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

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CLASS ADVISER’S MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF 1936: A DECADE ago, to graduate from college was to open a door and find the world bright and shining before one. Without drastic effort one sat in the lap of luxury and ease. Your four years have found you cognizant of a different system. Instead of an utter disregard for the state of affairs, the glory of the difficult has reinforced you so that instead of smiling with a shallow grin at that which lies before you, you stand ready to face a world that challenges your strength of heart and earnestness of purpose. Has history ever been more notably in the making than during these last four years? Were college students ever afforded such opportunities to be so closely in touch with affairs of town, state, and nation? Were problems — economic, social and political — needing solution, ever so plainly laid before us? In the freshness and vigor of youth, that is unafraid and ready for the difficult, lies the rolling back of the clouds and the introduction of a new era in which the aim and goal is not the amassing of individual fortunes but the finding, through useful life to mankind, the gem of human happiness.

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DEDICATION To FREDERICK DELMONT TOOTELL Friend, T eacher, Cham pion. Moulder of Men and Champions, we respectfully dedicate the 193 6 Grist

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CLASS ADVISER Donald Elmer Stearns, b.s., s.b., m.s. Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Alfred University, Class of 1927 Theta Kappa Nu