Wellesley College Bulletin

V\\ ss v.a^ ANNUAL REPORTS NUMBER OF THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE BULLETIN WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS OCTOBER 30, 1943 ANNUAL REPORTS NUMBER OF THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE BULLETIN OCTOBER 30, 1943 Bulletins published seven times a year by Wellesley College, Wellesley 81, Massachusetts. April, three; September, one; October, two; November, one. Entered as second-class matter, February 12, 1912, at the Post Office at Boston, Massachusetts, under the Act of July, 1894. Additional entry at Concord, N. hi. Volume 33 Number 3 CONTENTS Report of the President 5 Report of the Administrative Trustee 7 Report of the Deans 11 Appendix: Faculty Academic Biography of New Members for 1943-44 18 Leaves of Absence in 1943-44 20 Changes in Rank in 1943-44 20 Resignations and Expired Appointments, June, 1943 20 Publications of the Faculty, 1942-43 .... 21 Lectures, Concerts, and Art Exhibitions, 1942-43 Lectures 27 Sunday Services . 29 Concerts 30 Art Exhibitions 31 Summer Conferences 1942 31 Academic Statistics, 1942-43 32 Scholarships, 1942-43 . 36 Report of the Treasurer . 37 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT To the Trustees of Wellesley College: The President of the College is charged with the responsibility of submitting an annual report on the state of the College. In this, my seventh year, the assignment is one I am in no position to accomplish. Your generosity in granting me a leave of absence has offered me the opportunity to serve as Director of the Women's Reserve of the United States Naval Reserve. During this past academic year, 1942-1943, my visits to the College have been few and my share in its administration has been slight. The responsibility of the presidency has been shared by three remarkable administrative officers. Sensing the ramifications of a presidential function, each has added to her already full schedule the appropriate portion of my work. The remarkable fact is that there were no jurisdictional disputes and the three emerged from the year admired by their colleagues for their efficient and cooperative assumption of the presidency. The senior alumnae trustee, Marie Rahr Haff'enreff'er, needs no eulogy to you, her fellow members of the Board. You have watched her at work all year, efficient, adaptable, enthusiastic, and never-failing in her gracious understanding of people and problems. Within the administration of the academic and organizational life of the College, Ella Keats Whiting, Dean of Instruction, and Lucy Wilson, Dean of Students, have maintained their position as wise and trusted leaders of the faculty, staff', and students. It was a bad year to be away since the war imposed so many new conditions that it was no time to be short-handed. The other officers of administration faced appalling complications and met them with the intelligent zeal which is chronically charac- teristic of them. The year of absence gives me a perspective on the College which makes me more appreciative of it than ever. Much re- mains to be done to improve its structural organization, but it works with gratifying efficiency. Its alumnae, as I have met Wellesley College them in the Navy and in civiUan groups across the country, are carrying their share of the load of a world at war with the heart, the soul, and mind which pay constant tribute to the quality of their education. I have admired the willingness of the faculty to modify existing procedures to adjust the College to war-time conditions and to insure its serving adequately the needs of modern students. I congratulate the students on their participation in the war effort while they prepare themselves for citizenship in war or peace. The employees have assumed their new responsibility as members of a labor union without losing the satisfaction of partner- ship in the college enterprise which has been one of Wellesley's strengths through the years. To the trustees, without whose constant cooperation these as Wash- things could not be, I report on the College seen from taken ington and many other points to which Navy duties have me. Its condition is excellent. Respectfully submitted, Mildred H. McAfee U.S.N.R. June 30, 1943. Lieutenant Commander, REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEE To the President of Wellesley College: I have the honor to present the report of the year 1 942-43, the sixty-eighth session of Wellesley College. Personnel of the Board of Trustees It was with genuine regret and reluctance that the Board ac- cepted Miss Belle Sherwin's resignation. Miss Sherwin, a graduate of Wellesley College in the class of 1890, always an informed and devoted alumna, rendered the College invaluable service for twenty-five years as an active and constructive member of the Board. As trustee emeritus, it is hoped that she will long con- tinue her association with the College. This year brought to a close the six-year term of Miss Amy Hewes as faculty trustee. The Board is indebted to Miss Hewes, Professor of Economics and Sociology at Mount Holyoke College, for bringing to its problems the academic point of view. The faculty wisely nominated another scholar as Miss Hewes' suc- cessor. Miss Lily Ross Taylor, Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College, was elected for a term of six years. The Board had the further satisfaction of electing to its membership three professional men, residents of Greater Boston: Judge Charles C. Cabot; the Reverend Doctor Palfrey Perkins of King's Chapel; and Professor Theodore Spencer of the English Department of Harvard University. It is to be noted that a member of the Board, Mr. Harvey H. Bundy, at present Special Assistant to the Secretary of War in Washington, delivered a challenging address to the graduating class in June. Labor Union After conferences, hearings, and negotiations carried on through the greater part of the year by members of the Board and Wellesley College officers of the administration with representatives of the college employees and union leaders, a contract was signed in April with the Building Service Employees' International Union, Local 254, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. This union, an all-inclusive one, counts in its membership all employees on the domestic staff and those working in the buildings and on the grounds. After the contract was signed, upon petition of the College which recognized certain inequities existing in the wage scale as agreed upon, the War Labor Board granted several specific wage increases. Miss Julia J. Henderson, a member of the Department of Political Science, has been appointed as personnel officer to deal with employment problems. She brings to this position four years of experience acquired in active service with the Social Security Board in Washington. Tuition Payment Plan To meet growing indications that many parents would wel- come the opportunity to make tuition payments throughout the academic year instead of in two large installments, the Board has authorized an alternative plan of eight equal payments. Wellesley College Record The fall of 1 942 marked the publication of the Wellesley College Record, a thousand-page volume listing 24,500 alumnae, past and present members of the faculty, officers of administration, and trustees, all with biographical data, and the present student body. Although the Record is published by the College, the stupendous task of compiling and editing was assumed as in the past by the Alumnae Association. Miss Elizabeth Patch. '16, was an able and resourceful editor. The scope and significance of this valua- ble compendium of Wellesley information is so well described in the Preface to the Record that I should like to quote from it: "Thus to list all persons who have studied, taught or administered at Wellesley, their achievements and their continuing interest in their College, gives a significant picture of her growth and the vitality of her contribution to contemporary life." Trustee's Report Summer Conferences It will be recalled that for a number of years the College has welcomed to the campus summer conferences whose members enjoyed the use of the buildings, the grounds, and the recreational facilities. After careful consideration of the difficulties and un- certainties of providing food, electricity, and service to these groups, the decision was reached to withdraw these conference privileges for the summer of 1943 and as long thereafter as seemed necessary. Mayling Soong Foundation As noted in the President's Report of last year, the Mayling Soong Foundation was established in June, 1942, to honor Mad- ame Chiang Kai-shek on the twenty-fifth anniversary of her graduation from Wellesley College. The purpose of the Founda- tion is to interpret China and the other nations of the East to the American college students. During the first year gratifying progress was made in implementing this interpretation. Under the leadership of a faculty committee the program was inaugu- rated by a stimulating four-day Institute on the Far East con- ducted early in October by distinguished Chinese and American scholars who discussed the social and political problems of China. The change of calendar caused by the extension of the winter recess prevented fulfilling the plans of a second institute centered on the art and philosophy of China. However, several lectures and a Chinese poet's reading maintained the continuity of interest which culminated in May in a very beautiful and unusual exhibition of Chinese ritual bronzes and paintings which were assembled by the Art Museum staff. The Library contributed to this coordinated effort of interpretation by adding some two hundred volumes to the Far East Col- lection installed in one of the alcoves of the main reading room. The plans for next year include the continuation of the lecture program and the further development of the library collection.

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