Gannon University - Lance Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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The deep concentration at registration par- allels the seriousness of a final exam. A college can never be considered only as the sum of all its physical facilities. There is in every school that indefinable, intangible quality called school spirit. Gannon's growth and spirit go hand in hand. From humble beginnings in 1941, Gannon has grown to a full-sized col- lege,- but the story does not end with this year. On November 24, 1959, Fr. Nash, President of Gannon College, announced to the public and to the students of Gannon the school's ten-year program for expansion. This program, when completed, will place Gannon in a position sec- ond to none in the collegiate world. Gannon's spirit, too, is growing. The basis of this spirit is the school's traditional scholastic philosophy. Bishop Wright said, There is no Catholic col- lege so young, but it has ancestral roots in the 20 centuries of Christendom and, thanks to their influences on Christian culture, deep in the by-gone centuries of Greek and Roman philo- sophic, literary, and artistic history. These 20 centuries of tradition are eminently progressive in the best sense of the word, for only by a knowledge and appreciation of them can mod- ern man progress to a future world of happi- ness and peace. Bishop Gannon goes plans with Father Nash. over the ten-year

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PLANNING FOR PROGRESS INTELLECTUALLY Dick Trzeciak and Joe Kleiner study sliding friction in the physics lab. The only thing the self-service bookstore lacked was green stamps.

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PLANNING FOR PROGRESS SPIRITUALLY Ti Father Schanz conducts an evening of rec- ollection for C.C.D. teachers in the new St. Thomas chapel. Father Ciufoli blesses the entrance to the St. Thomas Aquinas chapel, aided by Fa- thers Gale, Bower, and Sullivan.