Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 240 of the 1920 volume:

PRODUCED BY THE KLEBOLD PRESS NEW YORK i-D I $ I I ■i-SS Foreword If in future tears this book SHALL HELP TO RECALL PLEASANT MEMORIES OF COLLEGE DAYS, IT SHALL HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSE AND JUSTIFIED OUR FAITH DEDICATION vv TO THE REV. OWEN A. HILL, S.J., PROFESSOR OF SENIOR PHILOSOPHY, WHO HAS SEEN US SAFELY THROUGH OUR LAST YEAR AT FORDHAM, THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED THE REV. EDWARD P. TIVNAN, S. J. President of Fordham University) MA ROON professors Senior THE REV. OWEN A. HILL. S.J. Psychology, Natural Theology, Ethics, and Evidences of Religion. MR. JOSEPH F. McAREE. S.J. Geology. THE REV. EDMUND J. BURKE. S.J. Economics. MR. DANIEL J. SULLIVAN, S.J. Astronomy. THE REV. GUSTAVE A. CABELLERO, S.J. Biology. THE REV. MICHAEL. J. MAHONY, S.J. General Metaphysics. Junior THE REV. FRANCIS D. O'LAUGHLIN, S.J. Laboratory Physics. MR. DANIEL J. QUIGLEY. S.J. Journalism. MR. DANIEL J. SULLIVAN. S.J. Didactic Physics. THE REV. WILLIAM F. CUNNINGHAM, S.J. History. g'ouljoniorc THE REV. JOHN H. FARLEY. S.J. Latin. Greek and English Literature. THE REV. JOHN A. MORGAN. S.J, Latin, Greek and English Literature. THE REV. THOMAS J. CAMPBELL. S.J. Evidences of Religion. MR. DANIEL J. SULLIVAN. S.J. Mechanics. TI IE REV. GEORGE F. JOHNSON. S.J. Latin, Greek and English LiteraJure. THE REV. JOHN F. X. MURPHY, . History and Evidences of Religion. THE REV. PAUL V. ROUKE. S.J. Analytic Chemistry MR. JOHN J. DALY. S.J. General Chemistry. JFresijman MR. JOSEPH A. MULRY, S.J. Latin, Greek and English Literature. THE REV. JOHN F. X. MURPHY. S.J. History , and Evidences of Religion. MR. GEORGE F. STROHAVER. S.J. General Chemistry. MR. STEPHEN J. RUDTKE. S.J. German Literature. MR. DANIEL F. RYAN. S.J. Latin, Greek and English Literature. THE REV. CAJETAN BER-TOLERO. S.J. Spanish Literature. MR. WILLIAM C. REPETTI. S.J. Mathematics. MR. LOUIS J. GALLAGHER. S.J. French Literature. 11 THIS page is respectfully dedicated to the Professors of the Class of 1920, who, through four busy years, have guided us along the narrow pathway that leads to the degree, and whose names are intertwined with so many of the memories that will forever link us to Alma Mater. 12 DON'T THANK US! ALL we ask of you, brethren, is to consider that, compared to publishing a Year Book, a little thing like building the Panama Canal is a joke, and enforcing the eighteenth amendment is a lead-pipe cinch. On the whole, as we lean back in our chairs and survey the last page of copy ready to be dropped into the printer’s envelope, we both agree that we have put in one never-to-be-forgotten year, and are seriously considering the advisability of taking some nice, easy twenty-hour-a-day job—just for a rest. Wherefore, brethren, let not your hammers of criticism swing too heavily, lest we perish. At the same time— Don’t Thank Us! 13 -------------— CIjc £?taff of Cfjr jWaroott MANAGING BOARD JOHN J. DILLON Ediior-in-Chicf ANTHONY P. UIHLEIN Business Manager JOSEPH R. KELLEY Assistant Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS THOMAS J. CURRAN WILLIAM F. FINN CHARLES J. MANGEOT MORGAN J. O’BRIEN WILL TWISS O’SULLIVAN CHARLES A. CURTIN WILLIAM P. GANNON JOHN J. MURPHY WILLIAM J. O’CONNOR MARIO J. PONSIGLIONE RAYMOND J. SCULLY ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS PAUL A. CUNNINGHAM ROBERT E. RIMBACH CHARLES T. ROBINSON CONTRIBUTORS ARTHUR E. GORDON. Ex-’20 JAMES T. MULRY HERMAN V. SIEDLER THE Class of 1920 takes this opportunity of expressing to Mr. Haskell Coffin their deep appreciation of his kindness in donating to The MaROON the picture, “The Fordham Girl of 1920,” which appears on the next page. Perhaps the sincerest praise that we could offer is found in the fact that Mr. Coffin received from the class by almost unanimous vote the citation of “Most Popular Illustrator.” 16 THE FORDHAM GIRL FOR NINETEEN-TWENTY patrons of tfic Jttaroon HON. ALFRED E. SMITH Governor of New York HON. JOSEPH F. MULQUEEN HON. CHARLES F. X. O'BRIEN HON. MORGAN J. O’BRIEN HON. ROBERT F. WAGNER HON. MICHAEL J. WALSH MR. DANIEL J. BARRETT MR. GEORGE GORDON BATTLE BRENTANO'S MR. EDWARD CALLAN COL. LOUIS D. CONLEY MR. THOMAS F. CONWAY MR. OVIDE DE ST. AUBIN MR. JAMES A. DOWD MR. ANDREW J. EWALD MR. WILLIAM J. FALLON MR. WILLIAM A. FERGUSON MR. JOSEPH P. GRACE MR. STEPHEN GUARDINO MR. WILLIAM D. GUTHRIE MR. HERMAN L. HEIDE MR. FREDERICK L. KANE MR. GEORGE L. LOFT MR. PETER J. MALONEY MR. JOSEPH J. MANNING MR. JOHN J. MULCAHY MR. GEORGE MacDONALD MR. FRANCIS J. McCANN MR. EUGENE F. McGEE MR. EDWARD REYNAUD MR. JOHN D. RYAN MR. CHARLES V. SCANLON DR. JAMES J. WALSH 10 MAROON 't i tK THE SWAN SONG There’s a smile on your lips but a tear in your heart. For my broad way stretches far. And the rosy flush of this dawn to be Finds you now like a ship on a bar. For the vain regrets of what might have been Are o’erwhelmed by things that are. And you’re facing my paths, for I am Life, Equipped to make or to mar. Consummalum est, and you boldly step To my world that is fraught with care. Today you are here and tomorrow— Tomorrow you’ll be—O where? Will you drift with the tide as transients, Seeking port now here, now there? Will you set a course like Columbus, And to conquer new lands will you dare? O Life, we are fit for the struggle. And we face you with weapons equipped With a faith in the God that created, Wre feel we will ne’er be outstripped By the masses that wander your highways, W'ith pleasure and lust as a goal. That seek the things you willingly'’ grant. But in giving you take your toll. Yes, Life, we are ready to face you, And conscience as compass we’ll use. And your luring lights will be beacons To show us the path to refuse. For we know that the course that we must take Leads not where the sirens nod. And we’ll wander not, though the call be strong. From the path that is marked by God. 20 SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President............................ANTHONY P. UIHLEIN Vice-President..........................JOHN H. HASLAM Secretary,............................GERALD B. WELDON Treasurer..............................JAMES E. JOYCE ALOYSIUS F. ARTHUR. A.B. 1332 Lexington Avenue NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, ’16 Al Assistant Baseball Manager (3); Baseball Manager (4); Circulation Manager. Fordham Monthly (4): Frisch Testimonial Committee (4). WHEN memory alone is left us, and our college days arc a thing of the past, we will all remember Al—if all else be forgotten—for his sticktoitiveness. He is genial, he spreads sunshine with that smile of his, which we never remember seeing him without, excepting when a certain white-haired Prefect of Discipline used to appear on the horizon. He has, in fact, a great many qualities by which we should remember him. but the one that stands out above the rest is that general plugging-at-a-thing-till-he-gets-it air with which he tackles every tiling. Witness this year’s baseball schedule. Our hats arc off to Al for that accomplishment, for it was the best schedule ever arranged by a Fordham manager, a schedule which could not have been put together without the hardest and most persevering kind of work. Al is quiet and unassuming, a hard worker, and when he becomes interested in one undertaking every other activity must yield. Every once in a while he pulls himself away from his schedule, leaves a game pending, and puts in an unexpected appearance in class. With the same regularity and incvitableness as the weekly paper in psychology, you may see Al at every recess plunge into the office, and reappear a few moments later with whole sheafs of mail. These engross him for the following period, since he answers them immediately, in pursuance of his custom of promptness. We like to picture the Al of the future as a man behind the neatest desk in the world—he has an absolute passion for system—doing two days’ work in one. and gettins? there with that aggressive insistence that is so peculiarly his. Keep it up. Al! It is the panacea for lots of ills in this century of ours. EDWARD F. BRESLIN, A.B Seminary Avenue YONKERS. N. Y. Fordham Prep, '16 Booky” College Play (2, 4); Class Baseball (I): Class Football (3); Chairman, Dance Committee (4); Business Manager, Dramatic Association (4). BOOK.Y” came to Fordham many years ago—way back in Prep School, you know. He came quietly, took his place among the other new arrivals and almost at once seemed as though he was an integral part of Fordham. It’s hard, isn’t it, to express that hereditary, appropriate, comfortable sort of feeling that some people inspire in you when you observe them day after day in their appointed places) We hope you catch the idea, because to us who have known him, you might just as well try to present a graduation without diplomas as ’20 with Booky.” We have always found him the same quiet, gentlemanly Ed, ever ready to offer a helpful suggestion, or do a bit more than his own share towards boosting along the interests of die class. There’s not a man among us who’s not glad to have had the opportunity of knowing him. and those who enjoyed the privilege of his intimate friendship during their college years realize in a personal manner the true reasons for his popularity. Nor is Booky s’’ popularity restricted to the class. The fact that he was voted the best dancer in ’20 is mighty significant of the favor which greets him outside the walls of the lecture room. 1 he charm that won for him in school, is even more noticeable when he finds himself in a difficult social position—ladies to right of him. ladies to left of him— it makes no difference how they are grouped, Eddie emerges triumphant. Those of you who attended the first of the Senior Dances saw something of his ability as a manager. Not only was the ballroom crowded but. thanks to BookyY’ efforts, on the following morning our Class Treasurer made the fattest bank deposit of his official career— A most encouraging start. said every one, and we have since had occasion to second that sentiment vigorously and often. JOHN J. BRESLIN, B.S. 409 Stuyvesant Avenue LYNDHURST, N. J. Rutherford High School, '16 Brea' Class Baseball (2); Track Manager (4); Banquet Committee (4). THREE years ago last September John’s father brought his young hopeful to Fordham and entrusted him to our care. The young man proved to be a very satisfactory, though somewhat irrepressible ward. He came to us from Rutherford High School, but after we got to know him we ceased to hold the fact against him. and took him on his own intrinsic value, if you know what we mean. The proposition that no man in the class of ’20 is more lively, full of pep. and vivacious than Bres, was amply proved by the result of the referendum on the matter taken in the class a few months ago. Interested in every activity, social or scholastic, no task was too great for him to try. Yes, John cut a wide swath in social circles during his last two years, though he has managed to conceal most of the exact statistics from our private sleuths. He was frequently seen in the vicinity of 183d Street and Amsterdam Avenue, and we take it that there must have been some reason. Confidential advices from the front indicate that the reason is very nice, which shows that Bres can use good judgment when the occasion demands it. Bres is one of the human question marks of the class. He plays the game safe by admitting nothing at all, and evidently believes that systematic doubt of all statements before they have been proven is commanded by the Scriptures; and. of course, he always follows the Scriptures. Johnny’s ambition is demonstrated by the fact that he took Freshman law in addition to his regular Senior subjects. Only a student of his high caliber could handle both with proficiency. Bres is sure to make a good lawyer, and we fear that Lyndhurst will have to grow considerably if it wishes to hold him. WILLIAM L. BUCKLEY 2233 Creston Avenue NEW YORK CITY Evandcr Childs High School. 17 Count, Buck Varsity Baseball (3, 4) ; Dance Committee (4). THF. COUN I has been with us only two years, but in those two years he has made more friends and more base hits than most fellows make in four. It’s his personality that has swelled his crowd of friends, and those husky arms of his that have swelled his batting average. Bill is one of the best outfielders that ever caught a ball on the Fordham diamond and the fact that everybody knows this, and that not a few have told him so. hasn't made this Ty Cobb of the colleges the least bit conscious of the fact that he’s “there a few.” Bill’s idea of himself is always inversely proportional to his accomplishments, and we are sure that this relation would meet with the approval of the Professor of Ethics as squaring with the objective order of tilings.” Moreover, Bill is just as clever at splitting hairs with philosophical distinction as he is at getting under a fly. and if at any time he is is ever in need of a recommendation for erudition, a ready reference for his philosophical wisdom will be forthcoming from a certain reverend gentleman of Irish extraction who holds sway over Junior Class. So no matter what line of endeavor the Count follows, we are at a loss for a reason to see why he should fail. If he should get into the big game—and who can tell?— he has all the physical cleverness to follow in the footsteps of that other classmate of ours; and if he should choose to pursue a quieter existence, he has all the mental equipment necessary for knocking home runs out of business. Here’s hoping, Count ! CYRIL A. CASEY, B.S. 330 Clay Avenue SCRANTON, PA. Si. Thomas Prep, '16 St. Thomas College (I, 2) Cy First Dance Committee (4); Prefect, Parthenian Sodality (4): College Orchestra (4). LITTLE Cyril didn’t arrive among us until cur Iun;cr tar. Prc ious to that he had been “wasting his sweetness on the desert air” in St. Thomas College, which, for the benefit of the inquisitive, is located somewhere in Pennsylvania. 1 he latter commonwealth, by the way, is Cy’s home state, and Scranton is the particular civic center where he gets his mail during vacation. His first appearance in Fordham was in an army uniform and his last, of course, will be in a cap and gown. In the two-year interval between this change of attire he has succeeded in making himself one of the most popular members of the class. After a short but harrowing experience in the S. A. T. C.. he tendered his card to the class of 1920 and proceeded to unfold such a variety of attractive qualities that he was immediately taken into the fold and became as well known as the most faithful old-timer. The accompanying photograph can hardly give the reader an adequate idea of Cy, since it fails to show either his hands, his feet, or his voice, all cf which arc musical and constitute an important part of his existence. We soon found that Cy could harmonize in any quartet, draw a mean bow on anyone’s violin, trip the festive foot on any dance floor, and get by any man’s exam. To the above qualities he adds a dry humor which never fails to extract a laugh, and a genius for mimicry which is quite refreshing. Cy will take home with him, besides his sheepskin, the best wishes of his many friends in the class. And these same friends feel confident that before many years have passed Cyril will be giving the I. C. S. a mean battle for the honor of being the most prominent product of Scranton, Pennsylvania. 'JOHN' J. CASSIDY. A.B. 922 Ea3t Seventh Street WILMINGTON. DEL. Salesianum High School. ’ I 4 “Rubber,” Cass Crew ( I ) ; Class Football (2) ; Cheer Leader (4); Dance Committee (4). RUBBER,” as he is popularly called, earned his title from the manner in which he bounces back to bed in the morning, after the prefect has made his rounds and roused our John from his downy couch. John came to Fordham from Salesianum High School, Wilmington, in the fall of 1914. He expected to be attending Medical School in 1920, but the fates were against him. John enlisted in the Fordham Ambulance Corps in the spring of 1917 and sailed with them in the summer to France, where he spent twenty months. Fortunately he arrived back in time to join the class of 1920 in their forward march to the old sheepskin. During his experience with the wounded in France, Rubber” must have noticed the shortage of doctors, for when he came back he just waded into Biology, determined that this scarecrow of Seniors and Pre-Meds would be no hindrance in the acquisition of that coveted M. D. He surprised all the boys by the manner in which he laid bare the anatomy of the specimens, until someone remarked that John’s skill with the scalpel might be due to the fact that he had been assistant mechanic in charge of a herd of Fords; and after a performance on a Ford anything else is easy. “Rubber’s” latest venture has been the enlightenment of the inmates of St. John’s Hall by the publication of a weekly paper. Every Saturday night Cass gets his Rumor to press and one of Sunday’s recreations is the reading of tins benighted sheet. Having been twice threatened, he has engaged one of the future lawyers to protect him from any libel. Hard luck, Rubber”! While we are sure that Fordham will be the loser in June, we can rest assured that the U. of P. Medical School will be the gainer in having such a man and student as John Cassidy in their institution. Good luck. Doc! J. EDWARD COYNE, A.B. 302 West Madison Avenue YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO Georgetown Prep, 16 Georgetown University (I, 2, 3) Captain,” Adam” House Captain, St. John’s Hall (4); Dance Committee (4); Varsity Tennis (4). THE CAPTAIN is a newcomer to Fordham this year, but no one has ever held it against him. In fact, he was elected unanimously to the vice-captaincy of St. John’s Hall a month after his arrival, progressing to the rank of captain after the defection of Joe Neuman from the ranks of the boarders. In his new oflice, Ed drew about himself a coterie of aides and advisers, among whom we might mention Joe Gomez, whose social debut in New York was sponsored by “the Captain. Eddie s name is well known in many a metropolitan parlor, and his company is in great demand. It was our own Robby who introduced him to the fashionable circle of the city, but, after that, he required no further patronage from the suave Charlie. His affairs were not, however, without annoyance, and once the Captain soundly berated the faithful Gomez on the subject of a pair of shoes, which the latter had left out in the cold crying for their owner, who never came. The affair rankled so in Joe’s breast that he haunted the Breton Hall for many a day and night, straining every nerve for a glimpse of the shoes or the sound of their plaintive squeak. Adam, strangely so-called, is a student of law. With so many barristers around the men have become quite wary. Forsooth, we fear to cross their paths, lest a law suit come home to roost on the offending head. We have not known “Adam long, but we have known him long enough to like him, and to regret a separation from him. We heartily unite to wish him happy days, and we have good reason to trust that our wish will be speedily fulfilled. HAROLD J. CRAWFORD, A.B. 146 Grand Avenue ASTORIA. L. I. Fordham Prep, 16 Buddie” Class Baseball (2); Tennis Manager (4); Treasurer, Debating Society (3, 4); Dance Committee (4). ONE of Buddie Crawford’s chief claims to fame lies in his membership in the Astoria Triplets, an association in which he is joined by Dinny Dugan and Joe McGrath. Wc do not know whether Astoria is on the map or not. but it surely will be there, metaphorically speaking at least, when this trio of budding geniuses steps forth into the world. Bud’s integrity is proved by his possession of the office of Treasurer in the college Debating Society, a position in which for two years he has distinguished himself as a financier of exceptional ability. Throughout high school and college Bud’s loquacious proclivities have stamped him as the bane of professors, his comparative silence during Senior being due entirely to his extreme proximity to the revered Fountain of Knowledge. In addition to making a racket Bud can also handle one. and his proficiency on the court has earned him the position of Tennis Manager. We strongly suspect, though, that Bud’s faults are not confined entirely to tennis but that he is addicted to love games and courting in environments where nets and chalk lines are not in evidence. 1 he young man made a special request that nothing untoward concerning him be said in these pages, so there must be a certain winsome Astorian damsel to whom he wishes to show them. To her we can only say that there really isn’t anything unfavorable to be said about Bud, for he is a miehtv nice chap and a credit to Senior, to Fordham, and to Astoria. PALL A. CUNNINGHAM,. B.S. 28 West 95th Street NEW YORK CITY St. Francis Xavier Prep, ‘16 ‘‘Pop” Assistant Business Manager. The Maroon; Class Baseball (I, 2, 3); Class Football (2); Varsity Basketball (4); Treasurer, Athletic Association (4). BY these signs ye shall know him’’ is the Biblical formula by which we introduce the ever popular “Pop.” Since his coming in '16 his good spirits and keen wit have always served as gloom dispellers for the scholastic blues. He is a philosopher in the truest sense of the word. He is the eternal question mark, puncturing his conversations with “Why? and “How do you know? In Freshman he found no difficulty in mastering the intricacies of the various subjects. When the baseball season came around Pop showed how second base should be played, holding down that position with the finesse of a veteran. In Sophomore he found old Oedipus too musty a character so he adopted the study of the atom and the contradictions of valence. After a turn in the Navy, “Pop returned to Junior and was elected Treasurer of the Athletic Association, and this called for a knowledge of economics, a formidable and complicated science. Perhaps this was the reason for his assiduous application to the study throughout the year. Senior year finds Pop busy with basketball, classes, and the social whirl. But somehow the dances do not seem the same with prohibition in force. (So “Pop says.) He is an advocate of personal liberty and. while he himself is unaffected by it, he contends that, as Forcham men, we must fight for principle. So long. “Pop ! We hope that in the years to come you will retain that sunny disposition with your ready smile and may your career in life be as successful as your college days. THOMAS J. CURRAN. A.B. 38 Harrison Street NEW YORK CITY St. Francis Xavier Prep. '16 “Tom” Class Baseball (I. 2); Class Secretary (I): Basketball Manager (4). Si ILL water runs deep.’’ lorn is usually rather quiet, but you’d be surprised. He came to us from Xavier, where he showed much brilliancy in his work and won great popularity, if we may judge from his host of friends. 1 hus it was that we expected great things from him when he came to Fordham, and we were not disappointed. As a Freshman he was elected to the nerve-racking position of class Secretary, and won the distinction of having held down the job for a whole year without putting pen to paper; probably he committed the minutes to memory. During his course he took a big part in class athletics and saw service on various committees. And it was through his capable management that Fordham came back last winter and re-established herself in the basketball world. A great deal of Tom’s popularity can be traced to his subtle humor. He seldom fails at the psychological moment, to produce a brand of wise remarks calculated to spoil the day for the class crepe hangers. His favorite indoor sport, however, consists of kidding Syl Dinccn. Tom and Syl arc seen together so much that a report has been circulated to the effect that they tie themselves together to prevent either one from getting lost. Rumor has it that Tom no longer has possession of his heart, but we could not ascertain just who has relieved him of such a vital organ; and we can only suppose that she must be very nice. Each one of us, though we were blindfolded, would swear by his choice. Tom’s personality and versatility arc of an equally high order. Speaking of versatility reminds us that, under the able tutoring of Dineen, Tom has become quite a politician. Charlie Murphy had better look to his laurels. CHARLES A. CURTIN. A.B. 1 7 South White Street SHENANDOAH. PA. Shenandoah High School. 14 Charlie Associate Editor, The Maroon; Class Track (I): Class Football (2); Secretary. Parthenian Sodality (3): Prefect-elect, Parthcnian Sodality (’17). CHARLIE started with the class of 1918, but at the end of his Junior year he decided to take a leave of absence and went to France with the Fordham Ambulance Corps. The War Department thought so much of him as an ambulance driver that they kept him at it for a year and a half. At the end of that time he left the Allies flat, returned to Fordham with three service chevrons on his arm, and enrolled in the class of 1920. It might seem that studying is a prosaic pastime compared with driving a car over a torn-up road on a dark night, but the returned veteran immediately proceeded to set a dizzy pace in the classroom. Perhaps these same nocturnal joy rides gave him a good chance to study the stars, and might thus account for his proficiency in Astronomy. But it is hard to see just where a fellow could get any advance notions on Ethics or Psychology from army life, so we must conclude that there is something more than prime matter in our hero’s head. The gentleman from Shenandoah has decided to become a lawyer, perhaps with the idea that his experience with ambulances in France has qualified him to chase them in search of legal trade. But we don’t expect him to be reduced to this particular method of drumming up a clientele, for here is a man whose wisdom is not confined to his back teeth. Charlie is a member of the editorial staff of the MAROON, and is responsible for the Class War Record, which appears in this volume. I Iis own war record is one to be proud of, and the same may be said of his class record. We give it as our opinion that Charlie will be setting many other records before long, and that the scene of action will not be confined to Shenandoah. JOHN J. DILLON. A.B. 791 Jackson Avenue NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, ‘16 “Jack,” “Mousie, “Co-sage Editor-in-Chief, The Maroon; Edi-tor-in-Chief. Fordham Monthly (4); Associate Editor. Fordham Monthly (I. 2. 3); Secretary. Debating Society (2, 3); Prefect, Parthcnian Sodality (3, 4); Assistant Treasurer. (S. A. T. C.) ; Vice-President, St. Vincent De Paul Conference (4); President. Debating Society, Res. (4). THE casual reader whose eyes fall upon the array of honors which rest on the shoulders of Jchn Joseph Dillon must suspect that Mousie is a rather prominent figure in his class. And. as a matter of fact, he is. As the ranking lilcrateur of Fordham. the class of '20 points to the energetic editor of their crowning effort with a degree of pride and satisfaction born of a realization of unquestioned superiority. In the realms of philosophy and the classics, the mind of a thinker and the soul of an artist have won for Jack the title of “co-sage which he bears with a modesty at once unaffected and refreshing. A sunny disposition, added to the sterling qualities of a fine character go to make the subject of this sketch a fellow whom the retiring class can never forget. Of course, the boy falls short of the perfection which the preceding paragraph might suggest to the reader. He holds the material sciences in profound contempt, and the same Dillon, who can handle the iambic pentameter with the case of a Shelley, has been known to falter in the sanctum of I .avoisier and Gay I .ussac. Into his life the sunshine of love has yet to filter, and his heart is adamant to the eyes of a maiden. But the mighty fall, and, in the course of life, we expect to see the well known figure of our old friend “Jack si houetted against the rising moon, and, beside him, the One who has stolen his heart. We find it rather hard to say Good-bye to Jack, but wc must say it soon so it will be a “Good-bye with a hearty wish for the best the world has to offer a good fellow. SYLVESTER A. DINEEN. A.B. 352 West 28th Street NEW YORK CITY St. Francis Xavier Prep, 16 -Syr Class Baseball (1, 2, 3); Ring Committee (3); President Athletic Association (4). SYL DINEEN! Who is he? Despite the necessity of volumes to answer this question, we shall endeavor to epitomize his qualities so that the man himself may be made clear to all who read. He entered Fordham from Xavier in 1916. the leader of the other Xavierites who came with him. In Freshman his most difficult task was the pursuit of the elusive cosine, and on catching up with it. he worried no more but devoted his time to chasing the spheroid, at which he was a greater success, obtaining an outfielder’s berth on the Freshman team of that year. Sophomore year was uneventful except for a football game in which he proved that Fordham had lost a great star when he renounced the gridiron with all its knocks and bumps. Toward the end of Junior, Syl was elected President of the Athletic Association and held this office during his Senior year, although it could not truthfully be called a sinecure. In Senior, also, Syl began the study of biology as a preparation for the study of medicine. Syl is a kind of beau ideal of Fordham men. at home in the banquet-hall, the ballroom and the parlor. There is no sport with which he is not conversant, and is, ir. addition, something of an athlete himself. A jovial-spirited good fellow, an athlete, a talker and. above all, a leader of men—all these, and more, are the attributes applicable to him and well, indeed, does he deserve them. They say that “nobody loves a fat man.” Syl is one rather stout contradiction to this generalization. May his shadow never grow less! PAUL V. DONNER. B.S. 2460 Tiebout Avenue NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, 16 “Dutch” Class Basketball ( I ) ; Class Foot ball (I); Varsity Handball (I); Dance Committee (4). AMONG the few real Fordham products of our illustrious class is Paul Donner, who, up through the various stages of Prep and College, has seen many of the Class of ’20 appear only to disappear from student life. When conditions were more settled and the class which claims us put teams on the field regularly, Paul could always be found in the midst of the inter-class battles. When, as Freshmen, our class football team reigned supreme, he aided mightily to wrest the title from the overconfident Juniors. Paul never claimed all-around athletic prowess, but we have him indexed as merely not caring for Varsity honors in one branch of sports or another. A game which has held him as an enthusiast is handball. When Fordham supported a Varsity handball team our class was well represented, and if we were wise wc would have challenged the different classes, with Paul as our mainstay. He is also reputed to be a past master at running off high scores on the billiard tables, but he refuses to meet the “Duke” for the class championship. 1 here is no one who can beat Donner when it comes to making the prof believe, by his studious appearance, that he is a wing-less angel in class. Of course we all know from long experience how’ far this is from fact, but w’c enviously hand our man the palm. This year there seems to be such a collection of outside activities that very often Paul’s well-known name is missing among the D’s. We do not believe that social activities or the fair sex cause the delinquency, but you never can tell. If this be true, we would like to shake the lady’s hand, for never has Paul been considered otherwise than as a reliable member of the Bach. Club. DAVID L. DUGAN, A.B. 84 Woolsey Street ASTORIA. L. I. Fordham Prep, 16 Dinny'' Class Baseball (I ) ; Varsity Baseball (3. 4); Dance Committee (4). DINNY enjoys the unique distinction of being both the youngest member of Senior and one of its tallest. It will be several years before he can call himself a man and cast his vote for the Town Constable, for he has but lately discarded his rattle and the elongated trousers still feel a bit uncomfortable. Dinny’s forte is base- ball. He is a charter member of that confederation of babes in the wilderness known as the Astoria Triplets; and when he isn’t poring over a volume of philosophic lore, which is often, he is out on the back lot tossing a ball around. Since first, while in the cradle, he revealed his proficiency with a bawl, his aptitude for the national game has become increasingly evident. In Junior he blossomed forth as a varsity pitcher with a bright future, and if we accept the conclusion of the philosopher and sportsman. Duke Eustace, the current season also will find him in the swim. Dinny can put hops on the old ball that would discourage the Volstead Act. But his strong right arm is not devoted exclusively to anything as prosaic as a baseball. He displays as pretty a windup in the parlor as he docs on Fordham Field. In other words, in Dinny's story, as in that of every deluded youth, a heroine enters. He should remember when he makes those stealthy visits that a pitcher can go to the well too often. Dinny was in attendance at the first Senior dance, but since then in response to the demands of the older men an age limit has been established for the exclusion of children; so the youngster’s smile will evermore be absent unless its owner is able to sneak in when Jim Joyce isn’t looking. JOSEPH J. EGAN. A.B. 918 Boulevard ASTORIA. L. I. Fordham Prep, '14 Joe Class Football ( 1 ) ; Class Baseball (2): Dance Committee (4). JOE came to Freshman from Fordham Prep in ‘14. Coming from the wilds of Long Island, we expected to find Joe a regular backwoodsman with plenty of noise. But Joe is known as cr.c of the quietest fellows in the class. It was his good fortune to have Father Johnson as his class professor in Freshman and, no doubt, it was under his guidance that Joe acquired lus habit of study and his reputation as a good scholar which have been with him ever since. But that the quiet fellow is one to be relied upon to do something was well proved when war was declared. Joe joined the 77th Division and Uncle Sam never found him shirking any work that was before him. no matter how great was the attending danger. Joe was a model soldier and we are certain that, whatever line ol endeavor he follows, he will do it as thoroughly and earnestly as he obeyed his orders. We are glad to have him with us again. Fortunately he was discharged in time to return to Ford ham and achieve his scholastic ambition, the attainment ol his academic degree. The only complaint ever heard from Joe was occasioned by the unprincipled activities of the prohibitionists, directed against the rights of the boys in France. He surely has the support of his class when he voices his protest against the underhand methods of would-be reformers and their Utopian ideas of social betterment. Well, Joe, here’s luck and we are one in hoping that you will join us in a regular reunion some day if we have to go to Reno to enjoy it. 1 ill then, good luck! ROBERT C. EUSTACE, A.B. 1835 Harrison Avenue NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep. ’ I 5 Bobby, The Duke Dance Committee (4). AMONG the members of the outgoing class there are very few who have received their entire education in the different branches of this institution. Bobby Eustace has the distinction of having come all the way up through grammar school, prep and college at the same old stand. Every college has a few who are close followers of every athletic endeavor. At Fordham Bobby Eustace is certainly one of those known as true blue. Before the last of the winter snow is off the lot. Bob is out with the first of the baseball artists who venture to warm up. Small in stature, but big in pep and enthusiasm, “the Duke” just revels in chasing flics for this or that varsity star. We make bold to state that Bob would rather play ball than eat, so much does he think of the came. Of course, most college men arc present at the games, but there are few who make certain not to miss a practice, as does Bobby. Football is the sport which has second place in his heart, and whether a mere scrimmage or an all-important rival is to be played on any day, you may find him present, giving the team his support. Our man is an authority on the playing ability of all our athletes for the last ten years. It is not generally known outside the class, but “the Duke is something of a boxer. Last year at one of our class smokers he boxed Frank Galuzzi. of Sophomore, for the flyweight championship of Fordham. The bout went four rounds, but Bob claims they stretched it into six or he would have outfought “Battling Frank.” Fordham has no more earnest student and the University no more loyal booster than Bobby Eustace, little in frame but big in zeal. FRANCIS M. FIELD-McNALLY, A.B. 107 East Polk Avenue CORONA. N. Y. C. Brooklyn Prep, ‘16 ••Mac” Debating Team (I); President, Debating Society (2); Prefect, Pnrthcman Sodality (2); Ram Staff (2); Prize Debate (4); College Play (4). TFIE fall of nineteen sixteen introduced among the resident Freshmen Francis M. Held-McNally. It seems that at the request of one of the faculty Held began to handle “America” for the college classes and earned the name America” from many of his patrons, who at that time knew him by no other title. However, they were not destined to remain long ignorant of his identity. Because of certain natural qualifications, such as readiness of speech and a not-to-be-denied love for an argument, Ficld-McNally chose debating as the main outlet for his great store of dynamic energy. As a Freshman he caused the dignified upperclassmen not a few moments of annoyance by his fine appreciation of the workings of parliamentary procedure, and Sophomore year found him trying by all means to raise up a nearly inanimate debating organization to the bloom of life. A new constitution came forth from his trusty typewriter and was guided to acceptance against hostile Juniors and Seniors by the firm hand of its author. He was elected President, and mainly through his efforts the society trebled its membership. With Field as the leader of the organization every meeting was made exceedingly smoky by the rivalry of the different factions. At the beginning of Junior year Field was attending the aviation section of the Catholic University Training Corps, but he returned here at the opening of college. 1 his year, besides his usual activity in debating, he is running an Ozanam debating society, is taking a couple of courses at Columbia, and has a place in the dramatic production. When Mac leaves Fordham the college will lose one of its most picturesque characters, a man whose enthusiasm is unbounded, whose thirst for knowledge is never satiated, and whose originality is certainly, to say the least, refreshing. WILLIAM F. FINN, B.S. I 7 Walnut Street NORTHAMPTON. MASS. St. Michael's High School. ’16 BiH- Associate Editor, The Maroon; Varsity Baseball (I. 2. 3, 4); Captain, Baseball (3); Class Secretary (2); Varsity Basketball (4) ; Dance Committee (4). V yTELL, boys. I’m here. These words floated across the campus for the first time W in our memory about four years ago, and served to introduce that athlete extraordinary, Bill Finn. Bill is another one of our fifty-seven varieties from Massachusetts, and hails from Northampton. He never seems to have been affected by the backwardness of a freshie, but entered immediately into the life and drew a wide circle of friends around him. But we were destined to hear great things of this same Bill Finn. Rumors began to reach our ears that he had come to us with a reputation as a pitcher, and a good one at that. Bill certainly lived up to all the good things that had been said about him. for in his very first year he was one of the Varsity mainstays on the mound and won the coveted F.” Bill’s baseball career, as a pitcher and second baseman, covered his entire course, and as a Junior he captained that memorable team which was barely nosed out of the Eastern championship. Bill tells us that the boys up home always called him Speed.” Well, they knew. Bill didn’t confine his speed to the diamond, however, but carried it with him into the classroom. Let it not be thought that he was at all deficient as a mental athlete— far from it. Work on the field never spoiled his work on the books, as any of the “Pill-box boys will testify. Why, he was one of the special writers for the MAROON. ’Nough said! We are forced to give Bill away, however. We hope the young lady up home won’t be angry with him, but we feel it is our duty, as his biographer, to report that he is seen on the avenue quite frequently with his lady friends of the village. But, as Aristotle would say, “You can’t blame him for that! WILLIAM P. GANNON. A.B. 3 74 Forrest Avenue JERSEY CITY. N. J. St. Peter's Prep, ' I 6 St. Peter’s College (1,2) Gink” Associate Editor, The Maroon; Football (3): Class Treasurer (3); hirst Dance Committee (4). READER, meet Mr. Gink” Gannon of Jersey City. Wc first knew Gink’’ as a sailor, then as a student, and, from the start, everyone liked him. He has his troubles, without doubt, but he hides them under a smile, and we all smile with him. He is the type of man who is of some value to a class, and his value is not unappreciated by those who have known him. There is an energetic and virile something in “Gink’s make-up that diffuses itself through those who work with him. It is indescribable, but it is there, and we are glad to have it. As a student, he is always awake to the fact that he is there for a purpose and he has well fulfilled it. He is a man who takes hold of his task and brings it to a conclusion without a display of effort or fatigue. Bill Gannon is a humorist by nature. He is not a self-conscious purveyor of jokes to a smirking audience, but a vein of humor runs through his make-up, which delights but never stings. He has secured his niche in our Hall of Memories, and we can always recall his good-humored smile with a sense of good-fellowship and esteem. If strength and quality of character mean anything to a class of college men. he ought to go down in our history as a fellow worthy of our highest regard and our sincerest wishes for happy days in the life upon which he is about to embark. WILLIAM B. GARDNER, A.B. 468 Walnut Street ELIZABETH. N. J. St. Peter’s Prep, ’ I 5 St. Peter’s College (I. 2. 3) ’’Bill” Dance Committee (4). BILL is another of the products of St. Peter’s Prep who finally drifted into our illustrious class. In 1915 he accepted a high school diploma without any qualms of conscience, and entered St. Peter’s College. It seems that he hailed originally from Rahway, N. J., and his bucolic surroundings made him the subject of the urban chidings of his fellows. Despite this titanic handicap he played on the class baseball and basketball teams in his Freshman year, and as a Sophomore became a valued member of the Dramatic Society. It is even rumored that during this year he concentrated on study and won a prize in Chemistry, though the charge may be without foundation and we have no affidavits to support it. As a Junior he found time to abandon Rahway in favor of Elizabeth, thus shielding himself from further attack from his fcllow-class-mates of the Metropolis. By the end of this year the late unpleasantness was at its height and Bill entered the Coast Artillery Corps, but the armistice deprived him of the commission for which he had been striving. He became so enamored of army life, however, that he stayed on Uncle Sam’s payroll until April, 1919, and made quite a name for himself in and about Baltimore, as captain and forward of the champion Fort Howard basketball five. When finally discharged, he found that St. Peter’s had closed and migrated to Fordham. W'c found that his forte was in the parlor, and he soon made it clear that he intended to take everything easy in the class-rooms. In the matter of coming late in the morning he gave Syl Dineen a hard fight for the brown derby and hand-painted suspenders. But perhaps that’s only Bill’s unique way of expressing his contempt for the conventions. You never can tell. JOSEPH M. GOMEZ. A.B. 902 Washington Street BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS St. Joseph’s High School, ‘16 St. Charles College (I. 2. 3) “Joe Dance Committee (4). UP from the sunny South at the opening of Senior year came Joe Gomez to share in and add lustre to the name of Fordham. The ways of our system troubled him but little. Joe immediately became one of the hardest workers in the class and applied himself so well that for a long time many of the inhabitants in the back rows didn't know he was in our midst. Few are acquainted with Joe’s hobby, but by close observation of his movements wc find out that he is a devotee of the theatre. As soon as he became installed in New York, our lone-star representative began to apply himself to his favorite study, comedy of the musical variety. Free afternoons and vacation evenings still find him in attendance at the foremost Broadway productions. He modestly tells us he has seen only fifty or so. but we have our doubts. His favorite magazine is the Clipper, with the Billboard running a close second. St. John’s 1 lall gives Joe the crown for obtaining information, and he has gathered a wealth of Fordham lore. Speaking of gathering wealth reminds us that “five-hundred” is evidently in vogue in Brownsville, and whoever has Gomez for partner is a lucky man; to quote “Adam Coyne, “he holds a wicked hand.” In the matter of ancestry, the Texan is easily long distance collegiate champion, for one of the top branches of his family tree came over with Columbus. In closing, we might remark that Joe has plenty of laughs in his make-up, but a word from the prof reduces him to utter silence for a week. He prefers his car to one of the bronchos on the Bar G ranch, and if it were not for Mexico’s stand on the prohibition question Joe says he would adopt New York at once as his permanent home. • LAWRENCE C. GORMAN, A.B. 15 East 199th Street NEW YORK CITY St. Francis Xavier Prep. '16 ''Larry'' Varsity Handball ( I ) ; Class Football (2); Dance Committee (4). BE careful, Gorman, you’re too young!’’ The whole class jumped. Yes, the Professor spoke those words, but nobody knew why. Every one looked towards Larry; Larry looked embarrassed and the prof looked daggers. But almost im mediately the official gaze softened and the lecture was resumed as though nothing had happened. What caused the observation? Why were there no introductory remarks? Why was the incident closed so quickly?’’ Those are questions still unanswered. Some day the solution may come to light but as yet no one has even hazarded a guess. Larry, you know, is a quiet, self-contained individual who rarely speaks unless he has something very definite to say ; all of which leaves us still more in doubt as to what may have provoked the aforementioned warning. The object of it all makes no comments, and the incident bids fair to die a natural though unexplained death. And then, Larry likes his comfort. If you don’t disturb that, you’re his friend. We remember the time when some careless person parked in his favorite chair and tire riot that followed. The offending party got hard headed and refused to move, whereupon Larry’s distress was sad to see, for he had to spend an entire hour perched on the edge of a strange chair. Now he comes early and avoids the rush. Larry joined us at the beginning of the Freshman year. He is one of tire gentlemen from Xavier. Why he ever went to Xavier while living so near Fordham Prep is. of course, beyond us. Perhaps he liked the travel or perhaps he heard of Xavier first (which is almost unthinkable) ; at any rate, he finally did come to Fordham, which in itself is pretty strong evidence that he is really headed on the high road to success. JOHN H. HASLAM. Jr., B.S. 5 I 5 Estill Avenue SAVANNAH. GA. Catholic University ( 1 ) Benedictine High School, ’15 Cracker.” Harry” Manager, Class Baseball (2); Class Vice-President (4); Dance Committee (4). BASEBALL is not the only organization that can display a Georgia Peach. for the Class of ’20 will be ably represented below the Mason-Dixon line by Cracker Haslam. Harry came to us from Catholic University in February of our Freshman year. He was not seen about the campus very much until the warm weather set in, because “we Southerners do not like cold weather. Everybody knows “the Cracker now, however. Whether the main attraction is his ever-present smile or his well-known drawl we are not quite sure, but the fact remains that Harry is seldom lonesome. At the first suggestion of a little party— just fellows, you know”—I larry is all attention. Smokers and stag affairs are his long suit, but he was never particularly interested in indoor pastimes involving the fairer sex. 1 here is a reason, however—a very nice reason. We have done some detective work and have found the explanation for those daily letters that “Cracker receives—yes, they are all written in the same hand. Harry is quite a letter-writer himself, and, of course, it is not to be supposed that the astronomy course was his only experience with the stars. But, as Kipling says, that is another story. W'e don’t like to offend 1 Iarry’s modesty, but we feel it is our duty to put him down as one of the finest and most manly fellows in the class, a good student, clever and witty in conversation, and true blue. We predict for him great success in the business world and heartily believe that he was made to do big things in that line. 1 his has been evidenced several times while here in his proficient management of class atfairs. So good luck. “Cracker.” and may you long enjoy the sunny days and well known moonshine of the South! FRANCIS J. HIGGINS. A.B. 2774 Bainbridge Avenue NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, '16 •Jerry” Varsity Handball (I); Class Foot ball (2): Dance Committee (4). JERRY has been with us from the Prep, and during those eight years his quiet manner and underlying good humor have won for him the respect and lasting friendship of all with whom he has come in contact. His one dissipation is that pipe of his, over the bowl of which his eyes will twinkle, and between puffs of smoke he will let drop a few of his characteristic remarks that are as dry as the tobacco he smokes, but which because of their originality have a much better flavor. He is a great reader and has tackled many a formidable volume, the names and contents of which—let us whisper, lest others hear us—would interest but few of us. “Jerry is quiet and always gives the impression of having something in reserve an impression that afterward passes from potency into act, because Jerry always comes through. And if we are not mistaken, it’s going to be merely another case of history repeating itself, and no matter how quietly Jerry may seem to tackle the problems of the future, no matter how slowly he may appear to move before he acts, we do not believe it a rash prophecy to say that he will come through with the brilliancy and completeness of which he has already shown himself capable. But lest some should take away with them the impression that “Jerry is slow. let us add that he has a keen perception of the Tilings that are Beautiful—an expression which is in no way confined to the Fine Arts, and which is in no way meant to indicate that the above mentioned “Things” refer to an ordinary grammatical parsing of a common noun, neuter gender. Far from it. The “Things that Jerry perceives so keenly is an Uncommon noun, the gender of which is not open to debate. RICHARD H. JONES. Jr.. A.B. 640 59th Street BROOKLYN. N. Y. Bay Ridge High School. ' 16 Brooklyn College (I, 2) -Dick- Chairman. Cap and Gown Committee (4). MIGHTY oaks from little acorns grow. While no giant in stature as yet, Dick is still young and ought to attain great heights when he grows up. For almost twenty years he hid his light under a concealing bushel some place in Bay Ridge, where the busy men of the world had no time to seek him out. However, in Junior year Dick left the dust of Brooklyn College behind him and came in on us one bright morning, our first impressions being mostly of auburn hair and a smile. The latter seems to be as characteristic of Dick as the former. If, dear reader, you would learn of the merits of Bay Ridge, you have only to lend an ear to Dick for a few moments and you will find him a ready advertiser of tire advantages of living in that God-forsaken place. That was his most prominent pastime in Junior year. It took us all a few months to become acquainted with him, so he had no great opportunities to distinguish himself in other lines of endeavor. At the beginning of Senior year, however, Dick was appointed a member of the Cap and Gown Committee and he could be seen daily, taking the measurements of those Seniors who had faith in their own ability to wear the trappings of an educated man. Indeed. Dick became so expert with the tape measure that we voted him a promising tailor. Let us hope that as Dick has proven so very capable in taking our measure, so he will take the measure of the world as we who have known him are confident he will. May he always retain the optimism and buoyancy of his college days, and may his smile prove for others the gloom dispeller it has been to us. JAMES E. JOYCE, B.S. 2984 Briggs Avenue NEW YORK CITY All Hallows Institute, 16 “Jim” Varsity Baseball Squad (I, 2); Class Football (2); Class Baseball (3, 4); Class Treasurer (4); Banquet Committee (4). IN September, 1916, Fordham opened wide her arms to receive Jim Joyce, star mounds-man and ball tosser par excellence of All Hallows. Jim's experience in prep and on the varsity squad has made him a most welcome addition to our class, and many a brilliant game he has since pitched for the honor of ’20. His great bulk and blinding speed struck terror into many a doughty batsman who looked at Jim, took three swings, and subsided. Add to his achievements on the field an unblemished scholastic record and it is evident that Jim may retire from Fordham well satisfied with four years of college life. Perhaps it is because of his thrifty habits that he holds the responsible office of class treasurer. He is, indeed, a diligent official. At the class dances he presides over the entrance to the festive route and takes the long, green toll. The reason for this self sacrifice is an innate distaste for the social whirl and all its works and pomp. Verily, he is a treasurer above reproach. It is whispered about that last summer Jim betook himself to the wilds of New Jersey as a propagandist in the employ of an enterprising soap company. To think that a man who had drunk deep of the well of philosophy should thus apply himself! Or. mayhap, he employed his powers of logic to foist this lathery innovation on the aborigines of the Raritan. But, whether Jim maintains his connections with the execrable industry or branches out into some field more genteel, may success and happiness attend him on his way. JOSEPH R. KELLEY, B.S. 120 Beckman Avenue NO. TARRYTOWN. N. Y. North Tarrytown High School. 16 ‘'Joe,” Kel. ‘‘The Sage” Assistant Editor. The Maroon; First Censor, Debating Society (2); Prefect Parthenian Sodality (3, 4); Assistant Chemistry Instructor (S. A. T. C.); Associate Editor. The Fordham Monthly (4); President. St. V'incent de Paul Conference (4). FOUR years ago a young man strode into one of the rooms on Junior Corridor, glanced critically at the four bare walls of his future abode, and remarked with a quaint touch of humor. “Some barn!” With this introduction he released his strangle-hold on a suitcase bearing the euphonious legend, “Joseph R. Kelley.” And such was the first appearance in Fordham of the arch-scientist of the class of 1920. There arc those who claim that J. Reynolds lisped chemical formulae at the age of three, and it has been whispered about that his favorite diversion as a child consisted in making astronomical observations of whatever stars strayed so far from their courses as North Tarrytown. Wherefore he has been nicknamed “ 1 he Sage.” But net alone in science does the favorite son of Sleepy Hollow shine. During the past year Joe shocked himself and his well-wishers by suddenly branching out as a literary light of the first magnitude, and before we knew it he had literally run amuck in the field of literature. Take notice that he is also the Assistant Editor of the MaROON. Glancing for a moment at the debit side of his personal ledger, we notice that he is merely a B. S., and (which is worse) that he glories in his invincible ignorance of the language of Homer. However, perhaps we can regard this drawback as one of the eccentricities of genius. Likewise he has a choleric disposition which vacillates between the heights of optimism and the slouch of despond. But for all that. Jce is one of the best of fellows. We kid him a good deal because he takes it well and is never at a loss for a comeback. So here’s to his success, and he will take with him the best wishes of the entire class when the time comes to say “Gocd-bye, Joe. Take keer yerself!” • JOHN E. KELLY. A.B. 64 Mercer Street JERSEY CITY. N. J. St. Peter's Prep, '16 St. Peter’s College (1.2) Ker Dance Committee (4). JOHN first greeted the rosy-fingered dawn in that part of Jersey City which rests at the mouth of the Hudson on its westward bank. A great many characterize the city in question as ‘’retiring. Of this we are not quite certain. But we have no doubt about the application of the word to John’s disposition. His personality is one which invites study. His mannerisms, his speech, his style, so unconscious of the ego, at once attract and bind whomsoever they come in contact with. He is so interested in other men, so studious in observing their accomplishments, that he forgets himself in the intensity of his own hobby, and as a result is a most interesting type of individual, in these times of self-centered people and pompous egotists it is refreshing to sec such a one as John. Like some twentieth century Boswell, he observes much and is a very oracle of information when he chooses to disseminate it. However, as this is but a short biography we will permit Shakespeare to say for us. More of this after dinner.” John went right through St. Peter’s from grammar school to Sophomore, and would probably have gone through to the bitter end at that institution, had not its closing deflected his course to Fordham. And Fordham was glad to receive him. The present year finds him at the end of his scholastic career, and at the threshold of a new life whose paths lead in many directions. But certain it is that no matter what profession in life he may follow, no matter what position the future holds for him. his quiet unassuming way will make him a host of friends and win for him a something which a king's ransom can never purchase—the esteem of all with whom he comes in contact. a.b. oo V� a W t-cc F CA') . ' R.ay F ootV� iil ,aRCT (. A ) i 13 i...v.c %—omm icK HT c� t mor� ia C o m nr itt C3 joy in “slickint; ih« ok a t Ray. 1—1 e has vV� ar any other singl «s 'T-,'' _ � n ierto extent tlx at it' alw v-. .V � MiU s theory off «n ' nha t stxints for him is no reason 1- hat he possesses initiative and fact that it was lu e to him ivcr sity was arranfted. ______,s. -with the inevitable pencil • nc only official reporter. rhe __ .Wen to Fordham articles since SV = «= ___hands in is more «han W ---- the ball-room - _m C1« ■ - - . • ELMER R. KNOBLOCH 409 Edgecombe Avenue NEW YORK CITY. N. Y. Fordham Prep, '15 Knobby” Censor, Debating Society (3) ; Dance Committee (4). AND now we come to the chevalier of chevaliers—the most heinous of the Bohemians. Behold him: E. R. K., erstwhile of Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. Yet, you survey his atrociously blase mien even as a stranger. And what, in truth, can a stranger gather from a cold, flat halftone? One must know Elmer —one must take a deep breath and plunge down to inconceivable fathoms before the hidden pearl can be filched from the retiring conche and haled forth into the shimmering halo of mid-day. But not much longer shall you be held in suspense. For lo, he is even now at hand. See! Elmer is effusing: “I like best laughter and conversation, preferably in the company of middle-aged ladies. The older they are the greater their knowledge of life, and the greater their knowledge of life, the more they interest me. I like next best the delights derived from good music and the ballet. (Ah, the ballet!) My favorite study is human nature and etymology. Altogether I am rather a cynical person, but generally succeed in disguising the fact when desirable. Awfully good-natured when I choose to be—more or less indifferent to the most serious things—a lover of frivolity and outrageous fads.” And there you are! Falk about caprice! Rave about temperament! Still, could anyone who gloats over Rupert Brooke and Baudelaire and Rabindranath Tagore be other than capricious? Could the chubby mite born way down South in 1897 among all the French settlers from Acadia, bred in New Orleans and toted North to Manhattan in 1912—could this mint-julip’t soul ever lean toward anything but the sublime? And finally, if you sometime have the pleasure and the honor to meet Knobby, speak to him of the Relativity of 'l ime and Space and of Phenomena and Noumena. Fie just revels in such things. In fact, he actually dotes on them. GEORGE C. LASHER, A.B. GREAT NECK, L. I. St. Francis Xavier Prep. 15 Dutch, Lash Varsity Baseball Squad (2); Assistant Track Manager (3); Class Baseball (3): Assistant Sporting Editor, The Ram (3): Dance Committee (4). A YEAR before the Class of 20 appeared on the horizon Clarence Lasher matriculated into Freshman from Si. Francis Xavier Prep. Though within easy commuting distance, he decided on the more or less strenuous life of a boarder, but just what he did during that year is a mystery to the wielder of this recording pen. In the following Autumn, however, the Class of ‘20 burst in all its splendor upon the scene, and proceeded to get acquainted. When those of us who are boarders graced the Faculty Building halls, ripe for the Hallowe’en plucking, we remember that Lash and his gang helped in our reception. During the next year “Dutch’’ worked hard to get scoops for the late-lamented Ram and assisted in its sale among the students. He was always interested in college activities, and would have been manager of track if the cloud of war had not interrupted his course. Like most of the students during this year, “Dutch” was thinking mostly of the war and how lie might gel into it. Consequently when the Marines started recruiting at Fordham they found him in a receptive mood. Their “first-to-fight” promises evidently appealed to him. because llie end of the school year found him at Pans Island. Long years of drill at Xavier made the new leatherneck stand out at once and he was made instructor. This, however, proved a millstone around Lasher’s neck, for when he could have won rapid promotion because of his education and fitness, expert knowledge of bayonet and infantry drill held him at the training camp. So he had to be content with seeing America first. Doing his bit on this side of the Atlantic held him back for a year in college, but gave him the opportunity, not to be lightly tossed aside, of graduating with the Class of 1920. If fate will always smile upon him to die same degree, we envy him his chances for success. GEORGE A. LEE. B.S. 58 West Wooster Street DANBURY. CONN. Danbury High School, 16 General” Class Baseball (I, 2): Banquet Committee (4). GEORGE is a quiel lad. inoffensive and retiring. He is unlucky, too. 1 he black bird of suspicion, when it flics abroad, always come home to roost on the head of the fated “General.’ I he lines of care which furrow his open countenance tell the tale of many a bitter and futile struggle against the disciplinary nemesis who haunts him through the years. And yet he has deserved better of the Fates. True, he loves the downy couch and prefers the warmth of the covers to the chill of a church-pew when the boreal blasts whistle across the open plains which roll away to the north. True, indeed, he loves liberty and chafes under the restraining bit of the “ratio studiorum,” but George is obedient to authority, and we sincerely hope that the miseries of unmerited castigations, which have hitherto seared his life, will leave him more fortunate in the days that will come. As a student. George ranks high among his classmen. His treatment of the intricacies of analytic geometry and the mysteries of physics and chemistry has marked him as a man of resource and indefatigable patience. George has the courage of his convictions, and he backs his opinions with his life’s blood. Such a spirit must needs appeal to the hearts of men, and we watch the train that bears him home to Danbury with a hopeful assurance that he has little to fear from the obstacles that clutter the pathway to success. There is none at Fordham to begrudge George the prosperity that should be his. His generous, open nature has made him a favorite with all and it is with something more than a passing regret that we clasp his hand and tell him to “be good.” ALFRED J. LEFEVRE. A.B. 220 East 202nd Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, 16 “Al Class Baseball ( I ) : Captain, Class Football (2); Varsity Baseball (2, 3, 4); Captain, Varsity Baseball (4); Dance Committer (4); Chairman, Frisch Testimonial Committee (4); History Instructor, F. P. (4). THERE’S no need of introductions. It's Al—you all know him. Sort of feel as though you’d always known him, don’t you? Well, those are our sentiments exactly. I here are few men in the class who are better known or who possess a greater measure of popularity. He deserves every bit of it. Hasn’t he been here helping keep Fordham on the map for eight years? Our earliest memories of Prep School show Al prominently in the foreground and he has kept out front ever since. Way back in the days when they first started talking about Frank Frisch, Al was his bosom companion and used to spend hours watching Frischic as he gained fame. Then on other days, according to the word of a certain Prof who knew Al well, you’d find him diligently playing ball on a secluded lot in Bedford Park. He got plenty of joshing from the boys, but who does the laughing now? Al has been a star performer on the diamond ever since Freshman year and this time he is due to run the big show himself. Good luck to you, Al—we are sure you’ll have a winning team behind you. But because we dwell on his batting averages, don’t think all his energy goes into hitting the pill. The boy is “savvy,” and we’d have you know that his name appears among those on the Prep Faculty as well as on the sporting page of the papers. He’s our one and only advocate with the mighty. And then when it comes to a tea-fight, you should see Al manage a cup of tea while he balances two or three side dishes at the same time. He protests that society is not his line, but one only knows what one can see from time to time and the evidence runs rather against him. “Now. as I tell my kids.---------” william b. McDonald 1223 Park Place BROOKLYN. N. Y. Brooklyn Prep. '18 Bill. Mac-College Smoker Committee (4). AMONG the strange faces that met our gaze as we entered the class-room at the beginning of Junior year was that of Bill McDonald. It was not long after that we knew more of Bill than a passing glance could reveal. From the first day we saw that we had a new classmate who could handle the mysteries of ontology and logic with an ease that made that self-satisfied paragon of academic perfection, the Fordham bachelor of arts, move about uncomfortably on his pinnacle and clear his throat in the most plebeian fashion. Bill was by no means forward. Rather, his natural reticence kept us from an intimacy with the man long after we had learned to admire the student. It is unnecessary to say that we like him. His reserve does not impair his worth in the least. We have always found him to be pleasant and obliging, and talkative at the proper time. But he has that most desirable attainment—an ability to be silent when there is nothing to say. Were mankind of such a stamp, Horace could never have written his satire on the omnipresent bore. Let me say, moreover, that Bill is a Fordham man. He came to us, an advanced class, as a stranger, but he has fitted himself into the place that is always open for a man. He made Fordham’s interests his own and he has been a credit to his new attachments throughout his course. We are sorry that the time has come to part, when we know that it means the end of such pleasant acquaintanceships. We arc sorry, too, dial we did not know you before, Bill, but we are glad to have known you long enough to wish you Godspeed with all the sincerity and esteem at our command. JOSEPH D. McGRATH, A.B. 236 Elm Street LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y. Fordham Prep. '16 “Mac” College Play (2, 4); Cap and Gown Committee (4): College Smoker Committee ( 4). POR I IA , healthy, comfortable looking is Joe. and that—with the proper metaphorical changes—is his character as well as his appearance. In spite of the fact that he hails from the chaotic wilderness of Long Island City, there is no one more loyal to Fordham in general and the Class of ’20 in particular than is Joe. It has never happened that a class meeting was adjourned without Joe having first risen to his feet in that stately manner acquired by long practice in the Debating Society and given expression to some excellent advice. He has a clear, logical head, a facility of expression and an case of delivery that ought to stand him ir good stead in after life into whatever paths he may be drawn. This ‘‘scion of a noble place” has been with us since Prep and has made a host of friends which that quick smile of his will undoubtedly hold for him in the future. Joe’s rotundity suggests that he likes sleeping—universally taken; but, rotundity present or absent, we need no suggestion to know that Joe likes sleeping- particularly taken—in class. If it weren't for the vigilance of his neighbors, we fear that on one or two occasions the sacred stillness of the Senior classroom would have been shattered with vulgar noises that would have borne a very close resemblance to a snore. But don’t get the impression that because Joe indulges in an occasional siesta he is one who misses many tricks. All work and no play is bad for the liver, you know, and since sleeping is play for Joe. it increases lus ‘‘capacity for self-motion and imminent action —and for work, when he awakes. john j. McLaughlin, a.b. 1115 Madison Avenue NEW YORK CITY Loyola High School. ’15 ‘Mac- Varsity Tennis (I, 2, 3): Captain. Tennis (4); Class Baseball (2); Dance Committee (4). MAC arrived among us from that rendezvous of exclusiveness. Loyola School, and immediately proceeded to distinguish himself as a tennis player of cxccplional merit. In his first year out he made the Varsity team and has held forth successfully as one of the Maroon mainstays during his entire course, being our sole representative on the courts during our Senior year. He crowned his efforts this year by being elected Captain, in which office he defended the honor of Fordham against all comers. Johnny is renowned as one of the social lions of the class. When interviewed on this subject, his friend Cy Casey recommended that he be classified as a tea-battler. So we have acted accordingly, and handed him one of the social palms. We might add that he is a quiet sort of fellow, with a slow and drawling way of speaking which may be the secret of his success. Mac signalized the past year by attempting a feat which we have every reason to believe is almost unique in Fordham history. After going through three and a half years as a carefree day-student, he suddenly took it into his head last February to become a boarder. He lasted approximately one week, after which he lost his nerve and withdrew, a sadder but a wiser man. After he had recovered from the subsequent attack of dyspepsia he resumed the even tenor of his way as a twice-a-day patron of the Interborough. Now that the time has arrived when we must say a long and fond farewell to Mac, let’s hope he will carry the prowess he shows on the tennis courts into wider fields, and be able to slip over many a service ace when he crosses racquets with his business opponents of the future. CHARLES J. MANGEOT. B.S. 824 Hannibal Street FULTON, N. Y. Fulton High School. '16 'Joe” Associate Editor, The Maroon (4); Manager, Intcrclass Baseball League (2); Custodian of Ballot, Debating Society (4); College Smoker Committee (4). THERE is not a man in Kordham who can boast a wider acquaintanceship within the walls or without than Charles Joseph. From lus first hour at Fordham he has increased his clientele day by day, starting with his classmates and progressing per gradus to membership in that most exclusive circle, the “four hundred” of Ford-ham Square. Joe has ever been an ardent admirer of the feminine student, and his sallies to New Rochelle and points west are open secrets among his scholastic confreres. His life has been one of activity. In the class-room or on the debater’s rostrum, his energy and perseverance have never lagged. In the parlor or on the porch, on the waxed floor or the glassy pond, on the boulevard or in the park, he is equally at home. He has even risen to the dizzy heights of a thespian. and his clever impersonation of a French tavern brawler will live long in lire memory of Fordham’s dramatists. Joe’s heart is as big as Joe himself, and, when you stop to consider that Joe is a six-footer, you can readily conceive the size of that fountain of life. It is safe to say that no one who has appealed to its fulness has ever had cause to doubt its beneficence. It has made Joe a favorite among those who can appreciate a man, and such a position speaks well, indeed, for him who has maintained it through his years at college. The future holds success in store for Joe. He deserves the best she has to give and when the years have rolled along and he has gathered to himself what should be his, we can truly say that the Fickle Dame has, for once, kept faith with the man who won her smile. HAROLD J. MARTIN. A.B. 63 Cates Street South Boston. Mass. South Boston High School. ’16 Judy.” Bluebird Class Baseball ( 1 ) ; Banquet Committee (I); Varsity Baseball (2, 3); General Secretary. K. of C., with Ford-ham S. A. T. C. Unit; Class Vice-President (3); Circulation Manager. Fordham Monthly (4); Memorial Fund Committee (4). HOW clearly we recall those fine autumn days when Harold Martin joined our illustrious class! With the much-renowned gladiators of that fall. “Judy occupied apartments at the Ansonia, though we’ve never heard him claim to be a football player. However, at the end of a few weeks the P. L). brought our man to live on Fifth Avenue with the rest of us. Of course it was no time until Harold had made himself popularly known in the class. There are very few to whom the title of “diplomat rightfully belongs, but years ago we handed the palm to Harold Joseph, of South Boston. With “Judy’s habits few are familiar, but we must give space to a failing which he says was contracted many years ago. This is the vaudeville habit. Never a week passes by, in the course of which Harold does not pass judgment on the bill at one Keith house or another. The Bluebird can give a wonderful dissertation on their educational value to anyone who can be persuaded to listen. During the S. A. T. C. at Fordham. the Knights of Columbus launched many activities for the welfare of the unit and the ever-active Secretary was none other than our classmate. He modestly asserted after the close-up here that he had only collected about half a mile of stamps for the boys to use. Harold has always been active in awakening interest and increasing membership in the K. of C. among the students. In fact every member of the faculty, when starting a new project, has found Judy to be a mainstay. But alas, this year our most staid bachelor has launched out into the whirlpool of society, and we have observed to our regret that Harold has a regular schedule. Verily, the old order changeth. THOMAS J. MARTIN. A.B. 1233 Third Avenue NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep. ’16 “Tom” Dance Committee (4) HEY. 1 om, open that window, will you? ’ a voice whispers vigorously across the room. 1 om goes through the desired motions. I wo minutes later someone is awakened from a quiet nap by the icy draft. “Say. who opened that window?” comes a very audible grunt. Shut it down, will you. Tom, before we all catch the Flu?” Yes, ever since we can remember. Tom has had the misfortune to sit near a window, and to many a request for air, more or less, has he responded, 'l et, never have we seen him protest, either by word or expression, that the desires of his classmates were altogether too contradictory, or proved too great a tax on his genial nature. Always smiling and carc-frce. ready for whatever chance might offer, with a bright word for every one; thus has he won a place in the hearts of all his fellows. Nothing so far invented seems to worry or excite him. Profs, books, classes and final exams all look alike to Tom. How he docs it is his secret. We merely sec the results. Tom is another of the faithful clan that stuck together since the beginning of Prep School here at Fordham. One by one, this man and that man has dropped out to enter the world of business, and it is amazing to find how many of these. Tom can tell you about. He knows where they are located, what they are doing and can assemble a goodly group of them on short notice for a smoker or an informal reunion. That’s true Fordham spirit and we congratulate him on his interest in the men who are really members of ’20, though they no longer sit with us each day in class. You’ll come out ahead. Tom. and we all know it. • VINCENT E. MULLER, A.B. I I I East 60th Street NEW YORK CITY St. Francis Xavier Prep, ’16 Yin, ■'Eddie'' Class Baseball (2, 3, 4); Class Baseball (2); Dance Committee (4). IF the writer were asked to name the man who. in his college course, has shown himself most persistent in chasing the filthy lucre, he would unhesitatingly respond: “Vin Muller.” At one time he wished to become a doctor, but evidently the jingle of the coin is as sweet as music to his ears so he has repudiated his life’s ambition. He intends to invade Wall Street and we have no doubt as to his ultimate success in that sphere of high finance, if ambition counts for anything. In the class-room Eddie is very taciturn, most uncompromisingly so when he should be heard. In Junior we were accustomed to parade our philosophical knowledge before one another. Search our memories as we will we can never recall Eddie holding forth on the different states of being. No doubt he believed that enough of the class were worrying about that abstruse subject without his interference. We have, perhaps, come to regard Eddie as one who loved naught but gold. Let us disillusion ourselves. More than once have we seen him sunning himself on Broadway with a fair maiden on his manly arm. and, be it known. Eddie travelled only with acknowledged beauties. Moreover, he loves to dance and no social function of the University has taken place in years at which he could not be found. Turning to the serious side of Vin’s nature, we find him a Senior delving into the mysteries of philosophical speculation. Herein he is of great assistance to the class at large. His answers are so vague that they allow of ample and profitable exploration on the part of his confreres. Armed with his A. B. and an abundant store of persistence he intends to battle, the “bulls” and “bears, and the best wishes of the class go with him, for he has promised to build Fordham a gym with a substantial part of his firs million. JAMES A. MULRY, B.S. 10 P«rry Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham I’rcp. 16 Jim Class Baseball (I, 2); Class Football (2); Assistant Circulation Manager, The Ram (2): First Prefect, Day Scholars' Sodality (4); Cap and Gown Committee (4). JIM MULRY is a distinguished member of an illustrious family. He bears a name that will go down through the years as an integral part of Fordham’s history; but the distinction of membership in the Class of 1920 belongs to him alone of the family. Sometimes a great family name is a handicap bequeathed to an unfortunate though innocent descendant who must be judged by its exacting standard, but Jim is thoroughly capable of accepting the adverse odds and carrying the family colors to new and higher triumphs. Not long ago Fordham might without impropriety have been called Mulry University” for one of the family held the office of President, another was a member of the faculty, and several were included in the student body. Now Jim is lire sole representative at Fordham. He began his high school course at Xavier, but after three years he advanced to Fordham Prep, where he spent the remainder of his preparatory days. Jim has been active in inter-class athletics, as catcher for class baseball teams in Prep and Freshman and as a football hero in Sophomore. Early in 1918 he was made Assistant Circulation Manager of the Ram, the then newly established weekly, and he assisted in making it one of the best college papers and a source of pride and value to Fordham. As hirst Prefect of the Day Scholars’ Sodality, he was selected to write an account of the sodality for the MAROON. Jim is reputed to be quiet and sedate and a man of few words, but this is rather the result of an habitual drowsiness than of an excessively retiring nature. Nearly every one is quiet when he is asleep, and Jim is usually asleep. The responsibility for this is to be laid at the door of Fordham for Jim boarded here one year and he’s been sleepy ever since. JOHN J. MURPHY, A.B. 529 West I 4 1st Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, '16 Jack” Associate Editor, The Maroon; Track Squad (I. 2. 4); Debating Team (I, 2); Tennis Squad (2, 3, 4); Prize Debate (2): College Play (I. 2, 4); Business Manager, Dramatic Association (2); Associate Editor. Fordham Monthly (2, 3, 4); Vice-President, Dramatic Association (3, 4); Dance Committee (4). THERE are versatile men on the roster of the Class of ’20, but most of them must fall into the shadow of humility when Jack appears. As a T hespian he has thrilled more Fordham audiences than any of his classmates, and now in his last year we find him playing a prominent part in the spring play and acting as Vice-President of the Association which produced it, an office which he merited by his untiring work in the sock and buskin. As a weaver of brilliant rhetoric and a wielder of periods, we have no other resource than the age-worn allusion to Athens and Rome, that will convey any notion of Jack’s real worth as a debater. Moreover, his pen has dipped into the fairyland of the light things of life and caught on its point some lacey thoughts, and written them in a metre that is exquisite and peculiarly Jack’s—exquisite and peculiarly Jack’s being synonomous terms. This facility with the pen, coupled with his familiarity with dramatics, has earned him a place on the staff of the Maroon. Not content with all these cultured activities. Jack can throw aside the pen at will and pull himself away from the classical settings of the footlights, and do his little bit at the high jump and on the tennis court. But besides these arts of brain and brawn. Jack has another accomplishment. Just exactly what it is we are rather reluctant to commit to the bold expression of unaesthetic type, but it might be dignified by the name of chronic feminitis, and has a deal to do with soft lights and soft sofas and other Things that are soft and which are neither lights nor sofas, but which are a thousand times more dainty and—er— light. At 'em. Jack! JOSEPH D. NUNAN. A.B. 94 Fcnimore Street BROOKLYN. N. Y. Brooklyn Prep. ‘ I 4 ii v n Joe Varsity Baseball (2); Track (2); Senior President-Elect, Class of 18; Prefect-Elect. Parthenian Sodality ('17); Dance Committee (4); Memorial Fund Committee (4); Chairman. Banquet Committee (4). WE had great hopes for St. John’s Hall this year when Joie was elected Captain of the House, but his inability to enjoy Sunday evenings at the paternal mansion, and at the same time keep in the good graces of the P. D., led him to resign the leadership and become a day student. Joe came from Brooklyn Prep, in the fall of 1914, when the shadow of the great war was just settling over the world, little dicaming that in less than three years he would be in the midst of it. In Sophomore year he was the life of the class at the meetings of the Criterion Club. Here his witty sayings were much in demand and contributed a large share toward the success of this venture of the Sophomore professor. In this year also he suddenly became ambitious to excel in athletic circles, and came forward to bolster up the baseball and track squad. Joe was certainly going big, but the best laid plans of mice and men will sometimes strike a snag. In Junior year, after being elected president of the next year’s Senior class, he heard the call to arms and left all behind to join the Fordham Ambulance Corps. After twenty months of gallant service in France, he came back to us with a Croix de Guerre and a lieutenant’s commission as his spoils of the great war. We have no doubt that Joe will be successful in law school and will afterwards prosper in the practice of his profession. For a man who has proven his worth under circumstances such as existed when he won his sheepskin on the field of battle, it is quite certain that the obstacles of this life will easily be surmounted and the road to success made clear. DENIS F. O'BRIEN, A.B. 50 Beacon Avenue Jersey City. N. J. St. Peter's Prep. ' I 6 St. Peter's College (I, 2) “Dinnie Class Secretary (3): Dance Committee (4). DINNiE came to us from St. Peter's in Jersey City, where he seems to have had a most annoying habit of getting sick. First he contracted pneumonia, then typhoid and still later in the lirst days of his college career, appendicitis; as a result ol which he is prejudiced against the medical profession, having served enough time in the hospitals already. In our opinion, however, it isn't the hospitals that count so much as the nurses who are in them. But, as we say in philosophy, “it's an open question. Perhaps it is because of these early sicknesses that Dinnie has developed into such a broth of a boy. for today he towers to the height of six feet; yet after all. a man needs a big frame to contain such a genial and wholesome good nature as Dinnie’s. 1 Its disposition, like his nature, reminds one of Lincoln, although we must admit that Dinnie is somewhat the better-looking of the two. After our friend had finished his Sophomore year at St. Peter’s College he enlisted in the Naval Reserve and was sent to study for a commission. But the Germans were taking no chances and promptly signed on the dotted line. Dinnie was retired from the active list and Admiral Sims heaved a sigh of relief. The war over, Denis F. X. wended his way back to college; this time to a new Alma Mater, Fordham, St. Peter’s being unfortunately discontinued. However, Dinnie made many new friends in his strange surroundings and was immediately elected secretary of the Junior class. In spite of this terrible handicap, lie finished the year successfully. If we judge correctly Dinnie will emulate Cicero, Daniel O’Connell, Edmund Burke and others like him. We earnestly hope, however, that his Jesuitical ethics will not keep him too poor in his forensic pursuits. MORGAN J. O BRIEN, A.B. 47 East 90th Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, ’ I 6 Obie Associate Editor, The Maroon; Associate Editor, Fordham Monthly (I. 2. 3. 4); Prize Debate (I, 3, 4); Secretary, Debating Society (1, 2); College Play (2, 4); Debating Team (2, 3, 4); Secretary, Dramatic Association (3, 4); Dance Committee (4). EVERY class must have its connoisseur on the niceties of good taste; its critic of all that falls within the ranee of low brow standards. In this respect ’20 has been especially fortunate. Morgan has been with us in Prep School and in College, and has had ample opportunity to furnish a stabilizer from his valuable fund of common sense, and an incentive to great deeds by his clear-cut, snappy exposition of (acts. Those who have known him can vouch for the good results he has been able to accomplish. He is a Radical and a Conservative at the same time, a combination that can’t be beaten, no matter how you try. I o advocate startlingly new plans and at the same lime flavor them with a strong strain of solid practicability, is an attainment as valuable as it is admirable. Any man who has such ability is sure to make his mark and wc arc sure that Morgan’s mark will be recorded high and decisively. All this, combined with his reputation as a debater, may give one the impression that Morgan is essentially a counsellor or a statesman of tire hard, strictly-business type. Nothing could be less accurate. 1 hose who have read the Monthly during the years of his presence on the staff know something of the other side of his nature. For who could write those deep, soul-stirring portrayals of love in all its phases, but one whose thoughts did sometimes wander in the airy realms of Cupid’s kingdom of the heart? But hold? We are catching it ourselves. It is all very well to grant that Morgan may have his own good reasons, but we must heed the call to earth or we too may lose our path among the stars and lack his expert knowledge of the road back to terra firma. WILLIAM A. O BRIEN, A.B. 73 Sussex Street JERSEY CITY. N. J. St. Peter’s Prep. 16 St. Peter’s College (I, 2) ••Bill- Prize Debate (4) ; Dance Committee (4): Banquet Committee (4). ONE of the greatest questions of today is the Irish question. That is why Bill is one of the prominent members of the Class of 1920; for fame has crowned his labors on the subject of Ireland’s woes. I hroughout New York and New Jersey he has delighted and thrilled thousands by his brilliant and uncompromising attacks on the enemies of Irish freedom. Bill is another product of Jersey City. Like his friend John Kelly, he was born and raised within tire shadows of St. Peter’s Church. Naturally, he attended St. Peter’s elementary and prep schools, where tire fruitful seeds of his flowery rhetoric were sown. While still in the prep he won recognition (and several prizes) for his abilities as a debater, and showed great talent in the thespian art. Bill spent two years in the collegiate department at St. Peter’s, and then enlisted in the artillery at Camp Zachery Taylor, where after the most severe intensive training he received his commission as second lieutenant. But fate had not designed him to exhibit his skill against the German strongholds, for the armistice was signed shortly after he received his command. So Bill turned once more to the class-room; being a very sensible chap, he had no intentions of letting his degree get away from him. Accordingly, January of last year found him in his new home in the Junior class at Fordham. Evidently his lieutenancy had not deprived him of a capacity for philosophy, for he completed the year with facility and despatch. In Senior year he has become well-known chiefly as a debater. His strictly parliamentarian tactics in the class meetings has confirmed the universal notion that Bill is moulded for politics and statesmanship, and we look to see him one day as the Senate Chamber’s chief adornment. PETER F. O’ CONNOR. A.B. 676 Ninth Avenue NEW YORK CITY Cathedral College, ’17 Pete. ' Okey” Captain. Varsity Track (4); College Smoker Committee (4). Ai the beginning of last year someone interested in track possibilities at the U. saw our Petey Francis doing a turn on Fordham Field and exclaimed, in a moment of spontaneity: “Watch O’Connor!” Forever afterward when Pete would set about preparing to limber up on the cinder path, this someone always passed the word to a loyal few, and out they trooped to “watch O’Connor.” And Petey Francis, who. by the way, is also well-known at the Paulist A. C., could never hope to steal unheeded a few laps on the loyal few, for the moment Pete appeared, then, too. appeared the crowd. Indeed, “watch O’Connor” it was. Vet in this very watchword we are prone to derive the reason for our captain’s disappointment. It is a fact that a certain accompanying tremor of consciousness goes with the glance of alien eyes. Or perhaps the responsibility lies not so much with the nervousness or the alien eyes as with the consciousness itself. No, no!—never infer that Pete inclines toward self-consciousness. but when one feels that people must be watching him, one is bound to take care that one’s every step, one’s every stride be just right. And therein we believe is to be found the cause for Pete’s debacle. Only six races won! Curse the alien eyes! Without their intrusion. Petey Francis might have won the whole seven! Pete is so intimately connected with the theatrical profession that his popularity with the student body seems unbounded. Pete stands in, as it were, with every chief usher on the Rialto and a nod from him serves as a means of complimentary admission. Besides, Pete likes to sing, especially to blonds. But stop—enough is enough, and then. too. Petey brands once was thinking seriously of—! Truly, enough is enough! WILLIAM J. O’CONNOR, B.S. I 67 Morgan Street TONAWANDA. N. Y. Tonawanda High School. '16 Bill- Associate Editor. The Maroon; Class Football (2); Prefect. Parthcnian Sodality (3); Master of Costumes. Dramatic Association (4); Dance Committee (4). BILL got off to a bad start in the Fall of 1916, when he found himself in Freshman A. In his Sophomore year he blossomed forth as a chemist of distinction and as a halfback in that memorable football game between the warring factions of Section A. Ill luck still pursued him. however, and toward the end of the first term he began to discover what a troublesome luxury a vermiform appendix can be. But our friend from Tonawanda was back among us and going strong again long before the end of the year. As a Junior he finally found his favorite pastime in philosophy, and through the ensuing two years made the bright lights do some fast stepping to keep pace with him. Among other things we might say that Bill is good-natured, disputatious, capable and incredulous. He is studying law and during his Senior year was one of that small but select crew that journeyed down to the Woolworth Building daily in search of legal knowledge. He has had plenty of practice for the cross-examination of future witnesses by his system of harassing professors with all manner of difficulties, and during the last two years he has been battling gallantly with Twiss O’Sullivan and Field McNally for the title of champion questioner of the class. We venture to predict that if he can entangle a plaintiff as well as a professor, he will make many a promising suit look like a worn-out vest. During his last year he also cast off the boarder’s yoke which he had carried patiently for three years, and forsook the familiar “Pill Box” for the greater freedom of the outside world. We missed Bill last year when he left the corridor, and we’re going to miss him more next year when he leaves Fordham. WILL TWISS O’SULLIVAN 819 Pine Grove Avenue PORT HURON. MICH. St. Francis Xavier Prep, '17 “Bill,” “Twiss” Associate Editor, The Maroon; Associate Editor. Fordham Monthly (3, 4). IT was hardly necessary for us to tell you dial our friend with the fancy cognomen is an editor of two Fordham publications. It seems impossible that such names as Will 1 wiss could adorn any but a literary light, and Bill’s blossoming forth as a poet was an eminent tribute to die genius that presides over the nomenclature of rising generations. The first appearance of Twiss in Fordham was in the heroic garb of Uncle Sam’s navy. Previous to his arrival he had enlisted in the naval unit at Cornell, and later sailed the seven seas on the good ship Cranite Stale, whence he was discharged in time to reserve a ringside seat in the Junior class. We found him to be very poetic, very philosophical, very amiable, and very blond. The light that shone resplendent from his glistening ringlets was not the kind that could easily be hidden under any number of bushels. Before many weeks had passed he was holding forth gloriously in cosmology circles and turning out poetry in great volume for the Monthly. As a Senior he administered a soothing antidote from the pages of the Monthly and labored so strenuously in literary fields that by the end of the year he almost needed an antidote himself. He likewise played one of the parts in the spring play and wrote the class poem for the MAROON, of which he is an Associate Editor. One of Twiss’ most noteworthy qualities is his capacity for labor, and he combines with this estimable note a laudable spirit of willingness. When a man carries such a combination into the business world, he is slated for success, and we have no hesitation in making great predictions for Will Twiss O’Sullivan. ' MARIO J. POiNSIGLIONE. A.B. 400 East 187th Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, ’16 Pon Associate Editor. Tile Maroon; Class Athletic Representative (4); Dance Committee (4). LJK.E most quiet men Mario is essentially a philosopher and a student. When any of us dullards have a difficulty in some branch of knowledge or when we desire to complement our own paucity of psychology or ethics notes, we immediately seek out Mario. It is in studies of a mathematical nature, however, that Pon delights most. Many a professor has lived to deplore some scientific slip that this youth’s keen discernment detected. But by far the greatest honor that has visited Mario and one which will cause his posterity ever to breathe and to bequeath his name with reverential respect and ancestral pride is his erstwhile rank as sergeant in the Fordham branch of the 3. A. T. C. Yet Mario can plead extenuating circumstances, for his Service record is a multifarious one. He entered the camp at Plattsburg where he trained for several months. Denied a commission only because he lacked citizenship, he was sent to Camp Perry in Ohio where he specialized in small arms. He came back to Fordham when the S. A. T. C. was established here and was made a sergeant. For several weeks he found himself in the extremely delicate position of giving orders to his former classmates. This duty he performed with at the one time an absence of arrogance and a firmness that was both difficult and unusual. Taken seriously ill with influenza, he was removed to Base Hospital No. I. Upon recovery he was transferred to Camp Upton from which he was eventually discharged as a sergeant. The only branch of athletics in which Pon specializes is dancing. He is on hand with his support when any class project is broached, but he is especially fond of dances and can always be found at the Fordham socials with the evidence of his good taste on his arm. LAWRENCE H. REILLY, A.B. 122 Grapanchc Street YONKERS. N. Y. Fordham Prep, ’ I 4 Larry Class Baseball ( I ) ; Prom Committer (’17); Dance Committee (4 ). LARRY came to the college from the Prep in the Autumn of 1914, well versed in Fordham's ways and customs. It has been a regular occurrence for Larry to open the door of the class-room in ever so gentle a manner at 9:05 A. M. and to glide noiselessly to his scat, so as not to disturb the professor, no doubt. Give him credit, though. He generally gets away with it. I hat place of torture and suspense, the Prefect of Discipline’s office, has seldom been haunted by Larry to obtain that much-needed ticket of admission for late-comers. In Sophomore year he successfully withstood the attacks of Cicero. Demosthenes, Livy and Nunan, the ever-observant critic of the Criterion Club. Emerging from the depths of philosophy, the Queen of the Sciences, it certainly was fitting that when war broke out Larry should join the Navy and do duty on a submarine. For what could be more natural than a dive into the Atlantic, that Queen of Waters, after a cruise on the seas of philosophy under the guidance of Father Mahony. Larry enlisted in the Navy on May 12, 1917, and saw much active service. On July 19. 1919, he was honorably discharged. His luck seems to be in ninctccns. Larry is a devotee of the Ierpsichorean Art. Fie likes to trip the light fantastic and is at home when whirling the fair one—(who is she, Larry?) He is that type of man who impresses his fellow-students that he will make good in whatever profession he embraces. Best of luck to the Gob! He deserves it if any of us do, and human nature is all wrong if Larry has to hit the trail. ROBERT E. RIMBACH. B.S. 244 East 30th Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep, ‘ I 6 “Bob.” Rimmy” Assistant Business Manager. The Maroon: Manager. Class Baseball (I); Track (I): Class Football (2): Class Baseball (2); Vice-President, F. U. A. A. (4); Dance Committee (4); Memorial Fund Committee (4); Frisch Testimonial Committee (4). BOB RIMBACH stands second to none when it comes to class spirit. He is one of the proud graduates of Fordham Prep, and upon his entrance into college was immediately made manager of the first Freshman team ever turned out at Fordham. a team which, under his guidance, attained remarkable success. Bob was also a member of the track team. In Sophomore he played center on that famous football team which cleaned up every other class, and later caught for the baseball team, the one undefeated class team of Fordham. No one who witnessed the games, and particularly that last decisive game, will ever forget his part in the victories. By the time the season closed the United States found itself at war, so Bob decided to discard his baseball for an army uniform. He went up to Plattsburg and there, after two months of training, was commissioned a lieutenant, and assigned as an instructor at the University of Pittsburg. Like many of us. Bob didn’t get a chance to cross the pond, and came back to Fordham in January, 1919. A few months later he was elected Vice-President of the K U. A. A., and in Senior, besides working on different dance, memorial fund, and other committees. Bob untiringly sacrificed a great deal of his time to make this book a success. It is one of Bob’s traits to stand up for the class on all occasions and to help it along in all its movements, even at times when he was under no obligation to do so. Bob may have had an unusual amount of class spirit and he may have been as ardent a supporter as he was and is in athletics, but we must not forget that he was equally proficient in reaching the goal when it came to study. CHARLES T. ROBINSON, A.B. 331 West 124th Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep. 16 “Robby,” “Chas Banquet Committee ( I ) ; Class Baseball (I, 2); Secretary, Parthenian Sodality (2. 3, 4); Manager, Basketball ( 3 ) : Business Manager, Fordham Monthly (4); Dance Committee (4); President, Dramatic Association (4); Assistant Business Manager, The Maroon (4). ROBBY owns a Ford. One need go no further lo know that his life has been one of trials and tribulations. The writer’s earliest recollection of Robby is one of a lover, which is a horrible recollection. T he second is one of a business man editing, selling, and financing a calendar. Misfortunes piled quickly upon the ill-starred youth in those days. Indictments, subpoenas, writs of habeas corpus, warrants of executions and billet-doux formed integral parts of his daily correspondence. And yet he managed to fight his way through it all, bearing up under his burden of cares like a forest-oak in the midst of a tempest. His third year found him drinking deep of the nectars of philosophical speculation. And now as a Senior he has guided the Monthly through the shoals of financial depression without a single attack of bankruptcy or embezzlement. He has his failings. So have we all. He is a fiend for hair-tonic and vaseline, eau de quinine and Pompeian night-crcam. He whiles away his precious hours in the luxury of an elegant parlor, and gives the milkman a mighty battle for priority on the doorstep. But he has his good qualities, and when occasion demands, he is capable of bringing them into evidence. His disposition is cheerful and he is slow to anger. His patience and energy are prodigious, and his tact is a guarantee of his success in the years to come. We part with Robby, but a bond of good fellowship still lingers which will hold him in our thoughts when college days are history and degrees have rusted and crumbled away in disuse. i .HENRY W. RYAN. A.B. 2593 Grand Avenue NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep. ’16 “Harry” Class Baseball (I): Varsity Football (I. 2); Class President (3): Dance Committee (4). HARRY RYAN is the Adonis of the class by its own ofheial vote. 1 he honor, though a relative one, is none the less eminent. To be designated the handsomest man in the Rogues Gallery might not be considered by every one as a mark conducive to high esteem, but to be distinguished so in the Class of 1920 is an indubitable honor. Ask any of the girls. The remarkable tiling about Handsome Harry is that the perfection of his features has been preserved unimpaired through many seasons of gridiron battles; for his dashing ways extend to the football as well as to the social arena. Football is popularly supposed to be an unfailing antidote for good looks, but it didn’t work with Harry. In his high school days he played on the prep team alongside Frank Frisch. Later he played in the backheld on the college teams of 1916 and 1917. When he started a drive toward the goal line, disaster followed in his wake for any of the enemy that strayed near his path. During the next season Harry was in the Service, and in his Senior year football was suspended; so we have had no opportunity to observe the increased proficiency that must have come to him with his entrance into the upper classes. Soon after the completion of his Sophomore year Harry earned a commission at Platts- burg where he had trained for several summers, and he was sent to the South to assist in training members of the Si. A. T. C. Upon his return to Fordham as a Junior, Harry was elected President of the Class—which shows that we do not consider that there is anything intrinsically evil in a second lieutenant. The popular football and social star proved worthy of his high office, and under his regime the prosperity of the class continued. RAYMOND J. SCULLY. A.B. Hazelhurst Park NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. Fordham Prep, 16 Ray” Associate Editor, The Maroon: Varsity Play (2, 4); Class Ring Committee ( 3 ); Associate Editor, Fordham Monthly (4); Dance Committee (4). HONK, HONK!!- Look out there!! Br-r-r-r-r. POOF!!! 8:50 A. M. any old day. I he flivver has lasted another twenty-four hours and just deposited Ray at the rear entrance of Fordham. A mysterious bunch of keys now comes into play and after some minutes of careful work, the bus is pronounced safe for the day. Incidentally, no one has ever solved the lock combination or persuaded the flivver to move without Ray's fatherly presence at the helm. “Hello,” is his non-committal greeting. ‘‘Still going strong?” asks somebody. 1 hat’s Ray’s cue,—“Hasn’t missed a day in three years. Why, let me tell you fellows something; that machine has been driven in all sorts of weather and over every bump in Westchester County, and look at her today—performing like the week she was new. I had an offer from a man—” “BANG.” Someone jumped a foot high—thought it was the flivver, didn’t you? Nope, just that big electric gong trying to remind the boys of class, whereupon the whole crowd moves slowly upstairs. However, merely because Ray comes to school on four tiny cylinders, don’t you get the idea that he runs on that sort of power all day. Far from it. There’s a high class twin-six motor in his gray matter tearing off miles of wisdom and keeping even the Faculty busy, in an effort to avoid disaster should they slip in front of this intellectual speed demon. Socially, Raymond declines to be interviewed. 1 Ie says opinions of the butterfly life, and particularly of the ladies, arc sufficiently set forth in his numerous writings, hor those who have not had an opportunity to examine many of the literary achievements of R. J. S.. we suggest recalling their memories of Thackeray. Ray is a great student of 1 hackeray. HERMAN W. SIEDLER, A.B. 314 East 86th Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep. ' I 4 “Cy” Class Football (2); Class Baseball (2, 3): Treasurer (’18); Dance Committee (4). WE have all heard of conditions existing in Germany during the war, either from one of our silver-tongued orators or from the pen of some famous correspondent; hut it was from Cy himself that we got the straight 'dope ' on the way things really were. It may sound amusing to hear him tell how the German mess-sergeant, in charge of feeding the American prisoners of war, got the tobacco ration issued by the Red Cross, and the dinner mixed up, and handed the boys a bag of Bull as a noonday meal, on which they had to subsist until 7 P. M., but it was rather serious to the boys at the time. Cy is a true Fordham product, graduating from the Prep in 1914 and entering college the following September. In Freshman year Hermic was noted for his studious disposition, and was leader in his section. 1 he knowledge of the German language which Cv acquired at herdham at this time was quite a heip to him as a prisoner, for he was made an interpreter, which meant a little less abuse. The fields of pedagogy have an attraction for Cy at the present time and we are certain that future little scholars of New York will be well versed in whatever knowledge they come to Cy in quest of. As Cy did not leave Senior year until December, 1917, it would seem hard that he should not receive his degree on the completion of at least a half year, but those who ordain the fate of the students thought otherwise. We have no fears that our thorough-going youth will not succeed well in his chosen field. His determination to overcome all obstacles will certainly help him in the future. Best of luck to our “Professor Embryo!” JOHN E. TUMULTY. A.B. 646 Bergen Avenue JERSEY CITY. N. J. St. Peter’s Prep, ’15 St. Peter’s College (1,2, 3) “Turn College Smoker Committee (4); Hockey Team (4). TUM comes from Jersey City and has always confined his attentions exclusively to Jesuit schools. He graduated from Manresa Hall Grammar School and St. Peter’s Prep of Jersey City, and in the fall of 1915 entered St. Peter’s College. As a Freshman he found time between classes to star on the Varsity hockey team and played class basketball. At this time he claimed Wyckoff, N. J., as the village in which the ancestral hearth was located, but in his Sophomore year he moved back to Jersey City and celebrated the event by coming out for dramatics. He had just been assigned to a part in the college play, when one morning his old scat was found vacant—Turn had joined the Navy. In the following September he was temporarily released to allow him to continue his education, and returned to St. Peter’s to enter Junior with his old class. During this year he distinguished himself as quarterback of one of the best football teams that ever represented St. Peter’s. At the close of the year he reentered tire Navy, and after eight months of diligent application secured a commission as Ensign. But no sooner had he received this crowning reward of his earnest endeavors, than the armistice was signed and he secured his release from the service. In die meantime St. Peter’s had closed its doors on account of the war, and even the coming of peace failed to reawaken the Jersey college; so in the fall of last year Fordhain welcomed Turn with open arms. Needless to say, in his Senior year he has continued to maintain the same high standards as an athlete and a student, being a prominent member and organizer of the Varsity Hockey team. And when we speak of his standing as a student we refer to his branching out in literary fields as Editor of the Senior Bugle. WILLIAM A. SEIDL, A.B. 4 76 West 34th Street NEW YORK CITY St. Francis Xavier Prep, '16 •Bill- Secretary, Athletic Association (4); Chairman, Dance Committee (4). IF sometime you should know some one who desires the services of a chauffeur, mail-cierk, or tutor, communicate immediately with Big Bill Seidl. Moreover, those who are especially anxious to rid themselves of this or that particular member of their more or less immediate families should not hesitate to forthwith get Big Bill to oblige. To say the least, he is a great little get-ridder. New York’s mothers, wishing to lose their daughters without further delay, usually have a hard time deciding whether to send them to New Rochelle or to show them to Big Bill. For Bill guarantees the speedy removal of all such superfluous burdens left on his hands. Bill’s chief accomplishment is a little onc-wordcd oration called “Jumpins.’' In fact, the whole of Bill’s collegiate career is summed up in that dainty duosyllable. In Fresh, it was the track team. Bill failed to make it. Why? Too little runnins and too much jumpins. Then came the sodality organ. I he music—shall we call it that?—was ever delirious. Why? Jumpins. In Junior, Bill, now training for the war with the good old S. A. I. C., rose from the rank of private to that of corporal. Why? He kept the bunch on the jump. And in 1920, to cap the climax. Bill sidles into Senior just often enough to keep pace with his philosophy classes, despite faithful and frequent jumpins. It might be well to add that in the future, especially in future summers. Big Bill can be located in a birch canoe near a shaded nook at the far end of a picturesque little lake near Troy. He will be listening to a sweet voice—the voice of “Sis.” thp dark-haired wonder of suburban Brooklyn—fashioning dreamy talcs for him. .And. in the words of an eminent rhetorician of the hour—“Jumpins, but she is ihe class!” ANTHONY F. UIHLEIN, A.D. 448 East 89th Street NEW YORK CITY Fordham Prep. ’16 “Tony” Business Manager. The Maroon; Chairman. Banquet Committee ( I ) ; Class Baseball (2); Class President (2. 4); Business Manager, Fordham Monthly (2. 3): Reporter. The Ram (2); Chairman. Ring Committee (3); Debating Society, First Censor (3); Chairman, Contest Committee (4); Frisch Testimonial Committee (4). JI S a good tiling that I ony’s last name begins with a U,” because that places him near the end of these histories, and everybody likes to have the good things saved for the end. Likewise it aflords a good opportunity for us to contrast his place near the foot of tlie class, alphabetically speaking, with his place at the head of the class, politically speaking. For a great deal of the success of the Class of '20 can be attributed to his untiring efforts and administrative ability. I ony simply revelled in class and University politics. Fordham is not yet an annex of I ammany Hall, but it had its political boss, and his name was Uihlein. As Class President in Sophomore and Senior, as Chairman of innumerable committees, and as Business Manager of the MAROON and the Monthly , he was always an active leader. No one ever caught I ony napping when it came to repartee. Humor seems to be part of his make-up. And. believe me. you need a sense of humor to hold down all the jobs that have fallen to our president’s lot—not lire least of which was running the business end of this book. In the social line he is more than a star—in fact, a constellation. His wide circle of friends is by no means limited to the masculine and neuter genders. It has been intimated that they form only a very fractional part of it. and we will vouch for the truth of tire intimation. Just what Tony's future will he we have not been able to discover, although we held a special consultation with our trained ouija-board on the subject. But when we consider that his career has ever been a political one. and that he was evidently destined to be a leader of men. is it too much to hope that some day he may rise to the sublime height of Mayor of Yorkville? WILLIAM J. VAN WIE. A.B. 8 Prospect Avenue TUCKAHOF.. N. Y. Cathedral College, '18 Bill. Van- Football, (S. A. T. C.); Hockey Team (4). ONCE upon a time there was a war with Germany. I he isolated fortress of Ford ham was menaced by a hostile array with only the A. E. F.. the U. S. Navy, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Coast Defense to protect her from the onslaught. I he little, garrison occupying St. John’s I Iall was in gra e danger of a seige unless re-enforcements were forthcoming. Sensing the danger from his desk in Washington, the Chief of Staff ordered the garrison increased, and among the rescuing party was Bill Van Wie. After such an auspicious entry under conditions that might well have tried the souls of men. Van started to make himself agreeable with all he met. It was not a difficult task for him. for his quiet, good nature was of a sort calculated to win friends with rapidity and ease. He proved to be a valuable addition to an overworked football squad, and by the end of the season, had merited a ranking of honor on the team. Bill has been with us two years now, and he has fitted into our personnel like, one born for the place. In manner he is quiet and reserved, but his ever-ready smile and word of greeting have done more to make him welcome than any other qualities conceivable. The writer of this little sketch has vainly endeavored to get some of the “inside dope” on Bill, but he has miserably failed and reluctantly admits that Van’s quiet bearing is probably a true indication of the man himself. I he class is one in wishing him all the success attainable in whatever walk of life he may choose to roam. GERALD B. WELDON, A.B. 2472 Marion Avenue BRONX. N. Y. C. Fordham Prep, '16 •'Jerry Class Baseball (2); Class Football (2); Class Secretary (4); Banquet Committee (4). ALL of us are proud of ihe length of lime lhal we have spent at Fordham, whether it is one year or ten. 1 hose who have long been under Fordham’s guidance feel that they knew her more intimately, but they cannot love her more sincerely. Jerry Weldon can claim a longer acquaintance with our Alma Mater than can any one else among us. Ten long years ago Jerry entered the grammar school of St. John’s Hall, and nearly every morning since he has trudged in through the back gate with several well worn books under his arm. Now that his life as a Fordham student is near an end, he is loath to leave. Jerry Weldon is a Bedford Park boy, which, when one remembers that Frank Frisch and A1 Lefevre claim that appendix of New York as their home, implies that he is quite an athlete. He is. Fordham did a great deal for Jerry when it raised him from an unsophisticated boy in knickerbockers to a staid and pipe-devoted Senior, but in return Jerry has done something for Fordham. As a baseball star he has assisted the Prep team in carrying the Maroon colors to victory. In college he has been prominent in inter-class athletics as a member of the Sophomore football and baseball teams. He has been a representative of the Prep on the basketball court, and he is a member of the Unity Council. Knights of Columbus, championship basketball team. When Jerry isn’t tossing or kicking a ball around, he is discharging his arduous duties as Secretary of Senior Class. It is an inspiring sight to observe his diligence in recording the. minutes during a spirited class meeting. 1 he greatest of Jerry’s distinctions, however, is his membership in that exclusive Senior organization known as “The Back Row Bunch.’ There in his secure retreat, far from Father Hill and his philosophic phrases, Jerry Weldon dreams the weary hours away. THOMAS J. WHITE, A.B. 7 I 2 Jersey Avenue JERSEY CITY, N. J. St. Peter's Prep, ’16 St. Peter’s College (1,2) “Tom Varsity Track (3, 4); College Smoker Commitee (4). TOM started his Prep days within the confines of Scton Hall, which is located in South Orange, New Jersey. Coming from the busy center of Jersey City, the quietness of his new abode must have irritated his puerile nerves and Tom come back before the end of his first year. Candidly, we are of the opinion that he sustained a severe attack of homesickness, although he would never admit the fact. So he entered St. Peter’s Prep and there completed his high school career very successfuly. He then entered the collegiate department and spent two years in the company of Socrates, Cicero and others of those illustrious gentlemen so popular with the student body. Tom came to Fordham in his Junior year and his coming was a source of joy and comfort to the students, principally because his abilities on the track were well known and much sought after. Nor was he in any respect unmindful of our hopes, for in a very short time he was breaking tapes and cinder-path records for the glory of his new Alma Mater. Tom is a quiet chap and has the appearance of a great thinker, to judge by the chronic abstraction of his gaze. Certainly we would know little about him if we had to depend on his own utterances. Modest and unassuming, he quietly goes his way. Always ready with a good joke—and he knows how to tell one—his company is more than a pleasure. As Tom took up Biology in his Senior year it does not require a crystal-gazer to prophecy his future career. As a doctor, we have not only the greatest hopes for him, but are firm in our belief that he will rise above the mediocre class to such a degree as to bring credit to his class and glory to his University. JAMES L. WINEMILLER. A.B. GREAT NECK. L. I. St. Franci Xavier Prep. '16 Winey, “Jim” Dance Committee (4). HOW can we adequately describe this Adonis? Who indeed can do justice to his pulchritude? What fair maiden could refrain from falling madly in love with him? He is good-looking. Why, Jim even admits it himself. But ch! How he has wasted his talents! Instead of strolling along the Great White Way, where beauty is its own reward, he persists in flaunting himself before those fair shy damsels who daily commute on the Bolshevik Jitney from 149th Street to Fordham. Perhaps after all his travelling he finds their homelike virtues a relief. Speaking of travel—Jim certainly has traversed the good old U. S. A. He first saw the light of day in Ohio, and was then transported across country to California where he was initialed into mysteries of education, via the kindergarten. For some reason or other the Golden Gate was not the ideal place for Jim. so East he came again to New York City, where he attended Xavier High School, and now, lo and behold. Fordham has been honored by his presence for four years. As a parlor athlete he is supposed to be a wonder, but so secretive is he on the subject that our knowledge is very incomplete. He never extends invitations to us to witness his prowess in this respect, though we can readily imagine the worst (or the best) of him. according to one’s viewpoint of this indoor sport. For a time “Winey wandered among the financiers of Wall Street, but he came back to school imbued more than ever with the desire to study medicine, and if he is able to fool the medical profs for the next four years Fordham will have the name of another medico in her Alumni Catalogue. So all hail and success to our embryo doc. Jim Winemiller! History of tke Class of 1920 from our entrance as Freshmen to our last days as Seniors BANQUET OF FRESHMAN CLASS FORDHAM COLLEGE ’20 GREEN ROOM, HOTEL McAI.PIN, APRIL 25, 1917 Committee of Arrangements ANTHONY 1 L’lIILEIN. Chairman WALTER J. CADDELL EDWARD J. CAREY HAROLD J. MARTIN CHARLES E. MURRAY MORGAN J. O’BRIEN CHARLES T. ROBINSON St ryt anl-at-. I rms FRANCIS B. MULRY Toastmaster ft] t tUl Grapefruit Consomme Olga Celery Salted Nuts Olives Aiguilrtte of Bass, Mr. 11 pin 1lack of Lamb in Casserole Fresh Vegetables in Season Potatoes Noisette Boast Philadelphia Chicken Salmi Mod erne Souffle Qlactj Palmyr Petits Fours Coffee Vatiadis” Cigarettes Cigars 88 jfrrsijman CLASS OFFICERS President.. Vice-President Treasurer-- Secretary.. several months now we have been flaunting before an admiring rid our proud title of Seniors. We walk abroad with a lordly in and we throw our chests out and our shoulders back, the better bear the onerous dignity. On the campus we are the aristocrats college life. Wc have become accustomed to expect and to receive privileges and favors denied to our lowly and unfortunate underclassmates. We have drunk at the Fountain of Philosophy—our draught, it is hoped, was more than a half of one per cent.—and we have attained to that broadness of vision and fluency of language which always attend the educated man. With an air of sufferance we address the Junior; of condescension, the Sophomore; of command, the Freshman. We are Seniors. What, then, is to be thought of one who in the face of such nobility will drag before our eyes that obscure and distant past, now completely and conveniently forgotten, when we too trod the college halls with trepidation? Yet that is the reprehensible duty of the writer. By much endeavor and great historical research it has been found that we, the Class of 1920, assembled at Fordham for the first time on September 26, 1916. On the morning of that memorable day we walked up the winding road to the Administration Building to take up our studies at St. John’s College. If we had been told at that time what miseries, trials, and professors were to be endured before we could stand breathless before the goal, would we have turned back and retraced our steps? It is a moot question. We did not know and we walked timidly on. After introduction to the Prefect of Studies and assignment to a class our life as college students had begun. No doubt our sleep that night was restless; but as time went on and we made the acquaintance of the Prefect of Discipline and his inexorable assistant, we learned that a college student’s life is not always sunshine. On the afternoon that we inhabited that room of detention called the “Jug”—has the Eighteenth Amendment abolished it?—while a ball game was going on outside, we discovered that the outlook of a college student was poor indeed. .......FRANCIS B. MULRY ALEXANDER H. MacDONALD ......WILLIAM B. GALVIN .......THOMAS J. CURRAN 89 MAROON When we had become used to the environment and to one another, we decided to elect the Class Officers. Under the most congenial and favorable conditions the exercise of this function by a college class is apt to be decidedly dangerous. It was certainly so on this occasion, but unfortunately the casualty list has been lost, in the shuffle of events that followed. The first social event of the year was a Smoker. One evening in October the entire hreshrftan Class assembled in Alumni Hall where a delightful variety of entertainment, refreshments, and smokes had been prepared by the ever capable Committee. Through the efforts of Morgan O’Brien, premier short story writer of the Class, several reels of Keystone comedies and dramas had been secured. Cigarettes were plentiful and the cocoa flowed freely. Those who felt sufficiently strong or reckless to test one of the cigars were instantly accommodated. Charlie Robinson, cynosure of femininity, volunteered a few songs and survived, and in reply to repeated requests he gave a very valuable talk on I lairparts. It was here also that Dinny Dugan first kissed the sweet lips of Lady Nicotine. Years of subsequent surreptitious practice have brought him such perfection that he now wears his pipe as if he was born a plumber. It might be well at this point to say a few words about those most maligned of men—professors. Often, indeed, they are the peacocks of humanity and deserve to be plucked, but without them we would never be where wc arc today. The Class of 1920 will remember all of its professors with sincere respect for them as teachers and high regard for them as men. To our Freshman professors, Mr. Joseph A. Mulry S.J. and Mr. Daniel J. Ryan S.J., wc owe a great deal of that profound knowledge of Greek and Latin which we have so totally forgotten. To them also must be attributed most of whatever poetical appreciation we possess. Another professor not soon to 90 C) MARjpON JL be forgotten is Father John F. X. Murphy who entertained us with lectures in History and Evidences. Father Murphy s sharp wit and genial personality lent an attraction to subjects often of little interest to the average student. To Mr. William C. Repetti, S.J., Professor of Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry, the University, almost as much as the Class, is indebted; for those studies enriched not merely the minds of the students but the treasury of the college as well. Under the existing conditions they were an excellent remedy for obesity of the wallet. Last, but first in the memory of the Science men. let us pay our final tribute to Mr. George F. Strohaver, S.J., whose profound knowledge and colorful personality impressed themselves indelibly upon the minds of the youthful chemists of ’20. The most important social event of the Freshman year was the banquet held at the Hotel McAlpin on April 25, 1917. Several members of the Faculty were present as guests of the Class, and even their usually morose countenances accepted the opportunity to relax which the occasion offered. Frank Mulry, President of the Class, was Toastmaster. Charlie Robinson held the important office of Sergeant-at-arms. The Committee of Arrangements, with Tony Uihlein as chairman, received an enthusiastic vote of thanks for their splendid work. This was the first real social event of our course, and was an auspicious beginning for the class. Since then we have travelled far along the rocky road toward our individual and several degrees, but the memory of our first class banquet still remains. Let other classes rave and rant about their enthusiasm and spirit as Freshmen. Let others discourse about their Freshman teams, debaters, thespians, lilleraleurs, et al. We can afford to sit back in confident self-complacency. It’s all been done before, gentlemen, and the Class of ’20 supplied the actors, not for one year but for all four. 91 opljomore CLASS OFFICERS ....ANTHONY P. UIHLEIN .....HAROLD J. MARTIN CHRISTOPHER M. WALDROF .......WILLIAM F. FINN President...... Vice-President Treasurer... Secretary..... |HEN we travelled back to Fordham to begin our Sophomore year, the United States was taking an active part in the World War. Ships filled with soldiers were streaming across the Atlantic. Everywhere could be seen reminders of the duties that every citizen owed to his country. Some of us had entered the Service; others had sought to enlist, only to be rejected; many were still under age. There was a spirit of unrest in the Class, a feeling of uselessness. President Wilson’s appeal to college men that they remain at school until called was poor consolation. Despite what made difficult any concentration on study, we succeeded in applying ourselves to the work, perhaps heartened by the knowledge that the Sophomore year, as our last of Latin and Greek, was to see the defeat and the discard of our old enemies. Once again we were divided into two sections. Father Farley and Father George Johnson were the autocrats. With their assistance we vanquished Tacitus, Thucydides, the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, and other such names that it would be disastrous to encounter in the dark. Our interest was enlivened by the professors’ possession of what is so precious and so rare among teachers—a sense of humor. It is easy enough to draw a peal of laughter from a class; but often the laugh results more from a feeling of compassion or from a presentiment that one must either laugh or flunk than from any perception of an oasis in arid attempts at humor. The Science men met, for the first time, the Rev. Paul V. Rouke, whose untimely death has left Fordham bereft of the talents of a man of vigor and unmeasured capabilities. His memory will ever be held sacred and revered by all so fortunate as to share his friendship. The days went by without interruption except when the equanimity of the professor was disturbed by the unique queries of our human question mark, Francis M. FicId-McNally, or that of the Class by the sonorous snores of slumbering Joe McGrath. Every morning we arose, ate more or less breakfast, and missed the train; every morning the boarders reached Fordham 93 M A R O O N before nine o’clock; and every morning—ask Ed Bres-lin—the Yonkers trolley car ran off the track. When upon very special occasions we neglected our studies or, rather, subordinated them to something or someone more important, with what agitation we heard our names called out next day and how feverishly we fumbled for the old, reliable quadruped! Perhaps it would be indiscreet to comment upon the remarkable equestrian skill displayed by various members of the Class. 1 o do that would be out of place in a tale as refined as this. It might be observed, though, that Johnny Loftus would receive the surprise of his life if Tom Martin or Jerry Higgins should ever decide to become professional jockeys and compete against him. It had been quite a shock for us to learn that Jim Costello, one of the most popular members of our Freshman Class, had deserted Fordham and had cast his lot with Manhattan College. There was never a better judge of horse-flesh than Farmer Jim of Toana; nor was Cos afraid, in a pinch, to look a gift horse in the mouth. Our unfortunate classmates whose courses did not include Greek will forever lack the sense of satisfaction that results only from the cessation of the weary hours of agony which the pursuit of that language entails. Who that has not been reared on Greek roots can say that he has had an intellectual square meal? Yet it is only now, as we look back from our pedestals of safety, that we can realize how brave and ambitious we were. Sophocles, what profanity was smothered in thy name! Oh, Demosthenes, what moonlight nights were consumed in thy company that had better been spent in the company of one more congenial if less comprehensible ! In Sophomore the Class was depressed in spirits while two of its members were visited with prolonged sieges of illness. Buffalo Bill O'Connor was the first to be confined to the sick room and, later in the year, our ex-President, 94 MAROON Frank Mulry, was seriously ill for several weeks. Eventually both recovered and returned to us, and we were happy once more. During the Sophomore year and for the remainder of the war all social affairs were suspended. The annual banquet and the usual Class smokers were discarded as trivialities ill-becoming a martial age. Much of our time was spent in treading Fordham Field with measured step and in learning the rudiments of warfare. For the more advanced men lectures on military tactics were held in Alumni Hall. The varsity teams were disbanded, but inter-class athletics flourished. In the fall the college classes accompanied their teams to the field and offered their vocal support. Many a gory battle was staged. In the spring the Inter-class Baseball League held sway. The Sophomore teams were attended by their usual success. Jim Joyce’s mighty bulk tore holes in the opposing line, and on the diamond Jerry Weldon and Bob Rimbach formed an invincible battery. It is unnecessary of course to remark that in the baseball league the Sophomore team with Harry Haslam as Manager carried off the pennant. Toward the end of the year Father Johnson, Professor of Sophomore B, became ill and was forced to give up teaching for an indefinite period. This was a great blow to the Class, who loved and respected Father Johnson as a most learned man and a remarkable teacher. Father Morgan reigned over the section for the remainder of the year. At the end of this year we also parted company with Father Murphy, who, as Professor of History, had won the esteem and friendship of every one of us. His genial personality and his uncanny familiarity with almost every topic of discussion combined to make him one of the most remarkable men we have had dealings with at Fordham. 95 junior CLASS OFFICERS President...........................HENRY W. RYAN Vice-President. ...HAROLD J. MARTIN Treasurer................... . ..WILLIAM P. GANNON Secretary.............................DENIS F. O’BRIEN FTER the completion of the Sophomore year, the Class of 1920 did not convene again until January 6, 1919. Meanwhile almost all of us were enlisted in some branch of the Service in capacities varying from captain and private all the way down to second lieutenant. Many of us had remained at Kordham as members of an organization usually known as the S. A. T. C., letters which have been variously interpreted, yet the real import of which remains involved in a haze of obscurity. As the gentleman who is dilating on the military achievements of the Class may inadvertently overlook this prominent organization, the writer has elected himself to sing its requiem. The Students’ Army Training Corps was a military kindergarten with the usual relations reversed and the children as the officers or teachers. Indeed, the lieutenants in command appeared merely to have changed the color of their knickerbockers and no doubt they had but lately abandoned the bottle. For relieving the monotony of the intensive study and drill—emphasis on the intensive study—the S. A. T. C. was largely indebted to the enterprising Knights of Columbus Secretary, Judy Martin, and to the football team led by Frank Frisch of A Company. Guard duty was another favorite diversion. How that seventh general order used to slip from your mind when a pretty young lady passed near your post! Among the members of the Class who were prominent in the Battle of Fordham may be mentioned Charlie Robinson, the old salt, who shelled the enemy from the good ship, Alumni Hall, and Sergeant Vin Muller, the graceful right guide of B Company. At length, to blast the dreams of a camp in Kentucky and a trip across the water, came November eleventh and the big time on Broadway. You didn’t go to bed at all that night Having dragged out a weary existence thereafter, the S. A. T. C. suffered its final relapse on Friday, the thirteenth of December. Requicscal in pace. When college reopened we almost forgave the sergeants whom we found among us once more, their haughtiness gone with their authority. No longer did we shiver at the approach of A1 Lcfcvrc, Mario Ponsiglione, or Bill Finn. Even in the presence of Johnny Breshn, the redoubtable Supply Sergeant, we stood unawed. Several illustrious members of the Class were missing. Frank Mulry, one of the most popular men at Fordham, failed to return for his Junior year. Chris Wal-drof, who had been Class Treasurer during Sophomore, had decided to devote his financial abilities to the office of the University Treasurer. John Middleton and Jim Collins were studying for the priesthood. The loss felt at the absence of such valued men was mitigated in some measure by the advent of a group of immigrants from Jersey and Brooklyn. Conspicuous among these were smiling Dinny O’Brien; Willie O’Brien, who has since become an orator of renown and the Class authority on parliamentary law; and Gink Gannon of the S. A. T. C. football team. We were honored, moreover, by the presence of William Van Wie of Tuckahoe. Van, who is a football and hockey star, is President of The Tuckahoe Yacht Club, a position among the community which only those who are familiar with the little hamlet can appreciate. We received a very welcome addition to the Class in Twiss O’Sullivan, whose literary genius as displayed in the Fordham Monthly has attracted intercollegiate attention. The necessity under which we were struggling of completing the work of Junior in half the usual time precluded possibility of a Junior Prom and a Junior Banquet. Father Mahony was determined that time should not hang heavy on our hands. For weeks there was nothing in life but syllogisms, and as for premises—we just lived on them. Later we emerged into the clear atmosphere of philosophy and consumed thesis after thesis with reckless abandon. Meanwhile the professors of physics, history, and journalism were equally solicitous that our health be not impaired by any sudden attack of a leisure mo- 98 « ifc 1 M A R O O N ment; and, rather than entrust to his colleagues the prevention of such a dire possibility, each of them fell obliged to see to it personally that we should be securely quarantined. Most important of the business transacted by the Class during the Junior year was the gift to Fordham of an all wave-length wireless receiving set, the only one of its kind in existence; the election of a Ring Committee to select a design for the Senior Class rings; and the election of the editor of the MAROON. The ring selected by the Committee was original in design, and it was received enthusiastically by the Class. The editorship of the Maroon was placed upon the small but worthy shoulders of John Dillon, who had distinguished himself throughout his college course by his work on the Fordham Month). At the end of the Junior year Frank Frisch, one of our classmates, joined the New York Giants. We rejoiced in Frank’s good fortune although his departure was a great loss to hordham Field. As a member of the Class in high school and in college, Frank Frisch was very popular not as much on account of his athletic prowess as because of his modest, unassuming manner in the face of the fame which that prowess brought him. Every time that the Fordham Flash steps up to the plate the bludgeon he wields carries the good-will and the hopes of all Fordham men. During this year our achievements in Varsity baseball were so noteworthy that we cannot pass them by without mention. In addition to Frisch, who was probably the greatest player who ever wore a Fordham uniform, the Class of ’20 was represented by A1 Lefevre at third base, Bill Finn at second base. Bill McLaughlin at first base. Bill Buckley in center field, and “Judy” Martin and “Dinny” Dugan on the pitching staff. At the end of the year A1 Lefevre was chosen to captain the team in his senior year. Thus in baseball, also, 1920 has ever been a leader that other classes well might imitate. OQ i N i g v 3 5 i {• C 2 CM O 5t, I? - _' ' J‘ � 2 w W 'S V■ 3a v. - v 2. 5 c; s 5; - S =5 c ,Uu s= cv — U. 2c “? X -------- •' r- .v pT A: - 5j_: « - u r S22$ 2Lr? ? r . -Sy _ %e ■ - = = = a -i “ O -1 -• .w-'- ca xae-.- U «� � ”8«gSw5JS r? a. „ -- . _ ’ r ni « y 3 rt U _ QH J '_ 3$ var- 'aS . —- 3r UU: io ay£ 5: Q5 'J v -£.= = - 5 £--e l;3-llg-a ° X i £: v2 sriy s: 3?. = i - racu S 3 3 w ic — — in °e8un with feel a the doors of F a Hllk tiirSr4 J i ■ . •- tl. (-.; Ulv ;. 0 i , ; «ro Sc ‘M to (gs j by the return to Senior- “ ' T1 ““� °{ « German pnsc §• t-gan. Nunan. Cu „ -iS l. WCr « mcA Dutch’ Lasher, former v ci ti • s; and Ensign Tumulty wa Class in establishing hts p;pe vas published under the ces T- tllOU. • 10 SM ay have seen mor orete sou V z-ver seen one more eagerly aw utrd - jgfy our seats, 1 ony Uihlein, v ho held the sPcon'i tir assumed office and began prep (S ov . t! e s rite has no intention of presenting found on another page beneath our Presi-class history may be pardoned if it seems r-nin members who have molded the Class into inception with thoughtful care. It must . $ been the most active member ofothe Class c. business acumen has always been placed at oe 101 Senior Class Key � , § © © © © © © •© © ® © © I Rev. O. A. Hill. S. J. 7 L. H. Reilly 3 H. W. Ryan C. T. Rob o 6 M. T. Porniflionc II W. B. Ciriiwr 7 A. P. UiUlein H M j. O'Brien 9 T A. Nfulry 10 K. R. KncMoch 11 R. C lutuif 12 K. II. Jonet 13 C. 14 W. 15 D. 16 W 1« . K f: 21 1. 22 W ■■n ). A. Conln A. O'Brien F. O'Brien I. O’Connor t. Tumulty W. Sir Her K. Rimhjcli J C. Unman T. O'Sullivan ■n MrCra.h J Dillon C. A. Ca ey I K. Kelly V. E. Muller G. C. Lasher Kelley HmUr Weldon A. Cunmnxbam 'j Crawford E.w J: Si r A M IWevrc J. J. Breilin T. J. Curran W A. Seid! V: D Nun in P. V. Dorm 37 38 39 10 41 42 43 _ . 44 W. B McDonald 45 J. M Gronex 4fi C. J, Marmot I? F 1 FirldMcNally I T. J. White 49 J. B Joyce 50 W. L. Buckley 61 H .1. Martin 6} S, A Dineen 63 1. L. Winemiller 51 J. J. CavMy S5 W. J. Van Wit S« R. J. Kelly 67 E. F. Btetliit - IB. J. Scully 58 S D. L. Dutan Mentor CLASS OFFICERS President................................................ANTHONY P. UIHLE1N Vice-President..............................................JOHN H. HASLAM Treasurer.........................................JAMES E. JOYCE Secretary.....................................GERALD B. WELDON g’jHE last lap of our collegiate course was begun with feelings somewhat akin to those with which we lined up at the doors of Freshman. We entered the presence of Father Hill a little timid and only vaguely conscious of our great importance; but before long we realized what prestige was ours and became accustomed to it. Quite grieved at first at the absence of class in the afternoon, we accepted the extra time with our usual optimism as a potential study period. Who says “zero potential”? Our already large Class was further augmented by the return to Senior of several war veterans. Siedler, who rose from inmate of a German prison to editor of the foremost Senior newspaper; Joe Egan, Nunan, Curtin, and Cassidy of the Fordham Ambulance Corps—all were overseas men and formerly members of the Class of 1918. “Dutch” Lasher, formerly of the Class of 1919, returned from the Marines; and Ensign Tumulty was bequeathed us by the Fordham Naval Unit. Sied performed a great service for the Class in establishing his paper. Hie Bugle, “It Toots Every Morning,” was published under the auspices of The Back Row Bunch; it possessed a large though clandestine circulation, and thrived on competition. The world may have seen more pretentious newspapers than the Bugle, but it has never seen one more eagerly awaited by its readers. As soon as we were fairly in our seats, Tony Uihlein, wrho held the presidency of the Class for the second time, assumed office and began preparations for a glorious year. Now, the writer has no intention of presenting a eulogy of Tony. That can be found on another page beneath our President’s manly countenance. But a class history may be pardoned if it seems to digress at times in praise of certain members who have molded the Class into solidarity and directed it from its inception with thoughtful care. It must be said in passing that Tony has been the most active member of the Class and that his fine, almost Semitic, business acumen has always been placed at 101 M AROON n £L •FOltDHAM PKEP its disposal. To make up for the social dearth of previous years arrangements were formulated for a series of informal dances and an interclass smoker in addition to the usual Senior Dance and the Senior Banquet. One of these, as the Maroon goes to press, is an actual success and that of the others is assured. The first dance of Senior Class was held on the fifth of December at the Hotel Bretton Hall. To Edward F. Breslin and the Committee of which he was chairman a host of dancers rendered its profuse thanks. Dinny Dugan was on hand with his governess. Duke Eustace displaced his accustomed dexterity with the punch. To emphasize the character of the dance as a Class affair Bill Seidl arrived late, as is his daily wont. We had often wondered at Bill’s languid air in the class room, his utter indifference to Father Hill’s pearls of wisdom, and his prolonged and untimely interest in the inside cover of his watch case. As philosophers, we had sought the cause. When Billy and his fair Russian Countess appeared, we found that it was an adequate one. It is not possible for anyone, much less the writer, to express appropriately in language all the joys, tribulations, ambitions, and conditions that the Class has experienced during its course; to interpret the spirit of brotherly affection that has always animated its members in their daily intercourse and on the athletic field, yes, and even in that embryonic battle called a class meeting. Some of us have been many years at Fordham; for others this year is the •ST. I'ETEK’S first; yet regardless of previous condition of servitude, we are brothers and the love we feel for one another is the love we feel for Fordham. As undoubtedly the reader has observed, it has not been intimated, even indirectly, that ours is the greatest class that ever graced a college hall. An admission like that might be regarded as presumption on our part. We have our own opinion, well founded and justified; but the question is for the reader to decide, and his decision will be the index to the astuteness of his judgment. Was there ever a class that embraced among its features as coordinated an aptitude for boxing and philosophy as the Duke possesses or a pulcherrima forma such as Charlie Robinson displays? Cur several tributes to Charlie may have prompted the query, “Who is this fellow anyway?” Alas, the writer’s feeble pen is all too impotent to offer a worthy portrayal of Charlie. Our cherub’s handsome features are the envy of the world, the pride of the Class, and the despair of young ladies. It was reported at one time by the Bugle that Charlie had run down to Mexico to elope with Villa’s daughter, and his vacant chair that day gave its silent assent to the story. Happily, the rumor was unfounded and Charlie appeared in class next day, singular as ever. To relieve the anxiety of the feminine element of the country we can say with absolute certainty—though in strict confidence—that Charlie has not yet made final selection of a soul mate and that, furthermore, he has no intention whatever of looking beyond the good, old U. S. A. when he does. So there’s hope, girls, there’s hope! Now a word about the years that lie ahead. Glorious as is the past, the future will surely be as bright. Some of us will become lawyers of note; others will rise high in the world of business; several will be renowned doctors; the majority must be content with an ordinary existence; but all of us can do credit to our country and to our college. And if, in the vicissitudes of life, a few of us—perhaps Larry Gorman, Jerry Higgins, and the writer —should matriculate in that Order of Patchy Pants known as “Hoboes,” we can rest content in the knowledge that beyond sixty back doors, at least, waits a full table and a night’s lodging. XAYIF.U” 103 MISCKFLANEOrS I I I I 1 i : f i Ikcorb OF THE CLASS OF '20 “©tor Ctjere” E crave your indulgence, dear reader, while we try to relate a brief history of the doings in war of some of the sons of Fordham who graduate in the Class of 1920. Rather than a history it will be a little narrative of the incidents in the war experiences of some of her boys. These stories are taken from the tales of the returned soldiers. We are indebted to the war, if we may say so, for the presence of six men of the Class of ’18 who, on account of war service, were too busily-engaged to graduate until they completed their little bit for dear “Motherland.” Three of these went over with the Fordham Ambulance Unit and added to the glory of the name of Fordham, not only as individuals but also in that representative body of Fordham soldiers. Sections 551-2-3 will never be forgotten by the French divisions to whom it was their good fortune to be attached. Two more of the six were attached to the 77th division infantry and their heroic deeds in the line of duty despite fatigue, hunger, and cold is a story to be related by a better hand than ours to do them justice. One was captured at the Vesle and for four months was a German prisoner, enduring such an existence as is impossible to describe but readily understood by those who had any dealings with the German war fiends. The other remaining son of ex-’18 was actively engaged on a submarine. He was one of those real Americans whose loyalty to duty in protecting their fellow comrades from the lurking death-dealing German monsters, the U-boats, made possible the quick transportation of American soldiers when they were badly needed, and also kept clear the communications with home so that those treasured epistles from loving mothers were able to be delivered. I will give a brief history of the Fordham Ambulance Unit as it appears to one of its members. The formation of the unit, as we all know, was the joint work of Father Mulry, Father Tivnan and Major Patterson of the U. S. Army. The parting scene at Fordham, June 14, will never be forgotten. Father Mulry's farewell address though short was very touching; only such as he, whose wonderful power of eloquence is known to us all, could make it such. Life at camp in Allentown under Captain Donnelly was strenuous preparation for the serious work to come, but there was not one of the 10s boys who did not enjoy it. When the word to leave came wc were all keyed up like a runner at the scratch, waiting for the starter’s pistol and just so we were off. The trip across on the Baltic will be a pleasant memory to all the boys of the F. A. C. The thrill we received when we heard the five blasts of the whistle summoning us to the ”ab ship’’ position and telling a tale of a lurking U-boat which had lived on us; the subdued excitement at the boats, waiting for the captain’s inspection of the damage before putting to sea in the life boats; the relief when it was announced that the damage was slight and we were safe! These and many other remembrances are such as a lifetime alone can remove. We arrived in England for a very short stay, and then came our journey over the channel and to our final destination— France. Our first stopping-place was La Havre. 1 remember the German war prisoners working on the docks. When they saw us and were told we were •s.s.u. 35i Americans they shook their heads and said: “Nein, English.” J hey thought we were English soldiers dressed in different uniforms. From La Havre we went to St. Nazaire after a three-day train ride a la 40 Ilommes 8 Chevaux; which I will state is very different style from what we were accustomed to in America. Forty men and packs were crowded in a freight car about one-third the size of the American cars. It certainly was ‘‘de luxe.” In St. Nazaire we found out that Fords were to be our weapons of attack and we were put to work constructing or rather assembling them. From St. Nazaire we proceeded to Sandrecourt. Here was the parting of the ways for the three Fordham Units. As my story is of Nunan of 51. Cassidy and Curtin of 52, I must leave the tales of 53 for another pen. Sec. 51 was ordered to join its Division at or near Verdun, and Sec. 52 joined Division 81 at Flavy le Martel near St. Quentin. Here wc were initiated into the hardships and dangers of an ambulance driver with the French. 1 he first night at post, we had to drive without lights and at high speed. On the first trip, Cassidy and I were sent up to the post called La Sablier, a posie de secour about 300 meters from the front line. Cassidy had been over the road in the afternoon with Sergeant Gargan and ‘‘knew the way.” 106 7S M A R_Q O N Ji We started out on our first run and it certainly was uncanny sitting in a car while the darkness excluded all idea of direction. Every few minutes I would get out and walk about three yards ahead and tell Cassidy to come on, it was all clear.” After traveling for twenty minutes (it seemed about four hours to me) I began to think we were going too far and kept asking Cassidy how much further. But he had only been over the ground once and was not very certain and thought we were over in the trenches. He stopped the car and I went ahead to find out. Just then a blinding flash and three thundering crashes took place, about ten yards to my left. The shock threw me to the ground. Feeling sure I was hit, I lay there scared to death. Just then a voice of a Frenchman said, “Ici, Monsieur. Standing up I could just make out the abn and I called to Cassidy that everything was all right and to come ahead. When we entered the abn and told the Frenchmen about the close escape we had, they asked where did it happen and we told them it was just outside. They smiled and one of them informed us that the noise we heard was from a F r e n c h Battery situated across the road. Our first idea of the magnitude of the war was in March, 1918. The Germans had broken the English Front near St. Quentin and our French Division, the First Division of demounted cavalry, was ordered to back up the English; so we arrived on the 23rd of March at Ville Queamont, near St. Quentin, and for ten days were in the thick of the fighting. The English kept falling back and the French were forced to close the gap themselves, but were being pushed bit by bit to the Oise River. At Barboef the Division made a memorable stand and prevented the Germans from cutting the road from Chauny to Noyon. For days and nights, without food or rest, we were busy with the wounded. The hospitals were overflowing, and worse still, the onward rush of the Germans caused the continual removal of these havens of refuge for the wounded soldiers to the rear. At last, on Tuesday the 26th, the Germans captured Noyon but there their force was spent and they could not advance another step in this region. The road to Paris was closed and Ludendorfs promise to the Kaiser of a dinner in Paris on April 4 was doomed. Some of the scenes in this awful carnage were ter- 107 M A R_0 O N . ''■'AA'7 rible. The wounded received no medical attention and were placed in the ambulances with their wounds bleeding and gaping. I remember one British “Tommy” in particular whom I found sitting back from the road. The body of the ambulance was filled with French wounded and I placed him on the seat beside myself. After proceeding a little way there were five more English wounded who wanted to be evacuated, as “Jerry” was coming too fast to allow them to escape if I could not take them. I placed two on the fenders, another on the seat beside the first one I picked up and then one on each side sitting on the floor with their feet on the running board. In all I had nine wounded men on a Ford which was built to carry four. After proceeding on a little way, the Tommy whom I first picked up asked for a “Fag.” I gave him the cigarette and asked him if he were wounded very badly and whether or not he was comfortable. He replied “Oh nothing much, only a ball,” and opening his tunic he showed me a wound in his chest. The bullet had penetrated through his right lung and had come out the back and he was only “slightly” wounded! He died just before we reached the hospital with the cigarette in his fingers and a smile on his lips. But I must not tarry too long on these individual parts as my space is limited. I will give a general outline of a day’s work as an ambulancer. The poslc de sccour is the place where the French carry their wounded to be evacuated by ambulance. It was here that the ambulance was sent and here it was also where the good fellowships sprang up between the American drivers and the French brancardiers or stretcher-bearers. The posle de sccour was generally an nbri or a deep dugout in the ground. The word obri means “safe” in French and corresponds to the American word “shelter. In these abris we caine to know the poilu as only those who have been with them continually can appreciate. A number of brancardiers were priests and they were delighted to know that we came from a Catholic College. There was one priest in particular, Corporal Eggi, to whom the majority of the boys in 552 are indebted for their knowledge of French. It was in the German attack at Lassigny Ridge, June 9, 1918. that we suffered our heaviest losses. Charley Dolan was killed going to post and Mayer was badly wounded. Later, Harry Malhais was wounded in -s.s.r. 10S eight places by a shell bursting beside his machine. Of the twenty ambulances in the section fifteen were hit by shells and six of these were totally destroyed. It was in this attack that John Cassidy won his Croix de Guerre. He was at the front post during the bombardment and on his way down with four wounded he had to run through the barrage. The road was blocked about every ten yards or so by a fallen tree or limb and John would have to drag it aside or run around it if possible. For this daring piece of work to save the lives of the wounded he was awarded the Croix de Guerre. The battles Cassidy and Curtin went through with section 552: St. Quentin Sector—October 29, 1917, to January 10, 1918. Picardy Offensive—March 23 to April 4. 1918. Plemont Sector—May 1 to June 9. Battle of Lassigny Ridge—June 9 to June 15. Champagne-Marne Offensive—July 15 to 18. Ville Sur Tourbc Sector—July 19 to September 25. Battle of Argonne—September 26 to November 4, 1918. Occupation of Alsace—December 26, 1918 to March 12, 1919. After spending a few months with the Army of Occupation in Alsace, we received our orders to sail for home. We departed from Brest April I I and arrived in New York, April 23, and the end came on April 26, at Camp Dix, much to our delight at being home once more and finished with Army and War. Nunan was with Sec. 551, and he was decorated with the Croix De Guerre for bravery and skill in succoring the wounded in the battle at Mont Blanc in the Champagne. Joe won his spurs on the field of battle, for he was made a Lieutenant for bravery in action. The battles Nunan engaged in with Sec. 551 : Verdun Sector—December 23, 1917 to April 25, 1918. Champagne Offensive— September to October, 1918. Argonne Offensive— October to November, 1918. Then, as Lieutenant in charge of Sec. 501, he served at La Ghent and Bruges in Belgium, with the army of Occupation in Aix La Chap-pelle for six weeks. He was discharged at Camp Lee A 1 A 1Q1Q AMBULANCES ON FORDHAM FIELD BEFORE THE Aprils, IVIV. DEPARTURE OF THE UNIT sSff 100 }VfAIRQ QN Herman V. Sicdler, ex-18, left Senior Class on December 5, 1917, and became attached to the 77th Division. He sailed for France on April 6, 1918, and was engaged in the July offensive of Marshal Foch and General Pershing at the Vcsle River. I le was captured and gives a vivid description of his treatment by the Germans. He returned from Germany A mistice and was reattached to his Division. I had the good after the r parjs March 13, on my way home, and of the millions there, fortune to juc t0 meet Herman at the Y. M. C. A. Hotel. We went it was my go me taje certainly is a pleasure that comes seldom to dinner meel a schoolmate so far away from home and under such cir- 1 f Hermie returned in May with the 77th and was discharged. CUm latfles Bucoara, Sector-May, 1918. Vesle Sector—June to July, 1918. Oise-Aisne Offensive—July 15. 1918. His story, as related by himself, is as follows: “IN C A S T R I S GERMAN ORU M” By P. W. No. 81332. (The following extract is plain unadulterated fact. It is a true account as related by an American doughboy” of the famous “Lost Battalion,” a sniper and scout, captured by the Prussians during the Oise-Aisne offensive and held prisoner for four months.—War Historian.) Picture, my readers, a street urchin tattered and lorn with disheveled hair, smutty face and dirty hands. Now imagine some eighty such little unfortunates grown up, donned in ragged khaki and parts of French, English, Russian and even German uniforms, wearing a variety of grotesque caps, and you will then have a fair idea of the Yankee prisoners of war in the German pnson camp at Montloue, France, a small deserted village sixty kilometers r°m o-Man s Land,” yet within sounding distance of the booming guns. or over three whole weeks we hapless fellows lived the life of mere yea rnastered by the iron hand of Prussian hordes. We passed these rcar. ays like dogs housed in a stable-barrack, a small, low, rectangular no 1 8t MAROON | 'J P structure, a mere framework of wood covered with scraps of tar paper, i he interior besmattered with filth had the damp muddy ground as flooring. Both sides of the barrack were lined with double rows of platforms; water-soaked, rough-hewn pine boards carelessly slapped together allowing a sleeping place, a little more than a foot wide for each inmate. The windows, three in all, were conspicuous for their lack of panes and the cold breezes of northern France whistled through them dismally. The roof, though covered with sanded tar paper, permitted the drenching rain to filter through its crevices upon those scantily clad. Blankets were few and far between. Those who possessed them had veritable nests for cooties and fleas. Bed sacks we never saw. Some of the boys slept on the bare boards; others, who were skilled cracksmen, rested on potato bags pilfered while out on detail. Let me say that I was one of the chosen few who managed to have an apology for a mattress. Such was our dining-room, boudoir and home. In this hole we slept when we could. If any human being can rest in peace under such conditions, when the pesty cooties bite, when the elusive fleas sting, when the bold rats and saucy mice play lag over your weary limbs, then surely that man must sleep the sleep of the dead. During any hour of the long night one could faintly sense, by the pale moonlight streaming through the window-frames, the presence of restless bodies. At 5 A. M. the sentry’s key turns in the rusty lock on the iron-barred door and a guttural voice rasps out “Aufstehen; Raus!!” These words were our daily reveille and call for breakfast, if so may be termed a repast, consisting of a quart of warm water colored with burnt barley. No sugar. No milk. A real Boche eye-opener. If our companions, the rats and mice, had not eaten our crust of bread hoarded from the night before we were indeed lucky to have what the boys considered a fairly good breakfast. One would imagine that after our meagre mess we at least attended to our toilet, but, when you realize that we never changed our clothes, possessed no soap, no towel, no brush, no comb, only one razor in the crowd and then the scarcity of water not uncommon in France, you will readily understand why, after the hastily-eaten collation, we were all “raused” out of the barrack and lined up—no, not for inspection, but for ‘‘Appel!” (roll-call). It was not an infrequent occurrence •LOADING THIS MM i:i� to stand shivering for one whole hour in the bitter cold and pouring rain awaiting the Feldwebel (Sergeant-major) to count us over. This accomplished, the Yankee sergeants amongst us were dismissed while the corporals and “bucks” trailed the muddy roads to work. The tasks they forced upon us were the loading and unloading of freight cars, shoveling coal or sand and piling up heavy planks of lumber. You can safely bet that the old army game, ducking details, was practiced in true American style. Toiling for six consecutive hours without even a moment's rest was surely sufficient incentive for any man to work up a fairly sensitive appetite for a regular dinner. But the mess, literally taken, was a mixture of water, corn meal, bits of rotten potatoes, and some unhealthy greens. Once in a while, if you were not “out of luck,” a piece of deliciously sweet horse flesh, the size of a domino, was buried in the porridge. This hodgepodge of camouflaged goodies the Jerries” dared to call soup. To break the monotony of the menu the cooks would serve us “barbwire” soup made from dried beets and kohlrabi. To get our feed we had to have some kind of utensils. These were usually home-made. Most of us used old preserve cans found in some dump-heap; some were fortunate enough to be able to purchase a “Frog’s” mess kit. If you had no can, pot or some sort of dish you simply went hungry. Later on, whether out of sportsmanship or pure generosity, the Heinies treated us to agate bowls. A spoon for the soup came in handy IF you had one; if you did not—well then you juggled your meal in Chinese fashion. I can never forget how 1 managed to use a tomato server in place of a spoon. Many of the boys carved table ware out of wood a la American Indian. After devouring this meal which certainly touched the spot, and there was no such thing as “seconds,” we took the count once more and again marched off to continue our morning travail. 5 :30 found us back again in camp. Now was dished out our supper, usually a quart of saffron-colored warm water called tea, a spoonful of brown sugar, some beet jam or a mite of “Butter-ersatz” (oleomargarine), mere grease, and a Quarter loaf of Teutonic black bread which was our ration for one day. The whole loaf of bread was just the size of a cobblestone, baked 112 as hard, and made of whole wheat, rye, corn meal, potato peels and sand,— mostly SAND for it sure did make one grind his teeth. Nevertheless, bread, such as it was; I have been known to pay ten francs for a filched loaf. Before sundown the Feldwebel held “Appell” after which we filed into the barrack which was then locked and barred till early morn. Often, during the many sleepless nights, we could distinctly hear the French 75 s bombarding the German lines. We could see part of the sky glowing as if afire. One night in particular, I well remember, we all were awake, l he firing of guns seemed but a few kilometers distant. Aeroplanes hovered and buzzed overhead. The “Jerries,” terrified, ran about the barb-wired enclosed camp yelling at the top of their lungs “Lichter aus—Lichter aus!!” We, shut up in the barrack, were tickled to death, hoping and wishing that the Boche lines would give way. Wc had visions of a German retreat. Wc saw our liberation at the hands of our own comrades in arms. But with the approach of dawn the bombing, firing and barrage suddenly ceased. Again we were greeted with those familiar words “Raus, Ainerikaner, Raus!!!” A few-quick drafts of barley-water, and we were hurriedly packed on trains and shipped P. D. Q. to the Ukrainerlagcr in Rastatt, Germany. What happened there and at the sugar factory in Waghausel is, as Kipling says, another story. Larry Reilly, ex-’18, enlisted in the U. S. Navy on May 12, 1917, and was assigned to submarine duty. This certainly is a very ticklish job, for on the sea any periscope was certain to be taken for a U-Boat and fired upon without any asking who’s who. Larry saw service in foreign waters keeping the old U-Boats from the steamship lanes. The submarine was the N2. He was discharged July, 1919, and returned to school to finish his academic studies. Joseph Egan enlisted in the 77th on October I, 1917, and sailed overseas on the 8th of April, 1918. He was later transferred to the Forty-first Division. In the great battle of St. iVlihiel which showed to all the allied world what the Americans could do, Joseph was there in the midst of all the fighting. The wiping out of this salient, under such conditions of rain and mud that transportation was nearly at a standstill and comfort to the poor soldier was impossible, is still fresh in 113 •T.URYING TIIE DEAD MA ROON . •.Jfc I J '-.•’I -; I i ■ f i fi - D i everyone’s mind. I le saw service in the Army of Occupation, and after fourteen months foreign service was discharged July 17, 1919. Such, in brief, were the experiences and achievements of those members of the Class of '20 who saw active service in the war zone, and the class has reason to be proud of them. It must be remembered, however, that there were others of our classmates who left us early in our course, and whose failure to return to the class alone prevents us from including them in this record, which deals only with those men who are to receive their degrees this year. But we cannot help regarding them as a part of our contribution to the service, and as such giving them their meed of praise and honor. As for the six men who joined us last fall after [________________________ j their service in the war zone, we can say with conviction that the class has benefited by their return. They have been tried by the worst ordeals that men can face, and have not been found They have made their sacrifices and have done their duty as they saw it; and their experiences could not do otherwise than have a beneficial effect upon them (we were going to say a sobering effect, but the meaning of the term might be misconstrued). I hat beneficial effect has passed on in some measure to the class. And therefore do we doublv honor them. CAUGHT IS A IWJZZARD wanting. “TIIK COOK OF VBKIM'X 114 M A R OO N “ 9 irr fbrrr” )LR part in the work overseas was small enough but the class of ’20 cannot be accused of failure to answer the bugle call. Just when most of us had fulfilled a two-year-old ambition to don the khaki or the blue, the World War came to an end on that memorable day in November, 1918. Blush as we may to admit it, we must confess that more than one growl of disappointment was heard from the lips of our fellows above the din of the city’s jubilation. Although none of us who stayed on this side were sung to sleep by the whining bullets or fanned by the breeze of a passing shell, it is our honor to stand out and say we did our duty as it was shown us by our country. We had our full quota at Plattsburg in 1918, where a mob of college men fresh from the class room was soon transformed into a body of eager soldiers, anxious to go “over there” to take a hand in the well-known unpleasantness. Among our men who were at the camp, Tom Curran, Bob Rimbach and Harry Ryan won commissions. Youthfulness alone kept Jack Breslin and Mario Ponsiglione from the “shave-tail’s” bars, and Bill O’Connor was dealt a bad hand by fate in the form of an unruly appendix which left him unfit for such strenuous duty. When that gallant array, the S. A. T. C., took definite form on Fordham Field, ’20 was represented in every company; often in the capacity of hustling “non-coms,” who ruled their classmates with a firm but gentle hand. Among those who rose from the ranks to positions of honor were Bill Finn and Vin Muller, Acting Sergeants, and a host of acting corporals whose name is legion. The S. A. T. C. turned out a good football team which made short work of the stiffest opposition. Ray Kelly was its manager, and Bill Van Wie and that jolly old “tar,” Gink Gannon, did notable work on the Ford- ham line. Life in the S. A. T. C. at Fordham was far from being one of ease. From six in the morning till ten at night work was the order of the day. And it speaks well for the men who composed the unit that our own outfit was considered the best of its kind in the country. There were no afternoon excursions to s. a. t. c . K. iv Fordham Square. After a 115 month’s quarantine the boys felt lucky to obtain a week-end pass, a respite which they surely earned through the crowded days of those autumn weeks. No one who reported at old St. John’s Hall, which was transformed into a barracks for the use of the student-soldiers, can ever forget the businesslike way in which his life in the army started. Luggage was dropped by the roadside and companies were formed on the campus, where drill was in order till twelve. After a welcome dinner there was more drill till late in the afternoon, when we were dismissed for the day. How the sun had burned our faces and how the grime stuck to our hands! How footsore and weary a crowd we were who threw ourselves on our downy cots and dreamed of the days that were not to come! It was a hard grind after that. A quarantine was enforced, and for a long, lonely month the boys forgot the world around them and made the best of the monotony which grew heavier day by day. At the end of this enforced retreat from the whirl of the city, we emerged as pitiable a mob as ever passed beneath a prison arch. Hair that had not known the barber’s touch since early in autumn waved in the chill October breezes. Heavy beards that no “Gem” could carve sent little children scurrying to their homes, and nondescript uniforms attracted gaping crowds, whose first impulse was to mob the German prisoners. And then came that wild night early November when the guns were still and the war was over. When our disappointment at the sudden end had been somewhat alleviated, we condescended to favor Broadway with our presence—and then the morning after the night before! A few weary, purposeless weeks dragged on, and then talk of discharges filled the air. After sundry and divers disappointments, the end came late in December and the S. A. T. C., which had held out to us such high hopes of war and glory, gave up the ghost. 116 NAVAL UNIT § er )ifc ftccorti Aloysius F. Arthur, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Edward F. Breslin, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. John J. Breslin, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. William L. Buckley, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. John J. Cassidy, Private, Ambulance Corps, Overseas. Paul A. Cunningham, 1st Class Seaman, U. S. N., O. T. S., Pelham. Thomas J. Curran, 2nd Lieutenant, Infantry, Syracuse. Charles A. Curtin, Private, Ambulance Corps, Overseas. Sylvester A. Dineen, Candidate, M. G. C. O. T. S., Camp Hancock. Paul V. Donner, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Joseph J. Egan, Private, 1 16th Supply Train, Overseas. Francis M. Field-McNally, Private, S. A. T. C., Catholic University. William F. Finn, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. William P. Gannon, Apprentice Seaman, S. A. T. C., Fordham. William B. Gardner, Private, 35th Coast Artillery, Fortress Monroe. Lawrence C. Gorman, Private, Artillery, Camp Taylor. John H. Haslam, Private, Coast Artillery, Fort Scribben. Francis J. Higgins, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Richard H. Jones, Apprentice Seaman, S. A. T. C., Fordham. John E. Kelly, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Raymond J. Kelly, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Elmer J. Knobloch, Corporal, Signal Corps, Camp Meade. George C. Lasher, Corporal, Marine Corps, Paris Island. George A. Lee, Private, S. A .T. C., Fordham. Alfred M. Lefevre, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Thomas J. Martin, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. 117 J cruicc UCCOrD—Continue Joseph D. McGrath, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. John J. McLaughlin. Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Vincent E. Muller, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. James A. Mulry, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. John J. Murphy, Apprentice Seaman, U. S. N. R. F., New Haven. Joseph D. Nunan, 2nd Lieutenant, Ambulance Corps, Overseas. Denis F. O’Brien, Apprentice Seaman, S. A. T. C., Fordham. William A. O’Brien. 2nd Lieutenant, Artillery, Camp Taylor. Peter F. O’Connor, Private, S. A. I. C., Fordham. William J. O’Connor, Private, S. A. 1. C., Canisius College. William T. O'Sullivan, Apprentice Seaman, Navy, Granite State. Mario J. Ponsiglione, Sergeant, infantry. Camps Upton and Merritt, Fordham. Lawrence H. Reilly, Gunner’s Mate, U. S. N. R. F., U. S. Submarine N-2. Robert E. Rimbach, 2nd Lieutenant, Infantry, Camp Pitt. Charles T. Robinson, Apprentice Seaman, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Henry W. Ryan, 2nd Lieutenant, Infantry, Georgia Tech. Raymond J. Scully. Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. William A. Seidl, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Herman W. Siedler, Private, 308th Infantry, Overseas. (German Prisoner of War.) John E. Tumulty, Ensign, U. S. N. R. F., U. S. S. “Arizona.” Anthony P. Uihlein, 1st Class Seaman, U. S. N., O. T. S., Pelham. W'illiam J. Van Wie, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Gerald B. Weldon, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. Thomas J. White, Private, S. A. T. C., Fordham. 118 11 }. D°uu ||k til r yv«nii|i..i,,f, •• i i. niK' I It II V VlcD ‘ 0«l ’ I C� ll “ ' � r V k1® ? • i. A yt‘W 'Ni' ■« 1) I. 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V I n “Oil'll ■J tt p r •( -a tt j l tt a -i ot uoutns M '{ « •tuiataiaj y � ? i« VH I It HH.O I H M u � o-.io|| y a n v� o� i� a 3 K «eio k a � O iu aoo K M •( I Jl� K 3 t uufu v UTHIUXJ ;) ( '°'«n -a 'k i| nt:r,| y 'I “� V«K I I «• .■ ur� i||o|v It 1C r. M VI it ■ 1 SI n tt ci A|l«lu. | S 'VM“ 4JB“,S ’A - � «in .i •( u.tnSu a I iiouua}H v w “ ll J L J H i-.ojx J H « « KJK X a oruuio J n 1 7 TS ‘IwiHW •( It II •I v 9 « � c I @ @ © © © © © s ©,_ K3 fe fi) © ,«v © @ ® [J,® © • ®Ve • v� 4V « Ca j ssb| ) aoiun CLASS OF ’21 CLASS OFFICERS President.........................HAROLD J. KEOUGH. Vice-President................... FRANCIS T. CALLAN Secretary....................................JOSEPH L. HOEY Treasurer..........................DENIS P. COLEMAN Historian....................................JOSEPH L. HOEY $nston of 1921 HE Class of 1921 has undergone more changes, probably, than any other Fordham class in many years. They may justly, then, be doubly jubilant over every accomplishment, since they would not be expected to equal the successes of a class remaining the same from Freshman to Senior. The class that began studies at Fordham in September, 1917, was principally composed of Prep men and Xavier graduates. In the beginning of the year Mr. Mulry, S. J., taught Section A, and Father Morgan, Section B. In the second term, however, Father Morgan became the professor of Sophomore, and the two sections of Freshman were 121 united under Mr. Mulry. This was agreeable to all but Mr. Mulry, who. needless to say, was not overjoyed at the prospect of many extra hours correcting exercises. Banquet and dance were omitted because of the war, and it was considered inadvisable to hold even an informal “beefsteak.” Consequently the one social event of the year was a smoker that has lingered long in the mind of every participant. The outstanding feature of the entertainment was the performance of “Professor” McIntyre, the hypnotist,—unfortunately one of those no longer with us—who caused the diminutive Frank Galuzzi another who has fallen by the wayside—to accomplish the impossible while under his mesmeric spell. The Class Officers elected that year were ? Frank O’Hare, President, later of the Navy and now an ex-Fordhamite; Bourke C. Donnelly, Vice-president; Myles B. Amend, Secretary, and Giles M. Wetterer, Treasurer. The mention of Wetterer’s name recalls an amusing incident which might have resulted in a libel suit. Giles, who was the Class Treasurer, as we said before, left school very abruptly and it was only through hearsay that most of the class learned of his departure for Cincinnati. F.agerly seizing this tidbit of news, the Class Correspondent entered an item in the Ram to the effect that Giles M. Wetterer, the Class Treasurer, had disappeared with the Class Funds, amounting to $000, and that he was last seen en route for Cincinnati. The printer made a disastrous change in the purport of the article by mistaking the “$000“ for “$100,” and, needless to say. the item created a sensation. A hasty retraction of course was made. We haven’t seen Wetterer since; perhaps he has never learned of the undue notoriety his disappearance received. At the end of that scholastic year Frank Murphy, now in Cathedral College, captured first honors in Section A, Joseph Hoey won second honors and the French prize; James Mahony was first in Section B, Albert Sattlcr, winning second prize and the first prize in German. McIntyre, the suave Southerner, carried off first honors in mathematics and Spanish. A history of our Freshman year would not be complete without a mention of Father Murphy’s Class in History. No member of that class will ever forget his discursions, political, social and religious, his keen satire and broad humor. We all felt a sense of loss when we learned of his summons away from Fordham. When the class parted that June it was with the feeling that many would never see Fordham again. And the belief was a true one, for, although none were called upon to make the supreme sacrifice for their country, yet a great number did not return to alma malcr after the disturbing days of war. 122 October found the college a military school in the hands of the government. Of those in the class who were of military age, some were in France, some in the Navy, others, among them Keough, McCann and Dwyer, had won commissions at Plattsburg, and others returned to Fordham, not in classes but in companies, clad—after a month or so—in khaki, and keen for commissions. The Kaiser, however, decided to quit when he heard about the S. A. T. C., and consequently studies were resumed in January. The Class of 21 now the Sophomore, was vastly changed from its Freshman personnel. Few of those who had been in service were discharged in time to return, except those in the S. A. T. C. The gap was filled by a large delegation from St. Peter’s, which remained closed for the year. In Sophomore the class was again divided. Father Farley teaching Section A, and Father Oates, Section B. The sciences were taught by Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Daly. The Class Officers for the year were Bourkc C. Donnelly, President; John J. Meehan, Vice-President; Joseph L. Hoey, Secretary, and Leonard A. Kiely, now taking a course at the Berlitz School of Languages, Treasurer. During that year the poesy of Freshman was succeeded by the more sober study of rhetoric, and Cicero and Demosthenes received their meed of studious regard. This year was marked socially by the dance at Breton Hall, successful despite the laziness of the jazz band, and pugilistically by the continuation of the more or less bitter feud between “Battling Bobby” Eustace and “Fearless Frank” Galuzzi, which had been featured in the Ram throughout the previous year. Frank has not returned in Junior, so Bobby claims he’s “yellow,” but we who know Frank can testify that he feared no man or beast. Unfortunately there was no History course in Sophomore and consequently the sections were together only at the class meetings. The shortness of the year also precluded the holding of many class events. The boys from St. Peter’s, however, soon became acclimated in Fordham’s atmosphere, and before the end of the year the ties that united the class were as strong as if all were old Fordham men. Due to the size of the graduating classes, the awarding of prizes in June was dispensed with, much to the disappointment of George Hayes, McGarvey and others. The opening of classes in September, 1919, marked the renewal of many old acquaintances. The ranks of Junior Class were swelled by those who left for the war in Freshman or Sophomore, and now returned to get their degrees. John Paul (Pete) O’Brien, Mark Kearns and Joseph Baxter returned from over eighteen months of service with the Pordham Ambulance 123 M A R_Q O N j Corps in France. Most of the fellows from St. Peter’s remained at Fordham, and there were recruits from Holy Cross, from St. John’s, Brooklyn and from Evander. In all, there were over seventy in the class, a fact that augured well for the success of class affairs, if their energy was at all in proportion to their mass. The first social event of the year was the class smoker held in the K. of C. hut, under the direction of Messrs. McGarvey, Cunningham and McManus. Mr. Basso brought up some scrappy little fellows from the settlement house, who gave lively boxing exhibitions. Jimmy McGarvey showed his versatility by boxing and by reciting an original parody on “ I he Shooting of Dan McGrew”; the shooting in this case being with white cubes with black spots, and not with bullets. Luke Moran and Joe Curry entertained vocally, and Mr. Biblio monologued enjoyably. The next event of importance was a scholastic one, the annual specimen in Minor Logic, which was held in the Alumni Hall, December 17th. The Reverend Father Rector presided, the judges being Fathers Jessup, Hill, Rankin and LeBuffe, and Mr. Kearney, verily a formidable array for any poor Junior to face. The Juniors survived the volleys of questions with many a wound stripe and exemption from service. Mr. Kearney, who was the sole unordained judge, is giving a practical course in Journalism. It is hoped that next year the class will be able to practice his preachings on a revivified Ram, “bigger and better than ever.” Some of the class are eagerly awaiting the positions he has promised as reporters for some of the big papers, writing up Saturday night social events. Now came the great event, not of the year, but of four years, the Prom. Thanks to Prisco and Donnelly the affair was a brilliant success despite many handicaps. On Friday, February Sixth, the worst night of the worst snowstorm in years, the Prom was held in the main ballroom of the Hotel Biltmore. It will be long before anyone present there will forget the ideal combination of a spacious, glassy floor and the harmony of Joseph C. Smith’s fifteen musical wizards, and the magic effect of vari-colored spotlights. 1 here is every reason to believe that a Prom next year will be successful, for everyone there this year will want to come again, and all who hear about it will want to see for themselves what a Fordham Prom is like. On February 25th a special meeting was held for the election of officers for the 1921 MAROON. Joseph L. Hoey was elected Editor and Joseph W. Prisco, Business Manager. It is hoped that those who have supported this year’s MarOON will also assist in making the Year Book of 1921 a success. 1:4 SOPHOMORE 5� i, Z i • - £. , J • . ■ a -: -uia; iX gp -� qj ri � w tc •“• ?sroi INC in the com n or the great war, th e completely d- tfncies indigene : founding of ba ■: ■ r experiment was • the president Washington and • id tr� resource- of ; : ur n ' © rg ntzed activity precipi college systems of the cm Autumn of 1918. The ti?g o great armies had dema dicer material. A -. ‘ -r Just before the beginning ]. ersities and colleges were ernment had decided to o onal institutions fo the 1 2 3 « 1 « 7 3 Rrv. J. H. Farley. S.J. E. T. Gallo ay I. Nash fc. L. D«ly F. A Pfeiffer I. V. Connelly Vi. C. Inso J. Ik'jr'in 9 R. A. Wright JO H. V. l-iwi� iK« 11 R. F. McCauley It - ' IS I. A. Manque R. P. Wholly 1« A. J. MurpJiy IS W J. II nr Icy 16 E. McDonald 17 P. H. Cnblrn 1H J. A Have 19 O. A. Callahan JO T. A. McNamara il W. McLaughlin ta i. Con 23 T. F. I[� niuy H P. A Krnncily ti T. A. Henry 26 A. I. lamb 27 ). A. McGuire 28 II. II. Ilorton 29 V ). O’Shea 30 T. Howtey 31 F. Giordano 32 V. R. Cor rod 33 K. 31 G H:..... 3i I. £. Dim ? J 38 E. P. Mar. Kane Ford. Dimin(hau cy Marchlony 39 C. I. Collin. 10 P. II. Murphy c L A S S O F F I C E R S President........................................EDWARD T. GALLOWAY Vice-President............................TIMOTHY A. McNAMARA Secretary........................................RAYMOND P. WHEARTY Treasurer....................................J- ALBERT HA ES Historian........................................RAYMOND J. KANE tstorp of 1922 [ALLING in the common ruin of all organized activity precipitated by the great war, the established college systems of the country were completely demoralized in the Autumn of 1918. The contingencies indigenous to the assembling of great armies had demanded the founding of bases of supply for officer material. And so the S. A. T. C. experiment was attempted. Just before the beginning of the school year, the presidents of the nation’s universities and colleges were summoned to Washington and told that the Government had decided to commandeer the resources of the country’s educational institutions for the purpose 127 of giving preliminary preparation, both academic and military, to all potential candidates for the senior officers’ training camps. Consequent upon the adoption of this plan, all students over eighteen years of age who reported for class in September were enrolled in the units established at their colleges. It is unnecessary to say that the predicament of those wishing to enter Freshman, and ineligible for the S. A. T. C. because of their age, was not to arouse unwonted enthusiasm. The men thus circumstanced who purposed matriculating at Fordham faced the dull prospect of waiting either for their eighteenth birthday or the end of the war. However an arrangement was finally arrived at. Father Robert Johnson, Prefect of Studies, formed a Freshman Class consisting entirely of men in their non-age and in this manner the nucleus of the Class of ’22 started its career through Fordham under the designation Freshman A. Perhaps the opening days at college for the members of hreshman A were not extremely preposessing nor full of promise for the future. If the proverb about the rolling stones is sound, it might be suggested that the present Sophomores did not appreciably build on the knowledge and wisdom brought from the high school. For the fortunes of war had assigned most of the class rooms to the lads in khaki and it became quite the regular occurrence to have a youthful freshman accost one and inquire in mournful tones for the whereabouts of his classroom. To be sure the peregrinations of these war-stricken freshmen in daily quest of their room after its nocturnal migration frequently brought them to entirely satisfactory—even luxurious quarters—the reception room in the Administration Building, for example. Here their sessions were more like diplomatic conferences than prosaic “classes” for the academic atmosphere, such elements as desks and blackboards, were conveniently dispensed with and in their stead were substituted soft, plush, lounging chairs and noiseless rugs. On the other hand some woeful places were often assigned them. Under such conditions an abundance of patience and correct philosophic application was necessary in the man who had this class under his care. And although their less matured minds may not have been perceptible of the long-suffering virtues required of the professor of a peripatetic school, they now realize what a trial those days must have been to their teacher, Mr. Terence Connolly, S.J., and appreciate the endurance of his good will and the evenness of temper he persistently maintained. They owe him a debt of thanks. But such things never balk freshmen. They therefore became accustomed to them very soon and set to work energetically. Their first act was the holding of class elections. When the balloting was over, the result showed that Robert Wright had been elected President, with Henry Lawrence assisting him as Vice-President, while the cabinet members were Michael Isaacs, 128 MAROON Treasurer, and Raymond Whearty, Secretary. With the appointment of this official group begins the true history of the present Sophomore class. Meanwhile the armistice had been signed and since there was no need for further detaining the S. A. T. C. men in the service, the Fordham unit was dissolved after a brief existence of two and a half months. The decease of this organization in the middle of December was followed by a respite of three weeks for the double purpose of giving the faculty time for the rearrangement of the old courses and of affording the ex-soldiers opportunity to readjust themselves to their pre-war manner of living. Regular classes were resumed on January 6, 1919. It was on this date that Freshman B, ’22, came into existence. As opposed to Section A of the same year, this class was composed exclusively ol men who had been in the S. A. T. C. with one pleasant result that a kind of “camaraderie” existed between the members outside the classroom. But upon becoming settled within they were immediately sobered by the problem of finishing in five months the work upon which their younger brethren had been engaged for three months. The task must have been hopelessly unconquerable for them, unaided by the direction of a tireless professor. But fortune was wholly with Freshman B, for this difficult work was entrusted to Mr. Edward Sullivan, S.J. When June was reached, every man realized that it was only because of their professor’s ceaseless, unrelenting labor they had finished all the matter prescribed for them. There had been no delay in the election of Section B’s class officers. As soon as they were into their work, this important duty was fulfilled. Mr. Edward Galloway was elected President, and Mr. Emilio Marchioni, Vice-president. The offices of Treasurer and Secretary were allotted respectively to Thomas Hennessy and Raymond Kane. The eagerness of the earlier established Freshman class to welcome the new appendage was evident from the first. The mutual friendliness was appreciated on both sides and the members of Freshman A early captivated the admiration and respect of their new brothers by a spirited act which was all the more prized by its beneficiaries for its spontaneity. It was nothing formal, merely a frank expression of unconcealed feeling. That smoker given by Freshman A was immensely enjoyed by their classmates and accomplished more toward a sincere consolidation of purpose and ideals between the sections than any campaign of loyalty and spirit speeches could have been hoped to effect. This smoker by far exceeded in interest and in the results produced any activity of the entire year. It is the one fond memory carried by the present Sophomores, of their first year at college. When the Class of ’22 returned to begin their second college year, it was at first supposed that the division made in Freshman would be continued. 120 But the unexpectedly heavy Freshman registration necessitated the appropriation of a Sophomore Professor to the new Fordhamites. As a consequence. Sophomore B, after enjoying two days under the tutelage of Father Oates, was merged with Sophomore A and the completed union of these inevitable friends was closed for a period of three years. Father John Farley was given the combined class. The elections proved the strength of Mr. Edward Galloway’s personal popularity and executive ability, for he was again elected President by a large majority. The Vice-Presidency was won by Mr. Timothy McNamara; Mr. Albert Hayes gained the administration of the Treasury and Mr. Raymond Whearty was chosen Secretary. Although circumstances had precluded the holding of a dance the preceding year, it was early determined to fix upon a date for the Sophomore dance. Accordingly January 13 was selected and the Sophomores gave their first dance at the Commodore I Iotel. That the event was a success in everyway was in a large proportion due to the efforts of Mr. Edwin McDonald. Chairman of the Committee appointed to arrange the affair. Anyone fortunate enough to be present would volunteer that a more thoroughly enjoyable evening could not be had. The attainments and glories of the Sophomore class do not, however, entirely center about the social, although the desirability of such activity is quite evident. It has also done its share in contributing to the fame of Fordham not only in athletics but in the classroom and upon the platform. It is proud of its distinction and of the accruing glory in having donated Tim McNamara as the backbone of the pitching staff of last year’s champion baseball team. It is proud of Raymond Whearty, the leading distance runner at Fordham, who has so many times during the past year distinguished himself and brought laurels to his college by his brilliant performances on the track. It points admiringly to Mr. Raymond McCauley and Mr. Ambrose Murphy, its prize debaters of last year’s teams, to Mr. McCauley again and to Mr. Arthur Lamb, its triumphant representatives in this year’s contest. And it bids all to witness the selection of three Sophomores—Messrs. Henry Lawrence, Ambrose Murphy and Raymond McCauley—for parts in the cast of “Seven Keys to Baldpate,’’ the annual play. And yet all of its capabilities and accomplishments are not exhausted by an enumeration of its public performances. Within the sanctuary of the classroom the history of its conquests and failures is kept from the profane gaze. In the final accounting its academic assets annihilate its few negligible failings. In truth, such is the high estimate of the Sophomore class’ intellectual worth, that its Professor has repeatedly reiterated the assurance that his present class is the nearest approach to the most capable class he has ever graduated into Junior year. 130 FRESHMAN R it. ■ n 5,hiu - h r x “3'v b -O S.- - Ui - -■ r- ntt-S500'l«.‘VVNi«nC V .V -V -V X .X -i 'I -• -� -« -1 ') -) -1 'I _ H.- w- • ; — .o oc t] « -'■ CT � - i.- v - — � a X -I«« f -• V -. .. ... .. — � — -■ - a; is a: « .-■ = J-' c- = -- v J XX — • .t . “ _ . . J- •' j:0 ■- X U-' j - n - -2 - hc; ,v i' ” c c x -i a r.' •■ m: - ■; c j: -) i tv r- ■■' r - — — - — — r'-yc x -•=iv._ §; ?: w ._ iuV--bbb.v—-sx.-r- CV Vj — . vV cu c2 - Hm = ° bJ QCJ o i a. a — 7, _. a.o 5 5 tt = =|S � ! i 2C -d'” ,-s p It- President. i’ice-Presia Secretary. r rrajiirer. 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F. Mahoney F. W Hh H «rfie: A. I.yneh A OBrlen F. Mihonry F. Kenna Morris I. William. Cleaaon M Myldoon ). Uddy S. Sauer II 1-r.lir T Weed 3 CK 37 r. S« P it M. 4 K U W. 42 H. 43 v. ii j: IK VI 49 S. 30 M a l: u I. T. Burial K Kciwlu V Ryin I. Cacey X. Sullivan Y McNulty M. Wood C Caacy F M M«u. Dcbijcnoir F. VI� e� iia V. Mulvry M. Chemidbn Freda J. Mahoney C. Oumn W. Hocy F. Hamilton 34 J. V. Hamilton TO J. ih F. 1. Klnjaley 71 A. 56 C. F. CoTlmv 72 E. 37 W. J Ritnmer 73 V M P. J. Drum 71 T. 59 W. C. Flaherty 73 P. 60 A G HilbrnUdl 76 J. 61 W. F. Grote 77 H 62 G. E. Gallonay 78 o. 63 M T. Coogan 79 J. ■4 J. VI. O'Brien SO f. 05 T. M. Keroy 61 M. « J. T. O'Rourke � � W 67 K. ). Hendrick 83 J. 66 P. A McLaughlin 84 t «9 J A. Nolan SJ VI G V eBinc F. Kierahiter M. McMahon S. Kilkenny P. Howley X Gannon II Breen A. Schicklmc F O'Connell F. Cnfts T. Fahey A Haye . H. Ticho A Spencer F. Ander� oii G AmHflce CLASS OF ’23 CLASS OFFICERS President................................ANDREW McCARTHY Vice-President.........................ROBERT MAHONEY Secretary..............................PAUL McLAUGHLIN Treasurer.....................................JOSEPH WEED Historian .............................JOSEPH WELLING History of 1923 HN September 29, 1919, the Class of ’23 broke forth from its egg shell and chirped its greeting to Fordham for the first time. Beneath the University’s historic elms we assembled, one hundred and twenty strong, fresh from the various prep schools, where we had but lately been figures of importance. In abject and befitting humility we crowded together on the campus preparatory to our long hike up the trail of learning. Because of our large numbers—we were the biggest class ever registered at Fordham—the class was broken up into three sections. But the division 133 did not dampen our ardor. We engaged in all the activities open lo us, and gaining the commendation and approval of the Faculty and the upper classmen, we have established several precedents which bid fair to glorify the old Maroon. Notable among our innovations was the case of a f reshman Athletic Association. Of course, we were greatly disappointed by the cancellation of the Varsity football schedule. But we rose to the occasion. With the permission of the Faculty we decided upon a vigorous athletic programme and elected William Finnegan to the presidency of the new Freshman Athletic Association. As it was too late to put a football team on the field, we devoted all our efforts toward the formation of a strong basketball quintet. Candidates turned out in encouraging numbers and in a few weeks the team had started through its schedule, arranged by Manager O Connell. We played St. Francis Xavier. C. C. N. Y., Stevens, and many other city schools, winning the majority of our games. O'Brien starred at center, while Grote and Sullivan, our forwards, accounted for many a winning basket. Captain Kenna and Freda proved to be valuable guards, and the work of Nolan, Carney, Finnegan and Butler was creditable indeed. We also contributed to the Varsity, squad in the persons of McMahon and Captain Culloton, both of whom have enviable records to their credit. This season witnessed the return of hockey to Fordham as a major sport. Freshman was represented on the ice also. Among those who played were Muldoon, Keresy and Corridon, who gave ample evidence of their skill with the stick and puck. I he Freshman Athletic Association also included track sports within its wide scope. Because of the early publication of the MAROON it is impossible to give a complete account of our achievements on the cinder-path. Coach Bernie Wefers, however, gives us a most favorable report of the athletes' development, and upon this we pin our hopes for the addition of more laurels to the history of the Class of ’23. On February 15 Manager Griffin issued a call for candidates for baseball. So complete was the response that practically half the class turned out to help toward building up a winning Freshman combination. A week later we had our first try-out and, judging from the material on hand, we are justified in our great expectations for the coming year. “Judy Martin, of the Senior class, has consented to coach the team, so we are assured that the men will receive the best possible training. Our schedule includes games with the Yale Freshies, the West Point Plebes, Brooklyn Poly, and C. C. N. Y. Our baseball prowess is not, however, limited to the class team. As the Maroon goes to press, Culloton has just pitched the second game of the V arsitv season, holding the much-touted University of Vermont team, the 134 MAROON conquerors of Georgetown and Princeton only a few days before, to two hits, and winning his game, 3-1. Lack of time prevents us from recording his further achievements and those of several other Freshmen on the squad; but we predict that, if Fordham has the unprecedented baseball season which everyone expects, Cullolon will deserve a great deal of the credit for the success. So much for athletics. We have spoken first of our achievements and hopes on the field of sport, because this particular phase of our activities stands out prominently in the annals of the Class of ’23. But, despite the well-known law of compensation, excellence in athletics does not necessarily imply any deficiency in other lines, social or scholastic. In the first of these we consider that we have made a good start. As was fitting and proper, our first social affair was of the strictly informal variety and took the form of a smoker. It was held on the evening of December I 7 m the K. of C. hut. All present agreed that the affair was one of the best of its kind ever held at Fordham. A wonderful spirit was manifested throughout the evening. Movies, music, boxing, wrestling, and refreshments contributed to the success of the party, for which much credit is due to John Mulvey, chairman of the arrangements committee, and to his assistants, Watson Baumert and Richard Kinn. This smoker, though its primary purpose was to bring the men together, paved the way for the first real social event of the year, a dance at the Hotel McAlpin. The proceeds of the dance, which was a great success, poured into the coffers of our Athletic Association. The two hundred couples who attended, including many upper classmen who deigned to grace the affair, attested to the perfection with which Joseph Ward had arranged the minutest details. We predict many enjoyable surprises for Fordham and its friends when the Junior Prom is entrusted to Joe’s supervision. Meanwhile, others of us have been giving utterance to our views from the rostrum of the St. John’s Debating Society. In weekly sessions we have aired our opinions upon subjects of the hour, and have even dared on occasion to question the stand taken by the irreproachable Seniors. Consequently, we seem to have attracted some attention, for we are now at work on a debate with the Columbia Freshmen. Messrs. McNulty, Galloway, and Hamilton have qualified for positions on the team. Mr. Galloway also spoke in the Prize Debate, February 17, and convinced all his classmen of his oratorical prowess. And, last but not least, our class president, Andrew McCarthy, has been chosen as Alternate of the Debating Team, which meets Boston College, and possibly Holy Cross. Moreover, we are to be represented in Dramatics. A cast is rehearsing, at the time this is being written, for George M. Cohan’s great production, Seven Keys to Baldpate, and includes Messrs. Hamilton, Liddy, Leslie, 135 McNulty and Galloway. We are confident that they will preserve and magnify the honors of 23. Another performance of the Freshman class which deserves more than a passing notice is our resurrection of the extinct custom of wearing class caps. We are told that some three years ago it was customary for each class in the college to have its own cap. But for some unknown reason, they had become an unknown species by the time we put in our appearance. For a few months we observed this peculiar phenomenon in silence. But at length we wearied of the sight of the commonplace felt and the uncomfortable derby. We decided that something was needed to render our several and individual heads a trifle more collegiate in their appearance and atmosphere. The result of this profound decision was the choosing of a distinctive class cap, maroon in color, with the numerals, 1923, embroidered in white on the front. We hope the precedent will be followed by our successors, and not be suffered to die out as quickly as on the former occasion. Such, in brief, are the accomplishments and achievements of the Class of 1923 during the few short months in which it has existed as a working unit. As a fitting example of what the college in general thinks of the Class of 1923, and as a fitting climax to this history, wc reprint the following editorial from the Fordham Monthly: “Quickly, silently, and with a suddenness that speaks of well-laid plans, something new and strange has come into being. It is seen on the campus, still white and dismal with the remains of an old-fashioned winter. It makes its appearance in the long and silent corridors of the Faculty Building, and takes its way in and out of the classrooms and halls. It is moving about in the “gym,” and may be seen winding its way along the roads and pathways of the college grounds. It is small and round, maroon in color, and on the front is emblazoned in white characters the mystic number, “1923.” In short, and not to put too fine a point upon it, it is the Freshman Cap. “We remember that this pious custom of class caps prevailed at Fordham until about two years ago, when it seems to have died a lingering death. The resurrection of this distinctive headgear by the Freshman was somewhat unexpected, but nevertheless very welcome. “We only spoke of the subject, however, because it is typical of the all-around activity of the present Freshman class. They are entering upon college life with a spirit and enthusiasm which cannot be too much encouraged. It is hardly necessary to mention their accomplishments in athletics, and they are bringing the same spirit of interest and cooperation into other lines. “The Class of ’23 is on the right track. Let us hope that there will be no dimming of the contagious spark of enthusiasm which now burns so brightly among them.” 136 BASEBALL CAN0I0ATE§1 REPORT TO-OAY TO COACH DEVLIN Ic Cream and Toast Will be Served To All ALLONS!! 'If you Play Anything ° Prom an Harmonica to a Jews—Harp | We Want You NOW. College Orchestra Rehearsals Soon THIS IS TERRIBLY DRAMATIC' ? DID YOU EVER ACT? THEN------------ Act Quickly ! Try-Outs For Our Own 7 KEYS TO BALD PATE Saturday in the Theatre all you need |F0« the BOAT TRK iS I022 and fj Little Company! r the I FOROMAM MONT r1 Will be aJl 3feztag. L- AAY 06 ! Tke Bi£ Scrap Is On! The Deoati'n Society Will Settle THE IRISH QUESTJON| Next Friday _Bnn Voor ShiilelaKs! the bugle nsTbe one and only genome Daily | _ ,, 7f BiMlbcOHj J)ownW.tk fTJl, s;„ � ■ Moter Bnl� units ;D wnV.'itk CAPITAL I ) w nW.tk LA BOR 11 •ownWitk PROHIBITION! )ownWitk BOOTE!!!! Le.Gur le, Curdle 7ZZZZ?, '?? ? %% |_LLL! Organizations Cl)£ JHontlilp §?taff Edit or-in-C hie)..................JOHN J. DILLON, ’20 Business Manager.............CHARLES T. ROBINSON, ’20 Associate Editors MORGAN J. OBRIEN. ’20 JOHN J. -MURPIIY, ’20 JOSEPH L. HOEY. ’21 ROBERT H. O’BRIEN, 21 Exchange Editor................ Athletic Editor................ WILL TWISS O’SULLIVAN. ’20 JOSEPH R. KELLEY, ’20 JOSEPH A. PANUCH, ’21 HENRY T. LAWRENCE. '22 .. RAYMOND J. SCULLY, ’20 BOURKE C. DONNELLY, ’21 138 1 ®J MAROON 1 - :—- — - —'■ J 1 % )t jfortJfjam fHotitljlp HENEVER a curtain was rung up on the stage at Fordham, and whenever the sharp ‘‘Flay Ball! of the umpire floated across the diamond, you had only to inspect your program or consult your line-up to find the names of men with those two little numerals 20 —after them. And it would have been a pity if, after securing all the trophies of triumph in so many other activities, the Class of 20 should not have won a few metaphorical laurel wreaths in literary fields. Ever since we were timid Freshmen, ever since those days when we looked with reverent awe to the upper classmen—an awe that since we have become upper classmen ourselves, we feel confident was not half reverent enough—ever since then, the Class has had able representatives on the staff of the Monthly. In Freshman the task of garnering the first leaves for that laurel wreath we mentioned before fell to the pen of Morgan J. O’Brien. Although the only member of the Class on the Staff during that initial year and although surrounded by contemporaries who had already won literary halos during the previous years, his light, yet interesting stories that always hinted of moonlight and tender voices and romantic waters, attracted a great deal of attention from the beginning. Most of his stories dealt with a theme that is difficult to handle—in stories as well as in life—Love. Every magazine, particularly a college magazine, needs its contrasts, its lights as well as its shadows, and a dainty love story sandwiched in between ponderous philosophical essays adds a touch of charm that is pleasing. And it is this office, of making the dark places lighter, which Morgan has filled. However, lest one imagines that his writings have been entirely without weight, we have but to recall that occasionally he has banished the golden realms of Romance, dispensed with the silvery settings of the moonlight and turned out plots of a more serious vein that arc as well written as his others and which have the added advantage of bearing a moral point. Moreover, he has contributed quite a number of essays which are worth careful reading, his most recent and perhaps the best thing that has come from his pen, being a series of essays that treated novel subject matter in a novel way. In our Sophomore year, John J. Dillon was appointed to the staff. From the very beginning of his literary career John never confined himself to one medium of expression. His poetry has a quiet charm about it that is perhaps a reflection of the man himself. In his years of collegiate writing John has handled many subjects in rhyme and in prose, and it is hard to say in which mold we prefer his thoughts. The quality of his poetry is silken, the quality of 139 MAROON =r ■•« « his prose dynamic, and we are inclined to believe that when we are in a dreamy mood we prefer his poetry and when we feel moved to want action that we prefer his prose. That is exactly the point about John’s writings—he has something that satisfies more moods than one. And since he has become Editor-in-Chief, there is nothing that we can say in reference to the excellence and virility of his editorials that has not already been said by the hard-to-please critics in the Exchanges. The fact that he is more than just a mere scribbler of phrases like most of us, is conclusively proven from the masterly fashion in which he has conducted the Monthly during the past year, and from the increase in subscriptions which establishes beyond a doubt the high literary flavor the Monthly has come to enjoy under his direction. Fordham will feel the loss in this department when the Class of ’20 graduates. In Sophomore also the Class gained another representative on the Board of Editors when John J. Murphy jumped into the journalistic lime-light. A story that had a historic foundation and in which you could actually feel the atmosphere of mystery and of Russia was John’s first effort, and promised great possibilities as a successor to Poe. From this time on, however, it seemed as though Jack were anxious to find other classical models, and several poems in the spirit of Kipling found their way from his pen, and it wasn’t till this last year that we again saw Jack’s real power in the form of another story. Both his stories and his poetry were excellently well done and the only fault we have to find is that there was not more of them. Junior year brought us two more able representatives, who succeeded in adding the last leaves to that class laurel wreath. They were Joseph R. Kelley and Will Twiss O’Sullivan. Joe has written much and in many veins. Readers of the Monthly never know just what form the next effort of Joe’s will take. One month it is a story with an O. I Ienry plot, next it is a poem that stares at you opposite Joe’s name on the contents page, and then you are startled by a philosophical essay with a depth of thought, clearness of logic and purity of style that you only had a hint of from his former writings. Besides the excitement of action that he furnishes in his stories, besides the heart strings that he touches with his poetry and the intellect that he moves with his essays, Joe has also that happy faculty of humor and easy cynicism which he has kept in hiding for a long time and with which he has surprised us all lately by his series of Mr. Hooley’s opinions. He has always been a writer from whom the unexpected was always to be expected and this last surprise of his has won him the undisputed reputation of the most versatile of all. Will Twiss O’Sullivan is perhaps the most unique writer that ever had his name after an article in the Monthly. He writes stories, but these are 140 accidental qualities of an essence that is substantially poetic. Tor even when he manages to disentangle himself from the graceful grip in which the Muses usually hold him, and descend to the boldness of prose, his metaphors are so frequent and so vivid that his prose hardly differs from his verse, since you can almost hear the rhythm of meter and the lines almost scan. We have spent a half an hour since we wrote the last sentence, hunting in the dictionary for a word to describe Twiss’s poetry—peculiar, weird, ethereal, unique—all fail utterly in conveying our impression of it. It is one of those fascinating things that you can’t describe—unless you have at your command compound adjectives like Twiss, which we confess we haven’t. As the thing that we believe shows the greatest amount of appreciation of what Twiss has written—we recommend that you read him. Besides his generous contributions—and they were sometimes more than one an issue—Twiss writes a “Column” every month, the Antidote. Mere is one case where medicine is not hard to take. Senior years brought us the last requisition from the Class of ’20 to the Staff in the form of Raymond J. Scully, who has conscientiously performed the none-too-casy task of F.xchange Editor. Ray’s humor, wide reading and analytic nature fitted him peculiarly to be a dispenser of criticism. The tact and pithy expression of his opinions made this department second to none. Besides this, Ray occasionally penned a few articles himself in which he observed the precepts that he laid down for others with such success that he received nothing but favorable criticism from his brother Exchange Editors. A remarkable feat, as brother Exchange Editors have very elemental notions of brotherhood. The business end of the Monthly has been almost continually in the hands of men from ’20. Anthony P. Uihlcin was installed as Business Manager in his Sophomore year. A Soph as Business Manager is an event that has no parallel in the history of the Monthly, so far as we can ascertain from available data. Tony also held down the job in Junior, and retired with all honors at the end of that year. Charles Robinson has held the cash this year while Harold Martin and Aloysius Arthur attended to circulation. Never since the Monthly was founded in 1881 has there been such a successful year—financially. And this in spite of the H. C. of L. Besides men who can lay claim to distinction with the pen, the Class also has on its roster men who can make things pay.... which is not a bad asset at all. 141 MARJ30N J Eg % )t jforto|)am Mnttorrsttp Bramatic Association Moderator................MR. DANIEL H. SULLIVAN, S.J. President.................MR CHARLES T. ROBINSON, ’20 Vice-President..........................JOHN J. MURPHY. ’20 Secretary............................MORGAN J. O BRIEN, '20 Assistant Stage Manager...............JOHN J. CASSIDY, ’20 Treasurer...............................MYLES B. AMEND, ’21 Advertising Manager..............PETER X. McMANUS, '21 Master o) Properties.................FRANK J. FAHEY, ’23 Master of Costumes.............WILLIAM J. O’CONNOR, ’20 142 IN the yearly calendar of our activities here at Fordham, we have learned to look forward with more than mechanical interest to the two outstanding social features of college life. For, after all, there is a certain compelling charm in greeting an assemblage gathered for purely social reasons and bound by motives of genuine good-fellowship. The Varsity Play and the Prom have, in a special and altogether delightful manner, furnished each succeeding year its own measure of lighthearted entertainment. Let us for the moment neglect mention of former Proms and step back four years in the dramatic field to the time of our entrance as tremendously important Freshmen and our introduction to Fordham as the Class of 1920. In those days, as in the days that preceded and have followed, the Dramatic Association welcomed the incoming youngsters with the whole-hearted spirit of comradeship that exists among men whom similar talents have banded together for the advancement of general happiness. During our first few months the established Thespians of the college accepted for membership in their organization a number of those Freshmen who had entered the list of candidates. The play to be presented was Clyde Fitch’s inimitable satire, “Beau Brummell.” In the contest for positions that followed this announcement, the abundance of experienced talent in the upper classes, coupled with the unusually small cast of only fourteen, tended to cut down our chances of a goodly representation. F owcvcr, when the cast was picked we found that ’20 had not been entirely eliminated and that “Jack’’ Murphy was chosen for the important role of Reginald Courtenay, nephew to the Beau. Under the earnest guidance of Mr. George F. Strohavcr, S. J., the idol of all with whom he ever came in contact, the presentation of “Beau Brummell,” with James T. L. O’Donahue in the title role, on December 19, 1916, 143 was an accomplishment of artistic delight never before equaled on a hordham stage. The comments of the metropolitan papers the following morning were both flattering and enthusiastic. Many who witnessed the play wanted it put on in their home towns and numerous bids reached the Dramat requesting us to bring the performance to other cities. An extended trip was immediately planned. Mr. Strohaver went himself to look over the ground at a number of our prospective one-night stands. All was in readiness, we even suspect that a few bags were partly packed, when the news reached us that Father Mulry, in spite of his own ardent enthusiasm, had decided that the undertaking would prove disastrous to scholastic standing and ought not to be attempted. Pleasurable plans are always abandoned with a hope of possible resurrection. The giving up of this trip was no exception, but, like the majority of such hopes, its fulfillment was never realized. September found us Sophomores, with new dignity and greater fields for activity. The Fall passed quietly as far as the stage was concerned. The new Moderator of the Dramatic Association, Mr. Daniel H. Sullivan, S. J., was planning big things for the year and it was not until after Christmas Recess that he disclosed his program. During the months when we had fretted over the postponement, he had been hard at work on Justin Huntley McCarthy’s great dramatic spectacle, “If I Were King.” The members of the Dramat were frankly staggered at this pretentious effort, because all who knew of how E. H. Sothern had lent fame to the piece, understood the real meaning of what was before us. There are always traditions of Ford-ham to be lived up to, and now in addition, we must attempt to shine even in the light of the modern professional stage. It was no easy task. A company of nearly fifty had to be assembled and trained to that smoothness of movement so necessary when great numbers are on a stage at the same time. New scenes had to be made and new lighting effects developed. A large crew of stage-hands was recruited from the college classes and initiated in the handling of heavy, cumbersome pieces that had to be completely changed between each of the four acts. With this vast quantity of detail placed in order on paper, the try-outs were held and the cast chosen. Herbert Blanchet of the Law School received the lead and played Francois Villon, the vagabond poet of Paris, with an 144 THE MODERATOR “SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE” ardor and finesse that won for him the admiration, not only of his audiences, but of those who played with him as well. As Louis XI, Matty Taylor of the Junior Class displayed talents that surprised even his most intimate friends, and a more cunning, calculating rogue vve do not care to encounter. A glance at our own representation in this play shows a number more in keeping with the spirit of ’20 than was evident in the last year. The versatile “Jack” Murphy is again in the cast and has swung from the light, ingenue Reginald of “Beau Brummell” to the heavy, villainous lines of Tristan, Prime Minister in the corrupt court of Louis. In the character of Noel le Jolys, Grand Master of the Palace and leading heart-breaker of Paris, Morgan O’Brien presented a spectacle of fashion-plate elegance that simply dazzled each successive audience. Then our own and only “Eddie” Breslin won the hearts of all with Lady Katherine’s lines, though fortunately for “Ed,” he spoke them as Montjoye, Katherine’s page, rather than in the original as the Lady herself. Frank Hanley presented a magnificent Herald of Burgundy, while “Ray” Scully, “Joe” McGrath, Charles Mangeot and “Joe” Scully filled out the remainder of our rather substantial contribution to the play. “If I Were King” ran for two nights, April 17th and 18th, and two matinee performances. Universal opinion proclaimed it a genuine treat from both the artistic and mechanical point of view. On the night of the final presentation we were especially pleased and honored by the presence of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sothern. After the performance Mr. Sothern said a word 145 MAROON or two in praise of what he had just seen and dwelt upon some of the happy memories in his own career which the play recalled to him. Then about a month later, on the twenty-third of May, came the Dramatic Dinner, the crowning festivity, which is looked forward to almost as keenly as the play itself. And who will say that the actor is not a lover of a fine table, particularly when that table is plentifully heaped up and surrounded by jovial, kindred spirits whom work and play have knit together as a single family? It was a rare evening and everyone who attended looks back upon it with warm good feelings. The dinner sounded the formal close of the dramatic season of 1917-1918 and tentative plans were laid for the following year. However, as Juniors, the entire college was notably depleted by enlistments and the coming of the S. A. T. C. suspended all social activities. Thus a year is omitted from our account. But the present year, the last of our course, witnessed the staging of one of the most successful productions in the history of the Dramatic Association. In choosing a vehicle for the 1920 thespians, Mr. Sullivan made a somewhat radical departure from the customary classical nature of Fordham productions. Having confined itself for several years past to the more or less tragic dramatists, the time seemed ripe to uphold the Association’s traditional versatility by producing a modern comedy. The result of this decision was the selection of “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” George M. Cohan’s popular success of a few years back. It had long been the desire of the members of the Association to try a strictly up-to-date play, and it was felt that with such a vehicle something out of the ordinary could be expected. Since the female of the species is persona non grata in Fordham dramatics, it was necessary for the Moderator to rewrite large portions of the piece so as to make it suitable for an entire male cast. The play was produced on the evenings of April 19 and 20, after matinee dress rehearsals on the two days preceding the regular performances. The house was sold out on both occasions in advance; and with good reason, for the production was one of the most successful of our time at Fordham. 146 Now we do not like to seem imbued with too great an idea of our own self-sufficiency. But when excellence is at our elbow, ’tis folly to be silent. The cold fact remains that in a cast of fourteen players, selected from all departments of the University, no less than six were from the Class of ’20. The part of William Hallowell Magee, the hero-novelist, was enacted by our own Will Twiss O’Sullivan. Perhaps the fact that Twiss is quite a pen-artist in real life had especially fitted him for the part of a novelist. But we prefer to think that he scored a success because he is a born acor, and that he would have been equally impressive in any other part in the play. “Frank” Ficld-McNallv made a great personal success as Peters, the hermit. Nature had endowed “Mac” with a powerful voice, and the costumer completed the picture with a nondescript outfit and a rusty wig. Thus attired, “1 Iermie’ was a weird figure with his white sheet, and a dangerous one with a gun. As Jim Cargan. the Mayor of Reuton, “Jack” Murphy was the most enjoyable crooked politician imaginable. His overbearing personality and complacent knavery, put forth through the medium of a deep, powerful voice, were an important feature of the performance. Morgan O’Brien again represented our class, this time as Reggie Thornhill, the blackmailer. When it is considered that this was one of the characters that had been made over from a female to a male part, Morgan is deserving of the highest praise for his presentation of the suave and polished Reggie. “Joe” McGrath played the part of Reuben Quimby, the countrified son of the caretaker of Baldpate Inn, and spoke and acted as though born and raised in Asquewan Falls, b’gosh5 Hie fact that “Joe” hails from Astoria may have something to do with his inclination toward rural characters. Last, but not least, “Ray” Scully was an imposing policeman, and said, “Aye, Chief,” with a very professional air. There may be some significance in the fact that, when ordered to search the cellar, “Ray” was very slow in returning; but it isn’t everyone who gets an opportunity to search a spacious cellar nowadays. “Ray” also had some interesting experiences in uniform off-stage but that is another story. Of course we do not wish to take all the credit to ourselves. Great credit is due in particular to Henry F. Lawrence, ’22, as Lou Max, Cargan’s “man Friday,” and to James C. Kelly, Pre-Med., ’20, who played Jiggs Kennedy, the Chief of Police of Asquewan, both of whom gave superb performances. And the rest of the cast, though too numerous to mention, was of a very high order of merit. But no one class could compete with the Seniors either in numbers or in ability. No account of the play would be complete without a few words about those worthy gentlemen who blush unseen behind the stage—the stage crew. In his double capacity as President of the Dramatic Association and Stage Manager, “Charlie” Robinson was sadly overworked but always cheerful. 147 CT MA1r 6 O N Attired in a natty gray shirt of ancient vintage and a pair of khaki trousers with an artistic patch in each knee, “Robbie” was a sartorial delight when he wheeled into action. So busy was he during the performances that it is rumored that a whole bottle of vaseline spoiled from disuse. John Cassidy was Assistant Stage Manager, and used up enough perspiration to put out the fire on the stage hearth. “Eddie” Coyne had the unique distinction of being rated a stage assistant without ever finding his way back-stage. But “Adam” did Trojan work as an usher during the performance. Speaking of ushers reminds us of another subject for advertising this class of ours. Attired in their caps and gowns, and further adorned (some of them) with winged collars, a dozen favorite sons of 20 descended upon the Auditorium and proceeded to make the show a success by bringing in that most essential ingredient for any dramatic hit—the audience. “Tony” Uihlein led them on by the light of the flaming red tassel on his cap, which gave him the appearance of a cross between a Supreme Court judge and an Alpine Chasseur. And up under the stage, “Cy” Casey played the violin like a Kreisler. All in all, it was a wonderful performance, and now that we come to look over the field after the smoke of battle has cleared away, we can hardly help remarking that the Seniors seem to have produced it. Of course there were others—there always are in these cases. But if at some future date some inquisitive friend should ask you whether the Class of ’20 played an important part in “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” answer him in the words of Officer Scully—“Aye, Chief. 148 % )e {Hnt )cmtp ©rdiestra Moderator, MR. EDWARD S. POUTHIER, S.J. CYRIL A. CASEY, ’20 HAROLD H. HORTON, ’22 TIMOTHY D. McCarthy, ’23 WATSON A. BAUMERT, ’23 JOSEPH A. LAMONTI, ’23 ALFRED E. SAVERESE, ’23 VICTOR A. BLANKEL, P-M, ’20 RALPH J. BENOIT, P-M, ’20 GEORGE W. SOLARI, H. S., ’20 NICHOLAS E. RONGETTI, '21 GEORGE F. MAHONEY, 23 JOSEPH W. DELSIGNORE, ’23 GEORGE A. SAUER, ’23 ALBERT A. SAVERESE, ’23 TADISLAUS A. FEHER, P-M. ’20 WALTER J. BECKER, P-M, ’20 JOHN G. MUSSIO, P-M, ’21 JOHN G. SCHULTZ, H. S., ’21 149 MAROON PARTHENIAN SODALITY OFFICERS First Prefect...................JOSEPH R. KELLEY, ’20 Second Prefect...................CYRIL A. CASEY, ’20 Third Prefect..................JO IIS J. DILLON, ’20 Secretary...................PETER X. McMANUS, ’21 Director... .REV. FRANCIS D. O’LAUGHLIN, S.J. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SODALITY OFFICERS First Prefect....JAMES A. MULRY, ’20 Second Prefect.THOMAS F. HOWLEY, ’21 Third Prefect... .THOMAS M. KERESEY, ’23 Director..REV. CHARLES J. MAHAN, S.J 150 ££ obalttte6 The Parthenian Sodality HE worthy subject of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin deserves a great deal more space than we can allot it here. Volumes have been written on it, and we must confine ourselves to a few pages for our brief account. 1 he various Sodalities of the Blessed Virgin were first established in the early years of the Reformation, humorously so-called. They were constituted as bulwarks of piety to withstand the wave of heresy and irreligion that engulfed so many in those dark days. This society of universal truth, composed of the most righteous among the faithful, raised the lily-white standard of unblemished Catholicity. It seems almost superfluous to dwell on the fruits of an organization energized by such a purpose, so faithfully adhered to. The Parthenian Sodality, an issue and continuing branch of this organization, was established at St. Mary’s College, Kentucky, on February 2, 1837, by Father Chazelle. This holy man desired the students and their professors to perpetuate the glorious work of the great Sodality and to receive their share of the graces and blessings attaching to this close union with our Lady. The men at St. Mary’s entered with great zeal into the ranks of the sodalists, complying with all requirements in a most virtuous and edifying manner. Seventy-four years ago, in 1846, the Jesuits came to Fordham, where they instituted the Sodality. It was given a home in the old Rose Hill Manor, where it is to-day. Perhaps no corner in Fordham lingers more vividly in the memory of alumni than this historic chapel dedicated to our Blessed I .adv by her devoted children of the Sodality. Year after year new faces have been seen within its hallowed precincts. Time and again old men of Fordham, men in every walk of life, have assembled once more in this chapel, once more to pledge their love and devotion to Mary, our Mother. Can we ever forget this well-known place? Recall the statue of Mary, surrounded by the first flowers of spring. Recall that little white altar, where we have so often received the Bread of Life in honor of Mary of the Sodality! See again the facsimile of the medal, which we are even now wearing! Can forget? Let us kneel once more in our wonted place. Let us hear 151 we ever ft M A R_Q O N I VH again the words of our Reverend Director. Where have we ever received such simple, such forceful lessons in our duties to God and man? What custom did wc know more inspiring than the devotions to our Lady in the month of May? Many of us have stood before the statue of Mary on those cheery days, where we have talked as man to man to our brother-sodalisls, and joined our hearts and voices in singing out that glad hymn of triumph, the “Regina Coeli,” offering it to Mary—to Mary, Queen of Heaven. The Immaculate Conception Sodality Much has always been said of the conquests and achievements of Ford-ham on the field and the stage and in the class-room. We have all rejoiced and participated in the accomplishment of these glories. But if we stood by them alone, how commonplace it would be, how empty our honors, how purposeless our study, had there been no higher duty to recall us. In the years of our maturity all will have become memories but the gifts showered upon us as sodalisls of Mary Immaculate. The Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, known to Fordhamites as the Day-Students’ Sodality, was founded on the second day of October, 1847, as a branch of the Parthcnian Sodality, whose history is briefly outlined above. In 1852 it branched off from the older organization, and from that year until the present one of 1920 has continued to be an integral part of student life at Fordham. In 1888 Mr. George Mulry, S. J., during the directorship of the Rev. Father Fagan, instituted that most devout custom which one must ever remember with a feeling of love—the annual May Devotions in honor of our Lady. Every evening during this month the students have gathered in the old Quadrangle. And there, in the light of the setting sun, at the hour when the shadows merge into the dusk of evening. Fordham has offered itself to the Mother and her Blessed Son. It was with the greatest regret that the directors felt constrained last year to change the hour of the services. But times and customs change, and last spring witnessed the whole college assembled before the statue of our Lady during the morning recess, rather than in the evening, as of old. Our college days are over, never to return. No more will it be our privilege to mingle with our fellows, and join our hearts and voices in a tribute to the Mother of God. But she has been our friend, and our friend she will ever be. And perhaps the time may come when the children of those now leaving Fordham behind them will stand where we have stood so many times and pour forth the praises of Mary in her own sanctuary of the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception. 152 Bebattng Society President................ Secretary................ Treasurer............... First Censor............. Minority Leader (App'd .......peter x. McManus, 2i ... RAYMOND P WHEARTY, 72 ....HAROLD J. CRAWFORD,’20 ......DENNIS P. COLEMAN, 71 .FRANCIS M. FIELD-McNALLY,70 jJJHE oldest society in continuous existence at Fordliam is the St. John s Debating Society. More than seven decades have passed by since the foundation of our present debating organization. The society came into being in the year 1854, and it is unnecessary to state that this date was but a few years after the foundation of the college. The original Constitution came into the hands of the officers of the society last year long after it had been given up for lost. The aim and purpose of the St. John’s Debating Society is to better fit the members to express themselves orally when in after life their opinions are demanded. The constant practice of the debating floor gives a certain ease and confidence that is of inestimable value. In addition, timely topics of universal interest arouse an enthusiasm and conviction in the student which comes from oral analysis alone. The society aims to overcome the natural aversion inherent in so many today to the expression of their view's. Before speaking of our activities in debating, it is only fair to mention one or two of the faculty of different years w'hom we have often heard of as being ever 153 MAE OON active for the welfare of the Debating Society. In justice it would be necessary to mention all of the Society’s Moderators, but space and limited information as to past activities in the persuasive art allow but a few names. Conspicuous among the Moderators before the arrival of the present Senior class at Fordham were Father Campbell, former President of the University; Father Mahony, the present professor of Junior Philosophy, and Father John F. X. Murphy, former professor of History. The opening of college in the fall of 1916 brought a record number of newcomers to the Freshman class-rooms. Among the then-considered upstarts were not a few budding debaters. Prom other Jesuit preparatory schools came a goodly number schooled in debating. Fordham Prep, which always has a thriving organization, had graduated several oral spell-binders into the college society. The officers were overwhelmed with candidates for the tryouts. It is necessary to explain here that membership at that time entailed a creditable argument on a chosen topic before the Moderator and a committee appointed by him. The restricted number of fifty was far from enough to accommodate the promising candidates, and the officials were at a loss to know what to do with the extr,a thirty or more. The Society that year was fortunate to have Mr. Joseph A. Mulry, S. J., as Moderator, and with accustomed energy he endeavored to start a junior organization for Sophomores and Freshmen, while the original Society would include Juniors and Seniors. For some unknown reason, the plan could not be worked out, and the parent Society accommodated all the successful enthusiasts. The officers during our Freshman year were: Walter Barry, President; John McDermott, Vice-President; James Hart, Secretary; Frederick Venter, Treasurer. The Freshmen members at all times made their presence felt in the Society and materially aided in bringing it spirit and interest. A Freshman was one of the successful contestants for a place in the Annual Prize Debate. he teams were composed of: Howard F. Mulligan, ’17, Dennis Q. Blake, 19, and Morgan J. O'Brien, ’20, for the affirmative; Walter X. Barry, 17, Frederick A. Venter, ’17, and Arthur Donohue, ’19, for the negative. The topic selected was, Resolved, That today individual and national prosperity is best attained by a Republican form of government.” I he debate had to be staged in the auditorium of Our Lady of Mercy School, because of the fact that the University Auditorium was at that time undergoing the elaborate process of interior decoration with which we are now acquainted. A representative audience assembled for the discussion and manifested much interest. The affirmative side emerged victorious, and the prize medal was captured by Walter X. Barry, though not without a struggle. So many men had performed creditably in the try-outs that a semi-prize debate” was arranged. In this contest John J. Murphy, of our class, annexed the prize. The annual 154 debating banquet, with President Barry as toastmaster, was pronounced a success; the Moderator reviewed the work of the year, and the Society tendered its thanks for his earnest co-operation. The fall of 1917 found Joseph Kingsley, ’18, in the President's chair, the Society following the usual precedent of electing a Senior to office. Mere the Class of ’20, under the guidance of Francis Field-McNally, began to assert itself. The officials, all upper-classmen and conservatives in regard to the policy of the Society, appointed on demand a committee to draw up a new Constitution, since no written rules or by-laws could be found. This committee radically changed the procedure and the rules regarding the election of officers; it being provided that elections for all officers be held twice a year, instead of once as heretofore. The new system of rules abolished tryouts for new members, and made any recognized member of the Society eligible for office. The new Constitution was temporarily adopted after a stormy debate. Mr. Field-McNally, of the Class of '20, who had been the leading spirit in the reform wave, was elected President for the second term and he skillfully put into observance the new Constitution which he had created. The strife over the inner workings of the Society proved to be of great value to the organization in the end, for under the vigorous administration of the new President a debate was arranged with Holy Cross. The Cross debaters chose the subject: Resolved, That the Monroe Doctrine, as developed and applied, should be abandoned. Fordham had the Negative side, and the debate was held on home territory in late May before a large gathering. The team was made up on this occasion entirely of members of the class of '19, our immediate predecessors in the wearing of the cap and gown. Julian J. Reiss brought out the Development of the Doctrine; Paul T. O’Keefe treated the Successful Application of the Doctrine, and James P. Pryor concluded with the topic, The Applied Doctrine is our only Safeguard for the buture. I he debate was keenly contested throughout, but the visitors won by a small margin. The judges were greatly impressed by the merit of the speakers and the audience was visibly pleased with the educational treat. At the last regular meeting of the Society officers were elected for the next year; and much interest in the election was evidenced by the number who filed lists of one-fifth of the members, entitling them to compete. The officers chosen were: Dennis Q. Blake, ’19, President; Peter X. McManus, '21, Vice-President; John J. Dillon, '20, Secretary; I Iarold J. Crawford, '20, Treasurer; Joseph R. Kelley, ’20, First Censor; Dennis P. Coleman, ’21, Second Censor, and John J. Murphy, '20, Leader of the Minority. A sub- 155 MAROON slantial banquet in the college dining hall wound up the debating activities of the year in a fitting manner. When once again a regular meeting was called the year 1918 was no more, and but a short space remained for launching intercollegiate debates. The active President and the Contest Committee, under the guidance of the new Moderator, Mr. Terence L. Connelly, S. J., challenged several colleges. Not a few deliberately side-stepped Fordham, and others found reasons making a meeting impossible. The Senior Debating Society of Boston College, acknowledged as intercollegiate champions, agreed to meet bordham. Two Varsity teams were chosen, and one of them, armed with impregnable arguments for all comers, journeyed to Boston to do battle with the world beaters from the Hub. At the moment the judges announced that Fordham had easily earned the decision, the debating palm came to Fordham. Next came the Prize Debate, the annual public specimen of the best Fordham can produce in the way of debating. The question chosen was: “Resolved, That immigration should be prohibited for a period of four years after the war.” The two teams were made up of: Raymond F. McCauley, ’22, Morgan J. O’Brien, ’20, and F.dward J. O’Mara, ’19, for the Affirmative; Paul T. O’Keefe, ’19, Dennis Q. Blake, 19, and Ambrose J. Murphy, ’22, for the Negative. The Negative side won, and Mr. O’Mara w'as awarded the individual prize. Just before the closing of school the debating dinner was held, and the college chef and his helpers prepared a feast which most creditably wound up a banner year. The President called on every member for toasts, and the speeches included an excellent resume of the year’s work by the Moderator. At a special business meeting just before the close of the college year, the following officers were elected for the coming year: John J. Dillon, ’20, President; Peter X. McManus, ’21, Vice-President; Raymond P. Whearty, ’22. Secretary; Harold J. Crawford, ’20, Treasurer; Elmer R. Knobloch, ’20, First Censor; Morgan J. O’Brien, ’20, Leader of the Minority. Thus four of the six officers elected for the year 1919-1920 were from the Class of ’20. This brings us to our last year of college debating. The whole Society regrets that because of pressing duties as Editor of the Fordham Monthly and the Maroon, our President, John J. Dillon, of our own class, was forced to resign at the beginning of the scholastic year. But with Peter X. McManus in the chair the society bids fair to enjoy a banner year. The Prize Debate of this year was one of the greatest successes of years. The Class of ’20 was well represented both in point of numbers and of ability, no less than three of the six debaters being from the Senior Class. The teams lined up as follow's: Affirmative—Francis M. Field-McNally, ’20. William A. O’Brien, ’20, and Gerald E. Galloway, ’23; Negative—Morgan 156 J. O’Brien, 20, Raymond F. McCauley, ’22, and Arthur E. Lamb. ’23. The question was: “Resolved, That the Plumb Plan is the best solution of the Railroad Problem.” The attendance at this debate was unusually large and the interest in the affair quite exceptional, owing perhaps to the timeliness of the question. Contrary to general expectation and the majority of private decisions, the victory was awarded to the negative side. The prize for the best individual debater was won by Mr. McCauley. While defeated for the prize, the three men from ’20 brought nothing but glory to the class. In the meanwhile plans for several intercollegiate debates have not been neglected. Unfortunately, the early publication of the Maroon prevents us from giving more than the preliminaries of the Boston College Debate, which is scheduled for May 14. On this occasion Fordham will defend the Affirmative side of the question: “Resolved, That an anti-strike provision should be added to the Federal Transportation Act of 1920.” I he Class of 1920 will be ably represented by William O’Brien. The other members of the team will be James Murray, ’21, and Ambrose Murphy, ’22, with Andrew' McCarthy, ’23, as Alternate. The fact that many of the debaters of the Senior Class were rehearsing for the spring play prevented a larger number from entering the try-outs; otherwise the Class would undoubtedly have had a larger representation on the debating team. But we can confidently predict that in the forthcoming contest a certain gentleman with a Celtic name who hails from the neighboring suburb of Jersey will be foremost in the fight. The same team wrill afterwards meet either Holy Cross or Clarke College at Worcester. Nothing would suit Fordham better than a meeting with Holy Cross. We have not forgotten their victory of two years ago, and revenge is sweet. Reviewing the achievements of the St. John’s Debating Society during the four years since we entered college, we may remark that the Society has made giant strides along the road of progress and that the Class of ’20 has contributed in no small measure to its success. We can say without attributing too much credit to ourselves that interest in the ield of argumentative activity has been sustained and augmented by the efforts of the Class of ’20 in behalf of the Society. Through the efforts of one of our classmen, an up-to-date Constitution is in force. In all the Prize Debates and intercollegiate frays the Class of ’20 has generally been represented. No less than eight members of the Class have at various times held office in the Society, and two of these have been elected to the important office of President, rather an unusual feat for any class. As our last year draws to a close our earnest hope is that the Society may continue to increase and flourish and that those who follow us may do their share to maintain the high standards of debating set for them by those who have gone before. 157 MAROON dlbss — 4 T . S t Vincent 3Bt $aul octetp OFFICERS President..................................JOSEPH R. KELLEY, 20 Vice-President. JOHN J. DILLON, 20 Secretary...........................ROBERT E. MULLIGAN,’21 Treasurer............................. JOHN J. McMANUS, ‘23 Spiritual Director...................MR. JOHN J. DALY, S. J. MEMBERS 1SS PETER X. McMANUS,’21 WILLIAM C. FLAHERTY, 73 EDWARD O’SULLIVAN, H. S., 70 WILLIAM A. WARD, 71 JOHN MULVEY, 73 WILLIAM DONNELLY, H. S., 70 MARJ3 ON ••'•••lit OC 35 REGENERATIVE WIRELESS RECEIVER PRESENTED BY SENIOR CLASS 1920 length Regenerative Receiving Set Presented By , The Class of 1920 To Fordham University Radio Station 159 MR. DANIEL H. SULLIVAN, S. J MR. JOHN H. VEGESSEY..... MR. RALPH J. BENOIT...... Professor of Radio Instructor in Radio Instructor in Radio MAROON OFFICERS OF THE F. U. A. A. President SYLVESTER A. DINEEN ’20 Vice-President ROBERT E. RIMBACH, ’20 Secretary WILLIAM A. SE1DL, ’20 Treasurer PAUL A. CUNNINGHAM, ’20 TEAM MANAGERS Baseball ALOYSIUS F. ARTHUR, ’20 Track JOHN J. BRESLIN, ’20 Basketball THOMAS J. CURRAN, ’20 Tennis HAROLD J. CRAWFORD. ’20 jforrtDorti •ND now comes the parting of the ways. For the last time we, as students, have sent our old battle-cry, “The Ram,” across Fordham Field to cheer on our athletic warriors who fought the game fight for the Maroon. We now enter upon a new life, the life of the professional and business man, the dignity of which serves as a check to the wonted enthusiasm of the undergraduate while still under the guiding hand of Alma Mater. From time to time we may return to the scenes which are now so familiar to us. We may see Fordham rise to a height in athletics unprecedented; but this can never mean as much to us as the deeds done by those whom we called our own friends in the days when we were undergraduates. Time is a great eradicator. It robs the mind of many memories. So, lest the deeds of the Maroon, accomplished during our college days, follow to the realms of forgotten things, we have chronicled the history of our teams, in order that in years to come, in a stolen moment or two, we may span the years and enjoy once more the days when we looked down on h ordham Field and. carefree, lifted our voices in song and cheers of praise and encouragement for Fordham’s athletes. 161 $arsittp ti)lettc£ jfootbail—1916 Captain: J. CONKLIN Coach: FRANK GARGAN Manager: J. GERALD KENLON Asst. Coach: THOMAS MORIARITY Team: Ends—Corcoran, Cantwell, Conklin; Linemen—Lowe, Caddell, Ryan, Perkins, Treanor, Braney, Golden, May, Kendrick; Backs Calnan, Dempsey, Erwig, Swectland, O'Connell, McNamara. INCE the marvellous football machine of 1909, the greatest major sport at Fordham had been rather a disappointment, but at the beginning of the 1916 season prospects seemed much brighter, due to the engagement of Frank Gargan, quarterback of the 1909 team, as head coach, and Tom Moriarity, former star lineman of Georgetown, as assistant coach. Events that followed in that season proved that our faith in the above mentioned men Due to a ruling at Fordham, Freshmen are eligible for Varsity teams and our class immediately came into prominence, having such men as Erwig, Ryan and Caddell to represent us. After the team had worked six weeks in preparation, the season opened with I .afayette as our opponent. This game ended in a tie, 0-0. The Varsity outplayed the Eastonians throughout, but was unable to score, although in the second period, when they were in striking distance of the goal line, only a brilliant tackle by Ellis, Lafayette’s left end, stopped the Maroon from crossing it. This tussle brought out the true caliber of the team and showed us that w'e had stars, such as Lowe, Erwig, McNamara and Corcoran, in our line-up. was justified. Our next game was a victory over 20-0. The Maroon worked well on this occasion, showing the worth of the aerial attack. Owing to an abrupt cancellation by Boston College, the management was hard pul to fill in the vacancy, but finally arranged a game with the U. S. S. Texas, a contender for the championship of the Atlantic fleet. The Western Maryland by the score of MARO ON j§“i FORDHAM VS. CARLISLE Varsity won, 27-0, but the score is not at all indicative of the hard-played game. The sailors fought every inch of the way and proved quite an attraction to those who witnessed the fray. Only superior condition won for the Varsity. Susquehanna followed and was easy prey for the Maroon. Erwig and Ryan smashed through the line with telling effect and the game ended with Fordham’s goal line still uncrossed. The score was 47-0. Enthusiasm ran high before the annua! circle held on Election Day .� mi Georgetown, for our team was running smoothly. Nor was this enthusiasm uncalled for, since on that day was staged one of the most interesting games ever played on Fordham field and, though defeat came, we who saw the battle will ever be proud of the way our eleven fought, never admitting defeat until the timer blew the whistle, announcing the end of the game. The most prominent feature of this fray was the remarkable defense work of the Varsity. In the beginning of the second period Georgetown battered its way up the field and placed the ball on Fordham’s one-yard line, where they were held for downs in one of the most thrilling exhibitions of defense work ever seen on a football field. Given the ball, Fordham kicked but Georgetown’s heavier line again told and the ball reached the Maroon’s three-vard line, where the Blue and Grey were again held for downs. “Bull” Lowe brought down the Georgetown backs time after time, although suffering with a broken collarbone, enough to keep a much bigger man out of the game. “Danny” O’Connell also showed the fighting spirit of our club when he played through the first three periods with two of his ribs broken. In the third period Georgetown finally crossed the Varsity’s goal line, the first time it had been crossed during the season, by a series of criss-cross plays and triple passes coupled with line plunging. In this period also, as it developed later, came Fordham’s only chance to score when the Maroon brought the ball to the 15-yard line, only to fumble. In the fourth period Georgetown again scored on a forward pass, and thus ended a game filled with spectacular plays in which the Varsity succumbed only after one of the hardest fought battles ever witnessed on Fordham Field. The Maroon, undaunted by the defeat sustained at the hands of Georgetown, travelled to Holy Cross and came back with the Purple’s scalp, winning 163 by the score of 40-0, in a game featured by long runs; McNamara and Erwig taking the ball for 50 and 30 yards respectively. Dempsey was able to go through the line at will. Gallaudet also suffered defeat t! the tune of 68-0, the highest total ever made by a Maroon team. In this game McNamara and Erwig demonstrated their ability in broken field running. Twelve of fifteen attempted forward passes were completed. Gallaudet could not make a first down during the entire contest. And then came Thanksgiving Day, which wound up the best season we have had in our time here. Villanova, always a great rival, was our opponent. The game was marked by sensational playing, although the condition of the field made fast football impossible. Sunset showed us a clean-cut victory by the score of 14-7. Erwig, one of our class representatives on the eleven, ended the season with the same brand of football he had showed during the year when he ran 90 yards for a touchdown. And thus the season closed on the greatest football machine we saw during our stay here. With only one defeat suffered, with victories over I lolv Cross and Villanova, with the goal line crossed but thrice all season, we can say wc arc justly proud of the i 916 team, which bound us so close to Ford-ham, when we were mere Freshmen. football—1917 Captain: JOSEPH KENDRICKS ’19 Coach: FRANK McCAFFERY Manager: RAY DELEHANTY, ’IS Team: Ends—Dumoe, Fitzpatrick; Line—Abbot, Christiansen, Gulick, Kendrick. McGrath, Mullen, Golden; Backs—Brennan, Erwig, Dempsey, Frisch. Gal-ligan, Ryan, Collette. HE opening of the 1917 football season saw many of the stars of 1916 “doing their bit” in France and also in army and navy training camps. These included Lowe, Calnan, Braney, Corcoran, Caddell, O’Connell and Sweetland; and even Coach Gargan, together with Manager-elect Lieber, deserted us for the colors. Frank McCaffery, of the 1909 team, who was selected to succeed Gargan as coach, was forced to pick a team composed of practically green material, with but five of last year’s veterans, Golden, Erwig, Dempsey, Kendrick and Ryan to start with. All the more praise is given him for this reason, as the Varsity improved rapidly under his direction and, at the end of the season, had the enviable record of seven victories, including Holy Cross and Cornell, with only two defeats laid at it’s door. 164 fr- m MAROON BASEBALL Lefevre, Captain (4) Finn, Captain (3) Buckley Martin Dugan Joyce Nunan Arthur, Manager TENNIS McLaughlin, Captain Coyne Murphy Crawford, Manager TRACK O’Connor, Captain McLaughlin White Nunan Curtin Breslin, Manager FOOTBALL Ryan Gannon Van Wie R. Kelly, Manager BASKETBALL Finn Cunningham Curran, Manager HOCKEY Van Wie Tumulty 165 Our sole claim to distinction on this club came through Ryan, a player of no mean ability, and sve, the Class of 1920, take great pride in the fact that he upheld all of our traditions by his brilliant work throughout the entire season. As a line-plunger he was of the best and his speed in end-runs netted the Varsity many gains when they were needed most. The Maroon opened its season with Fort Wadsworth, which proved an easy victory. This game showed to the loyal student body, who had anxiously watched during the weeks of intensive training, that here was a team of ability which would uphold the name of Fordham in the college athletic world. In this game Frisch was the shining light, due to a peculiar knack of eluding tacklers when it seemed almost impossible to get away from them. The next victim that presented itself was the strong Allentown Army Camp eleven. Fordham came out on top with a score of 19-7, and the winning streak continued when the Maroon met with but little opposition from the Norwich University club, in which game, through consistent gains by Frisch and F.rwig, coupled with forward passes, the team piled up a total of 60 points, while holding the Vermonters scoreless. The first real test came, however, when the Maroon journeyed to Holy Cross, and there met a team which offered stiff opposition, the Varsity coming away victor by the scant majority of two touchdowns. Frisch performed the feature play in this tilt, when, after Kelly, of Holy Cross, had snatched up a Fordham fumble and had run 55 yards, he darted in among four Purple men who were giving Kelly interference and brought down his man. After this game we lost the services of “Andy” Dempsey, who sought the bigger game in the fight for democracy. Rutgers, our next opponent, due to superior weight, overpowered our light team and the Varsity met defeat for the first time. The opposing ends seemed well prepared to break up the forward pass game, which the Maroon had well nigh perfected. Robeson, the husky negro, appeared to be everywhere at once, and was one of the great factors in our downfall. The Georgetown game completed our losses for the year when, before the greatest crowd assembled during the season, they bested our eleven by the score of 12-0. A crippled team, without the services of “Frankie” Frisch, did all in their power to avert disaster, but the fates dealt us a losing hand and, for the second time in two years, Georgetown romped off with the game. All of Georgetown’s points were scored in the first half. In the second half Fordham s fighting spirit came to the fore and the Maroon warriors completely outplayed the Blue and Grey, but without scoring. We were defeated but we went down to defeat still fighting. Cornell, the Naval Reserves from Pelham Bay Park and the 302nd Engineers from Camp Upton proved easy wins for the Varsity, and thus 166 ended the 1917 season, which proved to be the last year of football for us, as undergraduates. Due to the war activities the College, after closing in June, 1918, did not reopen until the football season of that year had ceased to be, and the year of 1919 passed without Fordham having a team on the gridiron. Although this was a source of great disappointment to us, still we can live in the memory of the two great teams that we saw in action, and which held Fordham’s name high in the college sporting world. Baseball—1917 Captain: JOHN DAMICO, ’17 Manager: JAMES GORDON, IS Coach: FRANK GARGAN Asst. Manager: JOSEPH KINSLEY, 'IS Team: Catchers—McGinn, Sweetland; Pitchers—Finn, McQuade, Collins, Marlin; Infieldcrs—Lowe, Capt. Damico. Griffin, Corcoran, J. Fitzpatrick, Dwyer; Outfielders—Shankey, Calnan, Gleason, Eustace. CCTHILF the chill was still in the air and the frost still issuing from the ground, the old familiar sounds, “Cut that arm loose,” “Let’s see that old pepper,” and the like, could be heard coming forth from what we are wont to call the “gym.” Frank Gargan of football fame now acting as baseball mentor, lined up the men and kept them plugging away to get them into condition before the time came to go outdoors. A fine schedule had been arranged, but later events proved this to be of no avail, since but six of the games were played. A snowfall prevented the first two and America’s entry into the world war sounded the doom of the Southern trip. We opened our season with but one Freshman representative, “Big Bill” Finn, a pitcher, but before the shortened season expired “Judy” Martin, also a pitcher, who had been working so well with the 1920 class team, was delegated to the Varsity. Our record for this year was three won and three lost, winning from Lafayette, Seton Hall and Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, and losing to Seton Hall, Niagara and Villanova. The games we lost were by close margins, and it was predicted that, had the scheduled games been played, the Maroon club would be among the leaders in college baseball. After the Villanova game, the Varsity had to cancel the remaining games, since most of the athletes, including Coach Gargan, had joined the colors. 167 Baseball—19 IS Captain: THOMAS SHANKEY, ’IS Manager: JOSEPH KINSLEY, 1S Coach: WILLIAM KEENE Asst. Manager: FRANK McMAHOX, ’10 Team: Catchers—Scanlon, Oallisan; Pilchers—McQuadc, Ilalloran, Hnn. Martin; Infielders—Halligan, Lucey, Dwyer, Lcfevre, Weldon, Kelley; Outfielders —Capt. Shankey, Collctti, Keoueh, Abbott. HFN the call came for baseball, it was found that only four of the 1917 veterans had returned to college, and that three of them were pitchers. “Billy” Keene, chosen as coach, decided, however, that, although he lacked tried material, he was going to put a team on the field which could compete with that of any college; and he did. The club was the youngest that ever represented Fordham, the average age being 19 years, but it was made up of workers and showed results which, although not brilliant, were very creditable. The 1920 class had four of its members on this club, Martin, Weldon, Lefevre, and Finn. In this season Lefevre. who had played with the 1920 freshman club, proved to be one of the shining lights of the Varsity, hitting well over the four hundred mark. After winning two practice games, one from the Highbridge Athletics, the other from the In-Fr-Seal Club, the Varsity started its college season in Baltimore with Mt. St. Joseph’s as the opponent. This was an uphill fight for the Maroon in which we finally won out by the score of 10 to 9. The Navy then gave us a setback to the tune of 5 to 3. Our battle with Tufts was a peculiar one. Tufts had been winning most of their games with O’Mara pitching splendid ball, but it just took a Maroon substitute to bring home the bacon. With the score 1 to 0 against us and the bases loaded with Maroon men. Coach Keene called Abbott to the plate to hit for Keough and he responded by hitting the first ball pitched out of the grounds for a home run. Seton I Iall was rather lucky in beating us, 2 to I, on a day in which rain, hail, and sleet played a part. Then came West Virginia to Fordham Feld. This club had gone through seven or eight games in their northern trip without a defeat, but “Jim” McQuade decided that the honor of the North in baseball must be upheld and sent them away with the short end of a 3 to 0 game. Rutgers and Colgate were the next victims and St. John’s of Brooklyn proved rather easy prey for the Varsity, but Holy Cross triumphed over us in a I 3- 168 MA ROON lb J T A inning affair when Daly, who had been fanned the three previous times at bat, doubled, sending home two Holy Cross men. In that inning the Varsity was unable to find Gill, and the final result was 5 to 3. After this the jinx followed us, and, try as we might, we could not shake him off. In one week we lost three games and all by the same score, I to 0. Fort Slocum was the first. Although the Varsity nicked Ray Fisher for nine safeties and the Slocum soldiers gathered hut one from Finn, the result stood 1 to 0 at the end. In this game six Maroon men were caught at the plate and in this game also we lost the services of Finn for the remainder of the season. I he one hit by Fort Slocum came in the fourth inning, a line drive, and “Big Bill,” endeavoring to stop it, put his left thumb in the way and as a result smashed the bone. Although he finished this game, he was unable to do mound duty in any of the remaining games. Mt. St. Joseph’s then took our measure by the same score, and finally West Point added their little whitewash brush. Springfield Y. M. C. A. college, however, broke the spell and the Varsity won a 2 to 0 game. The Holy Cross game at Worcester concluded the season. Ryan of Holv Cross pitched a wonderful game and the Varsity was unable to do anything with his offerings. .After this game “Bill” Finn, of the class of ’20 was elected captain of the 1919 c’ub. Baseball—1919 Captain: WILLIAM F. FINN, ’20 Manager: FRANK McMAHOX, 19 Coach: ARTHUR DEVLIN Asrt. Mgr.: ALOYSIUS ARTHUR, ’20 Team: Catchers—Sweetland, Donovan; Pitchers—McNamara, Martin. Hal-loran; In fielders—McLoughlin, Capt. Finn, Frisch, Lcfevre, Corcoran. Gleason; Ou!fielders—Keough, Buckley, Halloran, Eustace. ESASEBALL in this season took a step up the ladder when Arthur Devlin, former third baseman of the New York Giants, was secured as coach. The club started its outdoor training on February 3th, and it was soon apparent that we would have a winning combination. Only a small number reported to tryout, but these men were of the best and it can be safely said that, although the Varsity lost a few games at 169 the beginning of the season, no better team was seen on Fordham Field during our course. Ford-ham at the end of the season was picked for second place among the college baseball teams. Holy Cross, winners of the intercollegiate title, lost but one game during the season and that to the Fordham Varsity by the score of 10 to 4. We, as juniors, had a large representation on this club—Frisch, Buckley, McLaughlin, Lefcvre, Martin and Finn; and all of these men played a brand of baseball that was hard to beat. Frisch was the particular star of the team, swinging his bat for an average of .476 and fielding in such a manner that he was selected by Manager McGraw for the New York Giants and earned a regular berth in the same season, a feat which seemed impossible. Our great strength, however, lay in our , Frisch totaling .476, Finn, .427; Buck- ley, Halloran, Keough and Lefevre all topping the .300 mark. “ 1 im McNamara, a freshman, worked in the box most of the games and showed that he had rare ability in the pitching game, and “Buck Sweetland was about the best catcher we saw during the year. Very few men attempted to steal when “Buck was doing duty behind the bat. At the close of the season he was given a contract with the Boston club of the National league. The squad was so small this year, however, that in most of the games three pitchers were used, Halloran in right field. Captain Finn at second, and McNamara on the mound. Cathedral college was our first opponent and the Varsity came off on top 3 to 0. In this game McNamara made his debut in college baseball and showed himself to be a valuable find when, in the five innings he worked, he struck out ten of the visitors besides holding them hitless. Scton Hall followed in the same manner, going down to defeat in a 5 to 1 game. Y ale, our next opponent, took us into camp in an eleven inning game. All the breaks of the game were in Yale’s favor and the Varsity was unable to overcome them. Boston College also were 4 to 1 winners. “Judy” Martin’s strong right arm then handed Seton Hall their second setback when they came to Fordham field to avenge their former defeat. On our Southern trip we broke even, losing to the Navy and Georgetown and winning from Catholic University and Baltimore of the International League. In the Baltimore game “Dimp Halloran did the mound work and achieved the honor of beating the team 170 which won the International League title the same year. At Boston, B. C. was again victorious but from that time on the Varsity could not be beaten. Holy Cross went down before the hitting of hrisch, Lefevre, and Kcough by the score of 10 to 4. Columbia, an ancient rival, could do no better than hold the Varsity to 7 runs while AT WEST POINT getting but 1 themselves. Catholic University came to Fordham Field only to be turned back by the score of 8 to 4. Princeton, 7 to 1, and Rutgers, 9 to 1 followed; and then the Varsity wiped the slate clean when on Decoration Day they journeyed to Yale and topped the New Haven team in a clean-cut victory by the score of 4 to 2. Crescent A. C. proved an easy victory for our nine, and the Staten Island Base Hospital club, followed by the champions of the Atlantic fleet, the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, were unable to stem the tide of Maroon victories. Syracuse and Lafayette were the next victims and Villanova proved a fitting conclusion for the season when the hardest hitting club ever produced at Fordham piled up a total of 20 runs. In this season the Maroon totaled 189 runs to 75 for their opponents. After the Villanova game “Al” Lefevre, ’20, was elected captain of the 1920 team. baseball—1920 Captain: ALFRED M. LEFEVRE, '20 Manager: ALOYSIUS ARTHUR, ’20 Coach: ARTHUR DEVLIN Asst. Manager: RICHARD GROTE, ’21 Team: Catchers—Cousineau, Marnell; Pitchers—McNamara, Waters, Cul-loton; Infielders—McLoughlin, Finn, Capt. Lefevre, Keough. Hoctor; Outfielders— Buckley, Halloran, Donovan, Stocker. HE results of the 1920 season should surpass even those of the 1919 season, and the cry at Fordham is: We will win the intercollegiate baseball title this year!” Al Arthur, the baseball manager, has arranged a schedule which includes all of the best teams in the East, together with a few from the West. Arthur Devlin, who was responsible in great measure for the success of last year s club, has been retained as 171 MAROON VARSITY BASEBALL TEAM—1920 Standing, left to right:—McLoughlin, Waters, Cousineau, Culloton, Mgr. Arthur, Coach Devlin, Capt. Lefevre, Keough, Buckley. Kneeling: Halloran. Hoctor. Marncll. Sitting:—McXamara, Corcoran, Donovan, Stocker, Finn. coach, and with se.en of the veterans back in college, together with a wealth of new material, it can be predicted that Devlin will turn out a team which will make a strong bid for the title. FRANK FRISCII No account of athletics during the regime of the Class of ’20 would be complete without some special mention of Frank Frisch. Frank was probably the greatest athlete who ever came from Fordham, and it is our boast that when he signed his contract with the New York Giants he was a member of Class of ’20. No class could ever have prided itself upon a greater athlete. The crowds that enthuse daily over his stellar plays at the Polo Grounds know him only as a baseball player, but we know him to be equally as great in football, basketball, and track athletics. A belter open field runner or a harder man to tackle never stood upon a hordham gridiron. In basketball he was one of S a MAROON JL the famous Fordham Prep quintet of 1915 which swept all before it and walked away with the metropolitan championship; and only the abolition of Varsity basketball kept him from winning new laurels when he entered college. He was a ten-second man on the cinder-path, and the various major league catchers would probably testify to the fact that he has lost none of his speed since he began to steal all the bases on the circuit. There is no need to describe Frank’s record since he donned the Giant uniform. It is enough to recall that no less a judge of ball players than John McGraw' looks upon him as another Artie Devlin. Aside from his capabilities as an athlete, we knew him to be a royal good fellow and one of the most popular men at Fordham. It will be many a long day before Fordham Field sees another Frank Frisch. Photo by International FRANK FRISCH basketball Captain: BERNARD CULLOTON. ’23 Manager: THOMAS CURRAN, ’20 Coach: ARTHUR DEVLIN Asst. Manager: MYLES AMEND, ’21 Team: Forwards—Hoctor, Stocker, Donovan; Centers—McMahon, Finn; Guards—Culloton, Cunningham, Meehan. R the first time since 1915 Fordham this year had a representative on the basketball court. Arthur Devlin, who coached the 1919 baseball team with great success, was also chosen coach in this branch of sport. Great praise can be given to the Maroon team which, although it lacked the necessary accommodations for practice, has been able to win six of eleven contests played before this book goes to press. After 173 MAROON working out in Unity court for some little time and afterward in the 8th Coast Artillery Armory, the team started with Pratt and swamped them, 42 to 18. Brooklyn Law followed in the same manner, 50 to 16. St. John’s was also a victim, but then the club took a slump, losing to St. Joseph’s of Philadelphia, Pratt, and Seton Hall. After that the club again came to the fore, winning from N. Y. Aggies, St. John’s and then Cathedral, a team unbeaten in two years. In the Cathedral game Hoctor made what is believed to be a college record when he tossed in twenty out of twenty-one free throws. The result of this game was 35 to 34. The team, however, went down before Yale’s superior team work. Finn and Cunningham were the 1920 class representatives, both of these men playing a consistent game throughout. The showing of this team, the first after a long lay-off. can be said to be as good as could be expected and, with the greater part of the team returning to college for the following year, the 1921 basket-ball team at Fordham should prove a hard team to conquer. VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM—1920 Standing, left to right:—McMahon. Amend (Asst. Mgr.), Hoctor. Seated:—Finn, Culloton, Cunningham. Coach: MR. LUCEY, S. J. Manager: ARTHUR BOUTOT Captain: EDWARD B. McGURK, 21 Team: Centers: Keresey, John Tumulty; Right Wing—McGurk; Left Wing —James Tumulty, P. McLaughlin; Rover—Muldoon, Corridon; Cover Point— Halloran; Point—Van Wic; Goal—O'Brien, Filstein. |HE year of 1920 to all indications will be the banner year in sportdom for Fordham. Due to the untiring efforts of Mr. Lucey, S. J., a hockey team, a thing unknown in the annals of sports at the University, is in the making. Arthur Boutot, selected as manager, has attempted to put out a schedule which includes Boston College, Army, Princeton, Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Rutgers, and Holy Cross. 174 The men have been working out faithfully in an effort to bring together a combination which will be able to compete successfully with the teams of leading colleges. Eddie McGurk was elected captain and a better selection could not have been made, since Eddie has been a tireless worker in his time here in his search after a college letter, going out for the football team where he pitted himself against giants in comparison to his own stature. Tumulty and Van Wie are the men on whom the Class of 20 pin their faith; the former is the logical man for left wing, and Van Wie will appear at point when the season opens. Although no games have been played at the time this is being written, we feel certain, after watching the team practice, that we have a club which will be a worthy opponent for any team which comes to Fordham this year. Crack Coach: BERNIE WEFERS Manager: JOHN J. BRF.SUX, ’20 Captain: PETER O'CONNOR. ’20 HE track team of 1916-17 brought Fordham once again to its high level in that sport. The men who received the coveted “F” were Murray, “Pat” Feerick, Capt. Golden, Dale, Fetter, “Bob” McLaughlin and Tackash. An honor never before conferred on a Fordham man was given to “Jack” Murray when he received his Varsity letter as an active member of the team as well as for his activity as manager. “Bernie” Wefers, as coach, was in a great measure responsible for the success of the team and for the interest that was taken in this branch of athletics. During the season the relay team, composed of “Jack” Murray, “Bob” McLaughlin, “Pat” Feerick and “Joe” Tackash, won the Metropolitan intercollegiate mile relay which had been an impossible feat for the Maroon since 1 KACK MEN, CLASS OK 20 Left to right:—Nunan, Capt. O'Connor, Breslin (Mgr.). McLaughlin, Curtin, White. 175 t MA RQ O N ityjj 1912. In this year also we find “Jack” Murray, a novice, carrying off prizes at the Millrose A. A. games and Capt. Golden a consistent winner in the mile and half-mile runs. The best showing, however, was at the Penn, relays, when the Maroon ran second to Pittsburgh and was beaten by scarcely a hair’s breadth. In the following year, 1917-18, the Maroon went to the Penn, relays determined to conquer, and conquer they did. The relay team, composed of Murray, Dale, Iackash and Gough, romped off with their event with ease, defeating, among others, Holy Cross, our ancient rival. In this season great praise is given to Coach Wefers, who certainly has the knack of developing runners, and who has raised the standard of track athletics to heights never before reached at Fordham. Cennts Captain: JOHN J. MCLAUGHLIN, '20 Manager: HAROLD J. CRAWFORD, 20 T is impossible to give a detailed account of tennis activities during our course, because of the loss of records. This year, however, prospects for a successful season are extremely bright. Johnny McLaughlin, of the Class of ’20, has been selected to captain the team, and those who have watched Mac’s work on the courts during the past three years know that he will lead the Fordham cohorts to many a victory. From the wilds of far-off Youngstown Eddie Coyne has come forth, hailed as the champion of his home village, and added another 1920 man to the roster of the tennis team; and Eddie can swing a racquet as well as make one. A promising squad has turned out, and Manager Crawford has arranged a formidable schedule cf opponents. During the past three years tennis has made giant strides at Fordham. The erection of eleven first-class tennis courts during the presidency of Father Mulry gave the sport an impetus which is ever increasing. The popularity of tennis at the college is but another indication of the general athletic expansion which is going on at Fordham. May the time come when the wearers of the Maroon will stand second to none in the collegiate athletic world! 176 Class lUtljlctics )HE Class of ’20 signalized its first year by turning out one of the best freshman baseball teams ever seen at Fordham. This team, managed by Bob Kimbach and captained by Bill Tracy, suffered only two defeats in an eleven-game schedule, and vanquished such teams as Irving School, Peekskill Military Academy, De Witt Clinton, and the hitherto unbeaten nine from Hamilton Institute. It was a great little team and great praise is due to all who were connected with it. I his success introduced us auspiciously to the field of sport and was the kick-off to the real tussle that followed in Sophomore. Our football team, captained by A1 Lefevre, inaugurated at the opening of school a policy of trouncing every opponent, and numbered among its victims the Freshmen and the self-styled “undefeated” Juniors, the scores in both these games being 7 to 6. In the first Lefevre made a sensational hundred-yard run for a touchdown, and in the latter game Jerry Weldon carried the ball over for the decisive score. With the football season ended, we rested on our arms until the spring ushered in the race for the inter-class baseball championship. Once again the class of ’20 turned out a winning team, in spite of the fact that A1 Lefevre and “Judy” Martin had deserted to the Varsity. I he inter-class race finally narrowed down to the Sophs and the Freshmen Pre-Meds, both of whom had gone through the elimination games undefeated. The decisive game was played just before the end of the term, and the final out saw us on the long end of a four to three score. With this victory we won the inter-class championship and a handsome trophy was presented to the conquering heroes. This put an end to most of our class athletic activities at college, since the Junior and Senior classes were broken up by the war, and it was not until the latter part of our Senior year that athletics returned to their normal standard. When we look back at our achievements in our first two years, we cannot help thinking that, if the war had not intervened, we would have set a record for our four years which future classes would seldom equal. I 177 SOPHOMORE BASEBALL SQUAD Status anti Citations Best All-Around Man.............Lefcvrc Most Popular............................Uihlein Most Likely to Succeed...................Dineen Most Brilliant...........................Dillon Most Original.....................Field-McNally Most Inoffensive................Eustace Most Obliging...................Haslam Most Energetic..........................Uihlein Liveliest............................J. Breslin Quietest........................Dillon Handsomest.................................Ryan Luckiest........................Muller Unluckicst......................Donner Wittiest........................Gannon Best Speaker....................Murphy Best Writer..............................Dillon Best Actor......................Murphy Best Athlete....................Lefevre Best Dancer..........................E. Breslin Best in the Parlor.............Robinson Best Dresser..............................Nunan Best Sleeper....................McGrath Best Politician.........................Uihlein Best Musician.............................Casey Most Popular Actor . . . Douglas Fairbanks Most Popular Actress . . Ethel Barrymore Most Popular Illustrator . . . Haskell Coffin Most Popular Author.................O. Henry Most Popular Car.....................A Henry Most Popular Smoke .... Lucky Strikes Most Popular Drink .... Four Per Cent. Most Popular Study............Philosophy Most Popular Game..............Football Most Popular Profession.....................Law Done Most for Fordham . Frank Frisch, Ex-’20 Done Most for the Class .... Uihlein ONE FOR ALL—ALL FOR ONE Vol. LXXIX. TO-DAY Price 10 Yen VALE! READERS-VALE! ! We Sound Our Own Taps and Word It With Our Modest History. We Know That These Echoes Will Linger Always In The Memories of The Class of 1920 “Our echoes roll from soul to soul And grow forever and forever; Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying And answer echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.” The last notes of the Bugle are lingering. Five months ago it blew a cheery “reveille” in the camp of senior class journalism, and now sounds taps” as the “Tartar tribesmen (apologies to Fr. Robb) fold up their sheepskins on the eve of their nomad wanderings towards worldly success. We had our “coming out” just before the mid year exams.—a time when “coming events cast their shadows before.” We hit upon this sheet as a means of cheering up the other fellow, though our editorial strains were strained more than once, because we ourselves were never exempt from those queer feelings which possess every one, when the spectre of Kid Flunk takes a few swings at Battling 60 Per Cent. Our first product was emblazoned with the phrase: “TOOTS EVERY DAY”; but later the staff changed this to read “TOOTS XOW AND THEN for various reasons. First our soft lead pencil began to show signs of wear and tear. Later a typewriter was “pressed” into service. but it was pounded too hard. Then it became more and more troublesome to grub paper off our neighbors in order to spread our propaganda, and withal this we were being attacked by several publications that seemed to spring up from nowhere. To these last, in order of appearance, belong the Patriot, Sinn Fewer and The bloodhound. Again was the pen mightier than the sword. The Anti-Bugle Triumvirate still enjoyed health but their sheets were buried in the Potter's field of literature. It might not be amiss to mention some of our “beats”—Capt. Vic Trola’s startling expose; The mysterious gas wagon of the Campus; Hitherto unknown secrets of Charlie Robinson’s double life; The Junior non-punitive expedition to Cuba and points South; “Gink” Gannon, the Senior Wanderlust, shakes a wicked Waterman for Hornblower; “Greaser” Gomez and the Mexican situation, etc., etc. So we could go on and on- but hark! “Our echoes roll from soul to soul And grow forever and forever FORDHAM TAKES FIRST STEPS TOWARDS BECOMING CO-EDUCATIONAL Matrimonial Club Is Started—Bashful Maids from Mt. St. Vincents', New- Rochelle. St. Elizabeths’, Etc., Offered Charter Membership. Shades of Fenelon. Fordham Seniors Are Eligible!!!! (Special article to the Bugle) O Temp or a, 0 Mores!! Did not the worthy Frenchman Fenelon say that marriage was “a state of tribulation painful in the extreme, for which the ‘recipient’ ought to prepare himself in a spirit of penance?” Yet we were invited to attend a series of lenten sermons to be given every Sunday afternoon during that Holy season, and it stated that a similar invitation had been tendered the lassies at the Mount. Convent Station, and a few other way stations of feminine culture. Because of a pressing engagement with our tailor, wc were unable to attend the first session, geology tests et al painfully came between us and the others, so that we had to rely on one of the “staff.” We gave the young man all sorts of good advice, explained to him just how he should act and what he should do if this or that emergency should arise. We were almost going to put it up in pamphlet form for future reference. Here we arc now', Easter has passed, and we arc still waiting for that same “cub” to put in an appearance. Wc figure that there is no use advertising for him any more because it is verdant Springtime and it’s a cinch he’ll never show up now. The editor is perfectly willing to take all blame for not giving out a first hand report of these Sunday gatherings, hut he can’t stand being abused because he gave the assignment to an asbestos lipped scribe. Give him a chance; he can t know everything!! However, our young reporter couldn’t have been as dumb as he appears to be. and wc doubt very much whether “old hands like Charlie Robinson or Tony Uihlcin could have done any hetter. 170 THE SENIOR BUGLE Cfje Senior IBugle “Toots Now and Then” Published by “THE RACK ROW BUNCH, Ltd.” Editor-in-chief Stu Hornblower. Circulation OOOODOOCOOOl PROHIBITION With the exit of Beer, Wine and Liquor, the collegeman has lost “Three Graces,” incomparable dictics and dear friends. Student life is always refreshed with cheerful associations and jolly goodfcllowship. Probably the hardest blow the Seenth amendment has landed, affected the annual beefsteaks and banquets. To he sure we must now content our athirsted self with the mere reminiscences of past events and the lingering aroma of sweet-scented nectar. Had not John Barleycorn passed so suddenly away, old man Bacchus would be now reveling with the boys of ’20, crowning them with the ancient wreathes of vine leaves, ushering in the climax of their college career. Ah—’tis sad, we mourn our loss, to find ourselves, spirited fellows, gripped in the withered hands of second childhood. Let us forget the desert we arc now harboring in. Let us follow in the footsteps of Horace, Cicero and Virgil. Let us start a rousing campaign against the anti-saloon leaguers, those brewers of discontent. Rise up, men of Senior, rise up. Strike the anvil while it is red hot. 'lake up your arms and battle-axes, and with a stentorian voice echo the words: “IN VINO VERITAS. NUNC EST BIBENDUM”!!!! Stu Hornblower. TO THE SENIOR BLOODHOUND Oh! where. Oh! where has my little dog gone?” The paper was so nitting it actually lost its life. You may now sec its remains camouflaged in rolls at Frank’s Sunkist” Store, 2nd Div. HOOS HOO AND Y “Sharpie” Gardner is wearing those “shoehorn” trousers as a blow to the H. C. of I.. “Dutch” Muller has adopted the daylight spending time. He looms up in class about 10 every morning. Charlie Robinson received a co-coanut from his girlie who is bask ing down Palm Beach way. Why a cocoanut ? “Texas” Gomez has informed us that Villa, the Mexican scourge, is dead. The U. S. papers are flabbergasting us. We learn that Messrs. Uihlein, Weldon and Rimbach will tour the continental U. S. after graduation. Joe McGrath has been offered a position as office boy with The Tattler. Signs of Spring—Field-McNally arrives at Fordham in rubber boots, while his rival Joe Egan joins the B. P. O. Coachmen. Patronize Our Advertisers ! ! MURPHY MULRY Everything for the Home Past masters at the art of furnishing initial ventures Everything for the June Bride Seniors from Fordham. Mt. St. Vincents, New Rochelle, Ursulinc Especially Welcomed CREDIT EXTENDED The Bugle Offers the Following “BEST SELLERS” to swell the fund for a home for our broken down rival editors. Here They Are: WANDER LUSTIN', by Gink Gannon—A talc of the subway caravan and the daily wanderings of the arab commuters from Jersey. BOOTS AND PADDLES-a call from the muddy wastes of Long Island and written in Field-Mac’s incommutable style. ISO J. J. Egan, Prop. Fordham Arcade BREAKFAST at JOE’S (Nephew of Aunt Jcmina) HOT CAKE PARLOR “My Wife’s Own Make” Hot Tasty Pasty IF YOU WORRY—THEN TRY DR. VAN WIE?S FEBRIFUGAL TABS Palliative Sedative Veritable Grief Killers Demand the original Sure relief At Leading Druggists READ! READ! READ! MYSTERIOUS—FASCINATING “Twisty” O’Sullivan’s “DIARY OF OUR RUSHING RUTH” First Installment will appear to-morrow Secure— — Obtain “THE SENIOR BUGLE” Pres. Vicc-Pres. J. Tumulty A. Uihlein “THE BACK ROW BUNCII” Dealers in PSYCHO—ETHICS Estimates Cheerfully Given Satisfaction Guaranteed Trcas. Secy. H. SihDU R J. Kelly When you arc passing from the drunken state to the Married state— DROP IN ON US—we arc midway between. 13 Gocart Lane, Wheelum, X. Y. OPEN EVENINGS MAROON 1920 “ alDc T aleque” Our tinkling, honey’d sun-up done, Chimes knell Aurore’s fast spersing hues. But hush,—Life’s day is just begun. And ours the hours to use, or lose. Chimes knell Aurore’s first spersing hues. For dawning, flown, rcturncth—nay! And ours the hours to use, or lose; As mould we, so shall shape Life’s clay. For dawning, flown, returneth—nay! And thus these chimes peal threnody: “As mould we, so shall shape Life’s clay; “As wells the font, so swells the sea.” And thus these chimes peal threnody. While freshening breezes halloa hoarse: “As wells the font, so swells the sea.” . . . We cast off. on our outbound course. While freshening breezes halloa hoarse: With never a whispered vowel for Night, We cast off, on our outbound course. The bourne of Youth, in Godward flight. With never a whispered vowel for Night, Our Rose Hill duenna bids us bye,— The bourne of Youth in Godward flight,— The panoply of Faith, on high. Our Rose Hill duenna bids us bye!— With head, heart, hand we meet yon world,— The panoply of Faith, on high,— The labarum of Light, unfurl’d. MAROON With head, heart, hand wc meet yon world, Remembering,—should woe wear us sore,— The labarum of Light unfurl’d. One walked these weary ways before. Remembering,—should woe wear us sore,— We know we are now, and we know One walked these weary ways before! — Rejoice then with Spring’s vireo! We know we are now, and we know Dust’s form breathes life perpetually. Rejoice then with Spring’s vireo. And realize Eternity. Dust’s form breathes life perpetually: So let us sing, befall whate’er. And realize Eternity,— And ask not why and ask not where. So, let us sing, befall whate’er. The further chance of Christendom. And ask not why, and ask not where Death’s murmuring swansongs echo from. The further chance of Christendom! — This be our glory’s end, and grief’s. Death’s murmuring swansongs echo from Time’s sere unsounded rockbound reefs. This be our glory’s end, and grief’s: A phantom throng, to bear us o’er Time’s sere unsounded rockbound reefs. Anon shall wing from yonder shore. A phantom throng, to bear us o’er,— Our tinkling, honey’d sun-up done,— Anon shall wing from yonder shore. But hush,—Life’s day is just begun! 1S2 MAROON VA. Cptlogue are told that “man’s last end is rest.” And so, with the end of the 0 Maroon in sight, we look forward in anticipation to a lengthy ’J and intense period of rest. But we have one more duty to perform— and in this case a pleasant duty. It is our final expression of appreciation to all those who have helped to make this book a success. We are particularly indebted (though not in a pecuniary way) to Mr. Klebold, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Rae, of The Klebold Press; to Mr. Mackey, of the Gill Engraving Company; to Mr. and Mrs. W. Burden Stage, who did such excellent photographic work for the Maroon; to Mr. Ahrenhold, who did most of the art work for the book, and to Mr. Eustace, of the Class of 19, whose cartoon work was invaluable. To these and all the others, too numerous to mention, who helped in the composition, printing, engraving, and binding of the book, we extend our sincere thanks. And finally, we must express our gratitude to our advertisers and patrons, who made possible the production of the book. Patronizing our advertisers will not only gratify ourselves and them, but will also, by the production of tangible results, encourage these firms to make use of future year-books as advertising mediums. That is all, and thus we finish our work. “Man’s last end is rest.’ The Editors. 183 HE Business Manager takes I | great pleasure in presenting the following pages of advertisers. All represented herein are most reputable, the best in their respective lines, and worthy of the most critical patronage. Our advertisers have made possible the publication o f the “Maroon.” Show your appreciation — patronize our advertisers Tiffany Co. Jewelry, Silverware and Stationery of Proven Quality and Value Intelligent and Careful Service by Mail Fifth Avenue 37 - Street New York Don’t forget to mention The Maroon 3 Compliments of EIMER AMEND (Founded 1851) INDUSTRIAL and EDUCATIONAL LABORATORY APPARATUS, CHEMICALS AND SUPPLIES NEW YORK Jit; PITTSBURGH 3rd Ave., 18th to I9lh St. ' AvsY 201 Jenkins Arcade THE COLLEGE of NEW ROCHELLE NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 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BURDEN STAGE, Photographer 743 FIFTH AVENUE Phone for Appointment Plaza 24.08 —-----------------------------T Don’t forget to mention The Maroo IS Hnttp Council 326, tucjfjts of Columbus ertends a fraternal greeting 10 tije (Hniuersitp, .faculty anti Student O embcrsbip of tbe orDcr anD begs them to accept tfte freeoom of tfte Council club rooms at 2506 COebster auenue, jforobam, JD. p. C. 7Ae CORN EXCHANGE BANK 13 William St., New York Capital and Surplus, $12,000,000 BRONX BRANCH 375 EAST I49th STREET FORDHAM BRANCH 376 FORDHAM ROAD TREMONT BRANCH TREMONT AND ARTHUR AVES. rSnt STREET BRANCH ST. NICHOLAS AVE. AND 181st ST. ACCOUNTS INVITED Compliments of Cavanagh Restaurant 260 West 23d St. New York 14 Patronize our Advertisers JOHN McE. BOWMAN President Don’t forget to mention The Maroon 15 S7r?fR o, PROHIBITION fyc£M£A,r The statement hereinunder is submitted on behalf of a proper and legal interpretation of the Eighteenth Amendment and a defensible and sustainable definition of the term intoxicating liquors (1) Beer and wine legislation is proposed not to nullify the constitution hut to honestly and legally carry out the intention of the Eighteenth Amendment. (2) The Eighteenth Amendment prohibits “intoxicating liquor” for beverage purposes. It does not prohibit all alcoholic liquors. It permits the manufacture and sale of non-ir.toxicating alcoholic liquors. (3) It is lawful and proper for the Legislature of New York and Congress to enact a law which will permit the sale of “non-:ntoxi-cating” beverages. Such a beverage is a beer or wine containing not to exceed 2.75% of alcohol by weight or 3.5% of alcohol by volume. (4) The right of the State to legislate tinder the Eighteenth Amendment independent of what Congress may do. arises under the second section of the Amendment which gives April 10th, 1920. the State “concurrent power” with Congress to put the Amendment into effect. This does not mean that the Amendment may be nullified by permitting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors but it does mean that the State may put its own definition upon that term within the limits of reason and science. (5) The State and Congress, or the State itself if Congress refuse, may legalize the manufacture and sale of an alcoholic liquor which is not intoxicating. Scientists have made experiments for the purpose of determining what is intoxicating and about twenty of the leading authorities in the United States are unanimous in the opinion that a 2.75% by weight or a 3.3% by volume alcoholic beverage is not intoxicating. Therefore, a law which permits such beverages will do no violence to the Eighteenth Amendment and will be valid WILLIAM H. HIRST. Attorney lor the New York State Brewer ' Association 3rd Counsel for the Society of Restaurateur of New York. The BRONX National Bank I49th St.y West of 3d Ave. Invites the accountsof individuals, firms and corporations. A local institution managed by Bronx Business Men. NEW YORK CITY DEPOSITORY NEW YORK STATE DEPOSITOR Y UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Member of FEDERAL RESERVE BANK Officers F. A. VVurzbach. Pres. Thos. ). Ouinn. Vicc-Prcs. Carl U'urm, Vicc-l'rcs. (Jco. W. Fennell. Vic-Prcs. II. J. B. Willis, Cashier Safe ftrfiotll fioxti for r nt—S6.00 (xr ytar and ufi Noonan fifSkelly printers to Fordham University Athletic Association 198 Greenwich St. NEW YORK Phone Cortlandt 2246 id Patronize our Advertisers J EAL ESTATE in all its Branches Auction Private Sales Appraisals r Country Estates Advertising ) y . 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SPORTING GOODS for the Gym, In and Outdoor Sports. TOYS-KODAKS - SPECIALITIES Anything in these lines—ROTH HAS IT! Best appointed JOB PRINTING Plant uptown. Good work for particular people delivered on time. IS Patronize our Advertisers MOST CORDIAL GREETINGS TO MY FRIEND Father Owen A. Hill, S.J. JAMES MOSS Don't forget to mention The Maroon 19 k'One policy of The Home of New York recommends another As a leader among insurance companies “THE HOME of NEW YORK Has constantly sought to anticipate the needs of all branches of business in-surancevvise and then to promptly supply them by enlarging its own underwriting facilities. The results of its efforts in this direction have been and are encouraging, and the Company will continue to keep in advance of the needs of American business, both here and abroad. Aircraft. Automobile. Explosion, Fire and Lightning, Hail, Marine (Inland and Ocean). Parcel Poet. Profile and Comrmoeiono. Registered Mail, Rente. Rental Values. Riot and Civil Commotion. Sprinkler leakage. Tourists' Baggage, Use and Occupancy.Windstorm. Full War Cover. STRENGTH • REPUTATION • SERVICE THE HOME INSURANCE COMPANY NEW YORK ELBRIDGE G. SNOW, Pres. Organized 1853 Home Office: No. 56 Cedar Street Cash Capital, $6,000,000 Purity First ' '' Purity First'' THE Bronx Provision Corporation of New York Ham Boilers and manufacturers of Fine Bolognas Pure Pork Products Our Specialty Main Office and Plant 2692 Third Avenue (143rd Street) Branches 3026 Third Avenue - (155th Street) 2553 Webster Avenue - (Fordham) 2421 Jerome Avenue - (Fordham) P. J. KEARNS Contracting Co. General Contractors 2306 Creston Avenue Mpu, Vnrb telephone i ev 1 Ork FORDHAM 256 20 Patronize our Advertisers M£Donnell C.o. 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK MEMBERS New York Stock Exchange New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange New York Cotton Exchange Chicago Board of Trade New York Produce Exchange San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange Orders executed in all markets. Our direct private wire to the Pacific Coast provides unequalled facilities for the execution of orders in Western securities. BRANCHES: San Francisco, Cal. 42nd Street Building, N. Y. Produce Exchange, N. Y. Asbury Park. N. J. DIRECT WIRES HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH! To keep HUk ailments from getting big, get the best of them when they're small. A cake or two of Fleischmann’s Yeast each day will help wonderfully in maintaining and promoting good health DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET ON REQUEST THE FLEISCHMANN COMPANY Don't jorget to mention The Maroon 21 J.P.Duffy Company I Ml 1 1111 1 III IMIllMim IININM 1 1 Mill all l«IIH ll l H ll'lEl llllIIIIIIH Ml IIMI'llf MIINNiail IMMIII Ml llllllll MHIINI Flue Pipe, Wall Coping Terra Cotta Blocks, Gypsum Blocks Duffy Plaster Boards New York Office and Yards 138th St. Park Ave. Phone 281-282 Melrose INI Mil INI MNIIII1 Mill Ml I llllllll IINIIMI lllll III HIM III HIM MIIIHIIII Brooklyn Office and Yards 51st Street and Second Avenue Queens Office and Yards Jackson Ave. and Madden St. SPALDING 1855 A” “ 1920 dtp aL COMPLIMENTS OF W ik M THE NEW YORK Superiority in competition is the result of quality (Spalding) COUNTY in equipment NATIONAL Baseball, Tennis, Golf Track and Field, etc. BANK ‘ Just ns Good” is never just the same A.G. SPALDING BROS. 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HARRIS Upstairs CLOTHES SHOP Dress Suits to Hire 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE Cor. 42nd St. ROOM 210 New York For TEA, COFFEE, BUTTER, EGGS GO TO VAN DYKE’S 2551 WEBSTER AVENUE 255 1 North of Fordham Rond ' 24 Patronize our Advertisers Young Men of America! IF the average young man desires to be successful, he must submit to the conditions which Success imposes. These primarily are Honesty, Industry and Economy, the practice of which is a cardinal necessity in the formation of Character. Most of our young men are shaping their lives along this line, but. because of lack of experience, they overlook the great advantage that will accrue to them from forming early in their lives as a depositor a banking association of the highest character. Our experience of eighty-nine years has convincingly taught us that kindness and consideration shown clean-living, honorable and ambitious young men is a splendid asset for them and for us. Just as the acorn of today is the oak of tomorrow, so do our young men rapidly attain the management of the world’s affairs. We extend young men a cordial invitation to establish hanking relations with us—to grow to know us and to give us an opportunity to know them, in order that mutual helpfulness may ensue. THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK 128 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY Total Resources over $150,000,000 Investment Securities SECURITIES carried on con- servative margin. Orders executed in all markets. J.M. Byrne Co. Members New York Stock Exchange Telephone Bowling Green 4200 60 Broadway, New York ■ ■ Information and suggestions regarding investments gladly furnished. Don’t jorget to mention The Maroon 25 Telephones E. L- BIRD. Proprietor Melrose 3742—ForJham 646 BIRD’S BUSINESS INSTITUTE CEO. WOLF, Principal 391 EAST 149th STREET A-RE-CO Building Also Vcd Yorl( Webster Avc. Fordham Road Cor. 190th Street FRED BERRY Manager ALFRED B. ATKINSON At ft. Manager HARRY WEISS Asst. Manager COLUMBIA TRUST COMPANY Capital $5,000,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits $7,000,000.00 BRONX BRANCH: 148th Street and Third Avenue The Bronx Branch of the Columbia Trust Company is conducted as a Bronx Institution and aims to render every assistance, consistent with conservative banking, to Bronx individuals, firms and corporations. A BRONX BANK FOR BRONX PEOPLE Ballinger w Perrot New York and Philadelphia Architects, Engineers and Constructors Qualified by experience of 26 years 26 Patronize our Advertisers Central Fire Office, inc. UNDA7X7G Fire, Automobile, Strike, Riot, Explosion, Tornado, Sprinkler Leakage Risks accepted throughout United States, Canada, Porto Rico, Cuba GENERAL AGENTS FOR ABOVE TERRITORY American Equitable Assurance Co of New American International Underwriters of York New York Great Lakes Insurance Co., Chicago Knickerbocker Insurance Co. of New York International Lloyds, Indianapolis, Ind. 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MERCHANTS NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE NEW ORLEANS Houses and Agencies in all the Principal Cities of South and Central America, Europe, Asia and Africa Imports Exports All raw material from South and All American products Central America and the Far East and manufactures Steamsh ip A gen ts “GRACE LINE”—Direct sailings from New York to Chile, Peru. Eucador, Bolivia YV. R. GRACE c CO.’S BANK, New York Don't forget to mention The Maroon 27 2 S Patronize our Advertisers In Fo?id RecoIlection of Father Michael J. Mahony, S.J. Class of 1901 Don’t forget to mention The Maroon 29 Eagle “Mikado” Pencil No. 1 4 For sale at your dealers Made in five grades Conceded to be the finest Pencil made for general use EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY NEW YORK ulQUaiiUlHIlUldUimilii !-irnnmxni::!TiRmmMiEnim: QUALITY-SERVICE- Our many years of experience in supervising the production of milk, our thorough system of inspection and our splendid delivery organization insure your receiving the finest qn-.ility of products and a truly satisfactory service when you buy— ::ji ::iri!:nn:r.n::i:;:r:: winidikot BORDEN’S MILK :iinirn: iS3i:r: ir.iriLiu ibieii !i!Trji!:i::iLiuuiuuiLnui«iU Bronx Borough Bank A Bronx Banlf for Bronx People 440-442 TREMONT AVENUE Compliments of T P.J.DURCAN INCORPORATED 128 West 52nd Street New York City Eyeglasses and Spectacles of Every Description G. H. MAGUIRE 684 SIXTH AVENUE. N. Y. C. Between 39lh nnd 40th Street 3C Patronize our Advertisers “ If it grows—we have it” THOS. FALLON CO., Inc. G6 Gansevoort St. (Gansevoort Market) Telephone Chelsea4345 - New York City It will be to your advantage to remembei—THAT—we are Wholesale Dealers in HIGH GRADE Fruits and Vegetables and cater especially to Steamship and Export Trade A telephone call will bring a representative. Price lists gladly Furnished on request Prompt and DEPENDABLE SERVICE T ios. Fallon CoInc. FRANCIS J. HORAN. Sales Mgr. Mr. Auto Owner A car cannot run without gas, and should not be run unless protected by Liability Insurance. SER VICE FIRST GRIFFIN, DUFFY MURPHY 603 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx 29 West 48th St., New York Trcmont 5210-521 I Bryant 3988 Don’t forget to mention The Maroon 31 Phone, Fordham 1607 Beck Herrmann Bakery—Lunch 2593 WEBSTER AVENUE Corner 193rd Street Telephone Trcinont 5107 Arthur T. Cerrute In terior Decor at to n s . . . Painting . . . 4532 Park Ave., New York City Tames Mitchell W Incorporated Reinforced Concrete Construction Compliments of A friend 76 Montgomery Street Jersey City riL ( Curb. Broad 1 105 elephones. j 0 JC , Broad ,,(,3.4.5 Walter P. McCaffray CURB SECURITIES 44 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK Darby, Hooper c McDaniel Fire and Automobile Insurance Agency 59 John St., cor. william st. New York S2 Patronize our Advertisers Conron Bros. Company Wholesalers and Shippers of Fine Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Butter and Eggs When you buy from us, you buy direct from the shippers as we own and operate our own plants, which are located in the best producing sections of the country. MANHATTAN 10th Avenue, 13th to 14th Streets ’Phone 2301 Chelsea 12th Avenue and 131st Street ’Phone 3910 Morningside BRONX 043-645 Brook Avenue ’Phone 2426 Me'.rose BROOKLYN 189-191 Ft. Greene Place ’Phone 3228 Prospect telephones, johnLithographers, Engravers Loughlin Bros. printers No. 1 Platt Street - New York (225-227 Pearl Street) LINOTYPE COMPOSITION Don’t forget to mention The Maroon HORTON’S ICE CREAM “ n New York and all around— Horton s Ice Cream is renowned When Furnishing your Horne buy at— Fennell's BRONX STORE 2929-2931-2933 THIRD AVENUE Between 151st and 152nd Sts. Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Beds and Bedding All Roods marked in plain figures We have the Agency for the Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records CASH OR CREDIT PHONE 3 FORDHAM WETHERED J. BOYD Funeral Director MORTUARY CHAPEL 2516 MARION AVE. NEW YORK Tel. 234 4 John Established 1864 W. P. O’CONNOR SON INSURANCE 43 CEDAR STREET NEW YORK Compliments of DR. C. C. BIRDSALL DENTIST Compliments of an Honorary Fire Chief W. F. MARTIN Furnace 435 Third Range Avenue Ventilating New York and Roofing City 34 Compliments oj THE HILDRETH GRANITE COMPANY Patronize our Advertisers Don't jorget to mention The Maroon 35 WHY NOT TRY PETER’S SWEETS HIGH GRADE CANDIES and ICE CREAM 390 Ford ham Road New York Phone: Melrose 10x10 MUSIC Fie CHINA GARDEN A most refned American and Chinese RESTAURANT 2898 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. Corner 150th Street and Westchester Avenue Telephone Broad8oa RINELLI GUARDINO CONTRACTORS Marine Pneumatic Scaling. Painting and Cementing Hulls of Vessels Scaled Internally and Externally by PNEUMATIC AIR MACHINES Originators of Floating Compressed Air Scaling System Equipped with largest floating apparatus F.lnlric Welding ll'rttrr Supplied io Shipping 109 RROAD STREET NEW YORK Telephone Farragut 88J3 Jefferson Meat Market INCORPORATED Choice Meats, Poultry and Came 9th ST. and 6th AVE. NEW YORK Jefferson Market BRANCH: 510 HUDSON STREET Ford ham University BARBER SHOP PETER STIEB. Proprietor ARTOPHYLAX for the Hair 2559 Webster Avenue. Ford£marR©ad Phot.c 1207 Beckman Established 1867 G. W. GAL LA WAY Manufacturer of Gallaway’s Special Oils for Machinery EXTRA Signal Oi! “EXTRA” Valve Oil A Superior . Irticle tor Steam Cylinders 322 PEARL ST. NEW YORK Compliments of A FRIEND Compliments of B-E-A Meet ME at the Woolvvorth Building CANDY STORE M a in Floor Tel. Fordham 385s H. KALMANOFF. Prop. THEFORDHAM Stationery and Cigar Store KODAKS and SPORTING GOODS Special in Developing and Printing 4778 Third Avenue New York PHONE FOR OH AM DR. A. H. BABCOCK DENTIST uni • nc: Weekdays. 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. 11 k� , Mondays and Thursdays. 0 a. m. toSr.N. 571 East 184th Street New York L” Station 18.3rd Street Compliments of George E. Warde 30 Patronize our Advertisers Capt. James J. McGuirl Daniel J. Dugan John Cahir Capt. Thomas Manning Pres. if Treat. Secretary Vice-Pres. Gen'I Manager Supt. Shamrock Towing Co. INCORPORATED Local, Long Distance and Shoal Water TOWING Fire and Wrecking Pumps Scows to Charter 50th STREET, North River, New York TELEPHONES 4440-4441 4442 COLUMBUS—DAY OR NIGHT George M. O’Connor Plumbing Contractor Telephone 388 Astoria 154 FULTON AVENUE LONG ISLAND CITY Don’t forget to mention The Maroon 37 FRANK F. FRISCH FOR I) IIA M, EX-'20 Star Third Baseman of the (Hants Compliment Ww York Xational Letujne Club Index to Advertisers Page Ackerman's Hats.......................... 10 Altman Co., B........................... 5 American Exchange National Bank.......... 25 American Lead Pencil Co.................. Babcock, Dr. A. H............................ 36 Bache Co.. J. S............................ 28 Ballinger Perrot........................... 26 Reck • Herrmann............................. 22 B. E. A...................................... 26 Biltmore Hotel............................... 5 Bird’s Business Institute.................... 26 Birdsall, Dr. C. C........................... 24 Borden's Milk................................ 20 Boyd, Wethered J............................. 24 Bronx Borough Bank........................... 20 Bronx National Bank.......................... 0 Bronx Provision Corporation.................. 20 Brooks Bros.................................... 0 Brunswick Balkc-Collender Co................... V Byrne Co.. J. M............................ 25 Casey. Hotel................................... S Cavanaugh's Restaurant....................... 14 Central Fire Office.......................... 27 Cerrute. Arthur T............................ 22 China Garden................................. 26 Class of 1001................................ 20 Columbia Trust Co............................ 26 Conron Bros. Co.............................. 33 Cooney, John H............................... 21 Corn Exchange Bank........................... 14 Cotrell Leonard.............................. 8 Cunningham Bros.............................. 12 Darby, Hooper • McDaniel......................32 Day, Joseph P.................................. 17 Duffy Co., John P.............................. 22 Durcan, Inc., P. J............................. 30 Du ross ....................................... 24 Eagle Pencil Co................................ 30 Eimcr Amend.................................. 4 Faculty........................................ 35 Fallon £: Co.. Thos............................ 31 Fcelcv Company................................. 4 Fennell’s ..................................... 34 Feuerbach, Frederick J......................... 10 Fleischmann Co............................... 21 Fordham Stationery Store............... 36 Fordham University Barber Shop............... 30 Fordham University Press................ 6 Fowler, Wm..................................... 12 Franklin Simon Co........................... 6 Callaway. G. W................................. 36 Page General Electric Co............................. Gladstone. Robert.............................. 23 Grace Co., V. R............................. 27 Grcason, E..................................... 24 Griffin, Duffy Murphy........................ 3) Harris, A. T................................... 24 Hildreth Granite Co............................ 31 Hoffman £ Elias................................ 2S Home Insurance Co.............................. 20 Horton's Icc Cream............................. 31 Huyler's ...................................... 12 Jefferson Meat Market.......................... 36 Kearns, P. J................................... 20 Loughlin Bros................................. 3:5 Maguire, G. H.................................. 30 Maguire Burleigh............................. 22 Martin, Wm. F.................................. 31 Mitchell, lr.c., James......................... 32 Moss, James.................................... 10 Mt. St. Vincent, College of..................... 6 McAlpin. Hotel................................. 11 McCaffray. Walter P............................ 32 McCrecry Co., James.......................... 13 McDonnell £ Co................................. 21 Nagle Packing Co............................... 10 New Rochelle, College of........................ 1 New York County National Bank.................. 22 New York National League Club.................. 33 New York State Brewers’ Association............ 16 Noonan and Skelly.............................. 16 O’Connor, Geo. M............................... 37 O’Connor Son. W. P........................... 34 Peter's Sweets................................. 36 Plaza Hotel................................... IS Rinelli Guardino............................ 36 Roth. M. J.................................... 18 St. Joseph, Academy of......................... S Shamrock Towing Co............................ 37 Spalding, A. G................................ 22 Stage, W. Burden.............................. 13 Stephens Fuel Co., Inc........................ .. 2S Stoneham Co., Chas. A....................... 23 T-.ffany Co.................................. � Tooley. Dr. F. 1.............................. 24 Unity Council. K. of C......................... H Van Dyke’s.................................. 24 Warde. Geo.................................... 36 Woohvorth Candy Co............................ 36 I V.