Mount St Marys College - Pridwin Yearbook (Emmitsburg, MD)

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Our Story To many of us the first day of our college career was a turning point in our lives. We were somewhat awed by our new surroundings, but after monopolizing as much drawer and closet space as the 201 of us could use in the shacks and the Administration Building, we proceeded to intro- duce ourselves to the Mount and vice-versa. At 11:00 p.m. of that same eventful day, most of us met Father Kline, prefect of freshmen, when he checked our rooms. Another freshman that year, although in a much different status, was Father Kennedy, in his first year as prefect of discipline, who explained to us the sad but neces- sary rules of college life. Father Kennedy, prefect of discipline. Father Gordon, moderator of the Class of 1952. Just as we thought we were getting into the swing of things (study periods, water-laden wastebasket battles, etc.), the sophomores descended on us with sheets of reg- ulations for the hazing period over which they were to gleefully preside. We were shocked and stunned, but did as they commanded. After two face-reddening weeks of “air raids” and ridiculous looking clothes we were thank- ful that the season lasted no longer. Returning to normal for the rest of the first semester, we began to feel less out of place on the campus and in the classrooms. Between battles with the books and our room- mates we joined clubs and teams, traveled to football and basketball games, got to know the other Mountaineers, and explored the surrounding area, including St. Joe’s. Asa unit we did nothing until the second semester when we were officially recognized as a class. We celebrated the event by winning the St. Patrick’s day inter-class track and field meet and forming the nucleus of Mount St. Mary’s Glee Club, then known as Mount St. Mary’s Freshman Glee Club. At our first meeting, we elected Bill Roche class president with a supporting cast of Joe Gelish, Joe Turnbach, and Charlie Procopio. Liking their politi- cal finesse, we set a Mount precedent by unanimously reelecting them at year’s end. We wisely asked Father Gordon to assume the duties of class moderator. In accept- ing the position, Father made us keenly aware that “a unified class is an effective class.’’ We went home for the summer with that thought and many new memories of loyal friends and rich experiences filling our minds. 56

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McCaffrey Hall McCaffrey Hall was first opened in 1858. The building was named in honor of a past president of the Mount, Very Rev. John McCaffrey, D.D. This hall had the dis- tinction of sheltering the senior class. Within the confines of these walls the seniors passed their days and nights, studying, conversing, clowning, and sleeping. McCaffrey also housed the student dining room, the priest’s refectory, the sister’s convent, and two very popular places, the mail- room and the College canteen. In the spring and fall the porch of this building was a 55 favorite gathering place for all Mountaineers, the scene of bull sessions, a little “horse play,” or perhaps just sun- bathing. Often these activities were interrupted by a sud- den downpour from above, rather artificial in nature how- ever, provoking much laughter from those who escaped the deluge. It has often been remarked that the storming of the Bastille was most closely duplicated by hungry students rushing to the doors of the McCaffrey dining room for a more favored place in line. Such was life in McCaffrey Hall.

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) W. A. ALLEN J. F. AUWERDA J. N. BORSUK Ss. T. BURKE G. M. CHRIST L. N. COLONNESE i | U. of Penn. U.S. Navy U.S. Navy Atlanta St. Bonaventure St. Ambrose College | . ; uy : - ae fe : 4 : A 4 . i | R. A. DRAKE J. C. FLOOD H. M. GLONINGER D. A. HART C. T. HOUSER W. M. KILDUFF Jesuit Sem, Army-Germany St. Vincent’s Sem. U.S. Navy U.S. Army Burbank, Cal. G. E. LEICHT ea voue Dame We missed more than a few faces on our re- turn to the Mount as sophomores. We did not realize it then, but less than half of the original class was to graduate in 1952. There were 151 of us in the third year, and 99 started the senior year. ee eee E. P. MALLEY Chester, Pa. Some of the men we had shared our campus life with joined distant seminaries, others en- listed in the armed forces under pressure of the draft scare, and still others went to professional schools or just stopped going to college for one reason or another. Not all of the men who failed to achieve our goal of graduating from the college of our choice are pictured on this page. The memory of all of them, however, is implanted in our hearts. — Even if in the short space of two or three years | » we had forgotten their vibrant personalities, and if we should see them again, our minds will turn as one to the days we and they spent together at the Mount. — eoree ee B. J. MENTZEL Law School, U. of Md. J. R. O'NEILL St. Mary’s Sem. ca) T. L. ODEA D. J. PLUNKETT W. P. RAFFERTY R. N. RAMOS W. J. ROCHE Jis J. SCULLY Manhattan College U.S. Air Force Redbank, N.J. Georgetown U. Law School, U. of N.D. Trappist Monastery T. J. DONLEAVY Manhattan, N.Y. a J. J. KIRWIN U.S. Marines R. R. KIRWAN Air Corps W. R. KIRWAN Air Corps B. J. LAWRENCE Hanover, Pa. G. T. LEECH St. Vincent’s Sem. ae E. E. WISNIEWSKI Orchard Lake Sem.