Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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REV. JAMES J. KELLEY, S.J. Dean College of Business Administration The graduate of 1943 is leaving his College with the knowledge that his degree is a symbol both of definite accom- plishment and of readiness for action. With your courage and your vision, you are ready to give noble expression now to the ideals Alma Mater has fostered within you. Yield to no one in your devotion to your country and defer to none in your unswerving loyalty to the teachings of Boston College. Thus inspired, you will truly dedicate your lives to the service of a noble cause and you will play your valiant part in fashioning a new and finer world. James J. Kelley, S.J.

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REV. STEPHEN A. MULCAHY, S.J. Dean College of Arts and Sciences A parting word to a graduating class is always difficult, this even in the most normal circumstances. In time of national crises when one pauses to consider the tremendous possibilities of the near future, the difficult tasks which must be undertaken immediately and with what consequences, to say goodbye becomes exceedingly hard. Yet Alma Mater feels that you are fully equipped for any emergency, that you will acquit yourselves nobly in any task set before you, that you have the answers to all the questions and the moral courage to live by those answers. She knows that you as your elder brothers will come back to her with your shield or on it. And so she bids you a fond Godspeed and God bless you! Stephen A. Mulcahy, S.J.

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FACULTY AT THE DEDICATION OF THE HONOR ROLL OF SERVICEMEN Dean Stephen Mulcahy, S.J.; Very Rev. William J. Murphy, Rector; Rev. James L. McGovern, Student Councilor; Rev. Michael G. Pierce, Dean of Sophomore-Freshmen; Rev. William Shanahan, Dean of Discipline. D F THE War has called upon the student for sacrifice it has not exempted the professor. And here at Boston College the faculty has cheerfully and capably assumed the burdens of wartime education. Long before the day of infamy at Pearl Harbor, Boston College had revised its curriculum in preparation for the events which were clearly on the horizon as early as 1940. Many teachers who had devoted their education to History and the Arts cheerfully adapted themselves to instructing in Mathematics, Physics and Radio. With the departure of student volunteers came the enlistment of many members of the faculty; Professors Convery, Fitzgibbon, Bowen, were among the first to take leave. Physical armor and manpower alone are not sufficient equipment for the forces of a fighting nation; thus, as in the last war, many of our Jesuit instructors went into the field and on to the seas to preserve and strengthen in our fighters the recog- nition of our dependence on Almighty God. Those of the faculty now at the College have devoted themselves to preparing morally and intellectually young men about to enter the armed forces and the holy priesthood, and those already in uniform as A.S.T.P. students. We are indebted to you for the worthwhile education you have offered us, but to a greater degree for the true explanation of life and its end.