Scrapbooks and Social Awareness: A Self-Curated History of the Oberlin YWCA


Part 1: Domestic Arts     |     Part 2: Student-Faculty Discussions
Part 3: Career Symposia     |     Part 4: Interracial Relations
Bibliography

Introduction     |     Document 2: 1940-1941    |     Document 3: 1944-1945    |     Document 4: 1945-46


Document 2: 1940-1941

Title: Student-Faculty Discussion Groups

Author: unknown

Date: Fall 1940

Document Type: Printed Document

Location: 1940-41 YWCA Scrapbook, RG 29, Series II, Box 4, O. C. A.

 

Introduction:

The following discussion topics concern World War II, dating, and Christianity. Each will be recurring themes throughout the War.

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Student-Faculty Discussion Groups[1]

Oct. 20 – Nov. 17

(Five consecutive Sunday evenings)

Please sign under the topic in which you are interested. Everybody is welcome.

 

  1. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – Virginia Cole[2]             Prof. and Mrs. Wooster

Morton Bernstein      79 S. Cedar Street

  1. Do we have to go to war?
  2. What does conscription mean to us?
  3. What will be the probable outcome of the

Present international conflict?

 

 

  1. PERSONAL RELATIONS – Bob Johnson and Mrs. Seaman[3]

Elizabeth Colvin   158 S. Prospect Street

(Freshmen only)

  1. Etiquette and customs of dating in Oberlin.
  2. Should Oberlin students “go steady”?
  3. How can I live with my roommate?

 

  1. PERSONAL RELATIONS – Jay DoMott            and Mrs. Craig

Grace Van Tuyl                128 Forest Street

(Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors)

  1. Pros and cons to college engagements.
  2. What is the Christian attitude toward

Married life– for a husband or wife?

  1. Should a married woman have a career?

 

Student-Faculty Discussion Groups

  1. MY PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE – Pete Easter and Mrs. Hartson[4]                                               Winnie Frost                161 Forest Street
  2. Can I defend it?
  3. Is mine a practical one?
  4. Of what value is a philosophy of life?
  5. COOPERATIVES:                  THE CHRISTIAN WAY – Al Rees[5]

Dr. and Mrs. Eleanor Cady Orville Jones[6]

  1. What are the benefits of cooperatives?       255 E. College St.
  2. How can we improve on the present methods?

 

  1. PROBLEMS OF RELIGION – Gorry Schloorb   and Mrs. Richards

Nelson Eldred           271 Forest Street

All are welcome to stimulating discussions on the

Practical living of the Christian life.

[1] Planned by committee co-chaired by students Ed Stiles and Eleanor Westerman (“Boardman, Beal Seek YM Office,” The Oberlin Review, 22 March 1940, accessed 8 August 2016, Source).

[2] Virginia Cole Little graduated Oberlin in 1941 and was President of the Alumni Association from 1972 to 1973 (Former Presidents of the Alumni Association, Oberlin College, accessed 10 August 2016, Source).

[3] William Harlow Seaman (1902-1948) served as the first Director of Admissions at Oberlin College, 1925-1948. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1924. William Seaman wrote Document 10 concerning diversity in Oberlin Admissions advertising material (Office of Admissions Finding Guide, Oberlin College Archives, accessed 29 July 2016, Source).

[4] Louis Dunton Hartson (1885-1977) was a professor of psychology at Oberlin College from 1923 to 1957. He also compiled the first registry of Oberlin alumni in 1960. Mary Reed Hartson died in 1971 (Louise D. Hartson Papers, Oberlin College Archives, Oberlin College, accessed 8 August 2016, Source).

[5] Albert Rees (1921-1992) was a full professor of  economics from 1961 to 1966. On the 100th Anniversary of Oberlin’s Economics Department, they honored Rees and his son, also an economics professor:“[Albert] Rees was an internationally distinguished labor economist who served as president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York after being provost of Princeton University. In 1974, he was appointed by President Gerald Ford to lead the newly established Council on Wage and Price Stability to monitor the nation’s then unusually rapid rate of inflation and alert the government and public to various sources of inflationary pressures, especially for household goods” (Amanda Nagy, “Celebrating 100 Years of Economics at Oberlin College,” Oberlin College, 19 April 2013, accessed 29 July 2016, Source).

[6] Orville C Jones was a professor of geology and chairman of the Student-Faculty Committee (Department of Geology Collection, Oberlin College Archives, Oberlin College, accessed 29 July 2016, Source).