Fairfield University - Manor Yearbook (Fairfield, CT)

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Manor Advisor JIM FITZPATRICK University Activities Dean Manor Editors JOHN COURTMANCHE Editor-in-Chief JOAN NINE Managing BEN DE LA CRUZ Associate KAREN MASCHIO Copy PETER WITKOWSKY Ass't Copy SEAN FLYNN Co-Layout KATIE BELCHER Co-Layout BRIAN RUSSELL Photography VINCE CERVONI Sports Photography KEN JORDAN Sports RIC BROWN Ass't Sports CHRIS MCSHERRY Clubs CLAUDINE KIFFER Current Events REGINA SMITH Ass't Senior Section KIM MANN Nostalgia DIANE NAUGHTON Nostalgia TRACEY RUSSO Photo identifications Manor Staff TERRY SULLIVAN GENE TIERNAN DEVIN SULLIVAN Jacks-of-all-Sections MARC BELANGER ADRIANA RADWANSKI MICHAEL BELCOURT Photography ANGELA FEDERICI STEFAN MURRAH Layout Manor Contributors MARIANNE WALSH Senior Correspondent FRANK CARROLL BETH GILLIN Junior Correspondents and MARK BROWNING, ANNE LYNCH, BRIAN HOLDEN, PAUL HOLLAND, DOUG MCINTOSH, THOMAS KELLER, LISA MURATORI, SHERI LAMONT, ROBERT AMOROSO, GARETH CHARTER, ANDREA WHITEHOUSE, EVA Now Playing The fommunity Theater helped the Manor kink-off the li1pingofFairfieltl'sf K 11.1 Cfrug Ilfftntn To our readers in the Fairfield University Community: Each member of the Manor staff came to the first meeting with a preconceived idea of what a yearbook looks like. Designing this book, we wanted to avoid that yearbook stereotype. We hope this book looks different from what you expected. Anyone who has seen previous Manors will immediately notice changes in this yearbook. First. we included photographs of all undergraduates by place of residence. We walked to all floors in every dormg we grouped townhouse residents by buildingg and we walked to every beach house lwe found no other realistic way to group beach residentsl. This was a special process for us. Fairfields student handbooks stress a small undergraduate population. Walking from dorm to townhouse to beach house, we realized the unique opportunity to meet every one of our classmates. A student at a university with five, ten. or twenty thousand undergraduates can't know half of his classmates. The Manor staff contacted all Fairfield undergraduates. some for only a few minutes, others for enough time to start a friendship. Previous Manors were exclusively for the senior class. Yet, the previous Manors excluded events such as Orientation. Dorm Life, the Underclass Experience-in other words. 75? of college life, We want the class of '88 to remember everything about Fairfield. We want the classes of '89, '90, and '91 to remember everything about Fairfield. We want everyone to remember each other. Then we'll all be happy. Happiness is a good thing. So we sold more books. made more money, added more pages. and we added more color. After all, it's 1988. In 1988. in the back of our phone books. even our -yellow pages contain a full color section. Our daily newspapers have color. One issue of the USA TODAY contains more color than all Manors combined, excluding this one. No kidding. we counted. It's 1988, We wrote articles. Sure, pictures tell a thousand words. but words inspire a thousand pictures. Quite a relationship. This book contains more subliminal words and pictures than the mind can comprehend, No kidding, we counted, Then we attached a video. In September 1987. we estimate that 2-TZ, of students at Fairfield knew what a Manor was. Now 9715+ know what a Manor is. That's only one estimate. Another estimate. from a competitive estimator. is 10071. Frankly, the only conclusive evidence we have is that 100fa of all students who ordered a Manor know what a Manor is. Well. except for one guy from Loyola. Until this book arrived in the mail, he was wondering what had happened to the money his mom sent him last March. Hey Loyola guy, we knew you were drunk, we said invest in your future and you thought you were buying into the party that night, we took your money anyway. We dicln't want you to be the only kid on the floor without a 1988 Manor. You're welcome. BE'-LAF'0R5 KA' M'LDENBERGER' john Courtmanche, Editor-in-Chief, for the Manor Staff MIKE MCCLAIN. 3 widen yearbook. lim .1

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Fir INTRUDUCTION here's an emotion with no word attached. The feeling surfaces occasionally on the streets of New York or Boston, on the shores of the Atlantic, on a silent winter night, after the snow, beneath the stars. You are simultaneously numb, excited, exhausted, thrilled, burnt out, intense, overwhelmed by the sense experience. The chill slices through your body, carrying wonder, fear, exhiliration-a little of everything. You feel more alive than ever. Aware, like a sponge. Afterwards, you want only to relax and relive. College is a stimulus. Every year before Thanksgiving break, Christmas break, three-day weekends, Spring Break, Easter Weekend, and finally, summer vacation, you think, 'just in time. I need this break. Whatta year, I know, but I have to go home for a while, watch TV in 48 hour marathons, relax. Do you mind? I need a break. The reasons for this phenomenon at college are numerous. As you carve a life in your makeshift home, you meet many new people. Students from across the Northeast, the country, the world. People with different accents and different expressions. Hundreds of introductions every week. You're doing your own laundry and solving you own problems. With the power of the long distance call, mom and dad might as well be in the next room, but you realize thats not what college is about. Meanwhile, adults with years of experience and education are broadening your mind lor driving you out of your mind with assignmentsl. When the lecture in history relates to the lectures in philosophy and business, you wonder if it's coincidence or part of the Universityfs master plan, or if that's just the way the world works. Any student who has crammed, pulled consecutive all-nighters. and felt the stress of finals week, knows just how overwhelming the sense experience at college can be. When you put your books away at the end of the day, you compete in a sport or belong to a club. Whether a varsity basketball player or a FUSA Cabinet member, Ski Club President or intramural flag football captain, you find fulfillment in the dedication, teamwork, and friendships. Hanging out in the dorm. checking your mail, eating at Seiler's, partying at the townhouses or beach, attending Harvest with the perfect Cor not- so-perfectl date, enjoying a concert or lecture, studying in the lounge, studyingfsocializing in the library, watching Letterman-even your leisure time is jammed with activities. If you are a member of the Class of 1988. Fairfields most recent graduating class, you will spend plenty of time remembering your college experience. You can recall any one incident but you cannot separate it from the whole. Regardless of your class, if, during the year 1988, you thought the sense experience overwhelming, now is the time to look back. In the following pages, you might begin to understand the magnitude of the undergraduate experience at Fairfield University in relation to the world, and to your life. If you're lucky, though, you'll see straight to the freedom, the chaos, the coming-of-age, the learning of the twenty-five hour days and the eight-day weeks, the best years of your life, the time when everything was larger than life. john Cozzrlmazzffae Homework? Pete Bolger '89. Coppositej, Dan Busby '89, ltop lefty, and Debbie Schif '88, ltop rightj, play on Campion Field. Terry Sullivan pho- tos. 5