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

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History Freshman year . . . That first day on campus ... we all dressed up . . . parents helping us move in . . . the rains came and stayed for the rest of the week . . . things left at home . . . movies at Edwards and the electricity went off . . . the freshman Home Ecs took their personality tests and all came out depressed . . . campus tours staged from the middle of the quadrangle via the pointed finger . . . classes started and freshmen don’t cut classes,” and we didn’t — for a week ... the first football game and we all marched down ... we won and went home happy ... we learned to feel at home in the Union . . . the Aggie Bawl was the first major dance ... we had a great Beat Brown” rally but we didn’t win . . . class elections came along and we had to have two because nobody voted the first time . . . Blue Book exams and the girls stopped wearing their green bows ... the Mayoralty Campaign — we went and laughed but didn’t know why — the Sachems called it off and the Sophs said, Wait til next year . . . they broke ground for the new gym and we got out of classes . . . Homecoming and no one went home ... we won the game and it was even more so . . . sorority rushing started . . . parties and more parties . . . It it all right to wear the same gown to two different formal parties?” . . . bids came out and most of the girls were happy . . . they went to the Union in their jackets ... we took everything in and we were learning . . . finals came and we found that you can’t cover course work in an hour . . . second semester and resolu- tions to keep up with studying . . . the Mil Ball came and most of us went and saw our own Nancy Gifford crowned queen ... we became a University and had a day off from classes and danced that night . . . fraternity rushing started and the boys got awfully tired of chicken salad . . . two songs were in vogue . . . Come On ’A My House and I’m Undecided Now ... the girls got a 10:30 Tuesday night and the Union was even more crowded . . . fraternity dances came and everyone wanted to go . . . some of the diehards” started beaching it in March . . . fraternity bids came out and the girls watched and congratulated the boys . . . cut classes and red faces went hand in hand everywhere . . . finals started and we found university exams were no easier than college exams . . . Sophomore year . . . This year we guided the freshmen instead of being guided and it felt good . . . now we could sit in the Union and look at them instead of being looked at by the upperclassmen ... Ed Doherty was the new football coach ... we went to classes in the chem building . . . spontaneous Brown rallies were the order of the week ... it was a close game we lost and the word of the week was, “Wait til next year . . . when the Mayoralty campaign started no one knew Willie” but when it was over the whole campus voted him our Mayor” ... it rained so hard for the homecoming game the field looked like a pond but our players swam” to victory ... the girls got a one o’clock Saturday night . . . Nancy Lee Behrbohm was our Soph Hop Queen . . . compulsory convocation for freshmen created quite a stir and we were glad they hadn’t started it a year sooner ... Phi Mu took honors in the fraternity sing ... the St. Johns weekend in New York will long be remembered and the team seemed off to a good start . . . Christmas came and all the houses outdid each other in singing carols . . . finals came and no one got much sleep ... the basketball game with UConn was terrific ... the girls started practicing for the sorority sing ... the Rhody Revue ran the gamut from military routines to dancing flowers ... the weather was unpredictable and we had snowball fights at the end of March . . . another week and we began beaching it” ... too bad sopho- mores can’t pick their courses and have no afternoon classes . . . beautiful was the word for the sorority sing and Alpha Delta Pi won the cup ... Phi Mu and their rhododendron were the talk of the campus for a week ... we started study- ing for finals and some of the lucky ones made senior week . . . Junior year . . . We wondered how the freshmen could be so young . . . Hal Kopp was back and we expected a great football team . . . Joyce Gibson was Aggie Bawl Queen ... the football team was really rolling and Almy, Fratto and DiSpirito were the big guns ... the Beat Brown” rally was great but the game was even greater as Almy and DiSpirito proved to be an unbeatable combination ... we got a day off from classes . . . Ike” or Adlai in November was the big question . . . Willie was re-elected Mayor and we found him as funny as ever ... we won the homecoming game and finished the season with only one loss . . . homecoming itself was the greatest ... the St. Johns weekend was fabulous and we moved our headquarters from the Union to the Abbey . . . by now we knew how to take finals in our stride . . . second semester and we started saving out cuts for beach days . . . we beat UConn in a thrilling game . . . Union 3 was still the most popular course on campus . . . there was something lacking when fraternity bids came out because the girls weren’t there at Quinn watching the bovs ... the Rhodv Revue was getting more like a girls’ variety show . . . the sorority sing was non-competitive and the old gazazz seemed to be missing ... we kept hearing talk of the new Union ... we were tapped for Sachems and senior year suddenly seemed awfully close . . . Lois Ward was our Junior Prom Queen and remember the parties ... it was a rainv spr ing and Beach 5 suffered . . . we went to Senior Week and thought of our own . . . we planned our schedules so we could have an easy senior year . . . finals again . . . graduation and then we became the campus leaders . . . Senior year . . . This was our last year and we all resolved to make the most of it . . . everyone came back to campus with the freshmen ... the Aggie Bawl was part of the Maine weekend and Ann Bailey was queen . . . winning the game was great and we were off to another successful football season . . . Homecoming came early and the Wildcats were really wild ... we didn’t win the game but it was still Homecoming . . . everyone went to Providence to see if we would beat Brown again and we did . . . Almy sparked the team once more . . . Alpha Delta Pi and Theta Chi’s jam session was really gone” . . . Hofstra and the cop on the corner with turn right here and it’s two miles down the road . . . Willie abdicated and Jobless Feardick” was our new mayor ... the campus moved to UConn for the weekend and we won that game too . . . our boys played their last game and they gave it all they had . . . once again we tied for the Yankee Conference cham- pionship . . . proofs came back and Do I really look like that? was the question of the week . . . something was miss- ing when we couldn’t have a St. Johns game . . . the Abbey didn’t miss us after Hofstra though ... we went to see Keaney Gym dedicated and paid homage to one who really deserved it ... we lost the game but the last half was something to see . . Beta Psi won the fraternity sing and Louise” was the song of the week . . . our new infirmary finally opened ... the electricity went off and we saw the Union by candle- light ... the Slide Rule Strut returned to the campus after a two-year absence . . . Christmas and all the caroling . . . pre-registering for the last time . . . they don’t flunk seniors — oh yeah? ... no one wanted more than twelve credits and only a few took more ... the last semester was our best . . . the Mil Ball started the social whirl ... the sorority sing was early ... the fraternity dances were really crowded ... the Rhody Revue was a little bit of all right . . . our days were getting shorter . anyone who was anyone could be seen at the Pier every sunny day . . . Moy’s did a booming business in hotdogs . suddenly it was time to take finals and we weren ' t so sure they didn ' t flunk second semester seniors . . . Senior Week with all its bitter-sweetness ... the picnic and the beach party and the dances and the senior breakfast . . . graduation practice and then graduation itself and suddenly we were alumni ... we took memories with us though . . . memories of golden days and things we’ll never forget . . . the dances and the parties — beachdays — midnight bull ses- sions — last minute cramming for finals with the hour-long coffee breaks at the Union — farewell to the old Union forever . . those endless lines . . . the campus after the first snowfall and the snowball fights that follow ... the good and the not so good . . . yes, this is the college life we’ll always re- member . . . CAROL SCOTT

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BOARD Acknowledgements - Editor A college lives only in its students. Yet, if a book can clearly reflect these students, the college can live in that book also. This Yearbook is an attempt to become such a reflection. The Grist staff floundered through many nev ideas and confronted numerous obstacles, but finally we present the completed product to you. Special thanks go to my staff for their determi- nation and cooperation; to our advisors for their encouragement and support; and to our photo- graphic, cover, and printing companies for the un- selfish giving of their valuable time. Without each and every one of you, this book would not have been. May this Grist for 1954 depict those things which you, looking back on your college career in years to come, would want to remember of your under-graduate days at the University of Rhode Island. — Joyce Barton Joyce Barton EDITOR CLUBS Otis Oliver Patricia Zanella WOMEN S SPORTS Joan Boumenot Pauline Hogan Julia Hovnanian CIRCULATION Frances Dring Horace Knowles Richard Easterbrooks Priscilla Sherman Richard Millar MEN’S SPORTS Paul Sullivan Maurice Chucas Smart Smith Jack Arnold Richard Conde Robert Gruber Fred McConnville WOMEN’S RESIDENCE Cecile Nardone Barbara Thompson MEN’S RESIDENCE Richard Webber James Marble Fred Clark Kim Wheelock Richard Kehew Paul Sullivan COPY Beverly Broomfield Claire Buchannan Sue Kinne Harvey Schartz Pauline Bregman Ann Vartebedian FEATURES Jane Shea Ann Moran Sandra Voelker ADVERTISING Joanne Turgeon Joan Gaddes Ann Shaw Jean Berry Norman Oshrin GRIST STAFF

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Class of ’54 Vice President ELEANOR TOEGEMANN Delta Zeta Arts Science 33 Auburn Street Cranston, R. I. Social Chairman ROBERT BRAY Tau Kappa Epsilon Arts Science 94 Cedar Street Pawtucket, R. I. Senior Class Officers President CHARLES COKONIS Tau Kappa Epsilon 8 White Street Arts Science Pawtucket, R. I. Secretary LOIS E. WARD Alpha Xi Delta Home Economics 226 Smithfield Avenue Pawtucket, R. I. Treasurer RICHARD ALLING Theta Chi Business Administration 25 High Gate Road Cranston, R. I. 13