Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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necomes cz levzsmfe Was life in the Business School just a dull college grind learning about stocks, bonds, and assets . . . contracts and negotiable papers . . . accounting . . . liquidation and mergers . . . manufacturing expenses? Maybe, I thought, the Business School was made up of people, not subjects and projects. Our lord and master, Mr. Salsgiver . . . Miss Sweeney . . . mimeographs . . . fluid duplicator . . . adding ma- chines . . . Ecliphones. Isabella, Rita Ann, and Tilly . . . the Andrew Sisters, who sang so b-eauti- fully at the Business Party in November . . . the supper with the faculty. It wasn't until my senior year that I realized where life in the Business School was actually lead- ing me. Everything in the Business School had given . . . so much in common . . . statistics . . . account- ing . . . Kleppner. We have been thinking about marriage. We have consider-td the problem from all angles. We know how to budget and save, how to buy property and insurance, and how to finance a home. I certainly know how to buy butter and eggs from my courses in Marketing and Ee. So Lucius C. Smith and I will be married in August and plan to open our own advertising agency . . . Corona and Smith. me a broad general education and the specific knowl- edge and skills required in the business world . . . accounting . . . advertising . . . personnel . . . inter- American relations . . . medical and scientific secre- tarial training. I have been kept very busy these four years. But not too busy to keep up my social life. It was at a Harvard Law Dance that I met Lucius C. Smith, Harvard Business major. It was love at first sight l23I My, what a pretty net worth. I bear singing and tbere's no one there? fBusiness Machinesj

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Paul L. Salsgiver, Director of School of Business asdfji. . . asjfd . . . sjdfh ob, what's the use? When Business What was life to a Business gal like me, Carolina Corona, for three years? Until my senior year I couldn't quite tell . . . th-ere were so many things. Was it actually anything more than can, go or good, are, our, hour, will or well . . . an elastic band in my notebook . . . a red correcting pencil . . . a ratchet release . . . a variable line spacer . . . the letters usdfg? Was it anything more than the Introduction to Business notebook that made me scramble for ma- terial from September to June . . . or the endless hours of reading . . . Tide . . . Prilzfers' Ink . . . Modern Packaging . . . Wall Street Iournal . . . Arlvertisivzg Agency? Perhaps it was the Sherlock Holmes attitude I developed in Marketing, following a product from its embryonic stage to the consumer . . . the Necco Company . . . or in Business Policies and Problems, investigating the background of business firms, their operating techniques, and their structure . . . Gen- eral Radio . . . WBZ. Was it typing and shorthand two hours every day . . . 40 words a minute, then fifty, then one hun- dred? l22l

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Prick your finger? Burn your biscuits? Not me. I'm called Sally the Seamstress . . . Katie the Cook . . . Dora the Dietician. But whatever you choose to call me, I,m just another proud gal in Home Ec. Having decided to be a Home Eccer , Miss Robb helped be to pick my courses. I was ready to begin . . . textiles . . . design . . . dietetics . . . psych. I had vague suspicions about bio. and chem., but soon those vague suspicions developed into downright animosity. It was after the first chem. hour exam that I began thinking about changing schoolsg but ome Economics -- It's M01 I accepted the challenge, attacked my courses with renewed vigor, and came out limping, ready for my second year. I expected nothing short of manual labor, but I guess I had become tempered to tribulation. Physi- ology and organic chem . . . comparatively painless. Foods and nutrition . . . Miss Hord . . . hot rolls . . . salads . . . cereal. Clothing . . . exciting. In sophomore year fury possessed me when anyone re- ferred to my course as ucookin' and sewin' and the easy way to earn by MRS. degree . . . me with twenty-six hours a week. Junior year was wonderful . . . Dr. Harley . . . education . . . child development . . . bacteriology . . . economics. But all my labors began to look worthwhile when it came time to do Held work at Lincoln House . . . kids . . . kids . . . and more of the same. One of the high spots of junior year was living in Home Management House on Pilgrim Road for eight weeks with all the other Home Ee juniors. Pilgrim House . . . that's the place with the radar A Pattern for living. fSewing classj Ioan Barnes demonstrates, with the help of jackie Ruban. I 24