Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Martha Watt A.B. The quiet green essence of Maine . . . the warm sympathy and generosity of New England . . . Phi Mu Gamma, Secretary I, Vice-President 2, President 4; Public Productions 3, 4; Sophomore Dance Committee 2; Junior Prom Committee 3; Pan Hellenic Association 4; House Committee 3. 4. Dulcy Weiss A.B. Fragile femininity with a mind of her own . . . an actress who saves her acting for the stage . . . Student Government Representative 1; Menorah Society 1, 2, Vice-President 3, 4; Public Produc- tions 1, 2, 3, 4; Student Government Secretary 4; House Committee 4. Dorothy Shelton Robbins B.L.I. Transferred from class of ’42 A petite titian blonde, endowed with serenity and quiet humor, Mrs. Robbins has simultaneously achieved a college di- ploma and a tiny titian-haired son .. . Kappa Gamma Chi 3, 4; Student Government 3, 4; Junior Prom Committee 3. Page Fifteen

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Dorothea Sousa A.B. Entered sophomore year V elvet-voiced jeniinhiity and firm, quick efficiency ... a lady in the modern man- ner . . . Kappa Gamma Chi, Vice-President 3, President 4; International Relations Club, President 4; Public Productions 2, 3, 4; Dean’s List 2, 3, 4; Posture Award 2, 3; Advertising Manager of the Emer- sonian 4. Nicholas Ralph Stantley A.B. Spirits of Mercutio . . . a dash of Walter W ' inchell ... a jigger of salty humor . . . full of the old Nick” . . . Originator of First College War Stamp Bureau in America; Phi Alpha Tau Fraternity; Class Vice- President 1, Treasurer 2; Public Productions 1, 2, 3, 4; Student Government 1, 2; Forensic Union 2. Helen C. Vogel B.L.I. Entered sophomore year That rare modern phenomenon — a truly witty personality . . . one of Emerson’s best-liked originelles . . . Newman Club 2, 3, 4; Public Productions 2, 3, 4; House Committee 4; Business Committee of the Emersonian 4. Page Fourteen

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY When the class of 1943 came to Emerson College as brash young fresh- men, we thought of the war, then just beginning, as a disaster which might never touch us in any way. That was in the fall of ’39, but our college life be- gan normally enough with Frosh-Soph Night, and our hilarious attempts to en- tertain the sophomores. Part of class record will always be the performances of Little Audrey,” Olive, Martha-Jane, and Laurie. There were six class of- fices to be won, and by dint of much audacious and ingenious campaigning, the men captured five of these positions, led by President Dick Kilbourne. When that horror of horrors, our first exam period, rolled around, the ubiquitous Nick Stantley devised a sugar coating for the bitter pill. We pooled our limited re- sources of hard-won knowledge in cramming sessions known as Mid-Year- lings.” Nick later pointed with pride to the fact that every student who made Dean’s List that semester had been present at those glorified auctions of in- formation. We now take our fine Drama Workshop so much for granted that it is a slight shock to remember that our freshman play (The Distaff Side) and panto- mimes (The Tale of a Royal Vest and The Organ Grinder) were presented in the Lee Auditorium at the Pioneer Hotel. As Paris fell in the spring of ’40, we said good-bye to our freshman year and to several of our prominent classmates. When we returned that fall we felt that we had grown up — we were sophomores! Now it was our turn to illustrate How to Torture Your Friends” at Frosh-So ph Night. We had risen to the level of One- Act Plays, and this year our public productions were pre- sented in the new Theatre. The sophomores, under the leadership of Class President Bob Lord, sponsored a Valentine Hop at which we all wore our hearts on our sleeves — literally. On December eighth, when we were juniors, the entire student body sat silently in the Theatre and listened on the radio to President Roosevelt’s speech declaring war on Germany and Japan. The war, which had seemed so vague and distant, now came into the Theatre and stood beside each one of us as the National Anthem was played. The men in our class began to leave one by one. The activities which had once seemed so vital became relatively insig- nificant. But the gayest social event of the year, the Junior Prom, was as gay and glittering as ever. Jane Dibble made a most efficient Prom chairman — and also a most charming Prom Queen, with Bunny Bowman and Jackie Kinney, Class President, as her attendants. Page Sixteen