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

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Sitting, 1 to r — Gail Graham, Mary Ann Hartikka, Mary Gariepy, Ethel O’Connor, Mary Farrell, Elaine MacDonald Standing— Nancy Thornley, Ralph Nardone, Phyllis Stedman, Robert Scott, F. Shirlie Lalime Gristette Editorial Board Co-Editors Mary Gariepy and Ethel O ' Connor Managing Editors Robert Scott and Phyllis Stedman Feature Editor — Shirley Lalime Assistants Claire Callahan May Gronneberg Dorothy Hanna Jane Winter Circulation Editor — Mary Ann Hartikka Assistants Harriet Hall Mary Louise Robertson Business Manager — Ralph Nardone Assistants Herbert Berman Rosemary Blaine Marilyn Fogel Jean Heseltine Copy Editors Elaine MacDonald and Nancy Thornley Women ' s Sports Editor Beatrice Browning- Photograph Editor — Mary Farrell

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They once walked with us to class And laughed with us at play , Wherever they are y God , keep them safe And smile on them today. As we receive our diplomas, and leave our campus in Kingston be- hind forever, we have the obligation of stopping for a moment to think — to think of those wdio should be graduating with us. There are so many of our original class who have left us to answer the call of their country. Throughout our eight semesters here, we have felt their absence deeply, and w r e hope that they have missed us also. How much fuller our college life would have been, had they been present to share it with us. We want them to know how proud we are of them . . . how sad we are because they are not here . . . and how eagerly we want to dedicate, to them, this resume of our college lives. I ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ SR

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To the Members of the Graduating Class: The spring of 1945 is a time that will remain indelibly fixed in your memory. It marks the culmination of your college career, a highlight in anyone’s life. The days leading up to your graduation are unique. They are coinciding with the termination of a major stage in the greatest war of all time. They also coincide with an unprecedented conference of nations met in the determination to find the ways and means of maintaining per- manent peace. It is a time, too, of a decided forward look, a time that reflects a new hope, a new faith, and a new determination to solve mankind’s age-old problems and to create a new and better world. For these reasons, you are graduating from college at a most opportune time, a time of great possibilities, a time which will demand a superior type of leadership, a time which will require the best that is in you, a time that offers great potentialities for creative service. With such a prospect, I am sure you will value the years you have spent here on the campus, and will have a growing appreciation for the opportunities the college has placed in your way for the broadening of outlook, for the pursuit of knowledge, and for the attainment of skills designed better to fit you for the duties which lie before you. Tha nks to your college training, you can look forward to your careers with assurance and with self-confidence, with the full realization that a place is waiting for you and that you have a contribution to make to the world’s work. Your college years have laid the foundation for the full enjoyment of nature’s gifts and for the highest appreciation of human experience. It is our hope that the future may bring you life’s richest and most satisfying rewards. CARL R. WOODWARD May 1, 1945