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

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and Evecuhve Usee President CLASS of 1946 THe YEARBOOK for most college students spells the beginning of a new outlook and the closing of an old. Four or five years to the Freshman looms as a long and tortuous road ahead; to the Senior in retrospect those years are an all too brief period of exciting and on the whole delightful experience. Your class is the first in more than four years to be graduated from our fine auditorium into a world free from martial conflict, but likewise into a situation that demands of trained men and women a leadership that is firm, just, and wise beyond anything we have yet witnessed. Your professional equipment must be made to count in this new era; your maturity and mental outlook are of even more vital necessity. Someone has truthfully remarked that even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head. You must now, if ever, use yours. You can never be quite so infantile as the pretty doll who thought a goblet was a sailor’s child, but you can shirk responsibilities as a member of society if your sense of duty is warped or dimmed. It is a glorious challenge at this crossroads both professionally and socially. With William Allen White may each one of you say, “I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday, and I love today.”

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JOAN BALCH “Did I show you my illustration?” Illustration Department Pingpong, swim- ming, tennis, riding, football, wrestling — she'll take you on for all. When not tracking down a new story for her collection, dashes off some fine verse. A whispery voice— quick on the uptake. PHYLLIS BORISON Usually found in Painting Studio. Painting Department Intellectually minded, or so those tortoise shell specs would have us think. Accelerated through edging the regulars by one and a half years. Smartly attired on all occasions. Big wedding date soon. Small face, smaller voice. BARBARA BARRY Personality itself — Frankie Carle isn’t R. I.’s only Costume Department pianist — Barry gives out with Boogie or symphony on the spot —An erstwhile thespian, she backs up every production that plays across the footlights — A smile for every girl; two for every man — Husky voice— WALTER CHARBONEAU Mechanical Design Department Easy going, affable, never says no — writes lurid detec- tive stories featuring supersleuth, Gaguffingthag, of world fame—Pool shark from way back—good business man, too — Stiff competition for city slickers any day.