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

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lam . . . the long lines of registration . . . But I don ' t want to take this course . . . we hadn ' t heard of beach days then . . . the book store and the prices . . . the class picnic at Thirty Acres • . . paper plates and fresh- man girls . . . the get-acquainted dance at Lippitt with all the showing off and careless poise of high school . . . that was the year • RUTH M. BENSON, Sigma Kappa, General Home Economics, 9 William St., Bristol, R. I. • RUDOLF L. BENTLAGE, Accounting, 71 High St., Westerly, R. I. • RICHARD BERGER, Alpha Epsilon Pi, General Business Administration, 99 Stratford Rd., Rock- ville Centre, N. Y. 16

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and the headlines . . . yes, we came to college . . . some of us straight from the high school senior proms and others from the war . . . remember the tours; coveyed around like little chicks under the stern eye of a god-like sophomore . . . this is Green Hall, and that ' s the gym and don ' t anybody leave . . . remem- ber Club 400, tinkling jungle of noise and bed- 15

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when the car was king, park it and leave it . . . we found the Union and Lower Cafe . . . coffee and day old sandwiches . . . we went out for football and joined the clubs . . . we woke up to look at the Chambers-Hiss con- troversy with contempt and disbelief . . . slowly we became integrated into campus society . . . Truman won that year and the R. I. • GERARD R. BOUSQUET, Fhi Kappa Theta, Mechar St., Woonsocket, R. I. • JOHN F. BOUBIN, lambda Chi 17