Belmont Abbey College - Spire Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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THE 1938 SPIRE FOREWORD This 1938 edition of The Spire has a double purpose. Primar- ily, it intends to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Belmont Abbey College. Then, it has been produced in an effort to prevent time from completely obliterating the recollections of the happiness of Abbey life from the memories of Students of Today. Students of Years- Gone-By. and of the members of the Community of Belmont Abbey. To those Students of the Present, may it be a permanent record of classmates, professors and activities. May it provoke many happy memories of campus and class activities, as time assumes evergroiving proportions in separating them from college days. To the Alumni, may it be the means of recalling faces, scenes and incidents which can live noiv in the realm of reminiscence alone. We paraphrase the oft-quoted line in stating the effect we hope this vol- ume may have upon them. Backward, turn backward. O time, in thy flight: make them all students again just for tonight. Finally, may this Spire provide the members of the Community of Belmont Abbey with another chronicle of the life and the progress of the institution to whose service they have devoted their lives. If this volume is instrumental in recalling old friends to the read- er ' s mind, in visualizing for him old .scenes and activities connected with his and our Alma Mater, then, our purpose will be attained and our fondest hope realized.

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53359 DEDICATION To Abbey ' s Old Boys To all those who once attended classes in Abbey halls, who trod her corridors, who battled valiantly for the furtherance of her athletic fame, who strolled in warm and peaceful comradeship along the Avenue, who loved the spires of her Cathedral, who lived a life of cheerful good-fellowship with priests, teachers and classmates — to these we dedicate this volume of memo- ries. We do so with the hope that it may bring back to them, in the softened clarity of yesterday ' s good times, their own memories of Abbey. Especially would we have this book serve as another link in the chain that binds the affections of Abbeymen — those gone and those to come — to Abbey. The class of ' 38 joins hands in spirit with the class of ' 78 to give honor to Belmont Abbey, the Alma Mater of them both. BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE

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PROGRAM Page ACT I— THE COLLEGE 8 Scene I — CAMPUS ViEVVS 10 Scene II — Faculty 16 ACT II— THE CLASSES 24 Scene I — COLLEGIANS 26 Scene II — PrePSTERS 36 ACT III— ACTIVITIES 40 Scene I — Publications 42 Scene II — DRAMATICS 46 Scene III — ORGANIZATIONS 50 ACT IV— ATHLETICS 58 Scene I — FOOTBALL 60 Scene II — BASKETBALL 64 Scene III — MINOR Sports 72 ACT V— FEATURES 76 BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE