Rhode Island College - Ricoled Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Y eadafa Zhu Uffcbefza V Second Semeatefz Page' F ifty-ei ght Ai 1 4 i 4 1 7am Semeefa Sealed: B. Manish, Sec.g R. Coelho, Pres.: V. G-regory, Vice Pres. Standing: C. Finnn, Soc. Comm.g V. Cullen. Trcas. ,,.,,...4..--- . . .i....---,i -.-..,...Y. . .. . Y. ..Y R. Coclho, Pres.g K. Harrison, Soc. Comm.: B. Gorman, Vice Pres.g j. Whitehead, Sec R. Bluis, Trcas.

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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

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444 Ode A Smear wma I. The pocufs address Il. The legacy III. The voices reply IV. The psalm V. The voices reply You! inheritors ol this day and the one that is not yet- you'll have me say the truth? You and time have met. .-. .-. .vt Betueatliinv' hand uncurl the leffae . l m 0 For you no pastel day X'Vatch! a soulless atom hurl minute the matter vast the space To more minuteness shatter. Cast this place. For you a no-time A white and blinding mushroom colored by the day's spilled blood A black black headline. Run in this maze Circle in your l'l'lgl'll. lnert your days Morningless this night. Splintered glass Powdered stone Blackened grass Aging bone. This be the residuum? thin.k-- We'll sit in to waste in and mourn You nursed Your hymn! Quick! read You lethargy mere frailty our age's death? our breath! Our faith ' your psalm. I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said unto me . This day have I begotten thee. There is no ultimacy to things I-Iis truth be the will Be wise now therefore O ye kings: Be instructed, ye judges ol? the earth. This legacy was made at Birth. I'Ve heard and now we promise Instead .of lormless stone The soul be spirit of the bone. Sacred our possession on this day Careful our discretion now we pray This he the continuum. Carol W'arner Page Fifty-nine