College of the Holy Cross - Purple Patcher Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Volume LIV of the Purple Patcher begins with the various facets of Holy Cross lifeg in a somewhat arbitrary order they are: Religious .... . . . 10 Academic . . . , . . 20 Discipline . . . . . . 32 Social . . . . . . 38 Cultural . . . . . . 54 ROTC . . . . . . 76 Political ....... . . . 84 Environment .... . . . 96 Sports ...... . . . 102 The second section comprises the men who make up the College: Undergraduates ......... . . . 146 Index of Undergraduates . . . . . . 347 Class of 1962 ........... . . . 192 Faculty ....... . . . 276 Administration .... . . . 302 The history of the Class of 1962 is distributed throughout the Undergraduate section. Your attention is called to Contrib- utors, Patrons, and Advertisers at the end of the volume.

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VVhen a youth leaves high school he rapidly changes from an adolescent, to a young adultv-whether he ma- tures swiftly, slowly, or not at all. NVilly-nilly, past relationships with people and institutions shift and often dissolve. And new ones must be formed. But more than the shaping of a modicum uiuendi with a bewil- dering complex world, this process also involves a radical adjustment within the self. There is a sudden intensification of the need to accept one's individuality not only as a right but as a frightening responsibility. This growth in self-consciousness usu- ally produces an original and more than emotional awareness of being, in a deeply significant way, utterly alone. It is within this elemental and uni- versal perception that the young man begins to grope for an identity and for a set of tangible relations to all that is other. This ever-enlarging need to recog- nize the self, to believe in it, to act according to it, and thus to realize it, is the underlying ufact of lifev for all youth and especially for us at Holy Cross. For in our pre-college years we were being prepared, though not realizing it then, to recognize and re- solve this existential need in the tran- scendent terms of God, grace, and salvation. Our many years of religious training at home and school are as undeniable and valuable parts of our experiences, of ourselves, as any other character of our pasts. For this reason one of the elemental ways in which we come to know ourselves is through our relation to Cod. This basic ufact of lifev was the pri- mary factor in the founding of sec- tarian schools as such and indeed was the basic motivation behind our en- rollment in a Catholic college. The idean of this kind of education arises from the recognition of a real need which is often obscured but cannot be denied. As human, we need to grow spiritually as we grow intellec- tually and emotionally. Maturation involves all three, necessarily and to- gether. Thus, at Holy Cross, this awareness of our need to develop a personal relation with Cod assumes a primary, and proper significance. This 'iattitudef' that realizing our- selves implies relating the self to Cod,