Fordham University School of Education - Grail Yearbook (New York, NY)

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. . . and as they are now. upper classmen and the class of y52 could claim no exemption in this regard. We pleaded, cajoled, exhorted and extorted their monetary and moral support for our endeavors and they responded with all the enthusiasm associated with freshmen. They patronized our dances, bought tickets for our raffles and in general were the buyers in a market predominated by sellers. They in turn shared in the exploitation of freshman classes that came after them and so on ad infinitum. Much more socially conscious as a group than we, they soon exhibited a happy unity of friendship in all of a great series of informal parties. ln the tradtional round of welcome back, pre-midterm, post-midterm, pre-Christ- mas, post-Christmas, pre-endterm, post end- term, Easter and farewell bacchanaliae they characterized themselves with a fun-loving merry spirit of fellowship that we envied and strove to imitate. As the term progressed, we began to enter more fully into the extracurricular activities program. Club and committee meetings, pro- jects and general bull sessions began to occupy much more of our time. We began to break down the chrysalis of self-consciousness we had developed as Freshmen and participate more fully in the general stream of school activity. ln the Student Council our representatives worked on revisions of the newly adopted con- stitution and planned for a bigger and better All School Affair. This was the year that the School of Educa- tion officialy affiliated itself with the National Student Association. Under the leadership of Ed Cook, Harry Barletta and George Lynch, who distinguished themselves among their associ- ates from other colleges throughout the coun- try, an N. S. A. Campus Committee was formed. As a group the Sophomores so dominated this committee that Larry Berglas and Jim Ryan were selected alternate delegates to represent the School of Education in this national organi- zation of college students. Later on in the year, . . . and after all my work. John McCullough so distinguished himself that he was appointed a regular delegate, ln future years the wisdom of this choice was fully vin- dicated when, in his senior year, McCullough brought credit to himself and to the School of Education by being elected by his colleagues in the N. S. A. to a coveted position on the Na- tional Executive Council, a steering committee for this nationally known student organization.

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Just call me Eros! By far the most profound change that oc- curred in second year was one in our attitude toward ourselves and our activities. As Fresh- men we were too inclined to take ourselves too seriously, to try too hard to impress ourselves and other people with our importance in the universe. ln Sophomore year we began to de- velop that ability to laugh at ourselves that is always the mark of a fully mature person. The dances we attended were still gay cinderella affairs, The discussions we engaged in were still Olympian in consequence. The political coups we engineered in Student Council were still marvels of statemanship and the term papers we wrote were still masterpieces of erudition. But beneath it all, begining to view life sub specie aeternitatisw, we realized that what we were doing was merely practising for a real world outside, and an even more real world to come. Very early in the term we made our ac- quaintance with the class of '52 our foils in the initiation period and future sharers of coordi- nated extracurricular activity. With diabolic ingenuity, we cleverly concocted and proposed a series of initiation regulations that was al- most identcal with every other set of personal indignities of years gone by. l-lectoring these poor colleagues of the class of '52 until the avocation palled, we witnessed the evident en- Laughing with Lucien. joyment with which they cooperated in their own downfall. ln the traditional bury the hatchet post initiation set-to we wassailed each other in complete camaraderie with the traditional Nedick's Orange Drink. Regarding these innocents with unre- strained paternalism, we wondered whether we, too, were like these poor misguided souls when we were freshmen. ln a flood of reminis- cent self-pity we acknowledged the resem- blance. Very soon, however, distinct types began to emerge from the amorphous mass that con- stituted the class of '52 and from these types distinct personalities evolved. They also had their student leaders--such persons as John Lewis, George Martino and Pat Nicholas engin- eered the politics of the class even as we had run our politics. The activity conscious mem- bers like Alex Maccia, the Conroy twins and Rosemarie Rotondi soon made their presence felt on the various clubs. Creative writers like Ed Young and Bill Peltier began to scribble for the school paper and the athletic set led by Paddy Fahey began to dribble basketballs. Their poets Barney Donovan, Hazel O'Rourke and others began to write and be roundly de- nounced for cultural deviationism by the usual set of aesthetes the class possessed. Freshmen are ever the doormats of the Guess what we're serving? As they were when first we knew them . . .

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ln the Gannon Council of Debate, our classmates, profitting by the training gained as members of the Junior Gannon Council, soon distinguished themselves. Such eloquent talk- ers as Joan Smith, Catherine McLaughlin, Joan Dowling, Jane Campion and Dan Moriarty were the workhorses of the debating society that year. Engaging in a series of intercollegiate de- bates, they attained such a degree of success that they were invited to participate in the An- nual Brooklyn College lntercollegiate Debate Tournament. There they acquited themselves rather well and finished among the top third of the schools that competed. ln later years they were to be invited to other tournaments. Junior and Senior years saw them competing in the Tuft's tournament held in Boston and the St. Peter's Tournament in Jersey City as well as the Brooklyn tourna- ment. ln all these they gained a considerable amount of credit for themselves, the School of Education, and the University as a whole. Through the four years, the society en- countered such formidable opponents as An- napolis, Harvard, Georgetown, Boston Universi- ty and their traditional rival, Fordham College. Hofstra, McGill University, King's Point and Mt. St. Vincent fell prey to the force of their forensic skill. No little credit can be given to Miss Audrey O'Brien, their coach and moder- ator, and to their officers through the years, Joan Dowling, Catherine McLaughlin and Joan Smith. A few of us, attracted no doubt by the im- pressive title managed to worm our way into the meeting of the Philosophy Club, where, under the expert guidance of Mr. Sullivan, we soon distinguished ourselves as ardent lis- ironuunn Bgifgf - uit' T if I Gm Hag -. N I u 555s,,,Qw ?IMggpg5idNEB- ff Wwmmmwm' x X 1' Helen thought the photographer was funnier. teners to the astute flow of the high-planed intellectual discussions that went on within that circle. Under the leadership of Harry Barletta, we had a small hand in the discussion of Cardinal Suhard's pivotal pastoral letter, Growth and Decline . We investigated modern French thought and cooperated in the production of a joint study of academic freedom which was read at the third national convention of the N. S. A. At the end of the year, Ray Connolly was elevated to the presidency of that organiz- E,,,,..,....-11 Z TU' l l L nflllycur GY ' I - w. r. una-eHf'-l-zfmssm T A WWMDA153 i an mf 2 521Pl ' hunks pgesenta Ani ,fe Bm' .-r'f.ei1t taunting is Maxine B5N'ig 'M AE ZEL fag. g fg, Yeas ence moss HQVEQT t S SBEEQSEHEHEST i,ii'i',ii,1,ii,ii:i' l'lll'lili.iiiiliii liillilli , Signing up for the Tufts Tournament. wnentas asset tase- sgacss sgegeav - g -- e