Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Theatrical trunk and billboard accentuate the thespian air of Student Activity Building Room 108. At home in such surroundings are Dramatic Society personnel, (left to right) Larry Gleason, Brenda Crowley, Secretary; James O ' Hearn, Presi- dent; Hans Hermans, Treasurer; Jack McNealy, Caroline Duffy, Vice President. As in past years, one of the most popular and best known organizations on campus, is the Dramatic Society. Room 108 of the ancient and honorable Student Activities Building, known to members as the Lounge, is the headquarters of this campus-wide group. Here fledgling actors and actresses, stage- hands and technicians, seniors and freshman, gather for re- hearsals and the latest theater talk. An innovation this year was the presentation of three major productions instead of the usual two, as well as the move off campus to a downtown stage. The show of the year was Shakespeare ' s Henry IV, Part I, which was presented in the late fall in Campion Hall. This historical comedy of an errant Prince and his aged father featured Jim O ' Hearn as King Henry, Larry Gleason as Prince Hal, and Tom Luddy as the renegade Hotspur. But Kevin Byrne, playing the portly and rascally Falstaff, came close to stealing the show. The second undertaking of the season was the farcical comedy Harvey, which was viewed by large audiences at the Little Opera House. This whimsical tale of an eccentric old man and his equally eccentric rabbit saw leading roles played by Peter Dee, Flora McLaughlin, and Maureen O ' Brien, as well as one large white rabbit. In addition to both productions, the members of the Society took part in a number of other activities, including workshop productions and the One Act Play Contest. Many lent their talents to presentations of various other schools and organiza- tions in Greater Boston. The Society this year was directed by Rev. John J. McCarthy, S.J., Moderator, and Rev. Joseph Larkin, S.J., Director. Script girl, prop-man, extra, and prin- cipals combine to stage the season ' s opener — Henry IV. 4

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Debating Society Dr. John Mahoney instructs the B.C. De- baters in the famous tradition of Demos- thenes ' On the Crown, (first row) Kevin Byrne, Vice President; John McNealy, Pres- ident; Francis Scaduto, John Sullivan, (second row) John Connolly, Jim Bolger, Frank Mahoney, Phil Landrigan, (third row) John O ' Connell, William Collins, Paul McNamara. In its second year of operation under the new policy of opening membership to students in all undergraduate schools, the Boston College Debating Society, under the direction of Dr. John Mahoney, Moderator, enjoyed another fruitful and successful season. Among its activities were participation in the National Jesuit Tournament in Chicago, the Cherry Blossom Tournament in Washington, and numerous tournaments throughout New England, many of which were sponsored by the Greater Boston Forensic Association. A variety of debates and talks were presented before various religious, civic, and social organizations; weekly meetings featured discussions of various topics of current interest and concern. The season reached its culmination with the annual Prize Debate. Dramatics Society V U i 48!

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Campus Council In the student government arrangement at Boston College, the constitutional experts often have recourse to the phrases horizontal and vertical in describing the various levels of the student government whose jurisdictions often overlap and whose duties are never quite adequately denned. From this intricate and delicate geometrically linear setup, a fairly hetero- geneous group of individuals is selected and its main effect on the exterior constitutional charts-and-graphs concept of the government has been to more or less upset its entire delicate symmetry. But the Campus Council on the practical level has actually contributed much to University life in the pursuit of its lofty aims of fostering and promoting the spiritual, cultural, and academic welfare of the entire student body. The early history of the establishment and inauguration of the Campus Council is remarkably similar to that of the establishing of the American Constitution in 1789. Like the nebulous and archaic Articles of Confederation of post-Revo- lutionary days, the old twenty-four member Campus-wide 50 Council was so cumbersome and deliberative that it never got Student Administrators seek counsel and advice from the University ' s chief executive, Father Rector. The group in- cludes (left to right) Bernard Plansky, Edmund Madden, James Tonra, Alexander Urbanowicz, Margaret Lynch, and John Keane. any work done. In attempting to create a more effective cen- tralized government body, the initiators of the present Campus Council came face to face with the same difficulties that plagued Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Washington. While the Found- ing Fathers required sixteen weeks laboring in that hot Philadelphia summer to reconcile the divergent interests of Federalist and Nationalist, it was two years before the B.C. governmental pioneers were able to produce a system of gov- ernment that seemed satisfactory to all concerned, the end result being that the six council members were appointed by the individual student senates, thus representing, in actuality not the students directly, but the senates. The nine-point pro- gram finally hammered out by the council included attempts to subsidize the education of more foreign students, the estab- lishment of annual outstanding faculty member and alumnus awards, and the long-awaited inauguration of a series of mixers that were conducted on Friday nights in the hockey rink.