Worcester State University - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 62 of the 1938 volume:

I Mk THE OAK LEAF 13 ' A 14 THE OAK LEAF WILLIAM B. ASPINWALL, A.B. (Harvard); Pd.M. (New York State College for Teachers); Docteur de l’Universite (Paris) President. 1 Normal Street Education and Ethics LAWRENCE A. AVERILL, A.B., A.M., Ph.D (Clark) 5 Rupert Street Psychology, Mental Hygiene MARGARET B. TOOLE (State Teachers Worcester) College at 20 West Street Penmanship ANNABEL C. ROE, A.B. (Mount Holyoke) 38 Somerset Street Literature and Expression THE OAK LEAF 15 MYRA A. FITCH, A.B. (Colorado Teachers College), (State Normal School, Castine, Maine) 21 Arietta Avenue Principal of Training School, Supervision of Apprentices FLORENCE G. HOLDEN, B.S. (Boston University); A.M. (Columbia), (State Teachers College at Worcester) Holden, Mass. Literature and Expression MARGUERITE C. York State College French, McKELLIGETT, A.B. (New for Teachers) 39 School Street, Warren, Mass. Supervision of Apprentices RUTH F. ATKINSON, B.S. (Boston University), (Wellesley, Department of Hygiene) 1 Tuckerman Street Physical Training 16 THE OAK LEAF GRACE GLEE SMITH, B.S. (Massachusetts School of Art), (City Training School, Springfield) 3 Monterey Road Art, Citizenship, Supervision oj Apprentices EDMUND G. OSBORNE, B.S. (New York State College for Teachers); A.M. (Columbia) Sterling, Mass. Higher Mathematics and General Science FRANCIS L. JONES, A.B., A.M. (Brown) 144 June Street Latin and Ancient History LENA A. WEST, B.S. (Columbia), (State Teachers College at North Adams) 13 Fiske Street Arithmetic and Reading Methods, Supervision oj Apprentices THE OAK LEAF 17 CHARLES F. ECHTERBECKER, A.B., (Dartmouth); A.M. (Columbia) 7 Crown Street Education GUY H. WINSLOW, A.M., Ph.D. (Clark) South Lancaster, Mass. History and Government AGNES E. SCRIBNER, A.B., A.M., (Smith) 12 Boynton Street Biology, Hygiene, and Nature Study GRACE A. KENDRICK, B.S. (State Teachers College at Lowell) 52 Livingston Ave., Lowell, Mass. Music and Story Telling THE OAK LEAF EARL B. SHAW, B.B.A., M.S. (Washington Uni- versity); Ph.D. (Clark) 6 Hancock Street Geography CHARLES O. DALRYMPLE, B.S. (Cornell); M.Ed., D.Ed. (Boston University) Bancroft Hotel, Worcester, Mass. Sociology, Supervision of Apprentices MARGARET M. BANIGAN, A.B. (Brown); M.A. (Boston College) Bancroft Hotel, Worcester, Mass. Supervision of Apprentices, Methods, Geography ALBERT FARNSWORTH, A.B. Ph.D. (Clark) (Brown); A.M., 31 Chesterfield Road Economics and History THE OAK LEAF 19 WINIFRED C. FITCH Librarian 21 Arietta Avenue ELIZABETH V. FOSTER, (Bridgewater Normal School), B.S., M.A. (Boston University) 12 Boynton Street Chief Supervisor, Dep’t. of Apprenticeship KATHRYN R. O’DONNELL, (State Teachers Col- ege at Worcester) B.S., M.A., (Boston University) 65 Downing Street Literature and Expression SUSAN E. JAMES 16 Claremont Street Clerk MYRTIE I. WEBBER 206 May Street Secretary to the Faculty THE OAK LEAF 21 SENIORS m w m THE OAK LEAF 23 RUTH F. RICHARDS President MARY F. KING 1st Vice-President BARBARA M. FOX Secretary ELEANOR M. O’HALL ORAN Treasurer ETHEL ANDERSON 2nd Vice-President FLORENCE A. MADIGAN Social Chairman 24 THE OAK LEAF ETHEL ANDERSON 6 Congress Street, Worcester A smooth and steadfast mind Gentle thoughts and calm desires Hearts with equal love combined Kindle never-dying fires. — Thomas Carew Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Bach Choir 4; Dramatic Club 2. 3. 4; Gym Captain 3; Elementary Class Social Chairman 3; Class Second Vice-President 4. EVA ANTTONEN 15 Iowa Street, Worcester Since I am convinced That reality is in no way Real, How am I to admit That dreams are dreams? — Saigyo Hoshi Latin Club 1 , 2, 3, 4. MARY BASZNER 38 Main Street, Whitinsville But it’s not her air, her form, her face, Tho matching beauty’s fabled queen; ‘Tis the mind that shines in en grace An’ chiefly in her roguish een. — Burns Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3; Apparatus Club 1 ; Class Historian. MARY BIRD 112 Cottage Street, Leominster . . . where you are, Life is — And when you leave, Life goes. — Eleanor Stevens Dramatic Club 4; Apparatus Club 1 ; Gym Captain 4. THE OAK LEAF 25 VIRGINIA BURKE 55 Daniels Street, Worcester As it Were tissue of silver I’ll bear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon. — Crapsey Cercle Francais 1,2; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Dramatic Club 2 ; Kappa Delta Pi 4. HELEN BUTKEVITCH Old Common, Millbury A timid voice, yet not afraid In ways so sweet to roam, As it with honey bees had played And could no more go home. Quarterly Review 2. CONSTANCE CALLAHAN 39 Main Street, East Douglas I shall remember you as incense Bubbling like springs, or laughter, And trailing its fragrance Through the mystic blue. — Marlatt Glee Club 1 . LEONORE CASEY 130 Austin Street, Worcester It is one to me that they come or go If I have myself and the drive of my will, And strength to climb on a summer night And watch the stars swarm over the hill. — Sara Teasdale Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Apparatus Club 1. 26 THE OAK LEAF EVA CHASE 45 Sampson Street, Fisherville Sometimes serious, Sometimes gay, How lovable a changeable way. Quarterly Review 4 ; Gym Captain 4. MARIE COTE 152 May Street, Worcester Careless forever, beautiful proud sea, You laugh in happy thunder all alone, You fold upon yourself, you dance your dance Impartially on drift weed, sand or stone. Glee Club 1,2, 3, 4; Apparatus Club 1, 2, 3. ALEEN CRITTSINGER 3 Dorothy Avenue, Worcester Joy is not a thing you can see. It is what you feel when you see waves breaking, Or when you peer through a net of woven violet stems In Spring grass. — Hilda Conkling Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4; Literary Editor of Oak Leaf; Quarterly Review Staff 2, 3, 4; Editor-in-Chief 4. DOROTHEA DAVIEAU 26 Hamilton Street, Framingham These flashes making all things clear, inviting To easy candor, the k ind eye in eye Of perfect honesty, the bright look meeting The bright look. — Macleish French Club 1 ; Gym Captain 3. THE OAK LEAF 27 DOROTHY DAVIS 810 Grove Street, Worcester Who could bind you Could bind fire to a wall; Who could hold you Could hold a waterfall ; Who could keep you Could keep the wind from blowing On a warm spring night With a low moon glowing. — Teasdale MARY DONAHUE 82 Fox Street, Worcester She doeth little kindnesses Which most leave undone or despise: For naught that sets one heart at ease, And giveth happiness or peace, Is low-esteemed in her eyes. — James Russell Lowell Glee Club 1 ; Business Manager of Oak Leaf; French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Social Chairman 2, 3, 4. ALICE DROHAN 60 Bates Avenue, Worcester Proud will that sharply stirred, Climbs as surely as the tide, Senses strained too taut to sleep, Gentleness to beast and bird, Humor flickering hushed and wide As the morn on moving water, And a tenderness too deep To be gathered in a word. - — Sara Teasdale BARBARA FOX 52 Pilgrim Avenue, Worcester If you are flame, it dances and burns blue; If you are light, it pierces like a star Intenser than a needlepoint of ice. The dexterous touch that shaped the soul of you, Mingled, to mix, and make you what you are, Magic between the sugar and the spice. — Elinor Wylie Latin Club 1; Aedile 1; Class Secretary 3, 4; Social Chairman 2. 28 THE OAK LEAF JAQUELINE FREDETTE 52 Main Street, Whitinsville All comely quality! All gentleness and hospitality! All courtesy and merriment. Glee Club 4. — James Stephens HELEN GARDNER 126 Varnum Street, Worcester What is the motto of youth? There is only one be thou strong. Do thy work and achieve, with thy brain, with thy hands, With thy heart, the deeds which to strength belong. - — Blunt French Club 1; Glee Club 1, 2; Gym Captain 1, 4; Words for class song. CHARLOTTE GOODWIN 126 Franklin Street, Framingham You cannot choose your battlefield, The gods do that for you, But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. — Nathalia Crane French Club 1; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Secretary 2; President 4 ; Dramatic Club 2, 3 ; Kappa Delta Pi 4. ANTONIA GUCCIARDI 7 Saurier Street, Framingham Effortlessly graceful And with so many impulsive Secrets thrust into bubbles That human thought must ever Seem incomplete in comparison. — Bodengeim French Club 1, 2, 3; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4. THE OAK LEAF 29 ANNA HIGGINS West Street, Barre Her eye begets occasion for her wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. MURIEL JOHNSON 9 Falmouth Street, Worcester Her face is smooth and fair and fine, Childlike with secret laughter lit; Drooping in pity, bright with wit, A flower, a flame. — Clara Shanafelt Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4 ; Apparatus Club 1 ; Elementary Class Treasurer 2, 3; Gym Captain 2. MARY JOHNSTON 20 Anderson Avenue, Worcester Life her loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things. Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children’s faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. — Sara Teasdale French Club 1 ; Apparatus Club 1, 2. MARY KING 114 June Street, Worcester She shall bring no sweeter moment than this one in which I knew That laughing Spring was at the wing, and waiting for her cue! — Carryl French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Treasurer 2; Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4; Secretary 4; Glee Club 1,2; Student Council 2; Secretary Kappa Delta Pi 3, 4; President 4; Class Vice-President 3, 4; May Queen 4. 30 THE OAK LEAF MARION KNEELAND 21 Pemberton Street, Worcester To live well in the quiet routine of life, To fill a little space because God wills it, To go on cheerfully with a petty round of little duties and little avocations; To smile for the joys of others when the heart is aching — - Who does this, his works will follow him. - — Farrar Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Aedile 3, 4; Chairman of Ring Committee; Chairman of Patron Committee of Oak Leaf. ADELINE LEACH 287 Grafton Street, Shrewsbury Of the beauty of kindness I speak, Of a smile, of a charm, On the face it is pleasure to meet, That gives no alarm! - — Thomas Sturge Moore Glee Club 1 ; Latin Club 1, 2. MARGARET LOFT 248 May Street, Worcester I will take my violin And a few themes I will play: Pizzicoti for the fireflies, Harmony for the moonlight, And a chord for the smell of hay. I will play but a few bars And when the moon has set I will listen to the stars. — Robert Hillyer Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4 ; President 4 ; Bach Choir 1 , 2, 3, 4 ; Stringed Ensemble 1, 2, 3, 4. FLORENCE LOISELLE 197 Hope Avenue, Worcester The sea hath its pearls, The heaven hath its stars; But my heart, my heart, My heart hath its love. — Heinrich Heine French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; President 4; Apparatus Club 1, 2; Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4; Photographic Editor of Oak Leaf. THE OAK LEAF 31 EDITH LUNBLAD West Boylston The reason firm, The temperate will, Endurance, foresight Strength, and skill. Glee Club 1,2; Student Council 4. FLORENCE MADIGAN 61 May Street, Worcester And yet her smiles have danced In rain, if her discourse Win not the soul entranced In divine intercourse. — Bridges French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Treasurer 3; Glee Club 1; Apparatus Club 1, 2; Assistant Manager 2; Gym Captain 1, 2, 3; Art Editor of the Oak Leaf; Class Vice-President 2; Class Social Chairman 3, 4. RUTH MANNIX Providence Street, Millbury Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly . . . Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me! — Adelaide Cropsey French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1 ; Apparatus Club 2; Quarterly Review Staff 2; Gym Captain 2; Adver- tising Editor of Oak Leaf. MARJORIE MARCHANT 84 Lakewood Street, Worcester Full of a gentle kindness Her looks and language are ; Kind tongue that never wounded, Sweet mirth that leaves no scar. — Susan Cleghorn Glee Club 4; Apparatus Club 1, 2, 3; May Queen Attendant 1. 32 THE OAK LEAF LOUISE McCLINTOCK Mill Street, Worcester I can stand on a hill And bend trees to the music of this, my whole- ness. I can lie in a meadow and sleep, And wake earth to the glory. — Anon Glee Club 1; Gym Captain 2, 3; May Queen At- tendant 1 ; Class Secretary 1 . HELEN McGRADY 714 Pleasant Street, Worcester I was happier than the larks That nest on the downs and sing to the sky, Over the downs the birds flying Were not so happy as I. — Sara Teasdale Dramatic Club 4; Glee Club 1, 4. PAULINE MONAHAN 73 Central Street, Palmer I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down, A sun dropped in the west. I tell you there is nothing in the world Only an ocean of tomorrows, A sky of tomorrows. - — Carl Sandburg Apparatus Club 1 . PEARL MORGAN 21 Maple Street, Webster I love my hour of wind and light, I love men’s faces and their eyes, I love my spirit’s veering flight Like swallows under evening skies. French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1. THE OAK LEAF 33 THELMA MOSELEY Saundersville Then you come And you are quiet like the garden, And white like the alyssum flowers, And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies. — Amy Lowell May Queen Attendant 3, 4. ELEANOR O’HALLORAN 4 Garden Street, Worcester I drink of the red bowl of the sunlight: I swim through seas of rain : I dig my toes into earth : I taste the smack of the wind : I am myself : I live. — John Gould Fletcher Student Council 4; Apparatus Club 1, 2; Gym Captain 1, 2, 3, 4; Class Treasurer 3, 4. ELIZABETH PETERSON 5 Reeves Street, Worcester Honour, anger, valour, fire; A love that could never tire, Death quench or evil stir, The mighty master gave to her. — Robert Louis Stevenson Student Council 2; Kappa Delta Pi 4; Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4; Apparatus Club 1, 2; Elementary Class President 3. MARY POWERS 16 Englewood Avenue, Worcester Hers is a full happiness Which lies like pools of sun In quiet grace — On all things. — Anon Glee Club 1 ; Apparatus Club ; Chairman of Cap and Gown Committee. 34 THE OAK LEAF MARY PRESCOTT 373 Oxford Street, Auburn Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth. — Rabindranth Tagore Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Secretary 3; Bach Choir 4. RUTH RICHARDS 31 Prospect Street, Framingham I would rather work in stubborn rock All the years of my life, And make one strong thing And set it in a high, clean place, To recall the granite strength of my desire. — Jean Starr Untermeyer Dramatic Club 4; Kappa Delta Pi 4; Apparatus Club 1, 2; Class President 1, 2, 3, 4. LENA RINFRETTE East Douglas Still rosy are the bowers The walks yet green and trim; Among them let your whim Pass sweetly, like the showers, And lightly, like the flowers. — Pierre de Ronsard EVELYN ROBINSON Main Street, North Grafton Be still, while the music rises above us: the deep enchantment Towers, like a forest of singing leaves and birds Built for an instant by the heart’s troubled beating, Beyond all power of words. Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Bach Choir 1, 2, 3, 4; Stringed Ensemble 1, 2, 3, 4; Music for class song. THE OAK LEAF 35 MARY ROCHETTE 27 Windsor Street, Worcester My walls outside must have some flowers, My walls within must have some books; A house that’s small ; a garden large, And in it leafy nooks. — William Henry Davis French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4; Vice- President 3; Glee Club 2. ANITA SAMUELSON 62 Proctor Street, Worcester She has a clear wind-sheltered loveliness, Like pale streams winding far, and hills with- drawn From the bright reaches of the moon. Dawn Is her lifting fancy, but her heart Is orchard boughs and dusk and quietness. — Clara Shanafelt French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Kappa Delta Pi 4; May Queen Attendant 3; May Queen 4; Bach Choir 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 4; Activities Editor of Oak Leaf; Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4; Treasurer 3; President 4. MARGARET SHAUGHNESSY 22 Piedmont Street, Worcester I fly from pomp, I fly from plate! I fly from falsehood’s specious grin! Freedom I love, and form I hate, And choose my lodgings at an inn. — William Shenstone Quarterly Review 3 ; Elementary Class Vice-Presi- dent 2. MARY SHINE 67 Charlotte Street, Worcester Let your purpose be A changeless, fearless, Dauntless, peerless, Urge towards victory — Towards doing something fine. — Sears Quarterly Review Staff 2, 3; Kappa Delta Pi 3, 4; Secretary 4; Editor-in-Chief of Oak Leaf; Apparatus 1. 36 THE OAK LEAF CECELIA SMALL Main Street, Saundersville I shall be loved as quiet things Are loved-white pigeons in the sun, Curled yellow leaves that whisper down One after one. — Karle Wilson Baker Latin Club 1 , 2, 3, 4. ESTHER WAHLSTROM 9 Bay berry Road, Worcester I sing of joy! The kind that wells up from The hidden depths of things The kind that springs From unknown reservoirs That sings and wings Its way. — Sears Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Bach Choir 4; Stringed Ensemble 1,2, 3, 4; Kappa Delta Pi 3, 4. GENEVIEVE WATKINS 41 Plantation Street, Worcester Her soul goes clad in gorgeous things, Scarlet and gold and blue, And her shoulders sudden wings Like long flames flicker through, And she is swallow-fleet and free From mortal bonds and bars She laughs, because eternity Blossoms for her with the stars! — Fannie Davis French Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Kappa Delta Pi 3, 4 ; Bach Choir 4; Stringed Ensemble 1, 2, 3, 4. MARION WILLIAMS Dudley The heart must be at least as high, The spirit have as broad a lease, To lift such quiet to the sky To take the hills with so much peace. — Robert Nathan Dramatic Club 4; Kappa Delta Pi 3, 4; Student Council 3, 4; President 4. THE OAK LEAF 37 ' 58 at the Polls Did Most for S. T. C Did Most for the Class Most Collegiate Most Popular Least Appreciated Hardest Worker Most Modest Best Musician Most Loquacious Class Wit Cutest Most Brilliant Most Versatile Best Student Most Sincere Most Ambitious Prettiest Best Dressed Knows Most Quietest Most Likely to Succeed Best Athlete Most Excitable Best Dancer Most Sophisticated Best Natured Most Reliable Most Cynical Greatest Need Best Student Teacher Best Actress Best Writer All-Around Girl Most Original Most Optimistic Favorite Orchestra Favorite Saying Favorite Year Favorite Men’s College Most Popular Man on Campus Punster Most Easy Going Most Pessimistic Favorite Study Favorite Actor Favorite Novel Favorite Author Class of 1938 Ruth Richards Ruth Mannix . . . .Eleanor O’Halloran Evelyn Robinson Marion Kneeland Cecelia Small Margaret Loft Marion Kneeland .... Constance Callahan Mary Johnston Virginia Burke Florence Madigan Marion Williams Marion Kneeland Genevieve Watkins Anita Samuelson Ruth Mannix Mary Shine Leonore Casey Mary King . . . Eleanor O’Halloran Florence Loiselle Louise McClintock Charlotte Goodwin Esther Wahlstrom Marion Kneeland Marie Cote A Job Mary Donahue Genevieve Watkins Virginia Burke Mary King Eva Anttonen Mary Donahue Guy Lombardo . . . .“Going for a walk?” Junior . Harvard Holy Cross Mr. O’Malley Mary Rochette Mary Baszner Marie Cote History Nelson Eddy “Gone With The Wind” Willa Cather 38 THE OAK LEAF EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY DF THE CLASS DF 1938 September 12, 1934 Dear Diary, to our Bachelor of Science De- group of girls “lost in the fog”. “Seek and ye Shall find.” We Senior Sisters — and found the September 14, 1934 This afternoon we attended the Freshman Recep- tion. Had a grand time meeting the faculty, getting acquainted with the upperclass- men, and with other freshmen. Played games — even the faculty joined in the fun. October 26, 1934 Congratulate us, my dear Diary! The Class of 1938 started its career very well with Florence Madigan and Florence Loiselle winning first prizes at the Hallowe’en Party to-night. Florence Madigan was the most beautifully dressed and Florence Loiselle the most original in her costume. May 9, 1935 Tomorrow we start on our first real attempt at teaching school. Will we, or won’t we, like teaching? I’ll tell you at the end of the week. Friday: Yes, Diary, we shall like teaching! It really was a thrilling experience to stand before forty children and realize that they were looking to you for knowledge and direction. we started on the long trail gree today. Talk about a Remember the proverb sought rooms, teachers, and rooms, too late. May Day — a very pretty affair. Louise McClintock was elected by the class as Freshman Attendant to the May Queen. May 21, 1935 Today our class was organized, so next year we may begin our social activities. These are our officers for next year: President, R. Richards; Vice-President, F. Madigan; Secretary, L. McClintock; Treasurer, K. Mahoney; Social Chairman, B. Fox. Vacation is here. Need I say more? September 11, 1935 Back to school! Upperclassmen now. Diary, remember our feelings last year at this time? There was such a difference in the girls today. No feelings of insecurity this year! October 25, 1935 Hallowe’en Party given by Sophomore Class. That’s we, the class of 1938, and the party is our first. January 24, 1936 Tonight another honor was brought to the class by Marie Cote who was named Queen of the Junior Prom. Dr. Shaw was a judge from the faculty. April 18, 1936 Competition Capers — $5 Prize for the Best Perform- ance — won by the Class of 1 938. Written by M. Rochette and G. Watkins. May 22, 1936 This has been a very full day for the Sophomores. We were in charge of May Day, and gave a clever, outstanding exhibition of the talent in the class. A scene from “Alice in Wonderland” was presented. Really, Diary, you should have seen Eva Anttonen as the Mad Hatter, Ginny Burke as the March Hare, and Mary Johnston as Alice. Besides this, several of our girls appeared as Lobsters and went through a Quadrille much to the amusement of the audience. THE OAK LEAF 39 Then to top off OUR DAY we held our Spring Dance in the Empire Room at Putnam and Thurston’s. When the dance was over it was easy to sing that old song: “At the End of a Perfect Day.” May 25, 1936 We voted for class officers at the meeting this noon. These girls were elected: President, R. Richards; Vice-President, M. King; Secretary, B. Fox; Treasurer, E. O’Halloran; Social Chairman, F. Madigan. May 29, 1936 Another of those days to be remembered. The class spent the afternoon and early evening at Dr. Winslow’s home in Lancaster. How easy it will be to recall our bus ride out there, the fun we had in games, the lovely luncheon, and short ride back to Worcester. And soon vacation starts again. September 16, 1936 Juniors now! Tomorrow we start our nine weeks’ apprenticeship in the city schools. Here is our chance to prove our ability as teachers. We all consider this work as a challenge. January 22, 1937 Gym. Beautiful decorations, time. Everyone said it was the all agree to that. April 5, 1937 Congratulations to M. King, M. Shine, M. Williams, and G. Watkins. They were elected to Kappa Delta Pi, the honorary society. April 12, 1937 Junior Week started today. We all wore tailored suits in pastel shades. The class song, written by H. Gardner and E. Robinson, was presented to the school for the first time. Programs by the class on Monday, Wednes- day, and Friday. We are to have our banquet at Putnam Thurston’s. We’re sure to have a fine time this week! May, 1937 Same class officers for next year. They’ve carried us along very efficiently. September 20, 1937 Our last year at school. May we make the most of it! Junior Prom in the college pretty girls, and a lovely best dance ever held. We October 4, 1937 As Winchell would say — Orchids to Marion Williams as president of the Student Council. November 15, 1937 Today we donned our caps and gowns and officially became seniors. Three pro- grams, LAND OF HEART’S DESIRE, THE ARTS, SNAPSHOTS. As is the custom, every senior teaches in the Training School. It’s a strain, we will admit, but it is a desirable experience. May 13, 1938 May Day again — A. Samuelson, Queen with T. Moseley as Attendant from the Seniors. May 6, 1938 Carnival Time tonight! Capers in the auditorium, booths in the Gym, and a good time was had by all. June 1, 1938 Today we all received a beautiful Yearbook. The staff is to be commended. So here’s our THANKS to M. Shine, M. Donahue, R. Mannix, F. Madigan, F. Loiselle, A. Samuelson, M. Kneeland, A. Crittsinger and W. Belknap. June 10, 1938 Yesterday we were students, today we are graduates. And so end four of the happiest years of our lives. THE OAK LEAF 41 UNDERCLASSMEN luninr Class ANDERSON, ALICE BARRY, HELEN BRIERLY, HELEN BRISBANE, RHEUBIE COHEN, ROSALIND DAUNT, AILEEN DAVIDONIS, MILDRED DEFINO, ESTHER DEXTER, CLARA DICKERMAN, MARTHA DILLON, HELEN DOHERTY, ANN DONNELLY, ANNA DOYLE, MARGARET EATON, RUTH FLYNN, MARY FLYNN, VIVIAN FOGERTY, BERNICE HALL, NORMA KENNEDY, ELIZABETH KNOLLIN, EDNA LeBOEUF, ANITA LEONARD, VIRGINIA LOUGHLIN, HELENE LOWREY, GERALDINE LUTZ, OLIVE MacDONALD, MARY MADDEN, RITA MARTOCCI, MARY MAYNARD. MAXINE MESALE, CARMILLE MONAHAN, ELIZABETH MOSCHELLA, FRANCES NOLAN, HELEN NYQUIST, CAROLYN O’CONNOR, RITA PEASE, MARJORIE POWER, CATHERINE PRESTON, EILEEN QUINT, CATHERINE REYNOLDS, MARGARET ROCHE, CATHERINE RODNICK, MILDRED RYAN. FRANCES SAUSVILLE, HAZEL SCULLY, MARY SHACK, HARRIET SMITH, EDNA-MAE SPERRING, EVELYN STAKUN, HEDWIG STEVENS, RUTH STONE, MARGARET SUCHODOLSKI, BERNICE SULLIVAN, CATHERINE SULLIVAN, ELEANOR THOMPSON, RITA VANCAVAGE, HELEN WAITE, ARLINE WEEKS, LOIS WENZ, ERNA WILSON, ELIZABETH YELLE, ELIANE Sophomore Class ARICK, GRACE AUTHIER, PAULINE BELISLE, MEDERISE BIRD, ELINOR BROWN, DOROTHY CARLSON, EDITH COGSWELL, EDITH CONNELLY, RITA D ’ALESS ANDRE, FRANCES DEGNAN, ELIZABETH DEVINE, MARY DINSMORE, RUTH DUNN, FLORENCE FLETCHER, PRISCILLA FORD, AGNES FORD, ALICE GAC, THELMA GELUS, ALDONA GOODALE, DORIS GULLBERG, BARBARA HALL, LILY HAZEN, EDITH HOFSTRA, LUCILE HOWE, ANNA HUNT, MARY HURD, MARJORIE KELLEHER, ANNE KELLY, RITA KNEELAND, JEANETTE LACKEY, MARY LIDSTONE, DOROTHY LOVELL, ELLEN MALONE, CLAIRE MANNING, MARGARET MASTERMAN, BARBARA MATTHEWS, ESTHER MAZIARKA, JULIA McCANN, JEAN MORRISON, MARY MUDGETT, MARGUERITE NEWFIELD, LILLIAN OSTRANDER, ESTHER PALMER, GRACE PAPPAS, DOROTHY PAQUETTE, LUCILLE PATTEN, BETTY PORTER, MARY QUAIEL, BETTY RICHARDS, EUGENIA SALMON, MARY SCANLON, LOUISE SCHORR, ROSLYN SENECAL, CLAIRE SIGEL, SHIRLEY STOLNACKE, MARTHA SULLIVAN, MARY E. SULLIVAN, WINIFRED THOMAS, MARJORIE TRESILIAN, MARGARET pn Bin = SSS gcSsa MNMjpSS SaSSiS LJ fjSpffv Freshman Class ADAMS, EVELYN ALLEN, LUCY ANDERSON, ARLINE BRIAND, MARY CAHILL, HELEN CARLSON, ENID CASEY, PAULA CASHEN, MARY CONNOR, GERTRUDE COLLOGHAN, MARY DALEY, MARY DELANEY, ALICE DEWITT, ELIZABETH DWYER, DOROTHY EASTMAN, DOROTHY FARRELL, MARY FEINGOLD, FRANCES FRODIGH, LOUISE GEORGE, JOSEPHINE GRAY, MARY HALE, MAXINE HANSEN, DORIS HAYWARD, LOIS HIGGINS, PRISCILLA HILL, BARBARA HOGAN, ALMA KEARNS, MARY LABOSSIERE, MARGARET LOFT, LILLIAN MANION, ISABEL MANZI, EDITH McDermott, Winifred M cQUADE, BARBARA MONROE, LOLA MORELAND, MARION MORRISON, IRENE MURPHY, GRACE M URPHY, MARY POLLEY, VIVIAN PRESSMAN, SARA ROGALA, ELINOR ROURKE, BARBARA SARRISON, ANNA SHAWMUT, ANITA SHARP, LAOLA SHEEHAN, JULIA SIOK, VIOLA SKORUPSKI, ANNA WALKER, MURIEL THE OAK LEAF 45 College Organizations STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL President Marion Williams ’38 Vice-President Mary MacDonald ’39 Secretary Lillian Newfield ’40 Auditor Catherine Power ’39 Eleanor O’Halloran ’38 Edith Lundblad ’38 Jean McCann ’40 GAMMA CHI CHAPTER OF KAPPA DELTA PI President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Recording Historian Mary King ’38 . . .Florence Ahern ’37 Mary Shine ’38 Katheryn Toomey ’37 . . . .Irene Sullivan ’35 President. . . . Vice-President Secretary . . . . Treasurer . . . . DRAMATIC CLUB Anita Samuelson ’38 Elizabeth Kennedy ’39 Mary King ’38 Margaret Stone ’39 GLEE CLUB President Vice-President Secretary- Treasurer Librarian BACH CHOIR Margaret Loft ’38 Vivian Flynn ’39 Betsy Hall ’39 Roslyn Schorr ’38 SORORES TOGATAE Consul Pro-Consul Scriba-Qiiaestor Aediles President. . . . Vice-President Secretary. . . . Treasurer . . . . CERCLE FRANCAIS Social Committee QUARTERLY REVIEW STAFF Editor -in-Chief Associate Editor Literary Editor Associate Literary Editor Departmental Editor Business Manager Exchange Editor Art Editor Charlotte Goodwin ’38 Frances Ryan ’39 Claire Senecal ’40 Marion Kneeland ’38 Mildred Davidonis ’39 Lucile Hofstra ’40 . .Florence Loiselle ’38 Elaine Yelle ’39 Mary Scully ’39 Mildred Davidonis ’39 Mary Donahue ’38 Ruth Mannix ’38 Claire Senecal ’40 . .Aleen Crittsinger ’38 Arlene Waite ’39 . . . Lillian Newfield ’40 .... Claire Senecal ’40 Eva Chase ’38 . . .Margaret Stone ’39 . .Caroline Nyquist ’39 Edith Hazen ’40 46 THE OAK LEAF A Senior Looks at Life Life is that combination of being and doing that makes an actuality of existence. Practically speaking, no one has yet succeeded in isolating that definite quality vaguely referred to as the “essence of living” though analytical minds for centuries have propounded, compounded, and confounded themselves with inexplicable terms and definitions. He who holds strictly to the theory that life itself is a state of being must also be bounded by the inevitability that life ends with the cessation of that being. He holds only a hope of immortality, but his egotistical nature can not admit of a stage in which “he”, as that life, is no longer a reality. To him, however, who asserts that breathing alone is not life, who will not admit that a small muscular contraction which makes of blood and flesh a human being one instant — and a still fragment of earth the next — there courses in him, somewhere, the concept of immortality. But, having once passed beyond, what can there remian of one in the world? The physical body — all that apparently made up the component parts of the one individual is gone — yet, somehow, one is not completely erased from all the reality in existence because one has left something intangible but indestructible behind. Thoughts, alone, are that immortality which exists in a mortal world; they are the proof that life exists not only within itself, but lifts its branches to contact and inter- weave with the presence of all life tangent to its own. Living thoughts that were spoken centuries ago are still comprehensible to us; there is a link across time of acceptance and comprehension, an understanding which enables the individual to project himself into the life and circumstances of the other. Since life must be lived, therefore, not for the one subject himself, but for and by the contacts which are present at all times, it is apparent that the principle part of life must rest in doing, and not in being. “Doing” is not the conscious effort of con- ducting oneself dutifully within the bounds of accepted regulations; it is the outcome of the natural belief that life lived with the consideration of others is the happiest type of living. Morality that grows from individual thought and belief builds itself more solidly into all thoughts and actions than that morality which, for society’s sake, is cloaked around the individual without ever becoming a truly related part of that person. We have spoken of life individually without stopping to realize that life itself can never be walled within one single being. Life, flowed to us from out another life, forever onward passes the unquenchable, incomprehensible link of living beings, whose whole existence is interwoven inseparably with the past, the future, and the present. So life passes on, apparently a thing apart from us; yet as we move with it, we realize that life is not in us . . . we are life. Mary Rochette THE OAK LEAF 49 Patrons Honorable William Bennett Miss Mary Bair Mr. and Mrs. John H. Moseley Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Shine Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. George W. Prescott Mr. and Mrs. Frederick T. Small Mr. and Mrs. George J. Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Francois X. Rinfrette Mr. and Mrs. Austin B. Kneeland, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Callahan Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Mannix Mr. and Mrs. Amedee O. Richards Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Doyle Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Madigan Mr. and Mrs. William L. J. Donahue Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Burke Mr. and Mrs. Henry Monahan Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bird Mr. and Mrs. Tracy B. Leach ' i- n i { ■ THE OAK LEAF 53 54 THE OAK LEAF Compliments OF THE UNDERGRADUATES TO THE CLASS OF 1938 W THE OAK LEAF 55 OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER Worcester State Teachers College Class of 1938 56 THE OAK LEAF HOTEL BANCROFT Worcester’s Fireproof Hotel EXCELLENT BANQUET FACILITIES FOR GROUPS FROM 10 TO 1500 PERSONS PRIVATE DINING ROOMS AVAILABLE FOR SMALL PARTIES MAURICE T. LAWLER, Manager WORCESTER TELEGRAM SUNDAY TELEGRAM THE EVENING GAZETTE RADIO STATION WTAG CAPS — GOWNS — HOODS PUTNAM THURSTON’S For Rent or Sale Worcester ' s Best Restaurant GOOD FOOD GOOD SERVICE VESTMENTS For Choirs, and Glee Clubs Beautiful Banquet Rooms Band Uniforms, etc. 10 to 400 persons • 27 MECHANIC STREET Telephone 3-5427 C. E. WARD CO. NEW LONDON, OHIO FOR FASHION • FOR QUALITY FOR SATISFACTORY New England Representative SHOPPING Mr. H. W. 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