Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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JAMES C. BOUDREAU Director SCHOOL OF F TNE ND The program of the School of Fine and Applied Arts has two basic objectives which are contributing definitely to its increasing SUCCESS. The first objective calls for a continuously changing program that synchronizes with the best contemporary professional prac- tices. This is possible of realization only when the faculty and student body work together in terms of the business and art activ- ities prevalent in the Commercial and Industrial worlds. This presupposes a corps of instructors who themselves are leaders in the various professional art fields. We have such a faculty. The students in turn must of necessity adopt an attitude of serious- ness and application which, under the direction of this faculty, develops a wholesome professional atmosphere. At the conclusion of such a three year program of study the graduate finds he is in the happy situation of having no gap to bridge between his art training and the workaday world. The second objective, even more difficult to realize than the first, yet predicated upon it, maintains that the educational intent of the Art School is fully realized only when all its graduates are employed in the professional art field for which they are trained. A compila- tion of statistics based upon questionnaire data received from the 1935 three-year graduates who totalled 175, convincingly presents the degree to which we are realizing this second objective. These questionnaires were distributed six months after graduation. 94% were employed, 92% of whom were in the art work for which they specialized. The average weekly income of this group was 10% higher than that of the 1934 graduates at the same comparable time. We intend to maintain this desirable trend. The three qualifications for graduation, stated in the order of their relative significance, present the students’ responsibilities as contributors to the complete satisfaction of these two basic objec- tives. These qualifications are—First, that the graduate is a lady or a gentleman; Second, that the graduate has acquired the busi- ness adaptation; Third that the graduate had reached at least a minimum professional level in his art major. JAMES C. BOUDREAU Director

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PRATTONIA REPRESENTATIVES Top Row—John De Palma, Charles Roman, Jr., Henry Macler, Donald Van- derbilt, Robert Demange, Herbert Gallagher, Alvin Schwietzer Otto Nauman, William Morrison, Bernard Goldberg, Frank Mulvaney, Arthur Norgren, Edmund Hodgins, Lee Ash, August Kroessler Adelia Roberson, Gertrude Garni, Constance Gjobye, Betty Brown, Ruth Steck, Alison Kidder, Barbara Heider, Lillian Herlin, Robert Butte Solveig Brekke, Katherine Reimers, Hilda Gebele, Anne Boetzel, Adelaide Spreen, Peggy Voightlander, Eleanor Nordling, Rajean Codish 25

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APPLIED ARTS Ajootian, Khosrov Instructor in the Figure Ashbrook, Carolyn S. Instructor in Design and Research Audsley Berthold Instructor in Model Making Baker, Frederick V. Instructor in Life Drawing and Painting Benrimo, Thomas Instructor in Illustration for Advertising Blumenthal, Margaret Instructor in Textile Design Boulware, Lyle F. Instructor in Architectural Design Bryan, Alice Instructor in Psychology Cavanagh, J. Albert Instructor in Lettering Cimiotti, Gustave Instructor in Costumed Figure and Painting Cole, Carleton G. Instructor in Interior Architectural Detail Cother, Dorothy McVey Instructor in Water Color Everest, Georgia Supervisor, Department of Illustration Fisher, Anna S. Instructor in Water Color Fjelde, Paul Instructor in Modeling Foster, Robert Instructor in Lettering Gorham, William V. Instructor in the Figure Graves, Maitland E. Instructor in the Figure Beck, Minna McL. Instructor in Methodology and Crafts Bernhard, Lucien Instructor in Design Bond, Harry Instructor in Mechanical Equipment 2