Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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The cafeteria is now a haven for free periods and snacks as well as lunches. And the main corridor of the Arts Building became a very highway for academic doings. Merrimack College. This tireless band organized a gigantic Penny Sale at Lawrence Memorial Stadium June 4 for a proposed gymnasium. The following September brought the Class of 1952 into being. Mass and dedication of the new gymnasium preceded the opening of the academic year. An aug- mented faculty brought new courses for the expanding curriculum, while the Freshman Hop, the Sophomore Cotillion, the Sports Night, the presentation of three one-act plays by the Dramatic Club were the highlights of an enjoyable social calendar. Now, plans were for- mulated for the famous million-dollar drive that burst into being in May, 1949, and carried to successful com- pletion. The 443 students who responded to the roll call at the beginning of the third academic year were happy to initiate the new Science Building. Of classic colonial design the three-story red brick science hall includes classrooms, departmental offices, a chapel and assembly hall, a general lecture hall, faculty and student lounges, locker facilities, and ind ividual laboratories for physics, electronics, optics, quantitative and qualitative analysis.

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and events which constitute . . . . The second of the permanent buildings to open its doors, the Liberal Arts Building with it ' s sorely needed classrooms and Biology laboratories was ready for use in the fall of 1951. Located across the campus from the Science Building it com- pletes one side of the campus quadrangle.

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[WNORTH ' AMOOVER. oweuu organic, inorganic, physical and advanced chemistry. The inter-collegiate debating team made its appearance on the forum, the Glee Club performed brilliantly at an Easter concert, while the Dramatic Club staged a rollick- ing jenny Kissed Me. The first Junior Week instituted the traditional round of varied activities that makes it the social event of the year. The skeletons of the Liberal Arts Building and the Faculty House were assuming shape as the fourth ac- ademic year began — a golden year, which held within its compass the very first Commencement rites of Merri- mack College and the planting of coeducational facilities here. The mid-winter presentation of the Dramatic Club, the two one-act comedies, shared a program with the Glee Club’s comic opera. The college joined the National Federation of Catholic College Students and the Merri- mack Chapter of the American Chemical Society con- vened for the first time. Lastly, as one of the college’s numerous enrichments of the life of the region, the Seniors entertained 291 happy orphans at a Christmas party. The spring term brought the all-male cast musical review of the Ja-Di-Gon-Sa, written and produced by the club members. As the Juniors continued to erect the distant outline of Junior Week, the Seniors dropped one by one from social life to prepare for their Compre- hensive and Graduate Record Examinations. In the spring Room Service, one of the most brilliant of the On-Stagers’ biennial farces, received critical accolades. Then the massed conviviality and release of Junior Week, the Senior banquet and outing, the bacculaureate service, and the mingled splendor and joy of Commencement . . . Is it an exaggeration to say that of the many com- mencements that will be observed on the campus of Merrimack, the first alone will blossom longest in the remembrance of those who witnessed it? The succession of events on those two days was stirring and unforget- table . . . Fathers McQuade, Gildea and Burns were ministers of the Bacculaureate Mass at the gymnasium Located a short distance from Merrimack, the town of Andover is a small, mostly residential district, with a wealth of his- torical background, that celebrated its tricentennial anniversary not long ago. The teeming city of Lawrence, the center of the important tex- tile industry in New England, sends many of its youths to Merrimack. Various classes take advantage of its valuable facili- ties. Port ■UAVERHILL Methuen 0 Law re nc- T 5L Sh awsh een GEOR ETOlON p ) Rouj ey j) )pswic+t V I ® 0 o AWDOV VVOBgR.N yVEL- Ps Ut EW TOM @ Boston the rapid development...