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The Green Hall clock was presented to Rhode Island State College on Class Day, Sunday, May 22, 1938 by Joseph L. Scott ’38. According to Hank Abajian ’38, he and his classmates would like to see a bronze plaque in the refurbished Green Hall acknowledging their class gift of this most visible symbol of URI. Everyone knows the outside appearance of the clock—actually four clocks each with its own mechanism that must be kept synchronized.
But here are views of the clock from inside the cupola. The legend on the East face reads: Warren Telechron Co., Ashland, Mass., July 14, 1925; another face has a Timex mechanism, probably a replacement. Each frosted glass clock face is sur-rounded by a circle of 25-watt electric light bulbs that provide illumination at night. Boxes of replacement bulbs are stacked in the cupola, which is otherwise empty. Over the years, a surprising number of visitors left their signatures either in the cupola or in the long attic approach to it high over Green’s Great Room. Most were men who visited in the evening and felt compelled to record the time along with name and date (see photos and captions). At the moment, the clock is stopped and time awaits the grand re-opening of Green Hall.
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