The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-09
THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN.
Reports and Election of officers at
the Annual Meeting.

The Rhode Island School of Design AS
sociation held its annual meeting yester-
day afternoon at its rooms in the Hoppin
Homestead Building. Ex-Gov. Little
field presided.
The report of the Board OF Management
was presented. In part it is as follows:
The Board of Management of the
Rhode Island School of Design has the
honor to report n continued increase in
the number of scholars and wider ex-
tension of its Influence In the province Of
education In art.
The number or students enrolled last
year and reported was 3l5. The number
at the present time is 1888; of this number
the freehand department has 2ll, the me-
chanical department has 127, the dag
classes have 6S. the Saturday classes have
7S and the evening classes 1872.
The gifts TO the library and museum
are so numerous that for the first time in
our report we find the list too long to in
clude herein. The names OF the donors,
however, we gratefully transcribe: Mrs.
ter, Mrs. Il. q. Radeke, Miss Helen NJ.
Bradford, Miss Lucy Metcalf, Thomas Is.
Stockwell, Tomaso Juglaris, Mrs. Will
liam Ames, William Skinner, Miss l.. NJ.
Potter and Miss Grace Mowry.
The school has been greatly benefited
and works of art from Household Sewing
Machine Company, Horace Thurston. A.
B. Pitkin & Company, William Skinner
and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf.
Mr.. Skinner has given his classes notes
during the winter on Greek mythology.
omy
Designs have been made each week
which have been criticised before the
class.
The students have organized Sketch
Club and worked one afternoon each
Arts, Boston, June 4, with Mr.. Santry
and Mr.. Skinner
Students of both departments have
visited with the instructors Gorham Man
ufacturing Company.
Mechanical students also visited Rhode
Island Locomotive Works and the Nara
gansett Electric Lighting Company.
Mr.. Estes has given talks during the
year upon class work.
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. JESSE METCALF,
MRS. GUSTAV RADEKE,
EDWARD l. NICKERsoN,
THOMAS Is. STOCKwELL,
HOWARD HoPPTN, Sec,
Board of Management.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President. Herbert w.
Ladd; vice president, Isaac G.. Bates;
board of directors, Royal c. Taft. A. ii.
Littlefield, George ID. Briggs, Clifford A.
Hall, Mrs. Jesse Metcaif, Thomas B.
Stockwell Edward l. Nickerson Howard
Hoppin, Howard NJ Rice, Isaac C. Bates,
s. o. Metcalf, Sydney X. Burleigh, Ed
mund X. Wilson. Mrs. Gustav Radeke,
Richmond S, Wall, Mrs. Walter A. Peck.
Hiram Howard, Dwight II. Adams, Sam
uel II. Cross; honorary members,
G. b. Barnsworth, Rowland Hazard.
Sarah E. Doyle; committee on
finance, ID. Il. ID. Granger, Walter
A. Peck, A. II. Littlefieid; COM
mittee of management. Mrs, Jessie
Metcalf, I. b. Stockwell, f. i. Nickerson.
Howard Hoppin. Mrs. Gustav Radeke;
COMMITTEES on museum, Howard Hoppin,
George d. Briggs, Sydney r. .Burleigh, K.
1. Nickerson, G. w. stafford: committee
on lectures, Isaac G. Bates, Mrs. Gustav
Radeke, Edmund X. Wilson; committee
on subscriptions. Mrs. w. G. Baker, Mrs.
w. A. Peck, Mrs Gustave Radeke; build
ing committee, Royal g. Taft, Jesse Met
calf, Isaac Z. Bates. Stephen o. Metcalf
Samuel Morris Conant of Pawtucket
was elected to membership.