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

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EXECUTIVE [OUIUIL Dr. Raymond G. Bressler Dean John Barlow . Dean Helen E. Peck . Dean John C. Weldin Dean Paul S. Burgess Dean Royal L. Wales . Major Frank LJ. Greer . Coach Frank W. Keaney Dr. Basil E. Gilbert . Dr. Esther L. Batchelder Miss Lucy C. Tucker . President . Vice-President Dean of Women . Dean of Freshmen Dean of Agriculture Dean of Engineering . Commandant Director of Athletics Vice-Dean of Agriculture Professor of Home Economics Registrar - 29 -

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BOARD OF REGERTS William H. Vanderbilt, Governor Chairman ex-officio Portsmouth James O. McManus, Lieutenant Governor Ex-officio Member Warwick Edmund W. Flynn, Chief Justice Ex-officio Member Providence James F. Rockett, Director of Education Secretary ex-officio Woonsocket Henry J. Lee, Comptroller Ex-officio Member Pawtucket Miss Margaret Shove Morris Member. 1939 Providence John E. Meade Alumni Member, 1939 Providence Harold Q. Moore Alumni Member. 1941 Westerly John F. Brown Member, 19 39 Providence Miss Edna L. Kroener Member, 1941 Wakefield - 28 -

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President ' s message TN my nine years as President of Rhode Island State College, nothing has given me more pleasure than the sentiments expressed recently in a letter to me from the father of an undergraduate. His daughter had come to the President to discuss something that loomed up ominously for her, but which she had magnified beyond its proportions. After some questions and answers, she left the office, evidently feeling much happier than when she came in. In his letter, her father expressed to me his genuine satisfaction that his daughter was attending an institution which was more than a coordinated cluster of buildings and curricula. Upon trying to analyze the reasons for the pleasure which I derived Irom this letter, I summarized them into this para- phrase of an old aphorism: Friendliness is its own reward. I hat expresses the policy which, we hope, permeates the entire college. Some- one has called it the open door policy because all members of the campus com- munity have been encouraged to discuss their problems, but not gossip, with the president. This policy has been subjected to trial by test, and it has passed the test of almost a decade. That father’s letter was a graphic, tangible statement of verification, and his unintentional endorsement of the policy, I suppose, was the impulse to my pleasure. After all, when in the course of the years, generations of young Amer- icans pass through the College gates, remaining as members of our college community only for a limited, though crucial, period of their lives, it behooves those of us who are permanent members of this community to serve in the finest sense of the meaning of alma mater.” I hat service partakes of the nature of sincere solicitude for the welfare of the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual lives of our undergraduates. It makes of Rhode Island State more than an institution: it makes of it our Alma Mater, to be cherished and reverenced because of its Friendliness. Raymond G. Bressler, President - 30 -