Assumtion College - Heights Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Title Page Presidents Letter 3 Faculty 8 Student Life 15 Sports 38 Reflections 65 Seniors 78 Commencement 124 Senior Directory 140 Staff 144

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HEIGHTS 1976 ASSUMPTION COLLEGE WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS Volume Eighteen

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ASSUMPTION COLLEGE COLLEGE FOR MEN AND WOMEN 500 SALISBURY STREET WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS 01609 OFFICE of the PRESIDENT To the Class of 1976: For me, this graduating class of 1976 will always be, in a special way, my Assumption College class, the class of which I ' m a member as each of you is a member. Most of us came here to Assumption together in 1972, and I believe that we have not only experienced but also influenced significantly a very important period in the history of the College. Of course, the president is going to perceive any four years in the history of a college differently from the way in which the students who were there during those years perceive them. Still, there ' s a good deal of common ground between us, some fruitful and some forbidding. We ' ve had good years in most sports, we ' ve built some apartments and townhouses, the student body and faculty has grown, we ' ve added to our academic program offerings and to our student services staff, and we ' ve made plans for a new classroom and office complex for which we hope to break ground in June. On the other hand, we ' ve had difficulties with the food service, we ' ve experienced a major power outage, we ' ve had an increase in vandalism to college and personal property, and we ' ve seen phenomenal increases in the cost of energy. Looking back at such things over the past four years, however, my own inclination would be to say that if those are the things that matter, we must be missing the point. The important things that happened to me during these years have been the human relationships I ' ve formed that have made indelible marks upon my lif With you as a group, these relationships have been professional. With some of you, they have been on a more individual basis than with others; but I can say that I view my years of common experience with you as rewarding, happy, and full of a sense of accomplishment. As I think of you preparing to conclude your undergraduate years, however, it occurs to me that most addresses to graduating classes, whether written or oral , fall into one o two categories. People making such statements either want to get In t last word of the undergraduate years, or they want to get the f of the years that are to come. Some do a little of each, but to do either. I only want to ask you a question. The question is: Did you find what you were seeking here? I would also suggest that the answer should be either, No! or I don ' t know. If you came looking for something in particular, it was probably everything there is to know about some scholarly discipline, or all you need to know to become a professional in one field or another. If you learned anything here during these years, however, you must have found out that you ' ll never know everything about anything; and you ' ll have to answer the question with a negative. If you came here, as I suspect most of you did, without a particular goal in mind and with some confusion as to what an under¬ graduate education ought to be, you ' ll probably have to answer with that vague, I don ' t know. Even if you came here only expecting to find a major and up your mind what you ' d like to do with your life, you may well still an answer. Does all this mean that we ' ve failed you or that you have failed? I don ' t think so. I think it means that Assumption has provided you with what a liberal education is meant to equip you with: an inquiring mind that approaches all existence with a puzzled, Que sais-je? ; a sense of values informed by the Judeo-Christian tradition; and a respec for all men and women that moves you to want to make the world a better place to live in. God bless you in your future endeavors. Sincerely,