Elms College - Elmata Yearbook (Chicopee, MA)

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(phyAicA Out of sheer curiosity two inquisi- tive students came to examine the peculiar apparati in the physics lab. Meanwhile, Sister Oswald spotted them and proceeded to do a little explaining. Very obviously what they viewing was a grating spectograph which is used in the analysis of unknowns for their metallic constituents. Slightly vague but impressed with Sister s demonstra- tion the students left with minds half submerged in a scientific maze. were QouAnali m The search for the new, the discovery of the spark, — these characterize the journalists. In their ingenuity — challenging positions as staff members of the school newspaper and magazine — they keep their horn rims well polished to recognize the new approach to an old theme, the new and striking twist of words and phrases, the sparks of feeling, understanding, and wit. They are alert and they are eager. Never satisfied with the preceding issue, they aim always for something better, some bigger story, some better feature, some more lasting word. They are familiar because they are always scouting for talent and opinion, and What do you do in the . . . ? , In your opinion, what is ... ? are frequent conversation quotes from them. Besides recording student voices, journalists are wide-eyed on world affairs. Thus, class time is time for a surveyal of the contemporary, a time for exercising the mind ' s criti- cal faculties and a time for develop- ing an ability to weigh and to judge.

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(Bioioqjf MARY D. WRIGHT, B.S. An unfamiliar sound to the name, but a familiar brightness in the smile. Mrs. Wright has been a home-loving professor for almost a year now, but upper-class and faculty tongues still connect a more identi- fiably Irish name with wavy garnet hair and faintly sprinkled freckles. Initiator of the mysteries of freshman science (such as formaldehyde frogs), in- structor in senior laboratory ventures into bacteriology and botany, patience is her virtue, hand-in-hand with interest and an earnest way with explanations. Definitely a person you like to say Hi to, as she surries through the halls, heels clicking, casual camel coat open, keeping pace with a busy schedule. A Freshman in a Biology lab has a beginner ' s fear of the unknown — in this case, of amoebas and frogs. But after first-hand experience with the scientific joys of dissection, her views ch ange considerably until even the dissecting scissors and probe fit familiarly between her fingers. Under Mrs. Wright ' s patient direction, the real marvels of zoology become meaningful and distinct from the cloudy smell of formaldehyde. 25

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Imagination — the magical coat- ing of a bare walled room into an invigorating workshop; the breath and depth of artistic intentions. Util- ization, the policy of the group turns paper and paste into animal figures; bits of clay into bowls and pottery. Creation, the work of the artist completed in holiday crafts — a paper Pilgrim, a Valentine heart doll, shadowed silhouettes. A flourish of self-expressive work is dis- played in the tonal contrasts of the finger painting, the results of experimenting hands. Art shows animation when the class, after writing skits or using familiar fairy tales like Rumpelstiltzken, make puppet characters to illustrate their combined talents. Helen Nee and Christine Sullivan show their young guests the creche in the foyer. Appealing to these and to all young hearts, the crib, banked by leaves and lights, has a warm air of reality. The Art classes constructed the figures as one of their Christmas projects together with greeting cards and winter scenes. Manufactured from the elementary materials of heavy corrugated cardboard and tempera, the simple, colorful manger brings to the impersonal marble of the foyer the intimate touch of Bethlehem. 27