Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Palette and Pen Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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his importations from a furniture store, and the utter despair of a few of us who were forced to labor during the summer to counteract a failure. With a new year ahead of us, we returned as Sophomores, jubilant in the right to avenge our honor, by submitting the Freshman to the rules we had been forced to follow with newer ones, of course, in keeping with our recently acquired dignity. As we grew more serious, our class achieved recognition along other lines. In December, a group of its members gave the first . rt Gum to the school. The first issue was a small counterpart of the magazine of today, yet it had enough of enthusiasm and spirit to continue to a permanency. This year, too, we celebrated with a Valentine dance, a gay and novel affair. Plans, too, were made for our class year book which was to be an innovation in our Junior year. We faced the responsibilities of donning blue smocks with the realization that the days towards graduation were diminishing in number. The final specialization began, too, and many of us turned to our work with a resolve to make every moment count for at last we were given an opportunity to show our talents and progress thereby. Our year book “Palette and Pen” was on the way to success and great praise is due its staff, and especially its editor in giving the school a book so full of news and all the pleasing individualities our school possesses. In June came the pageant, and although we could but con- tribute to its success in the most trivial of ways, we were all proud beyond measure to be able to do our share, and to link our names with a school which could produce such a glorious offering, for the shrine of art, and lovers of art to contemplate. • nd after that we started on our last year. Foday, as Seniors, we are realizing how very much our school has meant throughout the four years of our acquaintance with its faculty, its traditions, its stu- dents and its ambitions. We are realizing, too, how very little we have managed to retain of the wealth of inspirations offered to us. Yet, although there is much more to learn, we have acquired a background which will carry us on when we become happy toilers in the world of art. Our Senior year is one of bustle with a hun- dred things to do, with work and play well intermingled ! We are the largest class to graduate from the school, and on June 11 we will have among our number earners of degrees, and of honors in their chosen work even before completing their courses. Above all, we will find and recognize that deep with- in us all, there is a challenge to enter into professional life with certain aims and obligations to our Alma Mater and to our class. Whether we achieve fame in the realm of Fine Art or Commercial . rt, in Sculpture or in Teaching, we are all contributing to the glory of our class which has worked and striven together for four of the happiest years we have ever known. We may find our paths stretching far, far away from the old school in Boston town. We will meet and make new friends and call other schools and towns our homes— yet always, beneath it all, whether we think of it or not, we have a heritage of four years, brimful of unsurpassable experiences, to encourage and to urge us on. So, as we come to the end of our year, let us train ourselves to appreciate this quiet influence of the Massachusetts Normal Art School, and realize that it has always given us just what we have earnestly sought. In a short while we will not be students— but we may. as alumni, honor and glorify its name and its traditions even until the end of time. 23

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Class of ’25 In Retrospect E usually think of a history as a record of the end of accomplishment, of endeavors and a cul- mination of ambitions. Today, as we contemplate what our class has achieved, and what it has yet to do, let us not dwell on history, in the manner of the historian, but rather, con- sider it as a reflection of what we may collectively or individually accomplish in the future. For four years now, we have been fittinjj; ourselves for this Commencement season. Can we recall the varied feelings and ambitions of that first year at school? We were all ambitious, surely, but has not our idea of arts and artists undergone a phenomenal change since that day in Octo- ber, 1921, when we donned our green smocks and were at last worthy of consideration by the upper classmen, as well as by the faculty ! That last concerns all but one member of our class. We rather doubt if many of us will ever excel his record of achievement in such a minimum of time. The class of 1925 will always cherish the fact that it may count Royal Bailey Farnum as one of its members, if only by the stretching of innumerable of poets’ licenses. 1 wonder if we recall our Christmas spread of that year, in all the glory of Copley-Plaza forks. Our rainbow dance in INIay bears mention, too. At least it showed the upper classmen that we had capabil- ities in the social line as well as in the field of art. Speaking of art — do we remember those haunting hours before Mr. Ray’s certificates were due ; the exciting moments when we attempted specifications of 22

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HIXISIXIStlNISIMlSI FRANK W. APPLEKEE 14 Perrin Street, Roxbury. Alass. Dorchester High School. Silent Cal became President, and Frank, well, you just keep yo.ir eye on him, for he has the same per- severance and honest effort that carried the Vermont farmer to the White House. His leadership in student activities became firm from the first, as shown by his record: Treasurer his Freshman Year; President his Sophomore year: also the literary editor and one of the founders of the Artgum: President of the Student Asso- ciation his Senior year; and in between times taking a prominent part in ilramatics. Frank has specialized in the Fine .Arts, and we know that his success in that field is inevitable. RUTH IIATCHELDER 116 Euclid .Avenue. Fiast Lynn. Alass. Ruth is a graduate of Lynn Classical High School. She was Presi- dent of her class in her Junior year, and had charge of the Smock Day ceremomes this year. She has served on various other committees and assumes all of her re- sponsibilities with dignity, enthusiasm and support. How sad it will be when we Juniors no longer hear her con- tagious laughter gurgling from almost anywhere. She is one of the most optimistic, happy, energetic, sympathetic girls in the class. No matter how much she has to do she always has time to help someone else. She has what many lack, and that is class spirit. Her success is inevitable. ELIZAKEIH POSHER 217 Neponset .Avenue. Dorchester. Dorchester High School. She is an artist by profession, a litteraire by- force of habit and natural born dreamer. Such a com- bination should take her far in her chosen field of Fine .Art. It is rumored that she is quite a Bohemian, and her artistic expressions merit mention. She has proved that her application is very practical, as evidenced by the Sophomore play of 1922, which she wrote and pro- duced. W e are indebted to her for the very appropriate title of this annual, namely, the Palette and Pen. CHARLOT BRADLEY BEAUTHAAI 2 7 Milton Street. .Arlington. Practical .Art High School. .Athletics, oil paints, and Joes seem to be the hobbies of this pretty demoiselle from .Arlington. With her entrance into the school came athletics for girls by- way- of the (lirls .Athletic Club. She was a keen partici- pater and a successful president for two seasons. She has one of those charming natures which is in harmony with everything. It is needless for us to speak of suc- cess to “Charley,” for her popularity- and pleasant features will insure this for her. BEATRICE BOWRY Sudbury, Mass. Bea graduated from Newburyport High School. She is the much envied owner of an apartment on Marlboro street, which is said to be very- attractive. She and .Adelaide went to New A ' ork with the group who went there to obtain practical experience, and the clothes and coiffures they brought back with them have been the delight of the school. Bea and .Addie — one might add is practically one word from con- stant use — Bea is the soul of tact, the acme of charm, and taste in dress, fearfully popular, and a gifted Cos- tume Designer. .Apart from that, and a few other things, one can ' t say much about her. RALPH BRUNS 16 .Allenwood Street, est Roxbury, Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Huntington School. He registered here with the department of teacher training and has ever been an extremely conscientious and diligent scholar. He apparently seems to have that not too common tendency to rather work than to play- but perhaps he is just a bit retiring because he really- enjoys the favorite sports and especially- dancing as most of his fellows do. 24