Loyola Academy - Grad Prep Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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FHUSH AND SUPH This season's Junior Debating Society got off to a good start when forty freshmen and sophomores answered the first call for ora- tors. Of these, only three were veterans of the previous year. After the most active season in the history of Junior Debating at Loyola, twenty-two members remained on the squad, sixteen of whom were freshmen of considerable promise for the future. Immediately after the first meeting, prac- tice intramural debates were scheduled among the men. All the questions of these debates hinged on some specific phase of the general topic which was to be used for inter- scholastic meets: Resolved: That the Power of the Federal Government Should Be Increased. In the first practice session Carl Merschel and Jack Powell took the affirmative: while Dick Ramos and Joe Bredemann argued against an increase in the government's mili- tary power. Similar practices were held for several months. Usually an open forum fol- lowed such debates to allow the other mem- bers of the society to clarify their ideas. The next step in the preparation of these young orators was several practice skir- mishes with the Senior Debating Squad. Thus the frosh and sophs sharpened their wits for the struggles to come. S HAVE THEIR SAY Finally, the day of the first interscholastic debate dawned. Ed Langhenry and Martin Callaghan, affirmative, and Bill Sheehan and Tom Massion, negative, met two teams from St. Scholastica. A busy season followed, in which the Jun- ior Debaters met more than fifty teams from other schools. In their interscholastic sched- ule were freshmen and sophomores from St. Ignatius, St. George, St. Philip, St. Mel, New Trier, Lane Tech, St. Scholastica, Providence, Alvernia, and Marywood. As a fitting climax to the heaviest sched- uled season in their history, the Junior Debaters sponsored their Second Annual Junior Debate Tournament at Loyola on May 3. Each of the schools participating went through four rounds of debates during the course of the day. For his great achievement of giving the underclassmen the poise and ability to carry on argument with the best opposition, and for the careful planning and rigorous training through which he prepared his young ora- tors, Mr. Charles T. Conroy, S.J., deserves the deep gratitude of his charges and the whole of the Academy, for it is this funda- mental training in their early years that makes it possible for Loyolans to keep up the splendid tradition in debating and public speaking which they have set. Standing: Bolger, Merschel, Freeman, Abens, Ermatinger, Vestal, Langhenry, Hurley. Kennedy. Van Oppens, Sheehan, Mr. Conroy S,J. Seated: Holland, Bredemann, Massion, Ramos, Powell, Starrs, Hayes, Slattery, DiGilio. Absent: Vanden Branden, Callaghan.

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l l Standing: Mr. Loveley, S. J., Fitzgerald, Ward, Maloney, Milligan, Upton, Normoyle, Pendergast, Acton. Dwyer. Seated: McCourt, Sommer, Curran, Hayes, Murphy, Quay, Festle, Gibbons, Rosengren. M STEHS UF DEB TE To round out another most successful season of debating, Loyola, for the second succes- sive year, Won the high school debating championship of Jesuit schools in the Chi- cago Province. Sheldon Hayes and Clare Acton, affirma- tive, and Paul Quay and Ed Murphy, neg- ative, bore Loyola's standard in the Detroit tourney. Bill Curran was unable to go at the last minute because of sickness, so Shel- don Hayes, a negative debater throughout the season, after two days' preparation became an affirmative. The negative team Went undefeated through four rounds of argumentation and Won an exhibition debate the final evening. Thus they took the championship unde- feated. The negative team dropped one of its four tournament debates to St. Ignatius, Chicago, to tie for second place in the meet. Each man on both teams of Loyola was awarded a medal: while the school was presented with another championship cup. Clare Acton and Bill Curran represented Loyola in the Metropolitan Debate Union arguing affirmatively. The fiery oratory and flawless logic of Curran, combined with the cool deliberation and determination of Page 28 Acton, constituted the perfect team. The all- junior team of Neil Maloney and Frank Milli- gan provided more than a substitute as a second affirmative. These two men should prove a formidable team next year. The Academy's two teams of no men were of equal ability. Ed Murphy and Paul Quay relentlessly tore the arguments of opponents apart to gain them many a vic- tory in the Metropolitan League and to sweep the Detroit Tournament. The suave, gallant, and frequently humorous style of Sheldon Hayes, coupled with the enthusi-- astic oratory of Al Sommer, won decisions from Rogers Clark, St. Mel, and New Trier among others. All in all, the lads participated in 123 inter- scholastic debates this season with a record unparalleled in the history of Loyola. Besides. the climactic victory at Detroit, Loyola won twelve debates out of the eighteen Metro-- politan Debate Union contests in which the Academy participated. Mr. Arthur E. Loveley, SJ., moderator of this year's team, expressed his complete satisfaction with the cooperation of the boys, and received their heartfelt gratitude for his part in their success.

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SHUTTEH CLUB Not content with catching their fellow stu- dents in candid poses, the Shutter Club this year branched out into new fields of pho- tography and captured a pictorial record of life as it is lived at Loyola. Plans were care- fully laid, actors trained, props set, flood lights focused: and when the shooting ceased Loyolans had a movie all their own. A Day at Loyola was conceived by the moderator of the Shutter Club, Mr. Stanley C. Tillman, S.J. Under his direction, Ralph Nagler and Bill Sieben, with the help of the other members of the organization, filmed every phase of life at Loyola from the time the cars begin to pull up the drive in the morning until the members of the Prep staff and the debaters leave for home in the eve- ning. Assembly, Mass, classes, lunch, labo- ratory work, senior lounge nonsense, and the various extra curricular activities-all are flashed on the screen in an hour's entertain- ment that recalls all the work and play of a day at L. A. This movie was the major activity of the year, commanding most of the club's time and efforts: but it was by no means the sole activity of the Shutter Club. There were con- Page 30 Standing: Sieben, McDermott, Abens, Sackley, Mr. Tillman. S.J., Cleary, Nagler, DiGilio, Sitting: Buechner, Witteried. Kelly. Minwegen. MAKES A MUVIE tests of various sorts for the members, field trips in the autumn and spring, illustrated lectures both by the moderator and by club members, and several showings of amateur motion pictures. In short, the Shutter Club made every effort to fully realize its primary purpose: to acquaint its members with the art of taking good pictures and to develop in the students a fundamental technical knowledge of photography. In a formal election, held at the begin- ning of the year, Ralph Nagler was elected president of the club: while Bill Sieben took over the combined offices of treasurer and secretary. No little of the success of this or- ganization is due these two men. During the course of the year the students of the Academy were invited by the club to attend moving pictures of Grand Canyon, Palm Springs, the Canadian Rockies, and wild animal life and fishing in Wisconsin. Several of these films were in color. Not least among the services rendered the school by the Shutter Club was the valuable assistance it gave in the preparation of this book. All of the informal shots and several of the group pictures are the work of club members.