Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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Loyal Lorasmen i The contributions of the college alum¬ ni to the Loras tradition are directed and encouraged by the union of the alumni in the Loras College Alumni Association. Only after a man has grad¬ uated from a college is evidence given cf liis spirit to help others follow in his footsteps and receive a training in prin¬ ciple equal to his own. One of the most noteworthy activities of an alum¬ ni group is to secure promising students for their college. A concerted plan of action with a general goal is most likely to secure this result. Loras can be boosted by her students but the alumni can exert a greater influence on those who would have a Catholic education. The alumni in their annual reunion at Homecoming, the alumni night, and communion break¬ fast are uniting for such action. The honoring of anniversary classes brings the old grads together for per¬ haps the first time since their graduation and allows them to see the spirit and life that is now the Loras they knew years ago. The alumni association must then be recognized and complimented for its excellent job in securing the cooperation ( 1 the alumni in making Loras a bigger and better Loras, 1. The National Alumni Associa¬ tion Officers, Left to right: Charles Genoar, Past Vice-President; The Rev¬ erend Donald P- Heineman, Secretary- Treasurer; Ang Kerper, President; The Reverend Anthony P. Wagener, Vice-President; and Joseph Owens, Vice-President. 2. His Excellency, The Most Rev¬ erend Loras T. Lane, President of the college, talks with Arch Ward, Chi¬ cago Tribune sports editor and Loras alumnus. Our Active Alumni 3 Dubuque Club Alumni Offi cers look over a copy of the new const , tution with the national president. Left to right: George Freund, Secre¬ tary Treasurer; Fred Aschenbrenner, First Vice-President; Ang Kerper, N a . tional President; David Wareham, President; and Louis Bray, Second Vice-President. i,

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W e D cell care “A.v the work! at large bt comes more completely secularized, the need becomes more urgent that professedly Christian people should lnice a Christian education, which should be an education both for this world and for the life of prayer in this world. . , T. S. Eliot Modern Education unci the Classics A college education, it must he understood, is not in itself a goal, but rather an instrument towards an exterior goal. The best way of measuring the worth of a college is not by examining the college itself but rather by observing her finished product —her alumni. Tire yardstick by which we shall therefore have to measure Loras is the Loras alumni, and it is to this group that we dedicate this yearbook for the school year of nineteen hundred and fifty-three and fifty- four. We will not measure the alumni by their monetary success or failure, we shall not bother to observe their social position. We will not count the awards or honors they may have won. We shall only ask how well they have home the Loras challenge. Kor to every Loras man is given a challenge, the challenge that he should live his life Pro Deo et Patna. We have heard it and seen it countless times in our four years at Loras. Now we must accept it as our challenge and our lives must, as it were, he dedicated to the service of those double powers—God and country. When the Loras alumni respond to that challenge then Loras has triumphed, hot when a Loras man fails that challenge then Loras too has failed. So mav we take the measure of a college.

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. . . Get Together 2. The speakers of the Alumni Night event. Left to right: The Most Rev. Loras T. Lane, ' 33, President of Loras College; Matt Czizek, ' 04, toastmaster; Don Breitbach, ' 44, a representative of the younger generation of graduates; the Reverend George Stemm, ' 22, a representative of the old grads; and Mike Scarry, head football coach 3. The faculty band plays some sweet and clear music. Left to right: The Rev. Donald Hutchinson, the Rev, Wil¬ liam Most, the Very Rev. Ernest P. Ament, and Vaughn Gay man. In the rear are the Rev. Warren E. Nye and the Rev. Jerald Blackburn (at the piano). five When Good Fellows . . . 1. The Silver Jubilee Class of 1925 renew acquaintances at the annual alumni reunion. Pictured clockwise from the lower loft: Fred Schwind, Clarence Koob, the Rev. James J. Donohue, the Rev, M. A. Mullen, the Very Rev, Arthur A. Halbach, Frank Less, the Rev, Francis Phelan, Bill Murphy (class of 1924), John Farnan, James Geelarv, C. A. McGinn, and the Rev. H. J. Dietz.