Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters - Sivad Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The air of gaiety and “‘nu-life’’ has been extended in many directions. More attractive and varied menus in the dining-room have been clamoured for since Seniors were Freshmen, and at last results are noticeable. There is an honest-to-goodness hard-working menu committee which is made up of a girl from each floor. Once a week they meet to plan the meals, incul- cating suggestions from the girls. Those who served this year were Thelma Nelson, chairman, Frances Niemeyer, Lorintha Hull, Rose-Marie Schoen, and Julia Downing. And what could have been more lively and colorful than the first annual Dormitory Prom, when the girls sported their latest creations (or their roommates’) in evening gowns, as well as their newest boy friends. On Dec. 9, the Bellevue Hotel was the setting for this happy and most talked of, socially and financially successful, memory of dorm doings this year. The committee in charge of the Prom was Julia Downing, Josephine Lash and Frances Downey. In all this cheerfulness and harmony apparent in dorm life, there is organization and administration. 'The charges d’affaires are the officers and house committee as well. These girls not only plan everything from Christmas parties to proms, but have also a duty not so pleasant—to take up matters of infringement of rules and inflict penalties for such. Mrs. Evelyn Smith, the guardian over all, watches our comings and goings to see that we don’t get lost in the big city; gives us our telephone calls for which we are always waiting; “shushes” us when necessary; and then tucks us all in bed every night, when, like a good Mother, she makes her rounds to see that we don’t stay up after hours. Mys. Smith is human —and we’re glad afterwards when she has seemed a little teo strict. DORMITORY PROM COMMITTEE DOWNING, LASH, DOWNEY [ 190 ]

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