ALUMNI HOMECOMING ON MAY 21, 22 Drew-Bear to Attend Mark it on Your Calendar American Alumni Council And Save the Date! Conference The 500 Alumni who attend­ Your Alumni Secretary attended ed last year's reunion had a the annual conference of the Ameri- wonderful time. This year we can Alumni Council at Smith College, expect Alumni to visit the [T orthamptnn, M::t~~ ., nn J an, lO - I~ , Campus in even greater num­ About 125 persons professionally en­ bers on May 21, 22. gaged in alumni work at universities and colleges in the New England States, Quebec, the Maritime Prov- . ~ {I' inces and Newfoundland were in Five Year Plan attendance. Participating were James S. Coles, President, Bowdoin Col­ To Be Repeated lege; John S. Dickey, President, Dartmouth College; Benjamin F. Preparations arc underway for the Wright, President, Smith College; ]954 May Homecoming. The "Five­ Francis Keppel, Dean of the Gradu- Year Anniversary Plan" will be con­ ate School of Education, Harvard tinued and a special effort will be University; Miss J eanette McPherrin, made to round up the classes of '53, Kirk Smith Dean of Fres hmen, VVell es ley College. '49, '44, '39, '34, '29, '24, '19, and '14. In addition to its traditional features, NEW TRUSTEE this year's program will include enter­ ELECTED tainment of unusual sparkle and va­ A Message from riety. Circle Friday and Saturday, At the Annual Meeting of the May 21 and 22 on your calendar. This Board of Trustees of Bryant College The President promises to be a memorable occasion. held in October, Mr. Kirk Smith was The Alumni and Alumnae as The April BULLETIN will carry a com­ elected a member of the Advisory Ex­ a body and as individuals can be plete, detailed program. ecutive Committee of the Board of of enormous hel p to the College Trustees of Bryant College. and to each other. Until recently Mr. Smith is a well-known attorney the College has not been in a po­ of the fin~l of Edwards and Angell sition to avail itself of the large ALUMNI DIRECTORY and is a graduate of Brown University. reservoir of goodwill built up DEVELOPMENTS He was a member of the Richberg through the years. Contact is Committee which formed the pro­ now being established so that The Editor ,rishes to thank the the Alumni Secretary, in tackling Alumni and Alumnae for their splen­ posed revamping of the Wagner Act dealing with fair employment prac­ the organizational problems con­ did cooperation in returning the ques­ fronting him, can avail himseH tionnaire blanks recently submitted in tices. Mr. Smith has been President of the Providence Legal Aid Society of your very welcome assistance. connection with the compilation of Many of you undoubtedly have Alumni Directories and the organiza­ for two terms and is a member of the Friends of the John Hays Library, local connections which could be tion of an Alumni Advisory Council most useful in forwarding' our and of local Bryant Alumni Clubs. endeavors. Let us know if you Forms are still being received and are CHILDREN'S PARTY have information about Alumni being sorted according to areas and or comments on other matters by classes. Many excellent comments HELD IN GYM which you think would be help­ and suggestions were receivf'd and the Bryant's sororities and fraternities donated ful. editor is especially grateful for the $150 to buy gifts for 105 IInderpril'ileged names and addresses of "lost" alumni. children rOllnded lip for the occasion by the Much interesting biographical ma­ local parole officer. ;\Ir, E. Gardner Jacobs terial was submitted and will be incor­ prO\'ided all the ice cream and hot dogs they could eal. Prior lO the party each child had porated in the April BULLETIN which been asked what he \\'a l1led. lndil'idllal items will have to be "king size" to accom­ Il'ere bought ~ o that Santa Claus delighted modate it. each ch ild by giling him the g ift he asked for. HELL WEEK VERSUS HELP WEEK Brotherhood in theory is nice but in prac­ tice its lots nicer as lI'as aptly demonstrated by 250 Bryant candidates for fraternities and sororities who-instead of being put through the usual hazing antics- Il"ere organized into lI'ork squads of 10 to 20 and given assign­ ments on worthy community projects. Under the leadership of Bo b Kulungian, President of From the Mailbag the Greek Letter Society, all 15 Bryant fra­ · .. My husband is engaged in raising L. I. ternities and sororities participated. The mag­ Ducks. In the '53 season we sent over y, nitude of the undertaking is shown by the million pounds of dressed duck to market. .. our Sales manager is Frank Mazura, Bry­ fac t that it took 30 student-supplied autos ant '54. I am the bookkeeper. to transport the workers. ANN SHUBERT DEMKIN '43 Cleaning, painting, raking, typing, etc. Riverhead, L.1. we re undertaken on a grand scale. Included (Ed. note: Ann has a daughter, Katherine 5 yrs., and a son, Timothy, 10 mos. She was in the beneficiary institutions were the Rhode President of her class and a member of Sigma Island School for the Deaf, the Home for Iota Chi) . Crippled Children , the Home for Aged Ne­ · .. I am looking forward to attending the groes, the Children's Center, the Roger 'Vil­ next Bryant Alumni get-together iE it is at Robert G. Drew -Bear Ii ams Memorial Hospital, the Salvation Army, all possible. I enjoyed my two years at Bry­ Hope High School, Jewish Community Center, ant and would like to meet some of myoid Appointed Alumni Secretary class mates. I have seen two or three of them . '~' Y. M. C. A., East Street Recreation Center, Dr. Henry L. J acobs appointed Robert G. here at Quantico and it was a pleasure to Providence District )llll-sing Association, But­ talk over the old days. Eddie Rockett '51 Drew-Bear as Alumni Secretary and Director ler Hospital, Providence, Hebrew Day SchelOl , was here attending the Officers Candidate of Student Activities beginning )lovember 1, Junior Achievement, Inc., and Alcoholics Course. Sgt. HERBERT P. RISLEY, JR. '51 1953. Mr. Drew·Bear is a graduate of Harvard Anonymous. Many enthusiastic letters of U. S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Va. College and of the Harvard Graduate School thanks have come to the College and the (Ee\. note: Herbert is married and has a of Business Administration and also studied at Associated Press released the story which got Trinity College in Hartford and at the Uni­ 6 months old daughter, Cheryl Lynn) . national coverage as a worthy innovation of · .. I am presently employed as Industrial versity of Paris, France. interest to colleges eveq'll"here. Promotion Officer II wi th the Economic De­ Until his Bryant assignment Mr. Drew-Bear velopment Administration-the Institution in charge of the industrial development of was a Contract :->egotiator with the Navy's Puerto Rico. Bureau of Ships in Washington, D. C. and ENRIQUE A. LOPEZ '50 was also an Instructor in the Evening Di\'ision Lieutenant Desmarais Box 2683 , Rio Piedras of the American University. Prior to his Receives Meritorious Puerto Rico association with the Federal Government, :\1r. Service Ribbon · . 1 have been in Damascus since Novem­ Drew-Bear was resident in Hartford, Con· ber 11, 1953, and expect to be here for the necticut and was Chairman of the Department next two or three years. From J une 8, 1951 , until June 30, 1953, I was assigned to the of Business Management at Hillyer College. American Embassy at Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He a lso taught at the Hartford Institute of I entered the Foreign Service on April 25 , Accounting and in the Evening Division of 1951. When in the United States I now call Trinity College. Mr. Drell'-Bear, II-ith his Los Angeles my home, though my parents still live at 19 Gardner St., Pawtucket, R . 1. Idfe and two children, is now a resident of I am very much interested in learning the Barrington, R . 1. He says he is deli ghted to whereabouts of my former classmates . return to New England with its crisp winters . COLETTE T. DICKEY '46 and solid educational traditions. American Embassy, Damascus, Syria · .. I am now Chairman of the Commercial Department at Arlsport Central High School, New Developments at Bryant N. Y. In addition to teaching five classes a day, I am this year Senior Class Advisor, On Sunday, December 13, for the first time Dramatic Coach, Treasurer of the Teacher's in Bryant's history, President and Mrs. Henry Association, and have been recently elected L. Jacobs sponsored a Mother-Daughter Tea to the State Board of Delegates representing from 3 to 5 p.m. in the College auditorium. the Southern Tier of N . Y. State at the An­ Instrumental music lI'as provided by the Col­ nual Meeting to be held this year in Syracuse. lege Orchestra and popular Christmas carols First Lt. Arth ur J. Desmarais '50 of CRAIG H. EDGAR '49 were sung by the Glee Club. It was a highly Fall River, Mass. received the Com­ Teacher Training successful event and will be repeated. mendation Ribbon for meritorious service from Maj. Gen. P. D. Ginder, Mrs. Mary Thornton Appleby, wife of 45th Infantry Division Commander in Ellen Daleda MeAra '41 "Ray" Appleby, Professor of Investments, Korea. Lieutenant Desmarais, son of has been appointed Director of Dramatics in Mr. and Mrs. Omer S. Desmarais, 80 Honored charge of the :\'Iasquers and the Glee Club, Taylor Street. Il"as cited for service as Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks has and advisor to the :->ewman Club and to the Disbursing Officer with the Division's presented the Department of Commerce Mer­ Alpha Phi Kappa sorority, Actually Mrs.