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

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Captain Joseph William Kullman - 11 -

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I ' IME has been fleet and soon another milepost in our lives will pass. It is fitting J- that we now consider well, just how we have run the course and towards which goal we shall turn. A short four years past. I. a stranger at your institution, watched the young men of the Class of Nineteen Thirty-Nine pass in so-called “review” after they had, very hurriedly, been filled out in a new hind of wearing apparel. Even at that early date, lien I knew neither name nor residence, I was more or less acquainted with the starry-eyed youngsters who, much amazed, passed my view and who would have done well indeed as a cartoonist’s model for a comic strip in one of our service papers as being the last thing in what not to do with a uniform. However, not knowing one, I knew you all. You were simply a contemporary cross section of typical American youth who, like myself, only younger, were to be members of a fine educational institution for the ensuing four years. Most of us stayed our time and are at present looking forward with anticipation to where next we shall place our interests. It is well that we do this at this time. After a very ' careful analysis of facts and conditions, we must arrive at a decision which to many will be all-important. In this may ' I counsel you, my friends, to think clearly and to be sufficiently wise to seek and use the counsel of the many fine men and women of experience whose advice is available to you while you are yet students at Rhode Island State College. There is, however, another factor which I would like to emphasize at this time when our parting, both from individuals and from an institution, is but slightly removed. I would ask y ' ou to look back in the mirror of four years ago and see just what you were when you entered college. After such a glance and after another appraisal of your present self, I am certain that you will agree with me that all of US have benefited greatly during our college years. But there have been other forces at work which have had their effect upon us. I refer to that fine spirit of comradeship which is so evident both on and off the campus. From personal observations, I am convinced that not until the close of the freshman year did the members of the present graduating class become acquainted. But how ' different now ' , when, as a class, you approach the crossroads in your educa- tional adventure. Now ' fine friendships exist. These are made a living ideal, having been forged by the heat of four years of mutual cooperation. T his is a splendid manifestation and may ' you carry this ideal so well imbedded in your heart, fostering it so that it will yet be a guide of living to you even when old men and women relate the story to grandchildren whose time is not yet come. So as we leave for our various vocations and places of occupations, may we ever recall that we made many friends during our collegiate years, not only with our classmates but with the faculty and the institution itself. Our thoughts and actions, after we leave college, should be that of a friend to our Alma Mater since she has “shown us the way from which we have received much and to which we should prove ourselves ready to give, thus evidencing a very excellent indication of true friendship. - 10 -

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TABLE OF iositeisis CHAPTER PAGE 1. THE COLLEGE .... . . . 13 Views . . . 15 Dedicatory Exercises . . . . 19 II. ADMINISTRATION . . . . . . 25 Executive .... . . . 27 Faculty .... . . . 31 III. CLASSES . . . 63 Senior . . . 65 Junior . . . 127 Sophomore .... . . . 137 Freshmen .... . . . 147 IV. SOCIAL GROUPS . . . . . . 159 Fraternities . . . 161 Sororities .... . . . 189 Clubs . . . 201 V. ACTIVITIES . . . 209 Honoraries .... . . . 211 Debating .... . . . 223 Dramatics .... . . . 227 Music Groups . . . . 230 Publications . . . 236 Technical Societies . . . 240 Discussion Clubs . . . . 251 VI. ATHLETICS Men . . . 257 Football . . . 259 Basketball . . . 273 Track .... . . . 289 Baseball . . . 305 Other Sports . . . . 311 Co-Ed Athletics . . . 315 VII. FEATURES Here There . . . 321 Everywhere . . . 323 VIII. ADVERTISEMENTS . . . . . . 345 - 12 -