Gannon University - Lance Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION 10 CLASSES 18 CONTENTS ORGANIZATIONS 62 SOCIAL ACTIVITIES 78 SPORTS 86 ADVERTISING 102

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W e entered Gannon in the unnaturally quiet days preceding the outbreak of the present hostilities. Our freshman ranks were iwolkn with ex-G. I.'s, veterans of World War II, who sought an opportunity to further their education and to find their place in the society of a nation at peace. We have seen develop, in these momentous four years, yet another threat to world peace and to the way of life we all desire. Our nation, once more, has been compelled to arm herself against foreign enemies. Despite the ever present realization that not all of us will be able to begin, after graduation, the normal courses of life envisioned four short years ago, we have enjoyed our college years. Many of our friends have left our class to join the expanding Armed Forces of the country. Many of us will enter the service immediately after graduation. Our lives, like our fathers' before us, have been lived in the shadow of military necessity. What the future holds in store for us and for our nation, we cannot know. We can only hope and pray that future graduates will be free from the blight of war. Although the burden many of us must take up seems heavy, we are thankful for the pleasures of our life at Gannon. Let us proceed now into this book of cherished memories

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I . His Excellency, The Most Reverend John Mark Gannon, D.D., J.C.D., L.L.D. ( Kancellor of Gannon College