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

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The President’s Message Dr. Woodward December 10, 1953 To the Members of the Class of 1954: With your graduation next June, you will bring to a close four years of rich experience — years filled with a great variety of activities centering around your pursuit of knowledge and preparation for a career. While your main purpose of attending college has been the strengthening of your mental powers and the mastery of your courses of study which will be recognized by the awarding of a college degree, there have been many other facets of your education of a non-academic nature. The University of Rhode Island believes in the education of the whole man.” The well- rounded development of personality cannot be acquired purely through book learning.” It is in this respect that one’s whole college experience plays an important role — extracurricular activities both athletic and non-athletic, participation in self-government, contacts with fellow students of varying tastes and backgrounds, contests in which you have taken part, the striving for excellence in competitive games, disciplines imposed by a well-ordered, well-governed community, the sense of public responsibility that attends good citizenship, the development of spiritual qualities that accompany an active expression of religious faith, the social cus toms which dictate right conduct and good manners — all these contribute to the sum total of your education and may well have a more decisive influence upon your future success than actual academic achievement. These are some of the values which you will take away with you from the campus, and which will remain with you all your life. Among these treasures acquired during your college career, none will mean more to your future happiness than the personal friendships formed among your fellow students. All this is good reason why the varied activities of campus life should be recorded in the annual year book of the University. This issue of The Grist will serve through the years to come as a reminder of happy fruitful days. Your class is adding one more unit to our alumni body, one more volume to our recorded history. Already you have contributed this much to the growing stature of the University. As alumni, we depend upon you to continue to add to the prestige and the good name of your alma mater. CARL R. WOODWARD 6 President

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Table of Contents Dedication 4 President’s Message 6 Class Advisor’s Message 7 Class History 12 Senior Class Officers 13 Senior Class 14 Honorary Societies 59 Professional Organizations 69 Student Executive Councils 81 Residences 91 Activities 12 1 Men’s Athletics 147 Women’s Athletics 161 Events 165 Underclass Directory 177 Advertisements 5 210

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The Class Advisor ' s Message Dr. Hartung A week or two before your editor asked me for a mes- sage to the class, I had a visit from an alumnus who had been away from Kingston for several years. During our discussion of the University he expressed some surprise over an item. Golly,” he said, are they still doing it that way here? When are they ever going to change and do it . . . and here he explained in great detail how the situation could be much improved. Have you ever written the Administration and made your views known,” I asked, After all it is still your Uni- versity.” No,” he replied, to tell the truth, I never thought about it until now.” This frank statement from a man who had been a leader in his class set me to thinking, and I decided to raise the point with the Class of ’54 at my first opportunity. This invitation to write a few lines for the Grist has provided the opportunity most significantly. During your four years here your class has distinguished itself not only in group performance, but also by the striking individual records, scholastic, intramural, and athletic which many of its members have made. Although I am not acquain- ted with each of you personally, the cross section which I do know has generally impressed me and won my respect. In short, ’54 is a fine group, and a group whose ideas and active support Rhode Island will continue to need. My message to the class, therefore, is a call for your mature interest in the University as alumni. By mature interest I am not referring merely to financial support, for money without ideas is sterile and gifts without thought and meaning are hollow indeed. What I would have from you for your Uni- versity is your enthusiasm, your continuing attention to its problems as it grows and has to meet new challenges, and your loyalty. Above all I would have these tangible and oft expressed. Interested alumni are the hallmarks of all our great colleges and universities. If you continue to work for U.R.I. you will contribute immeasurably to its sound growth. And as it grows it will continue, in turn, to reward you, its men and women, not only in the intangibles of satisfaction and pride, but concretely in service to the state. Perhaps an appeal of this sort is unorthodox coming from a faculty adviser; a hail and farewell,” is, I realize, far more usual. But it seemed to me most important that you hear from one who knew you well during your undergraduate days, that your University’s needs from you, for your ideas and thoughts, and its interest in you will continue to wax in the future as they have during the past four years. In closing with a wish of good luck and success to all of you, let me assure you, that I, too, as a part of your University, will follow your careers with warm interest. DR. ERNEST HARTUNG Class Advisor