Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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A DEDICATION Unquestionably the role of the lay faculty in Catholic college life has reached a position of preeminence and esteem. No more manifest evidence of this fact can be found than here at Boston College where the lay faculty fill over half of the teaching positions in the University. Indeed the relationship of lay teachers to the Catholic collegiate educa- tional system has progressed from one of temporary necessity to one of permanent dependence. Here at Boston College we are privileged to have on our faculty two men who have served well this University, their Church, and their profession, first in recognizing the in- estimably valuable assistance they could lend to Catholic higher education; secondly in selflessly offering their life ' s work to meet the challenge confronting Boston College, and thirdly, by being the exemplars, par excellence, both of those who inaugurated the lay-teacher program, and to the count- less number of their colleagues who have followed their footsteps. Mr. Harold Fagan is numbered among the Boston College graduates of 1919 — in the days when Boston College was synonymous with one building, Gasson Hall. His were the days of fellow classmates such as Ryder, Brickley, Furthey; of fellow teammates Douglas, Dullea, Shortell; of a 1919 34-6 rout of Holy Cross. His were the years of men who are renowned for their devotion to Boston College. After graduation, Professor Fagan both taught Chemistry here at the College, and at the same time was graduate- studying at M.I.T. where he became a Master of Science in Chemistry in 1920. Since then — for forty-one years — he has given himself and his talents to thousands of Pre-Medical and Chemistry majors who, for their later successes, are immeasurably in his debt. Mr. Harold Zager was not an undergraduate alumnus of Boston College. In 1922 he was graduated a Bachelor of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and during that year began his teaching career at Boston College, later to receive one of the first Master of Science degrees granted by this College. He was well known and beloved about the University, but especially in the College of Busi- ness Administration where he served as an Associate Pro- fessor of Mathematics. Requiescat in pace. Yes, theirs were the years of men devoted to Boston College. It is the hope of the class of I960 that this dedica- tion will, in some measure, indicate our gratitude to them both, for portraying with their lives the greatness of the past for us, the graduates of I960. Harold A. Zager, Associate Professor of Mathematics