University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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James Hilton Aldrkd. r a 2 Ashton, R. 1 “Jimmy” Mechanical Engineering Class Football (I) (2); Scholastic Honors (1) (2) ; Class President (2) ; Chairman Soph. Hop Com- mittees (2); Corporal (3) ; Grist Board (3). “Jimmy entered R. I. in 1909 as a prep, and the following year registered in Mechanical Engineer- ing with the class of 1914. His most prominent hob- bies are four in number: the first is studying, the second plugging, the third grinding, and the fourth military drill. As a result, his path has been strewn with a vast succession of “A’s,” and, after serving faithfully in the ranks for three years, he was promoted, last fall, to the rank of corporal, for dis- tinguished bravery on the field of action. William Edward Anderson Westerly, R. I. “Bill Agriculture Stock Judging Team (2); Secretary Agricultural Club (2); Vice President (3); Corporal Co. C. (3). When the various entrances in the noble halls of R. I. C. were designed, the architects little calcu- lated on Long Bill” ever entering the institution, for he seems to have considerable difficulty in passing through without at least bumping his head on the top casing and stubbing his toe on the sill at the same time. Bill brings forth the idea of the wrong in studying on Sunday. Oh, you Bill, you can’t make us believe that some member of the fair sex is not the real cause of your earnest ef- forts to finish your work before the seventh day. Cheer up Bill, when you are the possesor of the many fine steeds you intend to raise, you will have the advantage of us all in the courting line. Frank Howard Baxter, B l Mansfield, Mass. “Pot” Mechanical Engineering Scholastic Honors (1); Class Football (1) (2); Class Basketball (2); Soph. Hop Committee (2); Corporal Co. B. (2); Varsity Debating Team (2); Mandolin Soloist Glee Club (2) (3); Glee Club (2) (3); Class Debating Team (2); Assistant Manager Varsity Baseball (3): Business Manager 1914 Grist (3); Sergeant Co. B. (3). Who is that tub-shaped image with the four eyes” and the would be rah-rah hair-cut, piking across the campus, with his shoulders bracing back with every melodious note of his corduroy trousers. Ah. no! He’s not a tinsmith or a bass horn player. He’s Hon. F. H. Baxter, alias Pot. This man knows, doubtlessly, more of how to entertain without money a young miss at a swell hotel dinner than anyone else at college with the possible exception of Young, ’13. Pot” is a Bay Stater, coming from Mansfield. Mass. He passed his Freshman year somewhat in darkness, due probably to the fact that he helped a neighboring farmer milk cows and chase the pigs in his spare time. But the second year of his liberal education he spent at the Beta Phi house, where he has become the “bouncer.” 17

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16 Rhode Island Slate College 1914 Class Roll Officero Honorary Member, Prof. Leonard P. Dickinson. B. S. Harold W. Browning President Herbert Reinf.r Vice-President Olive Nicholson Secretary LeRoy A. Whittaker Treasurer James Hilton Aldred, r A 2 Ashton, R. I. William Edward Anderson Westerly, R. I. Frank Howard Baxter, B o Mansfield, Mass. Robert John Benson, r A 2 Brockton, Mass. Edward James Boulester Providence, R. I. John Brechin, Jr., P. I. K Bristol, R. I. Harold William Browning. ©X Matunuck, R. I. Seth Atherton Caldwell, r AS Woonsocket, R. I. Cedric Hamlin Collins, TAS Berkeley, R. 1. Thomas Rowley Conner Wakefield, R. I. Henry Ellis Davis, P. 1. K Edgewood, R. I. James Russell Estey. B l Slatersville, R. I. Myron Whitmarsh Finch, P. I. K Providence, R. I. Helen Wheeler Ford North Easton, Mass. John Charles Glynn, ©X New London, Conn. Myron Angell Hawkins, B j Providence, R. I. Carleton Walter Jones Providence. R. I. Hermann Harry Karman Providence, R. I. Lorenzo Foster Kinney. Jr..©X Kingston, R. I. Wilfred Ciiipma.n Matthews, A A ♦ Providence, R. I. Leroy Burgess Newton. P. I. K West Barrington, R. I. Olive Nicholson Pawtucket, R. I. Sarah Alice Nicholson Pawtucket, R. I. Milton Harris Price, P. I. K Providence, R. I. Freida Reiner Brooklyn, N. Y. Herbert Reiner, ©X Brooklyn, N. Y. Louis Rossi, B f Westerly, R. I. Edith Marie Safford Lancaster, Mass. Joseph Francis Shea, r A 2 Valley Falls, R. I. Leroy Merton Sherwin, P. . K Quincy, Mass. Aloy Soong Canton, China Harvey Robert Turner Providence, R. I. Adelaide Gilbert Watson Peace Dale, R. I. Richard Ward Weston, B j West Bridgewater, Mass. Leroy Allen Whittaker. P. I. K Central Falls, R. I. Earl Clifton Webster, B l Providence, R. I. Edwin Olney Young East Greenwich, R. I.

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Robert John Benson, I’ A 2 Brockton, Mass. “Ben” Electrical Engineering Class Track (1) (2); Varsity Track Squad (1) (2); Class Basketball (1) (2); Class Baseball (2); Polygon (2) (3); Sophomore Hop Committee, Tennis Association. Engineering Society. It was on the twentieth day of September, 1889. that “Ben” was ushered into the “shoe city of Brockton. Not much is known of him until he came to us on his twenty-first anniversary. Since then he has learned to distinguish the country from the city? “Ben” is an excellent student and during study hours he is never se«n loitering around the corridors. We hope to see him some day as the inventor of the five pole generator. Edward James BoulEstEr Providence, R. 1. “Eddie” “Doc” Applied Science Corporal Co. C (3); Glee Club (3); Reader (3); Vice President Debating Society (3); Member 2nd Debating Team (2). In his youth Eddie” gave prominence of be- coming a giant, but unfortunately, the growth went to his feet. He was trapped in the wilds of Acad- emy Avenue of Providence and after being tamed for four years in English High, he was sent here for further confinement. Last summer he issued what is now universally known as “Boulester’s Business Directory of Usquepaugh,” the lines of which are written in blank verses. Well-known critics have pronounced it to be the best literary production the world has as yet witnessed. The school authorities in Jimmietown and Biscuit City have adopted it as a regular text-book. Eddie’s” highest ambition is to become at first alumni president of his Alma Mater, at which time, he will deal a death blow to the short-cut. narrow-gauge, copy-lighting express two years’ courses. John Brechin, Jr., P 1 K Bristol, R. I. “Breck” Mechanical Engineering. Class Baseball (2); 1914 Literary Society (1). Breck” came to us from Bristol, where he gradu- ated from high school in 1908. After working two years he decided that he would like to become an engineer and so took mechanical engineering. While here he has been apparently quiet but has had his part in “rough houseing” and having that innocent look has never been suspected. He is usually ready for a good time when it does not interfere too much with studies or writing a letter. He has spent most of his time on his studies and we will look forward to the time when he is a full-fledged engineer. “Still water runs deep.” 18