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

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Feeling like old hands who knew the ropes, we began our second year at the small College situated at the foot of the Maryland range of the Blue Ridge Mountains with babbling enthusiasm. After resuming classes, the first item on our agenda was initiating the freshmen, “‘only,” as we thought, “this time we’re going to do the hazing.” We devised an uncannily thorough set of rules which, on top of everything else, forbade the “poor” freshmen to talk to girls unless requested to do so by an upperclassman. How high and mighty we felt, as we made life miserable for the greenhorns. We even took a beanied busload of them to one of the Mount football games in Harrisburg. The fresh- men put up with us until the fourth day, when they started a revolt by throwing one of our mates into the swimming pool. The “orientation” ended one midnight raid and sev- eral kem-toned frosh later. When we had our turn at hazing. Boarding the bus for a football game. Beneath an orange autumn moon we went rustic for a night and danced the Virginia reel to the tune of fiddles and guitars at our first class dance, ““The Farmer’s Ball” in Flynn Hall. Those of us who were not in the Glee Club watched with fatherly pride as that organization successfully went through i ts first full year of concert engagements. Other class happenings we enjoyed to the fullest that year were the second annual class banquet and our first Mother’s Day Communion breakfast. Picnic expeditions into the Valley and “down South” were the order of the day when warm weather came over the Mountain, and class rings were ordered toward the end of the school year. The hot days in May saw us thumbing through textbooks and old tests in preparation for the finals which saw us through the first half of the four years allotted for seeking our college degrees.

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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.

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Nt Like most third year men, we assumed a casual, some- times caustic surface at the beginning of our junior year. A great number of things had to be decided upon by us. Among others we had to make individual decisions on our courses and majors, and the collective agreements on the publication of this yearbook and the Junior Prom. The yearbook issue was put off until May, and we decided to hold the Prom at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on January 13. The Prom committee, headed by Joe Charles, prepared the way for a success. The crowd danced to the music of Sidney’s Society Orchestra and the class 59 We held our Junior Prom in Washington’s Mayflower Hotel. made money from it to pay the way for a picnic and get a fair start on the 1952 Pripwin. This was our year to supply a man for president of the Student Council. We nominated Joe Charles and three Johns, Cuskelly, O’Neill, and Roohan. O’Neill withdrew and after a fierce campaigning period Roohan was elected and friendships, if any were broken, were resumed. Before the year ended, we partook in a moving experience when we assisted at Mass celebrated at the Grotto by Father Gordon before our annual Mother’s Day Communion breakfast.