Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The priniing machine: You put the blank piece of paper in here, so . . Publi ation You dreamt of a glamorous job on lllazlenzoiselle, Clzarm, or Vogue. Or maybe you wanted to become feature writer or foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Then again, maybe you were after television or radio work, pub- licity, advertising, personnel relations. You Found that you'd be trained for all of these in the School of Publication. Your Hrst real introduction to your chosen school was in Copy and Proof, with Mr. Bliss and Mr. Bosworth. Delete, carry over, close up, wrong font, transpose . . . these words became a part of your vocabulary. The Clzicngo Manual of Style became your Bible, English Usage your pocket dic- tionary. VVill you ever Forget that trip through Vermont with Mr. Bliss? You met Mr. Valz and more confusing terms in Graphic Arts, You learned how to make a picture bleed and when to reduce proportionately. You looked at types and type sizes, all the way from Great Primer to Hea-point eyestrain . And you saw picas in your sleep. Maybe you took Advanced Comp with Mr. Bosworth. If you hadnt 'planned your work, those 20,000 words became a nightmare by the time Christmas vacation rolled around. Or maybe you decided on Journalism with Mr. Fessenden, receiving and handing in assignments to the tune of acc-racy, acc-racy, acceracylu You took Business 35 not because you had to, but because you were strongly advised to . Two hours a day, live days a week, you concentrated on speed in typing and shorthand. You may never have reached 100 words a minute, but at least you could say yes when prospective employers asked, Do you know typing and shorthand? H 5 Me-- H Mr. Raymond F. Bosworth. Professor of English, and Director of ihe School of Publication r Senior year . . . more Graphic Arts. You pored over Pnlllislzers' llfeekly, and you sweated over the Valz project. Field study brought into focus all the work you'd been doing for the past four years, you began to realize the tremendous possibilities of this Held you were in. Because the School believes in a broad education for its girls, you had plenty of opportunity to take other courses . . . Nineteenth Century Lit, introduction to Music, Modern Art, Modern European History. Maybe you decided to com- bine your pub courses with those of Home Ec or the Boston Museum School for more specihc training. VVhatever you did, you were confident of getting the right education for the right job. Replacing 'the type: Baskerville goes here . . .

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Prince kVhcn you were a freshman you came happily to school in knee-socks, sweaters, and skirts. But then one day you caught a glimpse of a Prince junior or senior dressed like a model who just stepped out ol: a page in Vogue, and your whole outlook changed. Thats for me, you said, and for the rest of the year you couldnt wait for thc time when you would be having your classes at 49 Commonwealth Avenue. Sophomore year . . . Economic Principles and Theory . . . Mr. VVelHing's dry humor . . . Introduction to Business . . . lklrs. Coulter giving her studenm a general picture of the business world- How many sec what I mean? junior year . . . you really got down to Business. At last you were at 49 Commonwealth Avenue . . . remember running down those four flights of stairs between classes to have a cigarette, and then running all the way up again in time for your next class? You took courses in retail person- nel, retail teaching, retail buying. You got a part-time job in a department store-any one that would take you. And can you forget how you slaved over your Color and Line Manual? Senior year . . . the most important one of all. This year your courses were in Retail Accounting, Retail Salesman- ship, lVlerchandising, Sales Promotion. More new experi- ences-you went on field trips through department stores in and around Boston, and then one glorious day you went on your New York Held trip. You steeped yourself in every- thing . . . the wholesale houses, the displays in the manu- facturing and designing companies, the textile exhibit at the Brookline Museum. Study the texture ot this material, girls . . . You wrote source papers for almost every course you were taking-and you were glad you had when you started your six-week working period. You held a fashion show in Jan- uary-you were really a professional now. At the close of senior year, you were poised, alert, con- Hdent that you could put into practice what you had learned. From the red brick building on Commonwealth Avenue you graduated to positions as assistant executives, buyers, em- ployment interviewers, and many others. Ill Prince School of Retailing fs show Ab' J Q -Aw' 'wi-ag. ...I Mr. Donald K. Beclrley, Professor of Retailing, and Director ot the Highlight on the January fashion

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1 -A: - -.', V- T' , ,C ' - ' -L ' r rs i51'2-iilkzfl 1 - ' 49348 1 I Mr. John A. Timm, Professor of Chemistry, ' l . A V. :Q 'Z ' and Director of the School of Science :I 1 'V You came to Simmons as a freshman already fascinated by the glimmer ol: test tubes or the smell of formaldehyde. Either you had been much impressed with some romantic story of Madame Curie when you were a child, or you gloried in the type of grueling work 'most girls wouldnt touch with a ten-foot pole. For your First year courses, you took Contemporary So- ciety, English, Cerman, and Biology or Chemistry or Physics or Math. Doctor Timm introduced you to Big Butch and Little Johnny, the only two people who ever got away with throwing snowballs in Inorganic Chem class. Or, in General Bio you were made a present of your very own frog-a smelly and rather stiff little creature whom you treated very formally at first, but whom, as the year wore on, you got to know inside and out-eliterally. VVhatever your pet course, you had a little chat with Doctor Timm at the end of the year, and the next fall you returned to Simmons to disappear forever into the labs of the School of Science. If you were a Chem or Bio major, you took Quantitative Analysis with Doctor Bliss . . . VVell, now, let me sec . . . acids and bases . . . indicators . . . ionization . . . electrolysis . . . oxidizing and reducing agents . . . Honor thy balance! Remember working out the dolomite experi- ment? When you were a junior, perhaps you took Organic Chem with Miss Cranara. Maybe you were there the day shc was accidentally sprayed with the hose on the water con- denser. And you worked with saturated and unsaturated cpd's. Then there was Chem 13-2-Mr. Neal's Qualitative Analysis class . . . now, let me think, an acid or a basic solution will precipitate what? . . . Is it silver or is it lead? . . . It was all pretty complicated, but you got through it finally. s Y ..fr ' How's your experiment coming along, Margie? -Mrs. Sargent in Chem Class The end of that course marked the beginning of some- thing else-your senior year. You were a Big VVheel in the eyes of the under-classmen . . . if they only knew! In Dr. Timm's Physical Chem class you learned about thermody- namics and one fell swoop . . . il: you were only Yahudy . . . Then there was Mrs. Sargents Organic Chem class. You studied qualitative organic chemistry in the lab. Of course, you remember this, she said in every lecture while it always went over your head. Then came graduation-then a job or perhaps graduate school or marriage. But even if you never became another Madame Curie, the four years in the labs were worth itl S . 19 Hurrah! I+ came out right this lime!