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

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DONALD SPITZER Life-sized puppet working his own strings. Fate picked Don out of a nineteenth century drawing-room, endowed him with modern ideas, an inexhaustable supply of barber- shop songs, corrugated cardboard, paper samples, and burlap, then set him in our midst to be Class President. BARBARA STARK Bobby arrived breathless, smiling, and apologetic to give freely of her bountiful advice. She injected sage epigrams into our conversations and always formulated her answer in the proper words, long before we had posed the question. CONSTANCE TOCHER Conny, our tiny and fragile Dresden china figurine from the story-book land of the tinkling music box and everlasting sunshine, had a heart that sang and a ready hand that responded. Friend and mentor of the equally gracious Ruth, she pro- duced yummy lettering and lay- outs. RUTH TORR Here was the personification of our recurrent New Year’s resolutions. She held the reins of Pegasus in her four-wheeled chariot, and rolled in from the wilds of Milton with a precious cargo of careful renderings, faultless layouts, arm- fuls of year-book material, and little Conny.

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PETER RETALIS Cool-headed, tolerant, easy-going Pete practised the art of under- statement by day, and reported for his hometown newspapers by night. He patterned a classical mosaic of cool pinks, light purples, and cur- sive lettering, and bonded it with controlled gaze-motion. VIRGINIA RUFLE Ginny, the unruffled Rufle, silent and erect like a marble Doric column. She masked a warm heart with a cool exterior. Through un- moving lips, she imparted her con- suming interest in Interior Decora- tion, and the need for designing “Hosses What Art Hosses.” FRANCIS SHERMAN Here was our business man, replete with the outside connections about which we whispered in hushed tones. His interests in art were pri- marily economic; he worried about the big issues of Life and left the trivalities to us. JOANNE SPENCER Joan of the trim ankle and whimsi- cal costume jewelry, our favorite dual-personality, with the little girl look belieing her sophistication, and the tailored clothes contradict- ing her femininity. Class treasurer, she wore out an index finger tabulating receipts from the Prom.

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FRANCES VRACHOS Franny of the many moods; aggres- sive, decisive, dynamic as an elec- tric spark, she shocked us with statements which even she didn’t believe. She voiced our objections, explained means of living on five dollars a week, haunted Cornhill, and went completely feminine at the Prom.