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

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standby, Cher Ami, displayed in drama and song, rare and hitherto- hidden talents. This year marked a division into five congenial groups. The Drawing and Painting people found a new course in Graphic Arts, and their abilities promise Rembrandt results with the variety of media the new subject includes. The work of these Juniors occupied a large area in the Sketch Club exhibit and was even praised by Mr. Major. The Designers ' first term was a chaos, with the Old North Church rising above oceans of peppers and Franklin Park fenced in by elegant powder boxes. But after recovering from their first terror of Miss MacDonald, the contented little slaves bade a sad farewell to their inspiring driver when she deserted them for greater and more impor- tant problems in Paris. However, the new director of the Design Department, Mr. Allen, and the newest faculty member, Mr. Palmstrom, atoned for the loss. The class was so successfuly introduced to commer- cial competition that its members won a goodly share of the prizes and honors in designing battery boxes for the Hood Rubber Company, window displays for the New England Leather Findings Association, and trucks for the Commercial Brewing Company. The Costume Designers became so enthusiastic over their course that they all sprouted Hellenic bangs, except Kenneth, who already had a modified version. In fact, they were so effervescent in life-classes they evoked long and insistent pounding from the angels. The costuming of the Christmas pageant is to their credit, for when, my sweets, in your long association with kings, have you ever seen a more elegant robe than the one worn by Bill Rowan and for which at least fifty Gordon Clerke rabbits relinguished their treasured hides and Raymond ' s Bar- gain Basement ten yards of upholstery velvet. Have the Modellers and Teacher Trainers been forgotten? Not at all. The former trio worked steadily and unobtrusively and finished many meritorious pieces. The latter group, in its teaching practice, left its ineradicable mark on the minds of eastern Massachusetts school children. MARGARET SNOW ' 36.

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JUNIOR CLASS President STANLEY COOK Vice-President MARGARET SNOW Secretary . . . . Treasurer . . . . Faculty Advisors . MARION GREEN MARY MURDOCK 1 MISS COX MR. ALLEN At the beginning of the year, the Juniors evidenced a distinct change in their artitude ; they were no longer carefree and casual except, of course, that incomparable Disney character, Carmelita. However, the Juniors proved that they had not forgotten their gayer days by presenting at the Christmas party an operetta in which Dorothy Hallberg, Nathan Kredenser, and a distin- guished cast, including the moth-eaten water-color UNDERCLASSES ORGANIZATIONS

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SOPHOMORE CLASS President DOMINICK SEVERINO Vice-President HARRIETTE SMITH Secretary DOROTHEA DAY Treasurer STUART HODGE Faculty Advisors ... MISS BARTLETT I MR. THOMPSON The Sophomores, in the role of Inquisitors, decreed garters for male socks, hair ribbons for male heads, and umbrellas for everyone in the Freshman Class. Smock Day, however, terminated the initiation and incorporated the new class in the student body. The dividing of the Bunnies into various departments was both pleasurable and sad. The latter, because old friends were separated; the former, because those whose interests were the same, were united. The Teacher Trainers progressed under the stimulus of fragrant moist glue, settlement classes, and pink-ribboned notebooks; the Designers often worked until sun-rise under the spell of block prints, historic motifs, and textile patterns; the Drawers and Painters, it is sufficient to say, were learning to Major. The programs of all divisions included the tu-whit and tu-whoo of introverts and extroverts; furniture notebooks and the necessary journeys to the Museum of Fine Arts; Cimabue, Giotto, Fra Lippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, and Andrea del Sarto; Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Idealism; Epipsychidion, The Sensitive Plant, Caliban on Setebos, the Pot of Basil and why it grew so well; and conventional shades and shadows. G. STUART HODGE ' 37.