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

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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

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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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gc Bomesdag JBookc u ' EARBOOK is wcll-namcJ. lor it not onl chronicles most of the e ents that are crainmeJ into a scholastic ear; but it entails talent an l effort that are first applied in carl fall, an l ne er cease functioning until the book comes off the press at the end of the schcx l ear. Furthermore, the 1 47 edition had to under- go the pangs of a rebirth. The war years numbered the yearbook among its casualties, due to the depleted roster of students for whom a yearbook of ' e Domesd.-w ' s usual standard would ha e been too difficult an un- dertaking, and too heavy a financial burden. A word of explanation on the title of George- town ' s yearbook — ' i ' e Domesd.ay Booke — might be in order. The original Domesday Booke was a olume in which a census was kept; and it first appeared in England during the time of William the Conqueror. The Georgetown yearbook was originalK ' pub- lished by the (ieorgetown Eaw School and gi en its present title. .After some ears. publi- cation of the book was transferred to the col- lege students, and primarily, to the Senior Class. Since 1935, blather Charles J. Fole ' , S.J. has been Moderator; and this year, he was ably assisted by the painstaking efforts and dependability of John D. Stapleton of Georgia. Editor; Austin J. O ' Connor of Massachusetts, Managing Editor; Thomas P. O ' Keefe of Chi- cago, Illinois, Literary Editor; and Peter Des- mond of Pennsylvania, Business Manager. The staff office on first Copley was not only reopened in 194b, it was also redecorated with freshly painted walls, attractive draperies, wall lamps, appropriate desks, typewriters and tables, — all with the express purpose of arous- ing interest in a new staff, of offering an