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Caption: Booklet - Your First Year the University (1935)
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The Dean of Women Religious Life of Students F R E S H M E N will be away from home for the first time in their school life when they come to the University in the fall, and will need counsel in their personal problems, will need friendliness until they have had time to make friends of their own, and need advice on campus life in general. The first place for the women students to go for help in these things is to the Office of the Dean of Women. Student life has many interests—a day in the Office of the Dean of Women makes an interesting cross-section of campus life as students come in for help and advice on many confidential questions, such as scholarship, schedules, low finances, work, student loans, problems of health, personal adjustments, housing, and vocational advice for life work. Presidents and other officers of campus organizations and houses and individual students may call any hour of the school day at the office to discuss with Dean Leonard and her assistants, personal and group needs, which they try to help them solve. The whole organization of the office seeks to serve the individual student as well as the groups and the campus in general. Personal contact is the aim in our large University so that no student will be lost in the crowd. The office is constantly working for wholesome and healthful living conditions for all the women students, for incentives for high scholarship and character, for natural means of developing physically, socially, intellectually, and spiritually. It is advisable for freshmen to place twice as much emphasis on their studies as on any other phase of their University life. Habits of clear thinking and earnest study help to build character. Alpha Lambda Delta is the freshman women's honorary organization. The eligibility grade is 4.5. The campus activities open to all freshman women are the Orange and Blue Feathers of the Woman's League, the Y.W.C.A., work and play in athletics, and work for the campus publications. Campus life is a busy but a happy life. Office of the Dean and Assistants— 100 Woman's Building Dean of Women—Miss Maria Leonard Assistant Dean of W o m e n Miss Irene Pierson Assistant—Mrs. Lora Deere Lenoir S INCE the University of Illinois is the State University, it is non-sectarian in character, and may not teach religion. This does not mean, however, that the religious and spiritual life of the students is neglected, for near the campus is a group of churches, religious foundations, and the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. These various religious organizations, their addresses, and directors are: Baptist.—The University Baptist Church, Fourth and Daniel Streets, Champaign—Reverend Paul Alden. Catholic.—St. John's Catholic Church, Newman Foundation (separate building and dormitory), Sixth and Armory Streets, Champaign—Reverend John A. O'Brien. Christian.—The University Place Christian Church, The Illinois Disciples Foundation, 401 South Wright Street, Champaign—Reverend Stephen E. Fisher. Christian Science.—Meetings held in Gregorian Hall, 303 Woman's Building. Reading room at 704 South Sixth Street, Champaign. Congregational.—First Congregational Church, Pilgrim Foundation. Rooms in church devoted to Foundation, Sixth and Daniel Streets, Champaign— Reverend Melville T. Kennedy. Episcopal.—The Chapel of St. John the Divine, Episcopal Students Foundation, social center for Episcopal Students, Wright and Armory Streets, Champaign—Reverend Herbert L. Miller. Evangelical Lutheran.—St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fourth Street and University Avenue, Champaign—Reverend G. Stiegemeyer. Methodist.—Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Mathews and Springfield Avenues, Urbana. Wesley Foundation, Green and Goodwin Streets, Urbana. Separate building for Foundation activities—Reverend Paul Burt. Presbyterian.—McKinley Presbyterian Church, John and Fifth Streets, Champaign. McKinley Foundation, Daniel and Fifth Streets, Champaign. Separate building for Foundation activities—Reverend J. Walter Malone, Jr. Sinai Temple.—Clark and State Streets, Champaign. Hillel Foundation, 625 East Green Street, Champaign. Maintains club rooms—Doctor A. L. Sachar. Unitarian.—The Unitarian Church, Mathews Avenue and Oregon Street, Urbana—Reverend John Brogden. JI 1:1 Looking Through the University Gardens to the New Gymnasium for Women United Evangelical Lutheran.—Grace Church, Springfield Avenue and Randolph Streets, Champaign—Reverend Dwight P. Bair. Universalist.—Universalist Reverend Harmon M. Gehr. Church, Green and Birch Streets, Urbana— Young Men's Christian Association.—Buildings at 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign—Secretary, Mr. Henry Wilson. Young Women's Christian Association.—Building and dormitory at 801 South Wright Street, Champaign—Secretary, Miss Doris Curran. 5<#Pl3 Page 18 Page 19
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