Rhode Island College - Ricoled Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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dime WMM? September Sth, l95l . . . We entered the doors of Rhode fsland College of Education that day as individuals. VV e emerged that afternoon an embryonic class-t-he class of 1955. Many experiences combined to weld dissimilar, im- pressionable young individuals into unified, professional members of a college group. Let us recall some of those experiences . . . First day strangeness . . . Books, advisors, complicated program cards, un- familiar subjects . . . All-College Assembly . . . Clubs seeking new members . . . Freshman-week fun and hazing-we wore beanies and carried candy for hungry 'upperclassmen while they looked us over . . . singing the Alma Mater in the Caf upon the insistence of hard-hearted Sophs . . . these all are mem- ories of our hrst week at college. After the first week, events moved rapidly along until it was mid year before we realized it. just during the hrst few months of our freshman year, we had changed. XfVe had strengthened our common pattern of college life. Remember . . . Emphasizing our class unity at freshman parties . . . meeting our junior brothers and sisters . . . gab fests in the third floor rec room . . . observing birthdays in the Caf with cakes, candles and singing . . . class meetings when we tried co-operation . . . Classes . . . struggling with math problems, history, Spanish, health notes from Smiley and Gould in the reserve library . . . sports -introduction to soccer for the men fa unique experience for some was catching passes through the snowy -gym-dressing in a rush, showering with haste, never quite making the next class on time . . . then exams and first reports with their unknown indexes . . . rehearsals for Stunt Night when the freshmen put on the X'Valrus tk Carpenter . . . Christmas vacation and then mid year exams, these first formal exams for many caused desperate cramming. Registration for the second semester, and the class of '55 began to feel as if it really belonged . . . Spring brought Song Contest when we sang the cheer song that we had written with pride- XfVe Are The Class of '55 . . . Con- ferences-Freshmen attended Little Eastern States Conference in Conn. and came back impressed. with VVillimantic's campus . . . the important conference with Miss Lee when we chose our courses . . . May Day festivities held indoors with the traditional freshman Maypole dance while the Maypole emulated the Leaning Tower of Pisa, dancing Russians, fairies, or mice . . . June . . . Seniors awed us with caps and gowns . . . our class picnic at Moonstone beach proved to be a memorable one . . . final tests were concluded and our freshman year was over. XfVhen we returned in the fall and joyfully renewed friendships, we found a few .people missing. In our new divisions we made new friends and came to know more of our classmates as we commenced our Sophomore year . . . Choosing electives for the hrst time feven though we had to take last choicej . . , geography frememiber those 26-page exams with their encouraging notes Don't give up now, you're almost half way through. j . . . art, T8:P notes, physical science, science fair exhibits, psychology, English literature and Classical Backgrounds fVVho was .Iupiter's grand aunt, anyway?j On the social side there was the Sophomore Hop or Penthouse Party . . . tribulations of that decorating committee are amusing in retrospect, but at the time the committee couldn't imagine how they could transform a gym into a penthouse satisfactorily in eight hours and then arrive back with dance clothes and a date on time. Sports captured attention too, as the YVAA sponsored swinnning and bike hostels, and the men of our class won the school basketball intra-mural crown. In our sophomore year, remember . . . Appearance of new president . . . Soph-Senior Party . . . Soph boys pledg- ing to the fraternity and suffering pledge walks and initiation procedure . . . Pnffc Fzfty szx

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electioneering when Eisenhower and Stevenson came to town . . . Stunt Night when the Anchor was lost in heaven . . . long hours in the physics lab for some . . . exams for all . . . reports . . . dances-the postponed All-College Ball, the Christman 'Cotillio'n . . . plays- The Curious Savage . . . and then another year of college had passed. The frightening feeling before our first lesson at Barnard returns as we recall our Junior year. Overnight high heels and nylons, suit coats and ties replaced beat up loafers and bobby sox, and RICE sweatshirts and sneakers. Look professional we playfully exhorted each other. That fearful first day of practice teaching was surmounted and we discovered fmost of usj that we enjoyed teaching and might even become good at it in time. VVhen the RICE team won a basketball game that year, Mr. Brown shaved olli his moustache true to his promise. Our class won the intra-mural champion- ship again. We remember, too, newspaper headlines telling of the development of the hydrogen bomb. Part of our junior year was the pressure of nine art plates a week for elementary people . . . American history for some . . . history and philosophy of education . . . economics . . . Stunt Night when Riceans visited an opium den . . . butterflies in our stomachs heralded Responsible Teaching . . . our class split up and class meetings had to be held at night . . . Junior Prom at Agawam Hunt Club proved to be the most exciting social event of our college lives thus far . . . May Day picnics at Lincoln VVoods , . . Junior Banquet at Oates Tavern . . . Commencement exercises bringing the realization that our turn was next . . . then, Vacationl With the class still split from September 1954 to February 1955, the aware- ness of actually being Seniors was not deeply felt, but many minor occasions served to remind us . . . The strange faces of new freshmen and faculty members . . . upper class registration, and first choice of electives at last . . . senior subjects like soci- ology, tests and measurements . . . student council president one of our class- mates . . . second place in Stunt Night when we put on Shades of Sl1akspeare with an adaptation of Mnrbetlz .... the Anchor Class .... planning and working on our yearbook . . . the Bond issue when we all-Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, and Freshmen banded together to convince the voters of Rhode Island that R.I.C.E. needed new improved .facilities by wearing sandwich boards on Wfestminster Street, participating in a motor cavalcade advertising our col- lege, radio and fl'.V. programming . . . and the exultation of knowing that the bond issue had passed and the big rally when the faculty served refresh- ments to the Student Body . . . Curriculum study begun, our advice asked . . . Kappa Delta Phi's Christmas party for children ftheir wide eyes brought the meaning of Christmas closerj vacation . . . our last two-hour exams . . . the hrst semester had flown by and it was l955, our graduating year. February 3, H2155 . . . NMC re-entered R.I.C.E. to register for the Hnal semester . . . Reunited at the Senior Breakfast, we ani-matedly reviewed our training experiences, discussed the foibles of critic teachers, and spoke proudly of my students . . . in the routine of classes, tests, and activities, we hardly felt the year slipping past . . . Senior Informal . . . Faculty Tea for Seniors . . . Soph-Senior Party .... 4 Xlumni Tea . . . applying for positions in the school systems of the state, being interviewed, seeing superintendents . . . May Day with a Senior queen and court . . . the Ifortizne Teller by Victor l-Ierbert put on by the Choir and Dramatic League . . . Cap and Gown Day when we were invested with the dignity of black robes and mortarboards . . . feeling sincerely like graduates for the first time . . . Cap and Gown Dance . . . Vespers when our parents were invited . . . Commencement Ball . . . Class Day . . . and Commencement-the end of our undergraduate education, but the beginning of our professional usefulness. Page Fzfty seven