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

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failing on the potomac O ' NE of the most colorful sporting highlights of this year was the or- ganization of the sailing team at Georgetown. The sport is not new here, how- e er. having been inaugurated back in 1937 when Georgetown participated in its first inter-collegiate sailing race. The pre-war Hoya teams were gaining national recognition when the war broke out; and the 1940 team lost only to Yale. Early this spring, a group of sailing en- thusiasts, an.xious to take advantage of the College ' s location on the Potomac, held their first meeting. The Georgetown Universit - Sailing Team was formed, and plans were made to purchase a fleet of eight new boats. The inexperienced racing members were later trained as crews on these boats. Before the ice had disappeared from the Potomac River, the Sailing Team had alreadv scheduled regattas for itself with such inter- collegiate sailing powers as Boston College, Holy Cross, the University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T., Princeton, the Midshipmen from An- napolis, and new team at George Washington. A regatta of ten races was held with George Washington University in March, and from those results were determined the skippers, all of whom had previously built up excellent racing records. B - the niiddle of May the team had out- sailed all competition; and, due to this fact, and the ' excellent teamwork of the skippers and their well-practiced crews, the George- town Sailing Club is considered as one of the top contenders for the National Intercolle- giate Yacht Racing Championship. The Moderator and experienced advisor for the future Commodores is Father Richard Law, S.J. 172

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J J I ITH the familiar sound of 40- I ■ love, deuce, and add out the Jfc Georgetown Tennis team once again was revived after having been dis- continued during the past four years like so many Hoya activities. Traditionally tennis has al va s been a big sport on the Hilltop, and this year it has certainly li ' ed up to all traditions. When the call went out for Racket men in the fall of ' 4b the outlook wasn ' t too good, but by centering the team around Philippe Neff, who won all his scheduled matches, by the end of the year Father Gilee, the coach, was able to look back over a successful season. Phil surpassed all expectations and hopes when he reached the quarter finals of the N.C..A.,A. tournament held in Chicago. He and his teammates, Captain Charles Hagan, Tom Reynolds, Harry Kearney, Wally Sawch, l rank Cantwell, and Gordon Ryan, at the end of the fall season turned in an admirable record of wins and losses against teams along the Eastern Seaboard — Nine matches won; Four lost. This year while the netmen lost Captain Hagan, Phil Neff, and Gordon Ryan, their ranks were strengthened by the return of Joe Tewes and Charles Palms, well known on the Hilltop from pre-war teams. These men faced Yale, Princeton, Penn State and 12 other teams to really give punch to the call that tennis has returned to GU in great tradi- tional style. JOE TEWES and GERRY DWYER, Co-Captains 171

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Maji Betiotions ■! ' rf4E month of Iay is devoted to Our I Lady at Georgetown in a very special Ml way. Each day at noon the men of Georgetown gather around the statue of Our Lady in the May shrine on the esplanade before the White Grax ' enor Building. There, after singing one of the beautiful May hymns, they recite Our Lady ' s Rosary. The service continues with a short talk gixen by the mem- bers of the Sodality and the Senior Class. The short but inspiring service concludes with the Litany of Loretto. These May devotions are dear to George- town men for a ery special reason, for it was here on our campus that May Devotions to Our Blessed Lady were introduced to the United States more than a hundred years ago. Begun in Rome at the Jesuit college there, toward the close of the seventeenth century, this beautiful practice was adopted at George- town in 1830 by the Sodality of Our Lady. A special feature of the month of May at Georgetown was the school-wide participation in the Archdiocesan demonstration in honor of Our Lady, a demonstration to the world and to ourselv es that devotion to Our Blessed Mother is not a sentimental thing but a firmly rooted, manly dedication to our Queen who Cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array. 173