Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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THE EMERSONIAN 1934 The President’s Message HIS STORY OF OUR HISTORY In 1630 John Winthrop marched his little ban d of men and women out on this neck of land called Shawmut or Trimountaine and started a settlement that he named Boston after the town in Lincolnshire, England. They had no auto road maps, or even college year books to guide and cheer their wandering ways. The band were Puritans, not Separatists. They were reformers: but as there was nothing here to reform they had to create new laws for beating Hades. History records that their first pious act was to fall on their knees; after which they fell on the Aborigines. They did other acts as godly as the first, and as godless as the second: such as establishing town meetings, and fixing taxes — which would not stay fixed but have been skyplaning ever since, even unto the reign of our last Grand Sachem. They banished unruly members, ducked gos- sips, put bibulous men in the stocks, executed witches, cut down the maypoles of merrymakers, and raised cain, generally. Time passed; a way it has. Then exactly three centuries later, when Bos- ton had grown to man size in 1930, came another band who trod the devious and winding paths that Goodman Winslow’s wandering calf marked out in its wobbly progress from Faneuil Hall to Copley Square; and there they camped. First they fell on their knees, on the marble steps of Huntington Chambers; and then they fell on the faculty, whose hair they have raised ever since. From far and near they came to this — home of the bean and the cod, Where the Cabots speak only to Lowells, And Lowells speak only to God. Then in the last year of their sojourn they moved their encampment bodily and permanently to the Promised Land on the bank of the Charles, where they left it in the capable hands of the sponsors of this book: a company no less distinguished for its creative purpose than those who came in 1630 and 1930. Just what history the class of 1935 will start remains for a more prophetic and worthy recorder than the humble and happy writer of these lines, who closes the first year of his leadership, as 1935 pushes 1934 off the embankment into very deep water. Ave to one, Vale to the other! Harry Seymour Ross, President. I 20 ]

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E R S O N A N 9 3 4 4 Y y A-c - A. 1 1 Mary u Walker ' orchester High School for Girls manners, unaffected r “0 4 softest mind. Lover of peace, and friend of hu- man kind.” Athletic Club. Commuters’ Club. Stunt 2. Song Day. Prom Commit- tee. Year Book. Janice Wightman j» m r Morristown High School “ Loyal to duty and to friends sin- To hearts that have known her she has proved most dear.” • W4M Student Government Treasurer. Class Treasurer 3. Song Day. Re- vival Play. Sorority Treasurer 4. Phi Mu Gamma Scholarship Play. Commencement Play. Eleanor Young j m r High Point College “ Think of her worth and think that God did mean This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.” 4 . Dean’s List. Stage Manager Phi Mu Gamma Scholarship Play. 1 « r jw y ii H e Morwenna C. Z DH Woonsocket High School In her was youth, beauty, with humble Bounty, richesse, and womanly fea- ture.” Dean’s List. Debate 1. Commut- ers’ Club Play. Stunt 2, 3. Revival Play. Prom Committee. Year Book. Commencement Play. Faith Harding Varney Somerset High School “ The maid who modestly conceals Her virtues, while she hides, re- veals.” Student Government 4. Com- muters’ Club. Athletic Club. Stunt 2, 3. Song Day. Prom Commit- tee. Year Book. Minne Maddern Fiske Scholarship. John W. Zalanskas $ A T University of New Hampshire “He has I know not what of greatness in his looks and of high fate that almost awes me.” Dean’s List. Fraternity Treasurer 4. Men’s Club President 4. Men ' s Club Play. LEOLA Reuter Waterbury High School Z $ H “ Coquet and coy at once her air; Both studied, though both seem neglected.” Stunt 1, 2, 3. Revival Play. Sorority Treasurer. Zeta Toy Theatre. Zeta Zamboree. Year Book. Beatrice Rosenberg “ In my own city my name, clothes procure me respect.” ro Girls’ Latin School in a strange city my Class Secretary 3. Dean’s List. Menorah Society Executive Committee 3. Menorah Society President 4. Stunt 1, 3. Prom Committee. Year Book. Commence- ment Debate. C aXtxLc Eleanor Robinson Waterbury High School Z$H “Let the world slide — Let the world go, A fig for care — a fig for woe!” Dean’s List. Stunt 2. Sorority Secretary. Zeta Theatre. Zeta Zamboree. Year Book. Toy Edith Stone Carbondale High School “Nothing hinders me or daunts me.” Menorah Society. Stunt 2, 3. Children’s Theatre.

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JUNIORS “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp Or what’s a Heaven for?” — Browning.