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© o w -%* »ai Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/currycollege2003unse ^n^ ^^ jm^.i^ifi. 2003 In The Spotlight The gift from the class of 2003 Curry College Library 1071 Blue HiM Aveny© SHtton,liA0218® Curry College 1071 BlueHillAve MA Milton, 02186 www.curry.edu InTheSpotlight 1, Letterfrom the President Greetings and congratulations to the Curry College Class of2003. As President ofyour College, I wish to take a moment to congratulate you on your achieve- ment in becoming a Curry College Alum. You have studied at and graduated from an out- standing Institution that gets stronger each passing year. As anAlum, our pledge to you is that Curry College will continue to improve and make you more and more proud ofyourAlma Mater. Our request to you is that you stay engaged with the Curry Community. As we continue to build our great College into an even greater one, we need your assis- tance. Please get involved as an Alum and stay involved. Once again, congratulations on your achievements at Curry College and best wishes for much continued success. Sincerely, Kenneth K. Quigley, Jr. 2 Classof2003 Russell Pregeant Dedication Russell Pregeant, who retired this year after over 30 years ofextraordinary full-time service to Curry both as Professor ofPhilosophy and Religion and as College Chaplain, helped shape the lives of hundreds-indeed, thousands-ofstudents on this campus. His classes on Biblical literature in general and on the New Testament in specific were always engaging, wide-ranging, and linked to the lives ofreal students in a world often torn by conflict, strife and injustice. Dr. Pregeant's integrity was evident in everything he said, whether in front ofa class or at the lectern delivering one ofhis eloquent and lyrical invocations or benedictions; indeed, this integrity shone through in everything he did. (Ofhim it can be truly said that he walked the walk.) Russell Pregeant's light will always remind his Curry friends that it is possible to follow the difficult path toward knowledge and truth, and to do so withjoy and dehght. David InTheSpotlight Xn Hermjembraruce: September 2002 ii, God Bless America! siS, 4 Classof2003 IntheSpotlight 5 Anna Baright was bom into a Quaker family in Poughkeepsie, NewYork in 1854. She attended i Gary's (Friends) School and Cook's Collegiate Institute, from which she graduated in 1873. She taughi briefly in NewYork state before teaching elocution in Milwaukee Female College. In 1875 she en- tered the Boston University School ofOratory. She graduated Cum Laude in '% 1877. That School was headedby Dean Lewis BaxterMonroe, who has been called a Transcendentalist, afterthe glory days ofNew England Transcendentalism. Certainly something ofthe transcendentalist spirit characterized the school of the Currys and somewhat influences the college today. It is apractically ap- plied Transcendentalism that emphasizes the centrality ofmind and the abili- ties ofpeople to triumph over challenges that sometimes seem insurmount- able. Professor J. W. Churchill ofBoston University calledAnna Baright "the great- . estwoman reader [dramatic reciter] in the country." DeanMonroe said, "Herpower is second to none,i either on the platform or as ateacher." Monroe appointed Baright his FirstAssistant. They were planning the country's first summer school oforatory, to be held on Martha'sVineyard, in 1879, whenMonroe died. Baright carried onthe work ' and the five-week term was highly successfiil. But afterMonroe's death the School ofOratory was demotedto a department in the School ofAll Sciences andthe University entrusted its leadership to a young man, later Snow Professor ofOratory, who had studiedwith Monroe and to whom Monroe had referred to Miss Baright as a private student: Samuel Silas Curry. With the encouragement ofBoston University President William F. Warren, Anna Baright set up her , own school, the School ofElocution and Expression, in downtown Boston in the fall of 1879. It had the purpose ofcarrying on Monroe's principle that "expression is the outward manifestation ofthat which is already in the consciousness." This school provided a two-yearprogrampatterned on that of the former Boston University School ofOratory. The Currys' School On May 3 1882, Anna Baright married Samuel Silas Curry. In 1885 the name ofthe school was 1, changed to the School ofExpression. The new name indicated emphasis on natural expression, as distinguished from the artificial fonnulas associated with elocution. In the same year, the Boston Uni- versity trustees gave CuiTy peiTnission to merge his private classes into the new school. In 1888 the School was chartered by the state and Curry left his Boston University position. Curry was the School's head, called variously overthe years Principal, Dean, and President; Mrs. Curry served as teacher and eventually what was called Dean. The Currys had six children, including Haskell Curry, a noted mathematician and logician. The couple continued to run the School until S.S. Curry's death in 1921. Anna Baright Curiy died in 1924.