Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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COLD WINDS AND A HOT TEAM The Nebraska winters provide an abundance of cold, wind, and snow. However, the most exciting speculation by the Creighton student — apart from that caused by the Development Pro- gram — ■ was probably the result of the record achieved by the basketball team. The Jays met the usual opponents but with unusual success. The games with Omaha University and the Air Force Academy perhaps highlighted the conquests gained on campus, while those away from home couldn ' t but make the student shout. At the end of the season, a fifteen-win to six-loss record found the Bluejays in a more promising position than they have enjoyed since the ' 46-47 season. Bob Gibson, easily the top man, culminated his career here this year, but the rallying of Creighton to its former athletic status is already a precedent. Before the basketball season was past, the spring semester made its appearance, and the student started all over again. The recognized urgency of the need for new facilities was specially emphasized by the more than 150 student increase in registration over that of twelve months before. In all, it was obvious that the administration ' s ambitions for Creighton were not unfounded. The basketball team rose to new heights this year. An advisor provides help to a confused student at second semester registration. 22

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Father Reinert and the Italian Ambassador Manlio Brosio stand in the reception line at Joslyn Museum. Lent brought the solemn reminder of a great sacrifice. The Jazz Choir rehearses for their spring performance. Father Reinert and Mayor Rosenblatt greet Ambassador Brosio on his arrival. LENT, LECTURE, One day, between the dust storms and the blizzards that accompany the end of Nebraska winters, somebody in the Arts Library switched on a fan standing bv an open window, and everyone knew that spring had come to Omaha. It arrived in a time of hard study interspersed with few holidays, lightened very little by the weather or the Lenten penances, but as every spring before, it ended in sunshine, campus courtships, the addition of a few credits, and a certain sense of self-improvement. This improvement was reflected in the University ath- letics with the hiring of a new head baseball coach to succeed Duce Belford. Bill Fitch, a former semi-pro catcher and manager, was the obvious choice. To exercise the Creighton student even more, track, which has been absent since 1948 was restored on campus this year with the naming of Dud Allen, coach to the Junior Jays in Prep, as head track coach. 24