Belmont Abbey College - Spire Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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53073 FOREWORD In the years that are to come, vou, Abbeymen of 1948, will open this book with fond remembrance of those gay and happv davs when vou studied and plaved and lived under the guidino inspiration of the Crusaders ' mightv banner. As you slowly and caressinolv turn these pages you will recall with pride your association with those grand fellows Bill and Jack and Neb , and vou will say-and rightlv so: Thev were great guvs! The Priests, the Brothers, the classmates, the thousand and one important and apparendv insignificant events of those yesteryears at Abbey will be brought vividly to mind once again. Yes. and there is consolation in the thought that at old alma mater, at Abbey, you will always have a second home. There is a catch in your throat, a shining star in your eye, as you reverendy whisper: It ' s oreat to be •in ABBEYMAN. ' ' ' '

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THE SPIRE 1948 O. Vincent Collins Editor John J. Wulzer. Jr. Assistant Editor Harold R. Hooper Business Manager

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THE ABBEY CATHEDRAL Page Three