Rhode Island School of Design - Portfolio Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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SEU DENT GO UNG: Student Council Officers President .. 64... ns Ree | CR Vice-President. . . . . . .AVERY ROGERS secretary) . 4.) 4 2 Ce BLE ANCRy nn oe ‘Treasurer, 5 .- .. . «40% IRAURARATANSIEY Head of Committees. . . CHARLES LUNSFORD

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DEDICATION With full realization of the greatness of their service to us and their country, we dedicate this book to those boys who have left us to join the armed services —

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Reston See) cet eOe4 2 ibe ENC OU NEL E IT Is OVER A YEAR now since in a general assembly the school accepted plans for their first student council. We have come a long way by now, a way not unbeset by difficulties. We could not let work slide and rest on the laurels of our tradi- tion; we had no tradition. You had backed our formation; you had elected us; but it was up to us to prove our worth. We will review here our work since last fall, so that you may see in total, our accomplishments for this year. Elections at our first meeting placed us under the leader- ship of H. Tikotsky, president; J. Bessel, vice-president; M. Curry, secretary; D. Atwater, treasurer; and C. Lunsford, head of committees. Proposals of yours and ideas of our own were quick to come in. At lunch you have been dancing, between eating your ham and your jelly sandwiches, to the music of the nickelo- deon. It didn’t “just appear” one day; the student council had it installed. Also in the cafeteria, the Christmas tree didn’t walk up on the platform by itself. We put it there, decorated it, and paid for it. In January the student council sponsored assemblies began, under the direction of Ira Rakatansky. So much is to be said about these assemblies that we have written them up in a separate article. January also saw student identification cards issued and the beginning of many new projects. However, as we said in beginning, everything was not easy. President Tikotsky resigned when he left school to take a defense job; our secretary, M. Curry and our treasurer, D. Atwater were also forced to resign. Vice-president Bessel now became president and new elections made A. Rogers vice- president, E. Allen secretary, and I. Rakatansky treasurer. It seemed only to fire the rest of us to work harder. J. Bessel took charge of a U.S.O. dance in Memorial Hall, which was very successful and has just been repeated, success- fully again, under the sponsorship of the Trek Club. All the class dances, the Trek Club activities, and the Dramatic Club 7