Rhode Island School of Design - Portfolio Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Student Council Officers and Members Dra lant { 1. Eileen Forrest and Co est ee { 1. Louise Dutemple | 2. Elizabeth Underwood ReaD ae | 2. Abby Tonge ee President { 1. Elizabeth Underwood se { 1. Carol Bradley ice-Presiden Woleaneaatt | Treasurer.... oecarconen Chairmen of Committees 1. Gerry Cohen 2. Shirley Wooddell Members, 1943-1944 . Phyllis Langworthy, Abby Tonge Costume Design oP (1 Yai ‘ : 2. Priscilla Browning, Louise Webster o eA cation § 1. Eileen Forrest, Shirley Wooddell | 2. Eileen Forrest, Shirley Wooddell STATA sist sh.N ey Hlollep Eleanor Ie Paice reriorDecomton {fe aly Rush Hl prannean 9 AE SEN a Mechanical Design. ...... | se eee Esther Shub Drawing and Painting ; = 3 Esther Shub me Arlene Aspinwall Textile Engineering....... = 3 Margaret Haney Nore Virginia Harvey Textile Design... a : : a hog . Rhoda Franklin noe . Elliot Matteson . Matthew Siok, Dorothy Strong, Cynthia Norton, Emma Thurber me 1. Elliot Matteson, Carol Bradley, Jane ‘Taft, Rosaline Braga 2. Rosaline Braga, Carol Bradley, Jane ‘Taft, Emma ‘Thurber Glass Presidents a oe: 1. Louise Muscente | 2.. Louise Muscente 5 l { j l ( Freshman Representatives. . ] ( J ] ( DranaaG tyne 4 { 1. Miss E. Bates, Miss G. Wilkins, Mr. J. Frazier A eS oe | 2. Miss E. Bates, Miss B. Hildebrance, Mr. J. Frazier, Mr. J. Benson

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Another purpose of the Council is “to foster and promote a greater unity between the faculty and students.” If this were a grade or a secondary school, this would be a touchy subject, for everyone knows the so-called animosity that exists between teachers and students. Here the situation is different for we realize how the faculty has helped us at every turn. The method we use for keeping this aura of amity is the Board of Directors which is comprised of the five student officers and the faculty advisors. Their duty is to sit down at the beginning of the term to discuss whatever tentative plans the Council has in mind for the year. Our faculty advisors, Miss Bates, Miss Hildebrand, Mr. Benson, and Mr. Frazier, are not selected by the Faculty Council as penance to act as dictators, but are chosen by the members of the Student Council themselves at an early meeting. Our faculty advisors for the summer term were Mr. John Frazier, Miss Gladys Wilkins and Miss Esther Bates. Unless one turned his head to stare at the back of the room, he would hardly have known that Mr. Frazier was there, all six feet plus of him, that Miss Wilkins had ventured out from her subterranean chambers in the textile building, or that Miss Bates had sneaked away from Shakespeare long enough for a meeting. Her comments are always given in a shy, reticent, “I’m afraid you won't like this” manner—well, you know you can’t refuse that smile. Miss Wilkins always speaks in the way of a woman who knows what she’s talking about. Mr. Frazier starts tugging at his ear and drawls out his sugges- tions as only Mr. Frazier can drawl. Other than a few helpful words when the going becomes tough, we would never realize that our advisors are there. The members of the Council are nominated at the earliest possible date at the beginning of a term. That is when you will see the President scurrying around from room to room with hundreds of small slips of paper trying to get the results tabulated. Two members are delegated from each department. Choosing these members is easy in a small department, but in the larger ones there are apt to be a few ties before the couple is selected. Besides these members there are also the class presidents, the presidents of student organizations, and one representa- tive from each of the freshman divisions. Serving on the Council for a term en- titles a member to wear the cherished black and gold key. ‘Ten students are nominated from the Council near the end of the preceding term, and from these the whole student body selects five as officers: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Chairman of committees. A typical meeting of the Council does not start with the traditional rapping of the gavel, but is signified more by the lugging in of a few study chairs by the President and a few innocent bystanders. Then she and the Vice-President strug- gle to get the lecture stand lifted to a decent height, becoming more and more red-faced as the work progresses. Then with a few preliminary clearings of the throat, the meeting is called to order. Proceeding according to Parliamentary law (and the Golden Rule), the report of our Secretary, Abby Tonge, is read. She stumbles over the pronunciation of a few names in the roll call and then launches into the minutes of the last meeting. Sometimes you wonder at the great amount of business that you have forgotten had transpired. Next comes the Treasurer’s report. Gerry Cohen looms important in our eyes because she represents the $$$$. When all the fees are accumulated from the students, the sum seems pretty large to one who has just paid his year’s tuition. After this comes the new business when most of the Council’s work is discussed. Each member is obliged to work on at least one project during the year. In case no one answers the call for volunteers to do a certain job, the eagle eye of Shirley Wooddell, Chairman of committees, starts searching, for it is her job to conscript these workers. When everyone is all talked out at last, someone makes a welcome motion to adjourn the meeting until the next Wednesday. 16

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FRESHMEN Class Officers President EMMA THURBER Vice-President BARBARA BARRY SCCTELQM ae a See MARY FLETCHER DICGS CT ae ee BARBARA GOULDING