Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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succeeded willi their bombast and we joined the Minus mid tile (I lee ('lul» and wrote for I In- i«m and the Monthly. Together we made onr first Retreat and the many first Fridays and onr liv» heroine something better with the experience of tluse events. In those days the Ree room radio blared ' t on Turned The Tables ( n Me and the tabloids sereanied the news of Kdward’s ab-dieation for the woman I love . In Freshman too. n «• had tlu- first Paruit’s Day at Fordham. memorable for the fine One-Act-Plays which I I S and exploding ( |wrimenfs but all is forgotten in warm Southern hospitality when North Carolina plays host at Cliapil Hill. Collins Hall i . our stronghold, the ancient scene of Mimes activities and Rand rehearsals. The (lice Club brings down Town Hall eiicoresand the Oraduate School comes to the Campus Me remember too. the public address system harassing sodalists at Mav devotions and no forgetting that judicious selection of electives with ail eye to an easy year in Junior, pardonable after the heavy Soph Senior procession to Moss of I Inly I host. earned us a holiday. In everything there lingers the impression of saddle shoes, striped socks, jitterbugs and jive. There’s quite a change in Sophomore Now our cigarettes are lit for us and our books are carried as we bedevil four hundred Freshmen. We learn the subtleties of rhetoric and respond loftily to (icntleman Jim's (iood marnin' gintlemcn. 'hem Lab fashions an odorous memory of vile acids. schedule. Headline: Austria Taken In Nazi-Putsch. I ppcrclassmcn now. we distinguish majors and contradistinguish minors and work ourselves into an intellectual dither over the sources of knowledge. There is multiple collaboration on Physics I d reports but we sink our worries in the fun of treking out to Pittsburgh. The rcc mom seeks our favor with “Deep

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SENIOR HISTORY i ilnnte rendezvous. But . K n end of V” man Four Se| cent of the V was short and Vhen four hundred and fifty of us lVniti -s of hazing. The perennial ant 'y '){ in k no w n i»irl on the not too privaV V Hnt N a l. was much in favor at least with A.VV VVvO ntes. Fur tivelv we left campus vnAtHi

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. r first Junior Prom at I'on Ilium in timeout of mind with Parry Clinton and a rand deficit. A colossal Pitt rally jams (lie gym with everything from the Prolix hut it' unique cheer. It is all there in Junior A A. and Thursday nights at Mncy’s; snappy new R.O.T.C. uniforms: cahs careening down Fordhain Itoad as the higchicks mi Keating warn S:.»7, !): (); Sunday mornings in the i. A. and rallies before Freeman Hall with Sleepy Jim astir on the front steps and Father Mulqueen exhorting the team to victory while we veiled ourselves hoarse; reflection before the Pine Tabernacle and volunteer ushering at Senior 'onimciiec-meiit. Archbishop Spellman presiding ‘ANe'll be Sen tor chins officers Hiieklcif, Deli iso, iiiodirinc nml Dillon. fi marine Squalus Sunk Oil' New Kngland oast! Seniors at Iasi and the beginning of a long cavalcade of academic, sportive and social events which, in retrospect, are touching with the memories they hold for us. Then is S:; S locker-room hysteria as we scramble into those Oxford gowns. Bigger and better sleeping quarters arc in the oiling as plans for the enlargement of St. John's Hall become a reality. Pig game is bagged a la Robin Hood and venison supper profits slash class deficits. Class rings begin to disappear as des|K-rate efforts are made to collect cash for last formats and then hectic Senior Week elections tragically remind us that graduation is a matter