Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Kenneth R. Shafer, Director of School of Library Science Research is second nature to G. Klmribian and B. Griggs. I 26 Culture, Cutulogues, My name is Debby-D as in Dui, and people often tell me I'm in a class by myself. It's hard to believe that I've hnally reached the end, or perhaps only the beginning, of my struggles. I can still remember freshman year. I first embraced Library Science at College Opp when I suddenly Woke up to hear Mr. Shaffer mention something about salaries. But realizing that a college freshman should look for higher ideals, I thought it fit to conjure up some less tangible and more aesthetic motivations. I went to see Mr. Shaffer. There are at least six advantages to the library held . . .H These I promptly memorized and now recite as glibly as he. Then came three carefree years of pure, un- adulterated culture . . . economics . . . sociology . . . psychology . . . and the trying task of in- doctrinating skeptic friends in the virtues of Library Science . . . There are six definite advantages . . .Y I admit I had moments of doubt in those under- graduate years when I looked into a certain corner of Library A, but I preserved my ideals and went on. The fun didn't really begin until I was a senior . . . one big student-faculty family, P slips and red

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ham H omemvzking ranges that bake an apple pie in two minutes and burn an egg in thirty seconds. When my five I taught in a nearby public school during and a half weeks of field work, I began to feel a new enthusiasm for my chosen career. All the girls in Education fmy majorj and Institutional Management received remarkable training . . . we even had compliments to take back to our pleased- as-punch teachers. The I. M. gals had worked at the Women's Edu- cation and Industrial Union in the bakery and catering stations for their field assignment. Mrs. Dodge insisted upon an observant mind . . . I can still hear the groans of the girls with short memo- ries .... Remember I-Iome Management with the continental and unpredictable Mrs. Abbott . . . the quizzes with the invariable questions on current events? Now it's all over . . . I'm a graduate. I wish I could boast a bit about Home EC . . . the fun in labs . . . the feeling of belonging to a group . . . our practical and cultural accomplishments. But I guess I'll just have to muzzle my pride. I 25 Elda Robb, Director of School of Home Economics M. Pbilburn, B. Ford, L. Fieler, and M. Phelan create a Iaques Path original.

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md ross ndexing pcncilsAprofessionals at last! Qui viva? Stencils became the password . . . A gold medal to Mrs. Prout for action above and beyond the call of duty. Man of the hour . . . I-I. XV. Wilson. I learned the tricks of the trade. NVhen asked for a copy of Plato's Rcflzibliv, I no longer asked, K'XVho Wrote it? I became groomed for my ever-demanding public . . . approachable . . . imaginative . . . poised. I learned to resist temptation . . . never, oh, never would I tell a patron to go to the Dickens Qsectionj. Cataloging . . . What would be the author entry for a thrice married woman who wrote ten books under her maiden name, hfteen under the name of her second husband, and was planning to get Pilgri1zz'x Progress? Visits . . . so that's where the books are in BPL . . . a rose to Winchester for realizing that librarians are people who also like to eat . . . And remember when 1280-oops, 020- was revived? New cure for insomnia . . . counting library pamphlets instead of sheep. Worst penalty for violating the honor code . . . Writing ALA one hundred times. Remember analyzing the community? I remember, I remember so many things that make me want to wish the staff and my fellow students a life of helth, welrh, and jolity . . . a la Dui. married again? Classification . . . now we go beyond the title page. Does Grounds for living go with books on divorce courts or landscape gardening? Reference . . . where, oh, where is Christ of the Andes? . . . did the King of Siam actually send President Lincoln that gift of elephants? Book selection . . . will it be F0rc'z'cr Amber or Trade lists and CBI's are ligbt reading for S. Adams, I. Stein. Miss L601ltl1'd,S diligent disciples bard at work. I27I