University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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THE: -VICTORY- GRlgT Albert Sprague Hudson, X Harris, R. I. “Al” “Huddy” Agriculture Varsity Baseball (l), (2), (3), (4); Captain (3), (4); Class Base- ball (1), (2); Manager Baseball (1); Rope Pull (2). “Al” alias “John” came to us from the big town of Phconix, with that memorable class of ’19. It took him some time to get used to our noisy metropolis, but once acclimated, he has proved quite an asset to the community. At baseball, “Huddy” is surely there, he being the only man so far to have the honor of pitching a winning game against Brown. After a short time in the army, “Al” returned with the determination to polish off some more rough edges, and next June we all expect him to step out in life as a polished “Aggie.” James Edward Knott, PIK Bangor, Me. “Ed” “Jim” Agriculture Varsity Football (2), (3), (4); 1st Sergeant (3); Associate Editor Grist (4); Student Council (4); President Aggie Club (4). We have under discussion a very dull, retiring, modest, wisp of an old maidish youth. At least these apply to him as being what he decidedly is or isn’t. The girls just love to dance with “Ed.” The studies just push themselves into his brain. Football just naturally puts “Ed” in the limelight. A broad grin, a laugh that is half grunt, half chuckle, all roar and always hearty are habitual with “Ed.” Little things go down for him, hot biscuits, letters from his loves, A’s, and opposing tackles. Heart breaking, gloom busting, kitchen wrecking are his strong points. If there are cats about, “Ed” wants them in him. If there is a discussion going on, he wants to be in it. Words or work he turns off a big share. Rudolph Horton Kohlberg, A XA Barrington, R. I. “Rudie” Agriculture Class Football (1); Manager (2); Class Basketball (1), (2); Captain Class Hockey (1), (2); Class Baseball (1), (2); Soph. Hop Committee (2); Glee Club (1). (2); Corporal (2); Sergeant (3); Junior Prom. Com- mittee (3); Polygon (3), (4). This square head entered Rhode Island in ' 15 hoping to show ’em how to grow weeds in Kingston. He soon forgot this undertaking and tackled the modern art of taming wild wimmen. His most ad- vantageous assets were his taking ways and abilities as a modern jazz artist. The fair co-eds of three seasons strove in vain to capture this elusive Swede, but without success, until the fair daughter of the Kingston cider king appeared on the scene. Well, the best of them fall. Rudie maintains, that a good “aggie” can shovel in a dress suit as well as in corduroy jeans, and that if he can’t have a dance hall on his farm, he ' ll move to the city. 28

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RHODE- IJlANDJKlt (DLIBGE ‘ . -4 ’ Arthur Edmond Haslam, © X Providence, R. I. “Baldy” “Awthaw” Agriculture Rope Pull (2); Class Treasurer (3), (4); Class Baseball (3); Class Basketball (3); Assistant Manager Baseball (3); Manager Baseball (4); Polygon (3), (4); Cheer Leader (4). “Baldy” blew into Kingston from Providence, in 1916, an “Ag- gie by choice, and an avowed “Woman Hater” by profession. The former he stuck to but the latter he rapidly outgrew. In fact, he reached the climax by “stepping out down the line.” “When 1 was down Maine.” as “Awthaw” would say, he won fame as a play- ing manager. Although small in size, he makes up for this misfortune by the “pep” and hard work that he puts into everything he under- takes. He is equally adept in studies or roughhousing. His favorite expression is “I don’t know a thing about it” and his motto “Treat Charles Potter Holley “Charlie” “C. P.” Why our friend “Charlie” chose the mechanical engineering course none of us could understand, for his initials seemed to indicate a strong (?) inclination toward chemistry. During the four long years, “Charlie” has been able to keep a clean slate. Perhaps his ability to “pump a rule” has enabled him to do this. Whenever Lanza filled the board with figures and numerous signs, someone always piped out, “Frigger it out, C. P.” After a few joyful slides, “Charlie” always placed us back on “Easy Street” again. At last “Charlie” has made his “debut” and is now a weekly visitor at the village dancing school. Stay with ’em “Charlie” you are bound to win. Kingston, R. I. Mechanical Engineering John Foster Holmes, A X A Needham, Mass. “Jack” Agriculture Orchestra (1), (2), (3), (4); Band (1), (2); Bugler (2); Y. M. C. A. Advisory Board (3), (4). “Jack” likes Boston in summer, “Winter’s” at Rhode Island, talks Needham, hates long laboratory hours and plays the comet, lie believes Boston to be the “Athens of America”, can almost con- vince you Boston is the backyard of Needham, assures himself that long laboratory hours are for rest and recreation, and makes every- one praise his jazzy comcting. Loyalty is “Jack’s” watchword and he applies it thoroughly. It only took two months at M. A. C. to convince him Rhode Island was the only place. “Jack” is a hard worker whether at milking cows, cornet playing, sleeping, public speaking, college activities, or “aggie literature.” “Jack” will prob- ably be awarded the honor of becoming Needham’s band master, on leaving the hill. 27

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RHODE- 15AND JT JE (DLIDGE Leonard James Kwasha, $ E II Providence, R. I. “Junk” “Jimmie” Chemical Engineering Beacon (3) (4); Grist Board (4); President Chemistry Club (4). The person who said that good things come in small packages was right. When “Jimmie” entered in on his life work as a chemist at Rhode Island, he was lost in a seething angry mob of Freshmen, clamoring for admittance to the sacred portals of knowledge. It took him quite a while to get his bearings but success stared him in the face and he found himself at last. His brain is a complex chemi- cal formula that has more intrinsic energy than trinitrotoluol. An- other of his accomplishments is as a tutor to the fairer sex. His specialty is “dying” and is seen every day “trying to dye” in the Chemistry Laboratory. His success is assured because of his untiring efforts to gain all knowledge possible. Numan Allen Martell, A A ¥ North Attleboro, Mass. “Marty” Electrical Engineering Soph. Hop Committee (2); College Orchestra (3), (4); Student Council (4). When the war rolled on and the class of 20 assembled for its last year at Rhode Island, “Marty” w ' as on deck. “Marty” with his fiddle, his pipe and his line; all three of which he can use to per- fection. “Marty” is a noted fusser and has been snared by co-eds, French maidens, “down the liners” and the girls at home, but at last his heart yearns to linger in Shannock. “Martie’s” jazzy violining has won him a place in Goodwin’s Orchestra and weekly he is found departing, fiddle under arm, for some country festival. When he passes “Thermo” and “Mechanics”, we predict a great career for him on the traffic squad of the North Attleboro Police Force. Charles Everett Mason, A A ¥ Warren, R. I. “Charlie” “Osic Agriculture Glee Club (1); Corporal (2); Sergeant (3); Polygon (3), (4); Grist Board (3). (4); Scholastic honors (1), (2), (3); Vice-President Hughes Club (3). Behold! gentle reader. This picture is one of the “Aggies of Aggies.” “Charlie” entered Rhode Island with serious intentions of becoming an “aggie” but at the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the engineers. This caused some talk as “Charlie’s idle hours were always spent in ragging the engineers. At any rate he has “stolen a march” on his old classmates as he was lucky enough to graduate in February, 1920. Whether we will find “Charlie” an “aggie” or an engineer ten years hence is a big question. However, it is certain that he will have a certain song-bird (Phoebe) around to darn his socks. 29