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

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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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Dedication In deep appreciation for your sacrifices of time and health to our paramount interests, your unselfish labor to guarantee our present and future security, your sympathy-laden smiles, your guidance of our efforts, failures, and successes; your thousands of kindnesses, and your complete devotion to the best years of our lives, we, the Class of Fifty-four, dedicate this Grist. May it be a small part of the complete “thank you” which we hope someday can be manifested in its entirety to you — OUR PARENTS.

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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