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

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Dabo tie GwA- sles Onn The senior class dedi- cates this yearbook to Matlack Price, in appre- ciation of his work and interest as class advisor and with thanks for his assistance in bringing out the book.

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IN MEMORIAM N MONDAY afternoon, April 9th, the Head of our Cos- tume Department, Miss Grace Wilson Ripley, died suddenly. She has left a vacancy that cannot be filled. Her wide knowl- edge, her wider interests, her deep regard for her students made the rooms where she worked places of inspiration and wisdom. She was a teacher whose field was constantly growing broader. Her enthusiasm for dress and all its social and esthetic values, her love of beautiful color and sweeping lines, her wide-awake knowledge of her own subject as it is related to the life about her was as keen and as thorough as her love for the archaic and beautiful classic draperies, and the rich quality of oriental robes. But the boundaries of her mind did not stop there. She loved painting and sculpture and music. She read Plato and Aristotle. She filled in any spare moments in wide reading and thorough research. The last weeks of her life, and even the last hours, were dedi- cated to the welfare of her students, all of whom she loved as friends and as individuals. We shall not forget her.