Aquinas College - Thomist Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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69 RANSOM -x MILESTONES-- Evolutiong an unfolding, a process of opening out what is contained or implied in somethingg a devel- opment as leading to a definite end. . . . . Webster An exact measurement of l958's intellectual and moral productivity as related to Aquinas College will never be found in office statistics. lt would be impossible to measure the potentiality which was actuated this year as almost l,OOO students met in classes, discussion groups, and chapel to advance the evolution of their own lives. Effects of this inner growth were felt by the student, his family, his friends, and, in a more abstract sense, by the college itself. As we can iudge the spiritual development of a student only by exterior effects, so we here attempt to view the development of Aquinas College in terms of material expan- sion - keeping in mind the underlying spiritual force which upholds it as an institution and motivates its faculty to open out what is contained or implied in reality. lk l Y The name Aquinas College dates from l940. Before that time it had been called by three other namesg Mary- wood College, Sacred Heart College and Catholic Junior College. In i942 the first co-ed graduating class of Aquinas was made up of five men and four women who attended classes at 69 Ransom Street. Later in that year the school acquired a building at 53 and 55 Ransom Street which was used as a dormitory called Marion Hall. Eight men students lived there with a certain Father Bukowski who thought of him- self as a sort of house father. The following year saw the first Dominican Father on the regular faculty, Father Peter Reilley, O.P. He may be said to be responsible for the mass infiltration of Dominican priests which followed. lgsgimfgc- MARIAN HALL

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