Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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Each recipient of an award knelt to kiss the Archbishop’s ring, while Father Murray called the names of those to follow. in culture education Winding slowly up from the Administration Building, a file of Seniors proceeds to the Baccalaureate Mass. Archbishop Cushing, the principal speaker, gave a resume of the history of the college, and hailed Merri- mack as “an intellectual stronghold, a spiritual strong- hold, which will continue to form men and women of principle, devoted citizens, for years to come.” When the Class of 1952 returned from the summer vacation, it entered a revivified campus. Three new cur- rieula — Medical Technology, Secretarial Science, and Engineering — were inaugurated; the influx of coeds had swelled significantly; the Liberal Arts Building was com- plete and ready for occupancy. Reverend John H. Craw- ford received the Deanship of the Engineering School, and Miss Kathleen Murphy assumed the duties of the Acting Dean of Women. The architectural style of the Arts Building is red brick colonial. Its ground floor comprises a cafeteria, a bookstore, two large locker rooms for men and women respectively, and several service rooms. The first floor contains four classrooms, the office of the Director of the Part-Time Sessions, a library reading room, and two faculty lounges. The offices of the Dean of Men, and the Director of Business Administration, an office for faculty members, a seminar room, the Warrior office, and six

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• O.S.A., PrZr Boston “■• of ' M‘ »«r ; ' . ' „ ' ’j“ ' d»„!‘ 21 °. ' Another tradition was begun with the first Baccalaureate Mass. Here, several of the graduates receive Holy Communion, a habit that gives the strength to carry on through life as Christian gentlemen. honor to myself, in generous loyalty to Merrimack, and with fidelity to my God, devotion to my countr , and charity to my fellow men.” The recipients of Senior awards were: James Mc- Gillivray, Archbishop Gushing Medal; James McLaugh- lin, Governor Dever Award and Mortimer Sullivan Medal; Glarence David, the Edward Burns Medal; Robert Sheehan and William Daly, Markham Medals; William 0 Gonnell, Jr., Holy Name Medal; Lawrence Morrisroe, Wall Street Journal Award; Julius Garlucci, Loyalty Award. tc ‘S ' s’’- - ' -

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classrooms are arranged on the second floor. The top floor is devoted to general biology and bacteriology laboratories with adjoining prep and storage rooms, an office for faculty members, and two classrooms, one equipped for secretarial eourses. Reverend James Sherman, O.S.A., conducted the annual Retreat. The Athletic Club’s Barn Dance, fol- lowed by the Sadie Hawkins Recognition Dance, was the incitement to a series of vivid social affairs. In Decem- ber the On-Stagers received their greatest public acclaim for the three-act comedy The Milky Way. Actual student boxing and wrestling matches renovated Sports Night, and the third annual Christmas Concert was sung by the new Choral Society, while the Student Council sponsored the Orphans Christmas Party. It is well to repeat, in conclusion, that a history cannot explain itself; nor can it of itself conciliate the Mind of God and human interpretation of events. But no inquiring and opened intelligence can fail to uncover, beneath the moil of daily labor and the ministrations of fortune in the history of Merrimack College, the bene- ficent and perpetual Graees which, we know, come through Mary, Our Lady of Good Counsel. The ceremony over, the first graduates leave the stage. (Insert) The Very Reverend Joseph M. Dougherty, O.S.A., gives the invocation address. James P. McLaughlin, A.B., for academic excellence receives the Governor Dever Award of 1000 for graduate studies from His Excellency’s own hand.