Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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social life Simmons is just the right size college to permit personal contact between individual students and the individual officers of administration; we feel that we know our administration — Mr. Bachelder, Dr. Readdy, Mrs. Broadcorens, Miss Sutherland, Mr. Needham, Miss Hanson, et al, not by name only, but as friends who direct the policies of the college we have attended. President Bancroft Beatley gave the class of ' 51 a welcoming talk when we were freshmen, and another one when we were seniors. In between those four years we have learned about Mr. Beatley ... we know about his hobby of model railroads and his aversion to coke, we admire his forthright stand on faculty freedom in this era of faculty oaths, we like his sense of humor, and we appreciate his ability and efforts as a major administrator of the college. Never too busy for a word with YOU President Beatley inspects a new addition to his library with obvious pleasure. First Lady of Simmons, Dean Eleanor Clifton, came two years after we arrived, and we still like to call her our new dean. Very nicely and capably, Miss Clifton has assumed the burden of her twenty- four hour day — she is responsible for the administra- tion of residence halls, through Stu-G she helps to guide student activities, and as a member of the faculty committees she helps to determine college policy. In worthwhile community activities where her judgment and experience as a dean are especially valuable Miss Clifton represents the college. When a student has personal or financial problems, Miss Clifton helps through advice and direction. As a kind of liason function, Miss Clifton manages to interpret the college to student and parents, student and parents to the college. Socially, we got to know and meet and chat with Miss Clifton in the receiving line at formals, the various teas, faculty dinnets, and student entertain- ment programs she attends — we like her for her spontaneous informal manner and youthful spirit. And, knowing Miss Clifton, we are sure Simmons will remain in good hands after we leave. Ul }

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Chief coordinators of our academic and President Beatley, Mrs. Beatley and Dean Clifton welcome freshmen dur- ing Orientation Week. 00 }

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They handle bills, budgets, and bulletins What have we got that no other college has got? You know darn well; the likes of our faculty! Lec- ture after lecture, day in and day out, year after year, they ' ve managed to cudgel our greymatter into a mass of educated — perhaps even intellectual? — brain cells. Without their instruction, we would still be vegetating in that pre-college cocoon of blithe ignorance. Even if we can ' t share Mr. Edgell ' s unrestrained enthusiasm for certain back-to-nature boys, we know who some great American authors are . . . Mr. Cleaves has inculcated us with a passion for Beetho- ven (and a desire to spend week-ends skiing); while Mr. Bush has taught us all we ' ll ever know about modern art . . . How many of us see that Mrs. Coulter certainly knew her advertising, media, busi- ness, etc., etc.? . . . Mr. Deane, Miss Jones, and Dr. Harley taught us enough psych to qualify us as amateur psychiatrists, . . . Mr. Bosworth put us on a par with Woolcott Gibbs as critics of the drama, . . . Eliot became ABC with Mr. Nitchie ' s explana- tions . . . Mr. Valz added a new dimension of meaning to publication terminology like widow, press, screen. . . . Mr. Palmer opened doors into the past with his history lectures . . . Gert Stein, Will Shakespeare, James Joyce, and Partisan Review somehow emerge as intelligible literature after some of Mr. Sypher ' s illuminating lectures . . . Accuracy is instilled in us as a prime virtue by Mr. Fessenden . . . Miss King took us by the hand and now we know how to write Gregg . . . Mr. Johnson taught us marriage and the family with a startlingly differ- ent point of view from our own . . . economics lost its dry aspects when Mr. Silk and Mr. Jacks pre- sented their interpretations. And now we feel we know All, . . . almost. Diagnosis: Bad case of over-dating And Harvard Med is just around the corner. 2 }