Loyola Academy - Grad Prep Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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l l Standing: Mr. Loveley, S. J., Fitzgerald, Ward, Maloney, Milligan, Upton, Normoyle, Pendergast, Acton. Dwyer. Seated: McCourt, Sommer, Curran, Hayes, Murphy, Quay, Festle, Gibbons, Rosengren. M STEHS UF DEB TE To round out another most successful season of debating, Loyola, for the second succes- sive year, Won the high school debating championship of Jesuit schools in the Chi- cago Province. Sheldon Hayes and Clare Acton, affirma- tive, and Paul Quay and Ed Murphy, neg- ative, bore Loyola's standard in the Detroit tourney. Bill Curran was unable to go at the last minute because of sickness, so Shel- don Hayes, a negative debater throughout the season, after two days' preparation became an affirmative. The negative team Went undefeated through four rounds of argumentation and Won an exhibition debate the final evening. Thus they took the championship unde- feated. The negative team dropped one of its four tournament debates to St. Ignatius, Chicago, to tie for second place in the meet. Each man on both teams of Loyola was awarded a medal: while the school was presented with another championship cup. Clare Acton and Bill Curran represented Loyola in the Metropolitan Debate Union arguing affirmatively. The fiery oratory and flawless logic of Curran, combined with the cool deliberation and determination of Page 28 Acton, constituted the perfect team. The all- junior team of Neil Maloney and Frank Milli- gan provided more than a substitute as a second affirmative. These two men should prove a formidable team next year. The Academy's two teams of no men were of equal ability. Ed Murphy and Paul Quay relentlessly tore the arguments of opponents apart to gain them many a vic- tory in the Metropolitan League and to sweep the Detroit Tournament. The suave, gallant, and frequently humorous style of Sheldon Hayes, coupled with the enthusi-- astic oratory of Al Sommer, won decisions from Rogers Clark, St. Mel, and New Trier among others. All in all, the lads participated in 123 inter- scholastic debates this season with a record unparalleled in the history of Loyola. Besides. the climactic victory at Detroit, Loyola won twelve debates out of the eighteen Metro-- politan Debate Union contests in which the Academy participated. Mr. Arthur E. Loveley, SJ., moderator of this year's team, expressed his complete satisfaction with the cooperation of the boys, and received their heartfelt gratitude for his part in their success.

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FHESHMEN FUR SUI! LITY Only Freshmen constituted the Junior Sodal- ity, according to a new division that was inaugurated this year. Rev. Lester J. Evett, S.J., was the moderator of this group with the assistance of Mr. Paul A. Woelfl, S.J. Those who faithfully attended the weekly meetings held in the chapel of the faculty building were formally inducted into the Sodality in December. During the course of the year two sets of officers were elected. At the first election Dick Murphy became prefect: Bill McCarty, assistant prefect: Cy Brennan, secretary: and Jack Maginot, treasurer. Fifteen Sodalists were chosen at the same time as a committee to take care of all plans for the year . Second semester elections determined the following officers: Carl Merschel, prefect: Dick Murphy, assistant prefect: Bill McCarty, secretary: and Cliff Kennedy, treasurer. First social function of the year was an amateur night on November l. Seventy-five members enjoyed themselves fully while Frank Cummings acted as Master of Cere- monies for the humorous, baffling, dramatic, and musical acts. When the applause had subsided, Dick Harrington and Jack Clinnin received gold Sodality pins as the most en- tertaining of the participants. Second prizes went to Peter Moore and Gene Slattery, magicians. Special devotions were carried on through- out the year. In October, eight F rosh pledged themselves daily to recite the rosary pri- vately before the shrine of Our Lady. In January a special novena of Masses and Communions was completed for success in the' semester examinations. Special devo- tions were also practiced during Lent. The Sodality's journalistic endeavor, the Sodalights, continued this year in its effec- tive way of binding the Junior Sodalists closer together. Mr. Paul A. Woelfl, S.J., was the moderator of this paper. Cy Brennan acted as editor. Staff members included Jack Maginot, Bob Sullivan, Gerald Vanden Branden, and Don Gregori. FHESHMAN SIIIJALISTS

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FHUSH AND SUPH This season's Junior Debating Society got off to a good start when forty freshmen and sophomores answered the first call for ora- tors. Of these, only three were veterans of the previous year. After the most active season in the history of Junior Debating at Loyola, twenty-two members remained on the squad, sixteen of whom were freshmen of considerable promise for the future. Immediately after the first meeting, prac- tice intramural debates were scheduled among the men. All the questions of these debates hinged on some specific phase of the general topic which was to be used for inter- scholastic meets: Resolved: That the Power of the Federal Government Should Be Increased. In the first practice session Carl Merschel and Jack Powell took the affirmative: while Dick Ramos and Joe Bredemann argued against an increase in the government's mili- tary power. Similar practices were held for several months. Usually an open forum fol- lowed such debates to allow the other mem- bers of the society to clarify their ideas. The next step in the preparation of these young orators was several practice skir- mishes with the Senior Debating Squad. Thus the frosh and sophs sharpened their wits for the struggles to come. S HAVE THEIR SAY Finally, the day of the first interscholastic debate dawned. Ed Langhenry and Martin Callaghan, affirmative, and Bill Sheehan and Tom Massion, negative, met two teams from St. Scholastica. A busy season followed, in which the Jun- ior Debaters met more than fifty teams from other schools. In their interscholastic sched- ule were freshmen and sophomores from St. Ignatius, St. George, St. Philip, St. Mel, New Trier, Lane Tech, St. Scholastica, Providence, Alvernia, and Marywood. As a fitting climax to the heaviest sched- uled season in their history, the Junior Debaters sponsored their Second Annual Junior Debate Tournament at Loyola on May 3. Each of the schools participating went through four rounds of debates during the course of the day. For his great achievement of giving the underclassmen the poise and ability to carry on argument with the best opposition, and for the careful planning and rigorous training through which he prepared his young ora- tors, Mr. Charles T. Conroy, S.J., deserves the deep gratitude of his charges and the whole of the Academy, for it is this funda- mental training in their early years that makes it possible for Loyolans to keep up the splendid tradition in debating and public speaking which they have set. Standing: Bolger, Merschel, Freeman, Abens, Ermatinger, Vestal, Langhenry, Hurley. Kennedy. Van Oppens, Sheehan, Mr. Conroy S,J. Seated: Holland, Bredemann, Massion, Ramos, Powell, Starrs, Hayes, Slattery, DiGilio. Absent: Vanden Branden, Callaghan.