Wilson College - Conococheague Yearbook (Chambersburg, PA)

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in number for each classj. and to the class leaders, as well as to the executive committee, composed of Jane Little, Mildred Klauder. Eugenia Ceih, Jeanne Hankison, julia Perrott. and Doda Mae Smith. The campaign activities of the faculty and non-teaching staff were under the direction of two committees, headed by Miss A. Mildred Franklin and Miss Eleanor C. Duncan. while Miss Charlotte I. Davison was the chairman of the entire campus campaign. .. .PROPOSED GENERAL DEVELOPXTENT PLAN 'X lay Q N X ococng A Rss x X' O X, l-1 STUDFNT ALUP1 S QTZELE Q DPNILAD EL Pi-un. -V E- 24? MAIN GAHPUS W ,, 1 W i N 'I If 1 NMI! i Q L1vRoPosEn Downy-Tokv a , l V Y -' Z A ' , , Ao A V .3 gun, mu lu-.tivmuq 19

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In pledge of their loyalty, on the evening of February 3, 1939, around dinner tables in various centers all over the United States, the alumnae and friends of Wilson College met to inaugurate the Endowment Campaign. At least sixty-six gatherings of the more formal type were held. There was an attendance of over four hundred and fifty at the banquet held in Chambersburg, in the college dining room. Doubtless there were many smaller unofficial but equally enthusiastic celebrations in this country and across the seas. One slender yet strong bond of unification was the fifteen minute radio broadcast of President Havens and Dr. James Rowland Angell, president-emeritus of Yale University, on the importance of the independent college in American education. Though in some places it may have been impossible to listen to the broadcast, we can be confident that everywhere the thoughts of alumnae and friends were bound together by a deep-rooted interest in Wilson College. It takes more than one evening of banqueting and speech-making to carry on, or even to start, a campaign of such a size as the Wilson College Seventieth Anniversary Fund. lts needs must be made known to widely scattered alumnae, and to friends and potential friends. Under the leadership of Janet Galbreath Cratty, ,02, and her associate, Susan Mateer Bennett, '04, the United States has been divided into eight major geographical sections, and a chairman placed at the head of each, and under each of these leaders a staff of district chairmen has been built up. Through the means of re- gional and local conferences, conducted by President Havens, Mrs. Cratty, Mrs. Bennett, and Miss Gertrude Parry, Executive Secretary of the Alumnae Association, the alumnae have been familiar- ized with the needs of the college and the plans for the campaign, and one hundred and twenty- three dollars was established as a quota for each alumna. Everywhere vital interest and willingness to cooperate was expressed. On the campus the plans for the Seventieth Anniversary Fund have been welcomed with great enthusiasm. Outstanding among the events of the drive for funds, held from February twenty-third to twenty-Hfth inclusive, were the opening informal dinner, at which Dr. Warren N. Nevius and three undergraduates, members of the Endowment Fund Committee, presented various aspects of the campus campaign, and the faculty-student stunt, given the following evening. This was a skit entitled Fund Is Fun, combining the talent of faculty, non-teaching staff, and students in the portrayal of the Wilson that is to be. We laughed at Wilson girls of the future, languidly telephoning to their friends from their rooms, at faculty members, enjoying all the inconveniences of a truly modern kitchenette, and at the staid alumnae, returning to their Alma Mater to find President and Mrs. Havens blithely dancing on the sun deck of the new Student-Alumnae Building. As an indicator of the progress of the campus campaign, a large bar graph was placed in the court outside Main Hall, and marked with red chalk. The pledges of the faculty and non-teaching staff quickly exceeded their quota, while a large proportion of the student body was represented in the amount pledged. For this encouraging progress. credit is due to the squad leaders Cfrom nine to eleven 18

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-1 - They've gone out from their faculty meeting . We sing it blithely, and smile as the song leaves them safe in their trundle beds. But now and then, walking back from step-singing, we forget for a while the fussy fussy facultyi' of the song, and recognize anew their importance to the life of the collegeg feel a deeper respect for the efforts of these men and women who are guiding us through four years of newness, change, adjustment learning. We do not say what is in our hearts, but it is, there, a steady undercurrent in the song of Wilson. Hgh? ,ve 0146 UDL! 'C0lflfLl