Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The Sain! john BU!'ClIllIllll,S Sociely here par- ticipates in ilu: jnvcesxion before the Marian Year Jlasx. The National Federation of Catholic College Stu- dents attempts to serve as a voice of the Catholic College students. This is effected by the Policy Reso- lutions Committee which accepts resolutions from any and all Catholic College students and then distributes them for discussion to the student governments throughout the country. The N.l . holds an annual congress every year so that the students from every part of the country can discuss common problems and help each other to develop a spirit ol' true Christian community through the framework of the organization. The last Congress was held in Chicago during the sunnner of l95cl. lfordham was represented by -lim Heffernan, I.arry Sullivan, Mike Drew and .lim lfarrell. A newly organized group, known as the Catholic lividence Cuild, trains students to speak on the vari- ous aspects of Catholic theology. The members are prepared to explain aml defend-anywhere and at any time-the Catholic position on subjects of vital in- terest. The Saint Vincent Dc Paul Society is another of the quiet but zealous groups whose devotion to the tradition of Christianity is manifest in its Christmas collection. The funds obtained through a College- wide appeal are used for a children's Christmas party and in donations to various orphanages. The Saint john Berchman's Society performs a function of immediate importance to a community such as ours at Fordham. These men, most often boarding students, assist the Jesuit Fathers in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass during the early hours of every morning. They volunteer their services for all the religious ceremonies on campus and so are a famil- iar group to all of us. And so in its many activities and organizations as well as its theology department, Fordham gives to its students those facilities they need to lfulfill this spir- itual portion of their Catholic education. There can be no better preparation for lacing the materialism of the modern world. ln October, the annual Harvesler dance, wilh Ihix seaxorfs theme, 'Ven- icel, was again a huge success.

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THE VERY REVEREND LAURENCE J. McGINLEY, SJ. President of Fordham University For tl1is is your connnencement: the hour when Fordham says to all who read, Into the hands ol these, our sons and daughters, we confidently entrust those values for which this University stands. They are many and precious, these values of your Fordham heritage. X'Visdom and I,earning : truth and beauty and goodness-henceforth they are yours to understand and cherish and defend as did the saints and scholars who guarded them well on this campus a hundred years ago. On this our parting day, I would speak specially of one of them that you may ponder it and live it and pray over it in the years to come: I want to speak to you ol our lrnnmn freedom. What is this freedom? lt is simply this: that at each oi life's crossroads you may turn right or lelit, advance, retreat or just stand still-simply hecause you will to do so .... It is not a casually acquired dexterity like the ahility to speak French. lt is, with Gods grace, the center and source ol' your own special personality. lfor you are unique. God made no other like you nor will He. You have a special purpose for your existence- one all your own. .Xnd freedom is the dynamism out of which you are to achieve that particular human destiny for which God made you . . . know always that to achieve freedom is a spiritual task and it will require all the powers ol' your whole being in its attaining . . . the victory is worth the battle and none of you will ever light alone. From Fnllwr MrGinIf'y'.t rulclrexs In lhe grmlnaling class of 1955. I8