Elms College - Elmata Yearbook (Chicopee, MA)

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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

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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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(physical Education GERALDINE K. CURRAN, B.S. Like the patient instructor she is at heart, Mrs. Curran of the physical education de- partment has been directing and solving the athletic ills of the Freshman classes. As she sees it her prospective student-stars are willing to learn and eager to get in the games. But whatever the athletic ability of the student is Mrs. Curran provides an extensive range of activities for a campus of bustling sports ' enthusiasts. Volley-ball practice, here directed by Mrs. Curran as part of gym period activities, not only brings proficiency in the sport, but helps to develop that long, lithe look for which the modern collegian strives. 28