands looking south across the campus, the chapel symbolizes the Christian way of life which is the aim of the teaching program on the Hill. M froi equ He leai Phi bee aga Ma cla: ant the offii wh levi cnc per dra has atif 'n WZ! i 1 E t I f L. 1 -ef 35' - -,Emu .. J f 'll - V, - 42 1,h.,?..L,,--- 1- -i?l2'. 'fgg

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Q 9 i I he l 5' 3 1 1 i l I H ii elile L! In 9 l.-11. Carnegie Library One of the most important buildings on any college campus is the library. Since its founding William Iewell has realized the necessity for a good library. The beginning was, of course, small, but by 1905 there were more than 12,000 volumes besides about 700 pamphlets. These books were moved from one room to another, were housed at one time in a large room in the middle section of the first Hoor of Iewell Hall. Finally with the coming of Reverend Charles Haddon Spurgeon's private library, plans were made for a new build- ing which was formally opened in 1908 providing not only housing space for the books which had been increasing in number every year, but also reading room space for the student body. At the present time some 45,000 volumes have found their places on its shelves. Today the Carnegie Library stands on Iewell's campus, one of the most beautiful buildings on the hill, and probably one of the most frequented. Not only during the days, do the students find its spacious study room valuable, but also, in the evenings when it is open and on Saturday. At the long tables in the library reading rooms have sat countless students, ambitious or otherwise, studying varying subjects, science, languages, psy- chology, history, or dreaming out of its windows over the white or green landscape about the future with all its fascination for young people. The worn books have been read and reread by numerous past student generations, who have gone out to live the inspiration which they found on the pages within these walls. New groups of students will continue to follow these, gaining from the library, at least some of the great store of knowledge it contains for those who are willing to Hnd it. The ffjn Bench The Class of ,95, with the especial contribution of President Herget, presented the IH Bench to the college in 1929 and it has since then taken its place in the traditional life on the Hill. It has become taboo for the freshmen during their orientation week, being sacredly reserved for the upper-classmen. The memories of this bench are varied and mostly sweet. Here boy meets girl, light talk goes on, cokes are consumed, laughter and relaxation are the order of the day. During the winter months it shines forth in sparkling white as the symbol that it is, for the name of the beloved college on the Hill. During the fall and spring when warm breezes and flowers invite students to wander across the campus enjoying the beauties of naturen, however, the IH serves a more useful purpose, adding more memories to the store it must now keep within its stones. Eleven

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1 Marston Hall The home of the sciences, Marston Hall rises from the southern slope of the Hill with its well- equipped laboratories and spacious lecture rooms. Here since its construction in 1914, students have learned the mysteries of mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, laws of the old scholars have been re-proved, theorems have been illustrated again and again. Since Ianuary, 1943, however, Marston Hall has been headquarters for the classes of the Naval Flight Preparatory School and all the classrooms have been given over to the V-5 cadets. Only the laboratories and a few ollfices have been retained by the college itself, while the science classes have been transferred to Iewell Hall for the duration of the present emerg- ency. When the construction of the building was pending, the 1910 Tczrler carried an architect's drawing of the proposed edifice. This drawing has been reproduced below, showing several vari- ations from the building which was finally erected in 1914, largely with the financial help of E. W. ,,, .m ..... 4 . . ,. ,. . . ..,. ,,,..,.,,,,, .... .... . .....,,.,,. w... ..... ,,... ,.,,.,,,,,...,...,,,..,,.,,.. ,, M7717 ,, X E Marston in memory of his father, Sylvester Mars- ton, for whom the building is named. Along these newly painted corridors, khaki now replaces the civilian dress, the personnel of the teaching staff has been, to a great extent, included in the new regime together with other civilian instructors and commissioned officers of the United States Navy. Nevertheless, there are on all sides remind- ers of the past years, promises of the future, when Marston shall no longer find it necessary to inter- pret science to a warring world, but can again teach young men and women its constructive uses and send them out to build a new world of peace and scientific marvels in which many more gene- rations of students may live and study. On the walls of the first floor there remain the pictures of eminent scientists, leaders in the various fields, examples for aspiring youth. The museum also, with its permanent collections, in addition to sev- eral valuable ones lent by college friends, is still open on the third floor to make more graphic the study of the strange and unusual as well as the ordinary. f - - -M ' 27 I D I Elf ur ' E l1iTKllXXHXXlUXli 0 . y if , 3, rp?-1-I 3' L -xg li , 'F'.IllllEe--I IJ DID llil qf-'5. . -A. . , -5:i- - Y Y V. ThIil'ZL'C'72