As secretary to Provost Buck, Miss Verna C. Johnson supervises the work of the office and acts as a liaison between the Provost and the departments for Mr. makes all the arrangements for Mr. Buck's schedule and supervises the records of corporation actions and faculty appointments.

Every students sees Mrs. Marian Prindle at least three times a year. She checks all the study cards and handles the four-to-five hundred changes in courses and concentration that come through every fall. Mrs. Preble also keeps complete statistics on students in every field for the President's reports.

Keeping Down Red Tape

"I try to keep the red tape down in this office," says Mrs. Martha P. Robinson of the History-Government-Economics tutorial board, "but a lot of the boys don't think I do." This department handles 1/2 of the College enrollment; Mrs. Robinson contends "you can't help having forms with our numbers." During the fall she assigns advisees, makes up lists of tutors, and organizes Government 1 and Economics 1.

Mrs. Mabel Baker takes care of over two thousand Harvard Wives, finding them jobs, getting them housing accommodations, and answering questions like "What is the most economical way to have a baby?"

In the Comptroller's office, Miss Mabel Spear and Miss Louise Schlesinger, both long-term employees, are in charge of two of the most important aspects of the University. Miss Spear does all the work on the hundreds of student loans; Miss Schlesinger handles the room contracts for the College and the Law School.

Blank Checks

"Once the Veterans' Administration made a mistake with its check-writing machine, and all the amounts were left blank," relates Miss Margaret Witt of the Counselor For Veterans Office, "and a horde of students swooped down to find out what was wrong." She routinely set the eager students right as part of her job as a liaison between the Veterans Administration, the departments of the University and the some 1300 University veterans.

The one person who knows all these women well is Miss Carolyn Thanisch, Assistant Director of Personnel. She has been in the personnel office for ten years and is in charge of interviewing all applicants for jobs in the University. Her office sees about fifty to sixty people a day, and it screened over 1000 after the Labor Day weekend.

She, here-self, is a dynamic person who is well aware of the role women play on the University scene. She says, "Certainly the University is very lucky to have the women it does."