Wilson College - Conococheague Yearbook (Chambersburg, PA)

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lil-:vsnEND ,lomw BAKER LAIRD. D.D. President of the Board of Trustees ln the Board of Trustees, headed by the Reverend John H. Laird. D.D.. rests the ultimate authority in all college affairs. its members delegate to the President and Dean administrative authority, to the faculty the right of decision in academic mat ters. to the Business Manager the responsibility for the maintenance of the buildings and grounds. and the handling of college funds. Every department of college life is within the concern of the Board of Trustees. which meets three times annually. though a month rarely passes without a meeting of some committee. The Trustees are the guarantors of the perpetuity of the College and of its traditions. 24

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With the coming of May, we look forward to the appearance of this so-called annual, and lo, when we open the cover for the first time, we perceive that we hold in our hands a bouquet of everlast- ingsfi Has there ever been a CONOCOCHEAGUE Board that did not turn the pages of the yearbooks of five, ten, twenty years ago . . . with laugh- ter, surprise, curiosity, and then a feeling of continuity, of belonging? ls there one alumna who at moving or house-cleaning time, regard- less of general chaos, does not dust off her CONOCOCHEAGUE, sit down in the middle of the floor, and remember . . . days, hours, minutes? A year,s record of events, this 1911-0 CONOCOCHEAGUE, but a record too of an everlasting spirit, of friendship, an entire fellow feeling as to all things, human and divine ,... and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to men by the immortal gods. MARGARET CRISWELL DISERT, Dean

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AR'rHl'R J. FREY Business rwanager The Business Nlanager is many things to many people: an invaluable consultant to the President: a never-failing source of in- formation to the trustees, of equipment for the facultyg collector of bills and financial advisor to studentsg expert administrator of the college budgctg efficient authority for the maintenance of buildings, grounds, and utilities: the indispensable guardian of our material well-heing . . . Mr. Frey. M Iss M ARG-NRl'1'1' VA N nnttznlc Regis frm' X newcomer this year to the responsibilities of an active registrar. Miss Nlargaret Van- derzce has proved herself a tactful and com- petent officer of administration. In this capacity she continues the work of Xliss llisert. including the addressing of xarious high school and alnmnae groups. Xliss Yan- dcrzee is a graduate ol' W ellesley College and comes to us from the admissions oflice of Mount Holyoke College.