August 2, 1913
graphite on commercially made, lined paper
8 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches
Charles E. Burchfield Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
what to expect from him. Be sure it was something original every time. He always kept the class in an uproar. It was the “Family” that always started everything and who usually finished it. Many were the good times we had.
There were many others. Among them freshmen I can mention. “Bill Kanel, Earl, Butler, Viola Lister, Flora Brown, Ruth Clegg, Ruth Deike,Grace Graham, Sadie Segel,Eleanor Mustee, Dorothy Hanks and Kaiser. Among the upper classmen, Howard Austin, Leonard Luce, Ruth Terry, John Lloyd, Dan Weisel,and others, some of who I was not so well aquainted with.
The school work itself was interesting. Monks said once, that if the first year did nothing else for a student it did disillusion him. This is true. Ninety-nine out of a hundred students entering the school think they can draw. A month is enough to show the majority that known almost nothing. And when they find