St Josephs College - Footprints Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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EDNA V. DAWKINS • • Y IEE someone second that motion? Sure, someone will, ami W it ' s usually Edna. Edna does more than second motions, though. She makes them and talks about them and then convinces people that they ought or ought not to he passed, according to her views on that particular subject. For Edna is a young lady of very definite ideas and a will to back them. Perhaps that is why the Religion Committee, during her four years of membership and Senior year of chairmanship, became such a vital element in the life of the college. Athletics is the activity that lies nearest Edna ' s heart. Since Freshman days, she ' s answered the call for class basketball, and when a hockey Varsity was organized, she wasn ' t slow to come into its ranks. Field Day each year would prove her meat, and Thirty-Two was always sure of respectable score with Edna to help roll it up. For pep and power, Thirty-Two proudly points to Edna. There isn ' t a thing we ' d like her to be that she isn ' t, so all we can say is, The best of everything to you, Edna! 23

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HELEN M. CURRAN HELEN came all the way from Greenwich Village to learn things at St. Joseph ' s. No, she doesn ' t go in for modernistic art, or cubist sculpture, or even for wearing her hair in an eccentric, man- nish hob. She ' s one of the sanest, nicest girls you ' d want to know — and she ' s a Math major. However, among the first things she learned were that the Math courses were no bed of roses, and that the hours which must be dedicated to squaring circles and cross- examining triangles are necessarily irregular and prolonged. Far he it from Helen to become discouraged. With the application typical of her kind, she worked with a will, until, today, we see the finished Mathematician. But Helen isn ' t all Math. She has given her services zealously to the Social Service Group and has been a steady and enthusiastic member of the Glee Club. Her appointment to the Senior Week Committee gave her an opportunity to get her finger in the arrange- ment pie, and gave the chairman the assurance that Helen ' s part of the job would be well done. Friendliness and an unquenchable optimism are the key-notes of Helen Curran ' s popularity. Here ' s hoping they are never dimin- ished, but will even increase as the years leave their blessings with this favorite of Thirty-Two. 22

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ANGELA M. DEEGAN NO, Angela isn ' t trying to look like an Elizabeth Arden ad. That ' s quite a typical picture. It illustrates perfectly the thing that everyone feels about Ange ' a — her sincerity. She is sincere in her work, her play, her friendships. And she was, above all. sincere when she was begging you to bring in your class dues. As Senior Class President. Angela had a position that, for responsibility and sheer worry, outclassed any other. The glory that attached to her name by reason of her office could never be sufficient to compensate for the planning, arranging and plain working she did for us. It is really a wonder that this busy lady found time for any- thing besides her executive and scholastic duties, but she did. l ' .asket- ball, hockey and tennis were second nature to her, and Thirty-Two is likelv to sigh with pleasure when remembering the way Angela could shoot a basket, knock a puck around or place a fast serve. The finishing touch, we think, to this picture of an all-round girl is the fact that Angela writes verse — and good verse at that. In spite of everything, however, we have a feeling that some day in the not too-distant future, we ' ll drop in and find her warming the baby ' s milk while hubby reads his evening paper — in a cute little cottage built for two or three. 24