La Salle University - Explorer Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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On Tuesday, September 30, 1941, Brother Fidelis Andrew, dearly be- loved teacher and La Salle ' s most ardent supporter, died after an illness of nearly two months. On Tuesday, September 30, 1941, La Salle lost a Brother and gained saint.

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DEDICATION Brother Andrew was Moderator of the Collegian for five years. The La Salle Press Conference, now an established function with a wide reputation for excellence, was his idea. It was he who started this record book, the Explorer. We can imagine him now, in that distant place where the souls of all good journalists fill their eternal assignment with no deadline to work against, nudging his fellow shade and remarking with that remembered chuckle, Look, they ' re still blaming things on me. Brother Andrew was just plain Andy to any number of Collegian writers and former students who have long since graduated. He didn ' t have enough stilted pride to remain on a height, and he laughed with us too often and too heartily and about too many things to be other than one of the bunch. No ostentatious piety was his, though you felt the spiritual force which had moved him to devote his life to his Cod and his Church. His was the happy sin of a spirit too generous, an amiability which chose not to discriminate. He loved La Salle with a great and an unselfish love, and his devotion and regard for the things of La Salle were translated into affection for those who strove as he did. To Andy, then, we dedicate this yearbook, the 1942 Explorer, with the wish that it were more worthy of its role as the final gesture of affection we can offer as La Salle students to the nicest guy we ' ve ever known. All of us who knew Brother Andrew must continue to feel his death as a personal loss. It is impossible to translate into words the spirit of friendliness, the utter unselfishness, which marked his bearing. To say that he was genial, or jovial, or good-humored, is true, but inadequate; write sympathy into geniality, write sincerity into joviality, and write the quintessence of fellow- ship and humanity into good-humoredness: there is the soul for whom we mourn.