Untitled Document Student Culture
The Babsonian
Since 1921 (excluding the WWII years of 1944—1945) Babson students have produced a yearbook that has always been called the Babsonian. Printed copies are available in the Babson Collection in the alcove under the center stairs on the second floor. I have been scanning yearbooks for the "Half Century Club" since 2003. These scanned yearbooks can be found on the Timeline and The Babsonian page. By mid summer I will have a complete scanned set through 1958. - News Publications
The Babson College Archives has holdings that include student press (Babson Beaver, Babson Globe, The Executive, and the Babson Free Press.) A new on-line graduate student publication began September 2, 2003. The Babson Business Journal is a bi-weekly published on Mondays. The Archives is also home to many efforts at student literary magazines as well as Undergraduate Honors Projects.
Little Magazines
The need for self-expression causes people everywhere to devise ways to be heard. Students at Babson College have made several efforts at arts magazines in recent years. Options was published in 1992, 1993, and 1994. The Babson Journal was published 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2000. The Babson Literary Magazine was started in spring 2003 with an issue called Unfiltered... and published a fall 2003 issue titled The Morning After... The spring 2004 issue is called Cock-a-doodle Blue.Two issues were produced in 2005: ...Why Not? and Suggestions...Seductions. Of This I'm Sure was published in Spring 2006. Green Lines, volume even of the Babson Literary Magazine, was published fall of 2006. The first issue of the series without an issue title is published in Spring 2007. Volume nine was published in Fall 2007. Spring 2008 saw the appearance of #10.
Theater
Babson College has had a long tradition of theatrical performance. Under several names (Babson Dramatic Club, Babson Theatre Guild, and the Babson Players) Babson students have produced musical theatre and plays for the community. The Babson College Archives doesn't have an extensive collection of the playbills for these shows but what we have follows. If you have one that I am missing please consider loaning it (or sending me an electronic copy) so that I can make a copy available on this website.
Babson Dramatic Club:1947--1957
Holiday (1949/50) Appears to have been the first production done on campus
Mind Over Manor (1950/1)
Lady of Letters (1951/2)
Around the World (1951/2)
Royal Family (1951/2)
Stage Door (1952/3)
Across the Campus and Into the Woods (1952/3)
Strictly a Review (1953/4)
Ain't Like Sin (1955/6)
Good News
Babson Theatre Guild: 1957--1977
Call Me Madam (1957/8)
The Boy Friend (1959)
Guys and Dolls (1959/60)
Damn Yankees (1960/1)
South Pacific (1961/2)
Oklahoma! (1962/3)
Pajama Game (1963/4)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1965/6)
Bus Stop (1968/9)
The American Dream (1971/2)
Zoo Story (1971/2)
Adaptation (1972/3)
Hotel Purgatory (1972/3)
You Can't Take it With You (1974/5)
Happy Birthday Wanda June (1974/5)
Ten Little Indians (1975/6)
Death of a Salesman (1975/6)
The Fantasticks (1976/7)
Babson Players: 1977--today
The Birthday Party (1977/8)
Adaptation (1978/9)
The Real Inspector Hound (1978/9)
Pippin (1980)
Guys and Dolls (1981)
M.A.S.H. (1983)
Once Upon a Mattress (1983)
Hello Dolly (1984)
Anything Goes (1985)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1985)
Love, Sex, & the I.R.S. (1986)
Grease (1987)
Table Settings (1987)
Odd Couple (1988)
Cabaret (1988)
Skin of Our Teeth (1989)
Little Shop of Horrors (1990)
Night of January 16th (1990)
The Butler Did It (1990)
Bye, Bye, Birdie (1992)
Rumors (1992)
Oklahoma! (1993)
Fools (1993)
Noises Off (1994)
Godspell (1995)
Lend Me a Tenor (1995)
Moonchildren (1996)
Guys and Dolls (1996)
Working (1997)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1998)
Biloxi Blues (1999)
Lie, Cheat, and Genuflect (2000)
Little Shop of Horrors (2000)
Damn Yankees (2001)
Drop Dead (2001)
Bottoms Up (2002)
How to Succeed in Business (2002)
Lone Star Love Potion (2003)
Pippin (2003)
Li'l Abner (2004)
But Why Bump Off Barnaby? (2004);
Guys and Dolls (2005)
Whose Wives Are They Anyway? (2005)
Big: The Musical (2006)
RUMORS (2006)
Sweet Charity (2007)
Noises Off! (2007)
Damn Yankees! (2007)
Beauty and the Beast (2008)
Written by R.C. (Rip) Rybnikar
Updated May 13, 2008