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

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R. LS. D. Men Now in the Armed Forces This list of School of Design men is only a small token of our appreciation of the great part these former students are now playing in the war. It is written with a fond hope that there will be no need to add further names to the list and that the shadow of a gold star will never again fall across this roll of honor. Abbate, Michael S. Albrektson, Evald J. Anthony, James M. Armstrong, Charles A. Armstrong, John G. Arnold, Charles A. Atwater, David H. Babel, Paul Bamford, Donald Batty, Palmer S. Beaugrand, Leo H. Besser, Robert Bressette, Edward Bridge, Lawrence Butt, Betsy A. Byrne, Rodger Cadorette, Audrey G. Campbell, Alfred R. Carpenter, Clarence Cashman, John C. Cavanaugh, J. F. Chafetz, Sidney Christoph, Frank Cicchelli, Joseph C. Cinami, Armando R. Clark, Leonard J. Coleman, Prescott W. Cooper, Harold Cooper, John J. Corrigan, James Crafts, Edson S. Cranor, James J. Crooks, William Cross, William Cull, Edwin, Jr. Cunningham, Edward W. Curry, Thomas E. Curry, T. Morton, Jr. Dalton, Gordon S. De Loia, Michael, Jr. Dickey, Warner Donnini, Francis Drouin, Raymond L. Duffy, Edward J. Duncan, David, Jr. Essex, Grant R. Felice, Mario Fellman, Arnold Fine, Harold D. Fitzgerald, Robert E. Foster, James W. Franklin, Gerald Furtado, Ernest Gardiner, William D. Gates, Granville Genereux, Willard E. Gentile, Patrick Gieroch, John L. Gerach, John Goodrich, Julian W. Goodwin, Willard A. Gray, Gavin D. Guerin, Edward W. Hanover, George H. Harrop, A. C. Hartwell, Donald S. Haste, Stanley H. Hesse, Peter C. F. Hill, Robert Hopkins, George L. Hopkins, Oliver Howick, Linn Izzi, Dennis Jarret, Charles P. Johnson, Carl Johnson, Richard Karas, Steve Keane, Robert E. Kelly, James V. Knott, Michael Koeper, Howard F. La Bella, Joseph Lamborghini, Ralph E. Lapchinski, Michael P. La Riviere, Lucien M. Leaver, Harold G. Lees, Frederick C. Leonard, Edward R. Littlefield, Gilbert G. Lunsford, Charles M. Luther, C. Warren Lyons, John R. Mahoney, William J. Mailloux, Lawrence O. Mailloux, Leo Maljanian, George Mancini, Robert A. Marcus, Julius Martin, Richard F. McCaddin, John A., Jr. McCloskey, James F. McKenzie, Kenneth G. Miller, David Moore, Edward Moore, Stephen G. Murphy, Joseph A. Myer, Joseph Newell, Richard Nohshian, Charles Noble, J. Wesley 11 Nolan, Donald M. Nason, Robert O’Brien, Robert M. Olsen, Albert M. Palmer, Henry A. Parker, Richard S. Peers, Gordon Pettine, Giuseppe Phinney, William H. Pierce, H. Murray Plummer, Elliott B. Pollard, Donald P. Post, Warren H. Prendergast, Thomas E. Pricone, Thomas F. Quinn, Francis Rames, Stanley D. Randall, Waldo EF. Rittman, Karl R. Robinson, James R. Rockett, Paul M. Rosen, Lewis I. Rotenberg, Leonard A. Russillo, John B. Schoenthaler, Kurt Schofill, Richard O. Scowcroft, Milton Q. Seaton, Arnold E. Smith, Horace L. Smith, William R. Sperry, Clinton Sternbach, Marvin S. St. Laurent, Edmond Strout, David Struik, Frank Surdut, Albert Thurston, Edward M. Tomaselli, William B. Tudhope, Richard M. Turner, William A. Ventrone, Peter C. Warenbeck, Melvin Washburn, Harold E. Weatherhead, Henry A. Weatherhead, Robert Webb, Edmund W. Weiss, Benjamin Westerberg, Frank E. Whelan, John White, Robert W. Williams, William W. Wilson, William Worth, Edward Wright, C. Rhoades

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1901 Eleazer Bartlett Homer, an architect, became the first director of a school that could now boast of an enrollment of five hundred students occupying two floors of the Waterman Building. Arrangements were made with Brown Uni- versity to exchange students. The day school tuition was going higher—$60. a year! 1903 Memorial Hall, which now houses our student center and cafeteria, was once the old Central Congregational Church, but it was remodelled and dedicated on November 24, a gift of the three Metcalf brothers and Dr. Raedeke. There was now just cause for a 25th anniversary exhibition. The next year, Mr. Charles C. Pendleton presented his famous collection of colonial furniture to the School. To house this suitably a Georgian structure was built on Benefit Street similar to Mr. Pendleton’s original residence. 1908 In November of this year the land for a five-story building on North Main Street was bought in order to meet the need for more room in the textile depart- ment. A lunch room was furnished in the basement of the Waterman Building and the textile design classes took over the lower floor of Memorial Hall. Once there was a baseball team, somewhat inglorious perhaps, but a baseball team at that. They practiced pitching in an alley near the school. Another extra cur- ricular activity was the publication in 1910 of the first yearbook, “The Lotus”. This same year the director, Mr. Huger Elliott, designed the school seal which is still in use. 1914 Things were really humming now. There was a girls’ basketball team be- sides a scrubby football team which used an ungraded patch of ground near the school for practice. ‘They hardly ever won and there were never any home games. Another attempt was made at a yearbook, “The Risod”, which was larger than the former “‘Lotus”’. 1914-18 The war years in that time ran a similar course to those of today. Women were being trained here in the machine shops, in mechanical drawing and in blueprint reading. Women were busy making surgical dressings and holding benefit dances while the boys were obliged to undergo four hours a week of mili- tary drill. Altogether there were 918 members from both the student body and faculty engaged in the war, sixteen of whom lost their lives. For three years fol- lowing the war there were rehabilitation students studying elementary reading, writing, arithmetic, jewelry, architectural drafting, textiles, commercial art, inte- rior decoration, crude oil burning, sign painting, and even one student in em- broidery. 1926-29 Another generous gift from the Metcalf brothers came in 1926. This time it was a donation of $400,000 for a museum building in honor of their sister, Mrs. Eliza G. Raedeke. Among the faculty members, who are still with us and who were appointed in this period, were Mr. John Frazier, Mr. Antonio Cirino, Miss Emilie Wildprett, and Mr. William Fales. In 1928 a gala celebration was held for the golden anniversary, honoring fifty years of achievement. 1935-43 Our latest achievements are the erection of the College Building in 1937, the construction of the Auditorium Building in 1941 and the purchase of the Waterman, Angell, and Congdon dormitories. Now our school is engaged in another war, more deadly than the first. Let us hope that the Rhode Island School of Design will come through as bravely as she did in the last war. SHIRLEY WOoDDELL 10

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From Our President Students of the Rhode Island School of Design, we are welcoming a New Year and new students, and saying good- bye with God’s blessing to the Graduating Class. May you go forward with the same inspired courage that your com- rades are showing on the field of battle. “The names of those, who in their lives, fought for life, Who wore at their heart’s core the fire’s center; Born of the sun, they traveled a short while toward the sun, And left the vivid sky signed with their honor.” Mrs. Murray S. DANFORTH 12