Fordham Preparatory School - Ramkin Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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RAM Andrew A. Zaccaznino. M.A. Professor of Modern Language Martin F. Hcssion. A.B. Professor of Modern iMnguagc Joseph A. Trimarco. A.B. Professor of Senior Classics Arthur F. Starrs. A.B. Registrar 22 Francis T. Leddy, A.B. Assistant Registrar

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KIN John W. Lyttle. B.S. Professor of Mathematics Rudolph L. Ilanish. M.A. Professor of Modern language Francis J. Scanlon, A.B. Physical Instructor Francis I . Morgan, M.A. Professor of English

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KIN SENIORS WE ARE the Seniors of Fordham Preparatory School. This June will see us leave Hughes Hall as perhaps the hundredth Prep graduating class. We have no way of knowing exactly, for the old records have been lost and, too, there were no “graduations” from what corresponded to the preparatory school during approxi- mately the first three-quarters of the Fordham century. Going from First Grammar to Classics, one simply passed from one class to another. During the last ten decades, our predecessors have gone on to enter almost every profession, almost every business, almost every trade. For we of Fordham have long prided ourselves on being a cross-section—a Catholic and, at present, an urban cross-section, we admit—but nonetheless a fairly representative picture of American life. Our men have gone, far above their quota, to assist in the ministry of God. They have succored the ailing and the weak, they have pleaded at the bar of justice, they have guarded our land in the firing-line, they have catered to her welfare in the public service, they have advanced her prosperity in the field of business, they have amused her in the sporting and entertainment world and they have furthered her culture in the realm of the arts. Although the Prep is now a day school, the not-too-far distant past when it flourished as a boarding institution has given us alumni from most of the states of the South and Northeast, from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Martinique and many other countries of the hemisphere. Our men are scattered throughout the nation and the world. All have attained a goodly measure of success and many have risen to the heights. Of this, of our traditions, of our teachers, of our heritage—we of the Class of 1941 are justly proud. But it is not in them that we claim distinction—for too many other schools possess the same. Rather it is in the type of foundation that we and all before us have been deemed worthy to receive—a Catholic, Jesuit, liberal education. In a day of wildly-fluctuating values, we are thankful that ours has been a sound instruction whose value has been proved by one hundred years of glorious trial, an instruction basically the same as it was a century ago—the wisdom of the ancients, the masterpieces of the language and the voice of the Church. With such an armament, we defiantly face the battle to come. We do not fear. 1 9 4 1