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

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and agaln- liquld agam That oranQe a glee club from the University of Paris. October was a busy month. We watched the Rams run up a four game winning streak and eagerly looked forward to the Army fracas. The Mass of Holy Ghost and the annual retreat afforded a brief and much needed opportunity for intensive spiritual reorientation. Three people bought purchase cards and we once again agitated for the initiation of a literary magazine. There were two manuscripts sub- mitted. The French Club started a series of safaris to distant points throughout the City and the Cilee Club was busily acquiring a re- pertoire of over forty numbers. The Philosophy Club began a protracted discussion of Paul Blanshard's American Freedom and Catholic Power and, wonder of wonders, the Curved Horn came out twice. The Interracial Club in- itiated their program of aid to Harlem's Friend- ship House and the '50 Grail lost sixty-seven Training them young. --.img the Signals? dollars in sponsoring a Welcome Back dance in order to raise money. A good time was had by all. Mike Melkonian got his Math Club under way and Tom Dowgin began discussing empathy with Jeanne Fitzgerald in the Liter- ary Society Two events in November overshadowed all the rest in our minds. The first, the downfall of Fordham football at the hands of the boys from West Point was ruefully expected but hopefully ignored in the days preceding the contest. The two subsequent losses to B. C. and Rutgers cast a pall of doubt as to the success of the second. So with fond hopes for a win over N. Y. U. we decided to name our second major embarkation into the social scene The Foot- ball. This decision was in general accord with the great Ball tradition of the School of Ed which has since seen a Basket Ball a Meat Ball and a Ball Ball. Miss Placement.

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lt was not until the traditional festival that served as a culmination of Freshman Week that we really began to get acquainted with our befuddled underclassmen. lt was at this Vita- min B1 orgy that Dan Moriarty elicited general awe at his ability to consume thirteen paper cupfulls of the traditional beverage at a sitting. Up to this time, the class of ,53 had impressed us as a mass of bright, apple-cheeked faces, many of them untouched by razors. Now we truly knew the class of '53 as a mass of bright, apple-cheeked faces, many of them untouched by razors. But gradually, as the year progressed, through mutually shared experiences we came to know each other. Faces like Nora Shannon and Marian Cremins began invading the sac- rosanct hiding place of the Curved Horn. Carol Andres began writing features and Manny Scrofani, news stories. Stan Quinn and one of the Fitzpatrick twins lwhich one, we never could tellg or maybe it was bothl started shat- tering upperclass illusions about Freshman meekness in the Student Council. Bill Colgan and Fred Travaglini commenced their theatri- cal careers in the Thalian Theater. Ann Shaw and Joan Earle began hawking N. S. A. pur- chase cards and Bill Drexler and Alice Mayhew started arguing in the Junior Gannon Council. The Freshman, that year, were a fairly representative group of Catholic College Stu- dents, and, like us, soon became full partici- pators in the usual run of activities that year. The year's usual run of activities was quite unusual in the history of the School of Ed. In Sophomore Economics, we had learned that most human activities run in cycles. ln Junior year we witnessed the apex of a student activ- ities cycle. Everything was bustling. The Glee Club enjoyed the most impressive year's record in its history. The Student Council in- stituted a Blood Bank, sponsored a lecture by Father Keller, ran an All-School Affair, con- ducted Freshman Week and revised its consti- tution, among other things. The Thalians succeeded in staging their long-promised series of one-act plays and the Social Service Club under the leadership of Phil Grossman estab- lished a year's record that succeeding years will not easily match. Much of the credit for these accomplishments, must, of course, be ascribed the enthusiasm the Freshman demonstrated. Even before we registered in what proved to be our most productive year, many of us were already busy in extracurricular affairs. From August twenty-third to September sec- ond, Larry Berglas and John McCullough, along with representatives from over 250 member schools, participated in the Second Annual Congress of the N. S. A. at Champagne, Illi- nois. From September ninth to the sixth we cooperated in the mental unsettling of the class of '53 in Freshman Week and during the sum- mer, John Belson met with his Curved Horn Staff to plan future issues. After registration there ensued the usual period of recuperation during which we perused the newly-published student handbook and congratulated Father Hooper on his appoint- ment as Supervisor of the newly-organized Placement Office. On September eighteenth the extracur- ricular activities program commenced with the Italian Club attending the Crusade of Love Rally on the Campus. We heard Fr. Richard Lombardi deliver his impressive treatise on contemporary moral problems. On the twenty- second we caught a fleeting glimpse of Father McGinley as he made the first of his periodic inspections of the City Hall Division. E. S. O. activities got under way with their Get To- gether Social in the lounge on the twenty- fourth while the French Club wound up the month by attending a concert by La Faluche ,

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Magi, A Wqflunily eq' 'I 4. 'sc wr F6 no is Q 'Un 9.0 I 2' wi? ' sa 13,60 Nov' Gannon -'25, IJ .N 'W QM.-It The Football was the focus of the first great split in the unanimity of the class of '51, A minority group of recalcitrants agitated for a dance to make money. The rest decided that memories , glamour and a good time were much better motives for promoting a dance than crass commercialism. The idealists eventually won and the budget was accordingly inflated. But the money makers were not to be denied. Bill Burke arranged for the discount purchase of a television set and the class even- tually amassed a grand profit of fifty-eight cents in raffling it off. We hoped that the thing would work for the lucky winner. lt hadn't worked for us. The morning of November twenty-fifth saw precisely the same group that had, a year ago, made a solemn corporate vow never again to volunteer for a decorating committee, as- sembled to decorate the gym according to a master plan concocted by Ray Connolly. Aided and abetted in their efforts by a group of Fordham Prep youngsters under the directior of a harassed Jesuit scholastic, these stalwarts succeded in transferring more than half their share of the work onto the youngsters who had gullibly agreed to share half the work and expenses--in return for the use of the deco- rations. Nevertheless all that day, Danny Moriarty could be seen swinging from the rafters trail- ing orange streamers behind him. Anne Brun developed hand cramps from the overenthusi- astic employment of her scissors and Jane Cam- pion suffered from a partial paralysis of the organs of speech in assuring Pat Kenneally that the crepe paper was indeed fireproof. Next day we repaired the wreckage of the Prep Dance, made minor adjustments, iced the soft drinks, sampled the cookies, spread the table cloths and lit the candles. By nine that evening Lou Staiano and Norma Alber had finished the advanced ticket sale. Milly Fusco was seen hovering near the coke bar. Our smaller brothers were installed in the cloak rooms and Jimmy Reynolds had arrived with his music makers. N. Y. U. had come up to expectations by losing to the Rams the Satur- day before and a gala evening was assured. Next morning saw two of the fifty who had solemnly sworn, on a back issue of the Curved Horn, to reappear for the clean up, hastily disassembling the mess in preparation for a Marian Convention. Three months later, when the financial report was made public, we real- ized a loss of twenty-six dollars and eighty cents. But it had been a success, Miss Scanlon assured us, a grand, gay, magic Cinderella affair, a social success. A good time was had by all. Earlier in the month Fordham had lost their first game of the year to Army. During the hectic weeks preceding this eventful occasion, room 4lO, suitably darkened, was the scene of secret convocations, plots, plans, maneuvers and the drawing of detailed maps and charts of West Point, all designed toward the eventual capture of the Army Mule. Each succeeding Sunday saw the United States Military Academy being cased by carloads of Fordhamites dis- guised as tourists. The identifying decals had been judiciously scraped off the windshields. 1 ,,, 1 ,1- fi.. .FJ .9 . 7'