Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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x, ,Zi If l Checking the accounts-will I get an A on 'this one? 'ks a l'reshinan, you had an orderly' mind, a neat appearance. and a burning ambition to become the private secretary' of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. This sounded wonderful then, but when you became a sophomore you learned that there was no such thing as just a secretary . You started to look around. You considered marketing, advertising. personnel and general. You thought about being a medical secretary '... a bilingual secretary. All of these lields offered so many wonderful courses and exciting opportunities that each oF you Found one to suit your own personal tastes. Or maybe this was when you decided to dip into marketing or advertising in addition to your required personnel courses in the hopes of one day' becoming an executive secretary. CYou were still holding on to that freshman dreamlfi That was the year you took lntroduction to llusie ness and .Xccounting 20. After studying current assets and current liabilities for one whole semester. you began to wonder if Simmons College and y'our prospective employer would consider you anything hut a permanent liability. Junior year rolled around, and with it Business 31. T-h-e q-u-i-e-k h-r-oewen F-o-x j-u-m-p-e-d o-v-e-r t-h-e l-a-1-y dfo-g, The quick hrown fox jumped over the la7y dog, Thequickbrownfox juinpedoverthclazydog . . The slow and uneven clicking of the typewriter keys rather discouraged you at first, but you persevered. VVhen the tests were passed back, you clutched yours eagerly, studied the errors carefully: Slwrt., Type., Spell., Pimct., Totalg Time, Speed, TCYV. Your heart lept up every time you were above the median. As the year went on, your typing speed went up to 50 words a minute and that dream of your became brighter than ever. Business Secretarial procedures and senior year were synonymous as lar as you were concerned. Those research reports were your Wiaterloo and you wondered how on earth those dusty' records were going to do you any good when you graduated. ln Business -ll you perfected your secretarial skills. You listened carefully to hear someone elses carriage swing before yours, then you wondered how many lines they were ahead of you. That made you nervous and you struck the f instead of the r. Then you had to erase-with three carbonsf During held study the business world got into your blood. You were proud of your school, glad of your training. And when -lune l3 rolled around your mind was made up. President Eisenhower, you said, here l comeln Listening for the liHle voice that wasn't +here.

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IN MEMORIAM MR. PAUL LOUGHRY SALSGIVER Professor of Business Economics and Director of the School of Business I

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4 CI 1 School had nothinv on voul Home Economies at .S ,- V7 ga - .4'1,,. !'s.. After the party, you've got To clean up. Miss Elda Robb, Professor of Nuiririnn and Director of the School of Home Economics. XYCYC CE11'1'ViI'1U fVVCI1tV'SiX l'l0Ul'S 21 VVSGl'i-fl1C SCICTILL You probably found, when you decided to enter the School of Home Ee, that there was more to it than met the eye-11111011 more. You found-or already knew-that it wasn't just the sweet, quiet, retiring homebody type of girl who was attracted to the third floor in the left wing by the smell of 'hot hiscuits. No, you found-or already knew-that a Home Ee girl had to combine all the talents of a scientist, a businesswoman, and an artist-plus, of course, those of a housewife. It is more than likely. however, that during your freshman year you didn't fully realize this. You went blithely into Foods and Nutrition, and Clothingg you didnt mind Home Ec Lecturesg Psych was interest- ing g and you tolerated Bio because you had to. But in sophomore year you really got down to business. Design, Textiles, Organic Chem, Biochemistry, and electives-thats what the catalogue said. The other girls passing in the hall envied you in that nice-smelling kitchen-they didn't know the half of it. By this time you I need some help, Mrs. Fncltforff . . . i- , Then came junior year, and with it, incyitably, Home Management and Family Relations-Home Ee 34. Re- member how glad you were to find that your best friend wouldbe at Pilgrim llousc at the same, time you were there, how awful it was when it came your turn to do the dishes, how anxious you were the first time you had to serve an oh-so-proper dinner to important guests? You did a slow bu1'n every time someone jokingly referred to you as the one getting her MBS. degree the easy way-A ha ha ha. Field work in a nursery school, as an integral part of the Child Development course, was trying at times but fun most of the time. In this course you really learned what practical application meant. Psychology is wonder- ful, but you found that working with a roomful of children was quite different from reading about them in a book! Senior year-at last. You buckled down for your hardest courses-and surprisingly enough found them comparatively easy to do. Your two weeks of field work were wonderful-whether you worked in textiles, educa- tion, or institutional management, you realized that now you were able to more easily pinpoint your own goalg and you were confident that, after graduation, you could start toward it purposefully and proudly. My new spring suit is going +o be stunning.