Gannon University - Lance Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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PLANNING FOR PROGRESS SOCIALLY The TKE Italian restaurant is always a big hit at the Carnival. The Christmas Carnival Queen Contestants shop for formals.

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Convocation Day Mass, celebrated by Fa- ther Nash, assisted by Fathers Barcio and Bower, marked the opening of the school year. Religion may be defined as the virtue of tak- ing due notice of God and acting accordingly. In this sense, Gannon College is deeply relig- ious, for the Gannon graduate is firmly con- vinced of this one fact — that he is made for eternity, and not for time. Even while at school this growing conviction finds expression in Gannon's many religious activities, aimed at producing a spiritually mature person. Bishop Wright continues, . . . they (a group of young parents) hoped that college training would give their sons and daughters a certain intel- lectural calm like to that of which Cardinal Newman spoke, a spiritual resilience in the face of revolution, change, and adversity. They un- derstood that the Church makes this quality possible by opening up to us the world of grace and the vision of eternity, against which all things tend to fall into perspective,- but they wanted other studies than theology and relig- ion to accomplish something of this, too. Gan- non College strives for this spiritual resilience in all phases of her activity. Pete McNelis, Chuck Weiss, Ed Amicucci, and Father Pete board for the St. Thomas More trip to Puerto Rico.

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Aiello's new way to double-date. Father Schanz explains the Greek ety mology of laughter. To avoid the two-dimensional graduate who is lost in a three-dimensional world, Gannon Col- lege encourages each student to participate in the activities of his choice. There exists on cam- pus a multitude of clubs and organizations to fill the needs of the student. Off campus, in inter-collegiate relations with the girls' schools of Erie, the school encourages a mature and friendly approach. Bishop Wright indicates the importance of extra-curricular activities when he states, I have often thought that the boys who put the cow in the belfry at Harvard University some years ago learned some- thing in the process more important than any- thing they learned in the lecture halls during all the years that they were there. In any event, they got something out of their systems, which is a fairly important part of the process of growing up, too. I earnestly hope that they were not expelled if they were found out, be- cause such students, if they remained undiscov- ered and at Harvard, undoubtedly became trustees of the place if only because they had more initiative, inventiveness and plain get-up- and-go than those who told them not to try it because it couldn't be done.