Boston State College - Bostonian / Lampas Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Mary Gertrude Connor Mine is a Lady, beautiful and queenly, Crowned with a sweet, continual control. Slender and fair, Mary is a worthy rival of the famous beauties of history. Her graceful pulchritude is always enhanced by svelte gowns, envied and inimitable. No less varied than her gold and tear-drop necklaces are her cosmopolitan interests; the piano, drawing, and conti- nental universities are a few of the many things that share her attention. Amazing is her reconciliation of successful school work with a vigorous social life. Perhaps it is her sweetly quiet method of doing things that gets them done so easily. Anyone wishing lessons in the gentle art of savoir faire might well observe the constant graciousness, pleasant- ness, and charm of the perfect hostess and companion, the delightful Mary. Self-Government Association (Councillor ' 28); Athletic Association ' 30, ' 31; English Club ' 30, ' 31; Welfare Club (Publicity ' 29; First Vice-President ' 30). Celena Cooper I have no hidden word To tell, nor mystic art; I only know I sing The song within my heart. Celena ' s voice is the pride and boast of SIV. When she sings slow, haunting songs in that husky, rich con- tralto of hers, we catch our breath and listen entranced while she weaves a spell of witchery with her music. She is fortunate in that her speaking voice is not less beauti- ful than her singing voice. It is an added attraction to the flash of her. white teeth and the light in her eyes. Her character is vivacious, imaginative, with a highly devel- oped strain of romanticism. She is temperamental in a charming way, without the tantrums of many other artists with talent like hers. Lampas Staff; Athletic Association ' 29, ' 30, ' 31; French Club ' 29, ' 30, ' 31 (Treasurer ' 31). Twenty-three

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Evelyn Mary Chisholm — all the wisdom that I hope to find Lies snared within your fragile loveliness. Let others seek the cold, pedantic mind That hacks out bloodless volumes for a shelf — No book was ever written like yourself. No one of us has preserved the charming naivete of childhood to the extent that Chickie — quite unconsciously — has. We would all be Corydon to her inimitable Phil- lida, for her golden loveliness conjures dreams of an idyllic pastoral. Yet Chickie allies her perfect femininity to a genius for executive positions. To offices, each higher than the last, she has contributed her sense of the fitness of things, together with a captivating sweet seriousness. That inevitable hurrying, gift for liquid Spanish, and flair for bargains has made her dear to us all. Self-Government Association (Secretary ' 30; First Vice- President ' 31); Class President ' 29; Athletic Association ' 28, ' 29, ' 30; Spanish Club ' 28, ' 29, ' 30, ' 31. Myrtle Alberta Colson Grace was in all her steps .... In every gesture, dignity. Of all poetical lines that one could choose, surely these are Myrtle ' s own. She is quiet and dignified, — one might almost believe her aloof and reserved unless one really knew her. Acquaintance, or better, friendship, proves her a person of charm and comradeship. Her sweet dignity is intricately bound with her capabilities. No problem in Math is too difficult to be conscientiously studied and suc- cessfully solved. With poise and dependability she under- takes the more tedious of class duties, such as her chair- manship of the Photograph Committee and the activities of Senior Week. We admire her never-failing gracious- ness, and not a few among us wish we might probe the air of challenging mystery she wears so charmingly. Lamfas Staff; MathematicsSociety ' 31 (Councillor ' 31). Twenty-two

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Kathleen Agnes Deery Life ' s a pudding full of plums: Care ' s a canker that benumbs, Wherefore waste our elocution On impossible solution? Life s a pleasant institution, Let us take it as it comes ' . Kathleen is the ambrosia of a four-year sojourn at col- lege; she is witty, vivid, ingenious. Cheerfully and art- lessly she makes friends of the classical professors of the nation. She summers in the style of Haliburton, ascend- ing the Acropolis by moonlight and racing ' round the walls of Troy the traditional number of times. The most redoubtable classics are colored with the scarlets and ma- rine blues of her own sparkling and extraordinary adven- tures. She spends her leisure in silhouetting the faculty and collegiate body or in attending the opera. If appoint- ments were made on a basis of adventure, Kathleen would leave us far behind. Beneath her ruffled crest of gold the bewildering Kackie looks for a new universe to conquer with her pixie glance. LAMPAS Staff; Camera Club ' 28, ' 29, ' 30, ' 31 (Presi- dent ' 31); Classical Club ' 28, ' 29, ' 30, ' 31 (Vice-Presi- dent ' 31). Mary Clare Finn And all of her singing was, ' Earth, it is well! ' And all of her dancing was, ' Life, thou art good! ' Mary Clare ' s spirit is the composite of a smile, a sigh, and a dance. Some mystery suggests itself behind that genial, disarming smile; some elusive dream prompts that sigh; some energy demands expansion in her staccato and precisioned dancing. At once enigmatical and ingenuous, Mary Clare defies character analysis. She pursues a blithe and dreamy, albeit effective, passage through the Latin grammar and the grandeur that was Rome. Her sym- pathy for the medical and legal professions, her graceful dancing, imperturbable good nature, and opinionated in- tensity dramatize the dreariest day for Mary into an excit- ing whirl of living. Athletic Association ' 2S; Classical Club ' 28, ' 29, ' 30, ' 31; Music Club ' 2S, ' 29. Twenty-four