Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The whole is a sum of its parts, each part an expression of the whole. The design itself as a whole and as a chain of parts is strong and purposeful. The line is fluid, the color is pure. Each form speaks simplicity, yet in the same breath, intricacy. The de- sign reads of nature--a star in night, a blazing sun, wind, and earthly revolutions. The design is an expression of time-of eternity, perhaps, but for now it is the cul- mination of four years' time. Each year in four has added a new di- mension, another earth, another path of rev- olution, another sphere of reality in ourselves -a dimension within us that we never knew existed. Simmons has given us our ground plan to build on-the black silhouette of beginning. We accepted the purpose and ideal of our education. Our learning in and outside lec- ture halls has added to the basic pattern that was shaped and spun by those around us. There were times when we questioned purpose and plan. But now four years have revolved and the design is complete. Per- spective gives our design its intricacy. Color, form, mass, and space give our design unity and diversity. In years hence the design will have greater perspective, its complexity will have mean- ing, its unity will spell beauty. Then we shall realize that the design we spun and the design Simmons helped us spin is within us.

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Dedication: Lyle K. Bush, Associate Professor of Art The same stream of life that runs through in rhythmic measures , Art is not an appreciation of lifeg it is life life in college meaningful. He showed us that release for man. It was Mr. Bush who allowed us to dream, selves within a lump of clay, on canvas, with artistic areas. my veins night and day runs through the world and dances itself. Mr. Bush made art meaningful to us as he made our art is a part of history, a part of time, and a necessary who encouraged us to explore, and who helped us find our- a water color brush, or through literary expression into all We will remember his concern for the college-its ideals, its values. He helped us realize that art was not a frosting for our professional training, but the very core of what has value. His classes represent the necessary creative element, without which an education whithers. We dedicate our book to one who saw and gave, and who helped us to see and to give-not only with our eyes, but our hearts. 7

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