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

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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.

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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.

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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.