Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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You Are Invited to Attend the Commencement Exercises at the Close of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Year.” The Graduating Class Receiving Their Diplomas with Friends and Relatives Filling the Field House to Capacity 1953 Commencement Loras College granted degrees to 136 students and diplomas to 59 nurses at the commencement exercises closing the college ' s 114th year. Sunday, May 3L The commencement address was given by John J. Hearnc, Irish ambassador to the United States and the Most Reverend Raymond A. LiUU M M,, Superior gen¬ era! ol the Maryknoll Fathers in America, preached the hucca- lanreatr sermon, The Most Reverend Loras T. lame also spoke at the baccalaureate service. The Coraid F, O’Connor Memorial Award was presented to Robert lb MeKillip and the Catholic Action Award to Donald I), Washburn. Membership in Delta Epsilon Sigma, national honor society for Catholic college graduates, was given to John W. Colloton. John A. Donohue, Bernard J. Drahozah John 15. Farrell, Mark |, Caul.. William A. Meber, James J. Kivlahan. Thomas C Kress. Eugene J. Lei I, Robert H. VIeKillip, Terrence L Mealy. Edward A. Richer!. Donald D. Washburn and David I Zaelirihger. The Big Day T. Dubuqot- Hierarchy with visiting dignitaries. Left to right: The Mo t Reverend T, Lone, college president; the Most Reverend Raymond A. Lane, M.M,, baccalaureate speaker; the Most Reverend Henry P Rohlman, Archbishop of Dubuque; His Ex¬ cellency, John J, Hearne, Irish Abassador to the United States, the 1953 commencement speaker, and the Most Reverend Leo Bim, Coadjutor to the Arch¬ bishop of Dubuque, 2, Two outstanding graduates, Don Washburn (left), and Bob MeKillip received honors at com¬ mencement exercises. 3. The procession of the graduating class to the f ieldhouse. f OUlTtU, ' M

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The Senior Class The elected leaders of the Senior Class. Seated left to right: Bill Wild, Vice-President; Bob Gilbert, President, Leon Connolly, Treasurer; and George Karnlk, Speaker Standing: Bob Lutgen, Art Smith, and Dave Pepper, Senators, Les Teeling, Senator, was absent when the picture was taken. 7 he future is a blank wall on which every man can write his oicn name as large as he likes; the past I find covered with illegible scribble ' s, such as Plato , Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo , Najudeem. I can m tike the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulent as humanity. And the ups ' hert of this modtnti attitude is really this; that men invent new ideals because they dart 1 not aUen })l old ideals. I hey took forward with enthusiasm, be’catise they are afraid to look hack A G. K. Chesterton 77te Well and the S ballon s In a certain sense a college could he compared to a wall, with each successive class adding anothej tow of stones tci it, One class dons not change, does not radically redirect a college; ratliej il increases the colleges scope 1 as it becomes one with the tradition to which it is heir. We mean many tilings when we say Loras, and most of what we mean is lather intangi¬ ble. wlvat we might call the body ol living tradition. We have here in this section the current group of Loras men. Men whose minds are even now being molded 1 this fixing tradi¬ tion into that attitude of which we earlier spoke. These are the men w ho shall Ik short h called to face the Loras challenge.