The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-09-06
BLUFFTON COLLEGE
TO Open FOR FALL
TERM ON TUESDAY
Enrolment of Men, Remaining
Low, Continues to Reflect
War Conditions.
Women Enrolment Will be up
Again, And College Total
viii be Larger.

Impact of the war in the field of
higher education will remain appar-
ent when Bluffton college opens its
doors for the fall term next Tuesday,
but there are prospects that enroll
ment may show healthy increase
over last year, President L. L. Ram
seyer said this week.
Wartime disparity of enrolment
totals of men and women will con-
tinue in evidence at least for the
fall term and until such time as
discharges from the Army and Navy
are moving at more rapid rate of
/ speed.
With the estimated number of men
students remaining low, Ropp hall,
women's dormitary, will be filled to
capacity, and the second floor of Lin
coin hall, mems dormitory, will be
used for girls during the coming
school term.
Girls assigned to the second floor
of Lincoln hall will be under the di-
rection of Miss Donna Hartzler, new
assistant dean of women. Miss
Hartzler graduated from Bluffton
college last year, and in addition to
her duties as assistant dean will be
employed in the institutions business
office.
Altho there are indications that the
what greater than last year, there
will be sufficient rooming quarters
for all who will live here on the first
floor of Lincoln hall.
President Ramseyer pointed out
that the end of war came too late in
the summer for any change in the
plans of prospective students, and the
continued draft of 1s-year-olds will
materially reduce the enrolment of
men in the freshman class.
Because of lack of men, there will
be no football team at the college
this fall for the third consecutive
year, but it is hoped that intercol-
legiate basketball play can be re-
vived this winter, President Ram
lseyer said.
+ 0penffig of college for the fall
term next week will bring freshman
registration and orientation next
Tuesday and Wednesday, with regu-
lar class work starting on Thursday,
September 13.
Among faculty changes announced
by President Ramseyer is an ex-
change agreement effected with Gosh
en- college, Goshen, Ind, whereby
| Miss Naomi Brenneman, director of
the Bluffton English department, will
spend the coming year at that place.
In exchange, DR.. Harold HartzIer,
of the Goshen faculty, will serve at
Bluffton this year as instructor in
mathematics and physics. DR.. Hartz-
Ter has Ph. D. degree from Rutgers
college, and he and his family will
live in Lincoln hall.
Rev. Paul Whitmer and Mrs. Le-
more Myers, both former instructors,
will take over classes in the English
department formerly taught by Miss
Brenneman, during the year she is
at Goshen.
| DR.. Irwin w. Bauman. former in
structor in sociology, will return to
his work in that department after
having spent the last year on the
staff of the Ohio Department of Pub
| lie Welfare, specializing in work
with the blind.
Another newcomer to the Bluffton
faculty is Rev. Ernest Bohn, who
will teach in the department of phil
osophy. Rev. Bohn has a Masters
degree from the University of
Pennsylvania and formerly was in
the ministry. He moved here with
his family last spring and resides on
the College farm, north of Bluffton.
Miss Della Krebill, former treas
urer and business manager, has re-
signed TO accept a position as i'm
structor in physical education at
Gibsonburg High school, President
Ramseyer said. This vacancy has
not been filled.