Georgetown University - Ye Domesday Booke Yearbook (Georgetown, DC)

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i:he (Boikn Jubilee of iathtr John % © ' Connor, S Father John J. O ' Connor. S.J. FATHER John J . OConncr celebrated his Golden Jubilee Mass on the tenth of November in Dahlgren Chapel. Present at the service were His Emi- nence, Francis Cardinal Spellman, a former pupil of Father O ' Connor at Fordham Uni- ersit -, Very Rev. Father Rector, fellow- Jesuits and many of his students, past and present. Following the Mass, His Eminence extended his congratulations to his former teacher and imparted the Apostolic Blessing. I- ather O ' Connor was ordained in 1 11 by the late Cardinal Gibbons. After serxing a tenure as Prefect of Discipline at I M-dham, he Joined the faculty of Georgetown in F)27 as professor of classical Greek. 97

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CBcorgctottin College Journal IN this, its se enty-fifth year, the Journal doffecl its staid classical format and donned a more modern one. Although the Journal functioned during the war, its output from a handful of students was necessarily meager. This ' ear witnessed an influ.x of short story writers, poets, artists, and book critics. The tone attained by the new staff was elevating. The editions were popular and thoroughh ' read throughout the campus. Under the moderatorship of Re ' . Gerald F. ' ates, its Editor-in Chief, Paschal La Padu- la, and Managing Editor, Thomas P. O ' Keefe, the Journal has taken on new life and com- pares favorably with any college publication of its type. William Keenan wrote several fine sociological character studies and contributed a provocative article on Catholic Youth par- ticipation in international relations. George Edelen contributed some notable mood and satirical stories, while Thomas Collins was par- tial to melancholy impressionism in his poetry. The Heroic Image by Robert Hanlon voiced a plea for a new romantic movement and offered a one-act play, the publication of which was an innovation for the Journal. Music critics were introduced in the persons of John Austin Nammack and V. William Shedleski; several talented illustrators, notably Wade Ray, Jack Lee and Bernard Roth, enlivened the stories and injected a spot of collegiate humor, while Mr. Ray ' s artistry embellished many of the covers. Business was efficiently shouldered by John Bachman, Carl Eisenman and Edward Beacom. 96

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pathftnto Club EMBERSHIP in the Pathfind- ers Club is limited to members of the Senior Class. It has a ofold objective — to point out to the seniors the opportunities that are offered in the dif- ferent walks of life that the ' will follow upon graduation; secondly to weld into a unit the members of the Senior Class, who ha e been split up into various class sections as under- classmen. Under the moderatorship of Father Charles J. [- ' ole , S.j., these objectives were faith- ful 1 - pursued. Meetings were held monthly at Hotel Twenty Four Hundred Si.xteenth St., in the form of dinner meetings, to which men prominent in their respective fields were inxited as guest speakers.