Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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l'r ri .1 nha thlhm hroirsrs. of weeks. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” measures the theme for lirsl-period kite-comers and ”Mv Prayer sounds the Senior 'dgiuiturc before Psvcli and Ktliics trimesters not to mention Father Cox’s Friday morning scrimmages . During Senior, too. the second World War continued where the first one left otf and the Times was (’nil of the stalemate between (Germany and tin Allies. Finland gained the admiration of the world in her gallant light with Russia. We half expected to lie in the trenches before graduation and registered our disapproval of war in general in the college |m»II. The S |iialus tragedy was as nothing to the scuttling of the Admiral (iraf Spec otf I ruguav. The April days come drifting past inviting the over-cut to cut again, inviting motor trips into Connecticut on free afternoons and brisk games of soft-ball on tin- quadrangle. And for tin last time the shadow of the final orals is a threat to lie reckoned with. In May S« nior speakers dominate the devotion rostrum. Ford I mm's last benediction on it' retiring men. the Senior Ri treat, is a menace to aching knees but the Senior Rail a benefice to the nimble of feet. Finally Commencement, an occasion of solemn horror as we sit and an- stared at. uncomfortable in cap and gown. Those ex-|H-ricnecs and all the many others are t In memories that will conic crowding through our thoughts in after years with the strains of Alma Mater Fordham . Rut now let's meet the men who made these events Fordham history. They’re a varied, versa tile crew with stout hearts and a love of life.