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

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MISS IRMA COFREX 1334 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Alumnus M. X. A. S., Experience with Hickson ' s, Xew York and Connick Studios Instructor in Costume Desion X ' ever have any students thought more of any instructor than the Costume De- signers do of Miss Cofren. They all feel that theirs is the best course in school and that it is so only because of IMiss Cofren. She is a perfect example of Practice what you preach.” except that she doesn ' t preach. , nd now. as if she didn ' t have enou.gh in her favor, she is going to live in Paris all summer long — and do we envy her? The seniors only regret that they won ' t be in her classes next fall to profit by her wealth of information. However, the chances are that Miss Cofren will have six all too eager visitors on her return to earth. DR. JAMES MACE , NDRESS 67 Clyde Street, Xewtonville BPD. and .A.B. degree from Mich. State Normal College; Ph.M. from Univer- sity of Chicago; . .M. from Harvard; Ph ' .D., Clark University; Head of Dept, of Psychology and Social Hy- giene, State Normal School, Worcester. Instructor, Department of Education Dr. .Andress is the type of man who has helped to bring the universe in university. His fund of knowledge, sparkling personal- ity (maybe the eyes), dynamic presenta- tion, and psychological psychology are combined to make him convincing to the point of hypnotism. The treatments he has given to us for teaching and private problems are vitally valuable. As artists, we are impudent to add that we enjoy his color and his slimness, and that he is most pleasing in greys. WALTER JAMESON 51 Walker Street, Cambridge, Mass. Oraduate of Vale, .A.B., .A.M.: Graduate work at Harvard; studied at Colum- bia; instructor at AI. 1. T. Instructor in English It is pleasant to consider that before we leave these ancestral halls and scenes of early literary struggles which were con- trolled quarterly by Mr. Jamison, that it is our privilege to deliver ourselves of a very humble sort of eulogy to an instructor, who alone, and at times with slight en- couragement, endeavored to hold us to a state of fair intelligence. Some drank deep of the stream, to the best of their abilities; some perished by the wayside and a few Phillistines spoke lightly of the wisdom thereof. Mr. Jamison, like Mr. -Major, was a hard-hearted reformer to the High School Graduates. .At this date, there is a disposition to realize what the benefits of the English class were. To Mr. Jamison must go the credit for a strong faith in the possibilities of the .Art Gum, which to an appreciable extent has been justified. EFFIE BYRON WHITTIT 15 Clifton Road, Roxbury, Mass. Studied at Boston P ' niversity, Simmons and the M. N. .A. S. Librarian and Preceptress •As we go to press we are unable to de- termine if it is Airs. Whittit or her daugh- ter Helen who is indisposed. Either one or the other may be true but we deserve the sympathy. Our lives have been as dust and ashes trying to get keys or books while Mrs. Whittit languishes amid the mumps. We haven ' t been shushed for three months and we miss it. Mrs. Whittit ties our diplomas and orders potted palms in greei tubs and kisses us all goodby at Com- mencement, while we clutch the aforesaid diplomas, and forget the books and keys and car checks we didn ' t get and the seven thousand shushes ' ’ we did — and sally forth rooting for “ ' Muddy Whittit and the Eastern .Star. 73 Parker Street, Newton Center, Mass. Degree from Harvard. Studied at Tech- nology and abroad Instructor in .Architectural Drafting We are determined to express here our admiration for Air. Kendall and his art, and to confess the personal sympathy we had for him as he tried to steady our fal- tering steps through the labyrinth of Ionic volutes and past the confusion of acanthus leaves. Air. Kendall was too fine an archi- tect to ever take us seriously, but too much of a tolerant and friendly instructor to ever grow impatient. Fortunately, our own proficiency in this classic art was not necessary in order for us to appreciate its beauty and estimate its value in our educa- tion. ALBERT S. KENDALL

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FREDERICK WALLACE Fenway Studios. 30 Ipswich Street, lioston. Mass. •Muninus iM. X. . . S. Studied at .Acadeniie Julien and the Carlarossis in Paris Instructor in Life .and Painting Mr. Wallace is one of the younger mem- bers of the faculty. He continues to pro- duce portraits which bring him praise and a well-deserved reputation from a satisfied clientele. His foibles, if reported correctly, are for a mild sort of cussing and a tendency to make queer faces at his mod- els. Since this is the year book, the cuss- ing is necessarily mild, and the latter fault we may forgive because the portraits are so successful. Mr. Wallace rapidly works to the position of one of Boston’s well- known portrait painters and he exhibits at the St. Botnlph Club. V’ose Galleries and Cassons. I.ILLIAX A. PHILLIPS 36 Robinwood . ve., Jamaica Plain, Mass. Alumnus M. X. S.: Degrees B.S., .M.A., Columbia Instructor in Crafts DAXIEL O. BREWSTER 17. Branch St., Boston. IMass. . lumnus I. X ' . .A. S.: Secretary. Copley Society; Instructor in Stage Craft at Emer- son: Teaching Experience at Hartford Art School and in Cornish and Chester, X. H. Instructor in Pageantry and D esign -Away from the tumult of the city, around the corner from the crowd, is the studio of a quiet artist. When the lowly Freshman has passed this portal and been invited to tea here among the bits of Ital- ian treasures, he is given to reflections upon his extreme good luck in knowing Mr. Brewster. But a true realization of it comes when the music of encouragement steers many a lower classman through the sulphurous blue, period when the spirit is low. He fiercely concentrates upon stage work with a contagious enthusiasm. His stage presentations border on absolute perfection in color. Air. Brewster ' s only failing, if we may call it a failing, is a liking for community poetry which is de- claimed between deep breaths and with chest expanded. ALARY AI. RUGG 62 Hamilton Street, Wollaston. Alass. .Alumnus AI.X’..A.S. and Cooper ' s Union; studied at Pratt Institute and the Chicago School of Design Instructor in Costume Illustration Airs. Rugg is actually one of the faculty in spite of the fact that her youthfulness leads visitors and half the lower classmen to mistake her for a student. .After such domestic duties and tribulations as the subduing of the incendiary tendencies of her children. Airs. Rugg has still an aston- ishing amount of energy as she conducts her classes in costume illustration. .She is first to consider the standards required in artistic illustration for advertising. We regret that she is able only to spend two period.s a week with her class. LEO O ' DOXXELL 56 Eellsway East, Alalden .Alumnus AI. X. .A. S. Illustrator Instructor in .Antique and Life Drawing. Clever, facile fingers always patiently willing to show the way and guide the awkward hands through the problems. Aliss Phillips ' course requires much time and practice but her pupils insist that it is delightful work and a solution to the prob- lem of Christmas gifts. Certainly variety of work in Crafts would prevent any bore- dom. and its usefulness has no limits, for the problems when finished are applicable or have something in common with other pieces of school work. Air. O ' Donnell one morning read poetry to his class. We have decided, in retro- spect, that we enjoyed poetry reading while we worked, but at the moment, and for a short time, we were acutely uncom- fortable from mere astonishment. We had recited for Air. Brewster but then we had done the declaiming — here we were the en- tertained. Alay he continue with his happy inspiration. Air. O ' Donnell carries on a successful illustration business besides his classes in this school. To him we owe our first profitable introduction to the modern illustrators ' and designers ' work in com- mercial advertising. His new studio, near the Aluseum, is one of the old houses of X’ew England design in Boston.

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EDWIN HOADLEV 52 Lewis Road. RelmoiU Alumnus AI. X. A. S. . ' Student of Dynamic Symmetry. Lecturer. Instructor of AIf.c hamc.u. Dr.wving Mr. Hoadley cannot easily be catalogued under one heading. His subjects range from mechanics and dynamic symmetr ' through water color and nature study to the building of muscle-strengthening ma- chines and ventriloduism. with sidelights on astronomy. Mr. Hoadley ' s week is more animated than the arms ot a windmill on an eastardly day. convention lecture, class in stage make-up and an e.xhibition of magic, at which we pretend not to be as- tonished. are all within his repertory. More important, he is adept in the art.s of mak- ing friends with his students. JOHN SHAKMOX 101 Camden St., lloston. Alass. Studied with Tarbell. lloston Museum School: studied with Frank Ilrangwyn. Instructor at R. I. School of Design Instructor in Dr.wving . nd P.cinting COURSF. Sometimes one may enter the Junior class without ever having known that the painter of the fine canvases at the Guild and other Boston Galleries is Mr. Shannon of our faculty. His days for criticisms are spent behind closed doors. Occasion- ally a tired but happy Junior or Senior staggers out for a drink of water. There emerges through the half open door the sound of charcoal on paper and cjuiet instructions to draw, and draw, then draw some more.” Air. Shannon believes, if we quote him correctly, that painting is little more than drawing, and that “the little more” is the creative quality which cannot be taught. He is responsible for the influencing of many of our “Fine Arters” by his “priemier coup,” still lifes and landscapes. LAURIEN H. AIARTIX 14 Park Street, Lowell, Alass. Student of DeCainp. . rthur Gaskin and Alexander Fisher of London Instructor of AIetai. Crafts In gloomy caverns underground Air. Alartin holds his classes to the accompani- ment of murderous hammers, billows of llame and clouds of acid fumes. Provided one escapes with his life and has displayed an amount of intelligence, at the end of the course, thanks to Air. Alartin — to what extent some shall never realize — we have to show for our mangled thumbs, singed eye- brows and acid-eaten smocks some pieces of hand-made jewelry of varxing quality. It has been estimated that Air. Alartin in the course of our morning ' s instruction covers more distance than any one person in the same amount of time in school, and that he has accompished more reconstruct- ing. reorganizing and general salvage work than any committee for the rehabilitation of shell-torn homes in France. Occasion- ally it is our privilege to see pieces of craft work from Air. Alartin ' s own stuilio. So Il ' c Toil On. ADRIAN lORlO 6 Newbury St , Boston, Alass. “.Vo where so busy a man there was, .Ind yet he seemed busier than he was.” Instructor in Design man surprisingly eipiipped to teach us. having in his youth been trained in the printing arts, paper making and advertis- ing business, having associated with the prominent de-igners of the times, his anec- dotes are rich in personal touches. He is an active designer for the commercial houses of the day. and gives the pupils the inside story of the artistic side of advertising. He worked with the founders of the Strathmore Paper Company in its early days; has wielded an air-brush in a newspaper office, and done three men ' s work in an advertising agency in New A Ork. AHSS ETHEL G. B.VRTLETT Longfellow Court, 1 200 Alass. . ve., Cambridge . Iumnus AI. N. S. Instructor in W ater Color I • ) W ' e haven ' t been grown up long enough to let many people call us child. but ■Miss Bartlett puts so much personal inter- m est and so much one of ours” feeling into this little word that we go back to do xvater colors- and go back to be touched on the arm and called child.” If we are ever water colorists, as is our dear- est dream, we will have only Aliss Bartlett to thank Aliss Bartlett who praised our futile, first efforts: Aliss Bartlett who j tacked our slightly better Sophomore efforts on the walls, and Aliss Bartlett who i could always find a spot on any group on 1 which to say. You ' ve done something | there, child.” M She doth little kindnesses, hieh all others leave undone — or despise; j For naught that sets one’s heart at ease, ; i Or giveth happiness or peace.