Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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A History and remembrance . . . Another historic event unfolds as the Most Reverend Joseph A. Hickey, O.S.A., S.T.M., J.C.D., Prior General of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, lays the cornerstone for the new Faculty House, recalling the blessing of the Administration Building which began the growth of our college. The role of Mary in our brief, full history is no small one. Mediatrix of all graces, she has favored our heeds with abundant help. And each episode in the story of Merrimack College takes on an added glow% a new mean- ing, a supernatural reference, as it were, in the realiza- tion of her continuous intercession. Without this realiza- tion, the history of our college becomes — just another narrative. With it, perspectives sharpen, patterns form, new significances emerge ... Shortly after World War 11, J. Leo Cronin, Chair- man of a special panel of a Haverhill labor-management committee tasked with the improvement of veterans’ The Administration Building on Peters Street was completed in the summer of 1947. It was here that the classes and college days of the Class of 1952 began.

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For Reference Bettication Not to be taken from this library rebere tije name of i icfjarb Cufifting for tfjree reasiong. Jf irot for bountiful cbaritieo anb loorbs! of pietp, tbe people of tbe arcbbiocesie retain for bint a perpetual sfbrine in tbeir beurtsi. i|o account of tbe timeo in tobicb toe libe can omit mention of tbe glo= riouo renobationo anb eccleoiaotical triumphs! be basi fositereb. J ext, for bis! s!piritual leaber bip, bis! gaintlineos!, bis! flock babe erecteb about bis! reputation tbe ebifice of a mobern legenb. oo frequently babe tbe cries! foriSpiritual guibance ecboeb in bain; but (§ob bas! altoays! s!ent s!ucb men in ans!toer to tbe neeb. Haotly, for abunbant, unceasing patronage, for uncounteb hours beboteb tS our college, the faculty, stubents, anb frienbs of Jlerrimacb feel conscious of a bebt to bint tobicb can neber be abequately repaib. Cbe staff of the 1952 JHerrimacfean, therefore, gratefully beb= icates this ebition to l icbarb f . Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. RICHARD I. CUSHING, ARCHDISHOP OF DOSTON

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A panoramic aerial view of the campus shows the old and the new in contrast. In the center foreground are the Science Building (left), the completed Liberal Arts Building (right), and the new Faculty House under construction (center). Above this, to the right, is the gymnasium and the Administration Building. Situated in the town of North Andover on the Salem Turnpike and comprising approximately one hundred and fifty acres the campus is located on a hill overlooking the city of Lawrence (background) and the surrounding country- side. To the right is the town of North Andover and to the left Andover Square. In years to come buildings will be erected on the permanent campus area (left foreground).