Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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Our Campus Expands SULLIVAN HALL — Arts and Business .rU ku .

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The noonday sun shows a scene of intense activity and interest. For the role of a college is to teach, to develop the latent possibilities in its students. Merrimack utilizes diver- sified curricular and extracurricular activities to develop the well-rounded individual. Admidst Engineering students employing transits and slide rules. Liberal Arts students plumbing the depths of the Humanities, Business Admin- istration majors analyzing graphs and figures. Secretarial Science students learning the intricacies of complex office equipment. Biology students dissecting specimens in the Labs, one will find tomorrow’s leaders. Intramural sports are in session on the extensive grounds or in the gymnasium; Student Council meetings are hearing the cases of student violators; political discussion groups are debating the pros and cons of governmental policies. Radio panels record broadcasts for public distribution; the Holy Name Frater- nity plans its projects to aid orphans and hospitals; the Sodality of Our Mother of Good Counsel recites the Rosar in the chapel of Austin Hall. The beehive of intellectual, spiritual, and physical activity is remarkable indeed, but what elevates it out of the commonplace is the fact that all of it is centered around the precepts of the Catholic religion laid down by Christ for all men. On April 19, 1954, the Feast of Christ the King, His Excellency Archbishop Cushing once more returned to his beloved Merrimack College to break ground for the new Collegiate Chapel of Christ the Teacher. A gift from the Archbishop himself, the large modem chapel will provide a permanent and fitting home for the religious exercises of the college and will stand as a symbol of the centrality of Christ in a Catholic college.

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4clmc«U tn tcm The name of the Very Reverend Vincent A. McQuade, O.S.A., Ph.D. is synonymous with the birth and growth of Merrimack College. The first President and guiding genius of this institution of higher learning, his breadth of vision coupled with masterful administration has accomplished the realization of a dream. The Reverend Joseph J. Gildea, O.S.A., Ph.D. is Dean of the Faculty and Director of the Division of Arts and Sciences. Director of high academic policy, no professorial or student problem is too insignificant for his personal, sympathetic atten- tion. Here is truly a holy Priest, a perfect gentle- man. DONALD R. BEATON B.S., Merrimack College, 1951 Instructor, Accounting DOMINIC J. BERRA, O.S.A. Ph.D., Havana, Cuba, 1948 Instructor, Religion JOHN H. CRAWFORD, O.S.A. Sc.D., LaSalle College, 1951 Professor and Chairman Department of Engineering Dean, Division of Engineering