Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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re er “LOYOLA, AVE ATOUE VALE! By ARTHUR WELBOURNE (Author's Note: One of my first Loyola activities was to write the following editorial for the then-mimeographed ‘‘ News ` (October 1st, 1937). It was my first impressions on entering Loyola. I take the liberty of reprinting it here with a companion piece I have written as a farewell toast to our glorious Alma Mater. Long may she reign!) “Оп Entering Loyola for the First Time. Your mind goes back, as you walk for the first time in these hallowed pre- cincts here at Loyola, to those days when you were a little boy in Prep. School, when morning rode the sky and all the world was young, and you feel and know that you're standing at the threshold of a new and greater life, a life, a stewardship whose value will be equally shared between the book and the ball, the laboratory and gymnasium and the classroom and campus. As you are held spell-bound by the majesty of the Retreat you feel that a base has been laid upon which you will build the imposing edifice of true, deep, and militant Catholicity, and you are reminded of those Pom the lips of the Great Teacher, Seck ye first the Kingdom of God and all else shall be added unto уе.” You thrill with that grand sense of camaraderie as a d Loyola cheer echoes up from some hundreds of throats and your ears ring, and your heart throbs as you attend your first Pep Rally”. There is a responding echo in your eager young heart to the clarion call of the great duties that beckon towards you to buckle on the armor that girt you in all those boyish triumphs and victories,—shining faith, unbounded hope and flaming, fiery courage, and ro take up the torch and going forth unafraid, to meet your problems and to conquer them. As you read and hear of the fine deeds of former Loyola men, you are reminded that at present you are serving the squireship to that great knighthood of Catholic leadership, and that the accolade is your gown of graduation; your shield, the Eunice go you acquire and your sword the sharpened mind of educated Catholic manhood. You may rest assured as you enter upon the glamour and chivalry that is Loyola, and sense its sincerity and purpose, that under the guiding hand of Ignatius the soldier and through the intercession of Ignatius the Saint, victory will follow your standard. And as you think of the vaba ова of Loyola's cavalcade, there comes to your mind the sentiment expressed in the lines penned by that great dean of clean, true sport, Grantland Rice: And when the last Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He'll ask not if you won or lost But how you played the game!

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LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 2 REVIEW withal, the lot of the working class has not been benefited materially. Leo XIII in his Encyclical clearly and boldly stated the social and economic evils that afflict every nation. The cure, he declared, could be found only in a practical application of the teachings of the Gospels. Pius XI showed how these principles applied to problems which had become pressing since the days of Leo. He urges the training of lay apostles for the mission of spreading the social teaching of the Church, and of aiding in applying them to actual conditions. He recalls that ALL are concerned and none are excepted; the aim is ‘‘to unite all in harmonious striving for the com- mon good, when all sections of society have the intimate conviction that they are members of a single family and children of the same heavenly Father, and further, that they are ‘one in Christ and everyone members one of another.’ May his wish be realized and may the anniversary of these great Encyclicals mark a renewed effort of Catholics, of the laity in particular, under authorized direction, to establish a Christian social order in Canada. F Lé Y Alumni Successes Congratulations to the following who will be raised to the Holy Priesthood this summer: Rev. James R. Danaher, '37; Rev. Matthew D. Dubee, '36; Rev. Joseph Regnier, OMC, '36; Rev. William Connor, S.J., 29; Rev. Thomas McNamara, '37. To Hon. Leon Mercier Gouin, '11, who was raised to the Senate; to Hon. Robert Laurier, '13, who was made Minister of Mines in the Ontario Government; to Col. George Vanier, '06, who was appointed to the Permanent Joint Defence Board for Canada and the United States; to Air Commodore G. Victor Walsh, O.B.E., '14, air officer commanding No. 3 Training Command, R.C.A.F.; to Hon. Charles G. Power, '07, Minister of National Defence for Air. To the following who were highly successful in their studies at McGill: Brock Clarke, B.A. '39, who again led his year of Law; to Graeme Bailey, В.А. '34; Guy Joron, B.A. '36, Alphonse Verdicchio, B.A. '37, who gained their degree of M.D., C.M.; to James O. Kelly, '38, who won his degree in Chemical Engineering; to Victor Savage, '39, who won his degree in Mechanical Engineering; to Olegario Molina, H.S. ‘39, who led his year in Second Year Medicine at the University of Mexico; to Eugene Gavin, H.S. '39, who led his year in Freshman Arts at Fordham University.

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LOYOLA | COLLEGE Page 4 REVIEW “Vale, Loyola” The years pass by so swiftly and we stand at Convocation's eve. The day we have looked forward to so eagerly for four years is now at hand, and yet it brings in its train a vague feeling of sadness and regret. The moment draws near when we must bid a reluctant Adieu to the Alma Mater that has been our pride and joy these many happy years. O happy college days that shall live on in Memory's future hour, you pass away so soon! And he did not desert us, our Soldier-Saint, the great Ignatius. He was there to guide us and guard us and be our intercessor; and we are proud that the year of our graduation marks the Four Hundredth Anniversary of his founding of the great Society of Jesus. We walk along the hallowed halls and relive old memories, the campus, classroom, stage and “‘lab’’ and Stadium, . . . all have their special ghosts for us. The breathless glory of the moment has рес perhaps, but the happy memories, the associations, the friendships, these shall not pass away, these shal remain with us throughout life. We shall not forget. Our pulses shall quicken and our hearts take fire with the old fervour at remembered ancient glories. Time cannot take our victories from us, nor its passage the treasure of our friendships! And yet there is a sweet sorrow about the parting of our ways. A sorrow tempered with the consoling knowledge that as Alumni we shall be privileged to continue on in the greater service of Loyola. ‘Тһе glory of going on and still to be, as it were. For in whatever ‘‘corner of a foreign field Fate may chance to place us, there shall be a part of Loyola, for we are a part of Loyola, and where we shall be, there shall Loyola be, too, for better or for worse. God grant that it shall never be the latter! Then, Vale Loyola! Our pledge, each and all ''May Loyola ever be as proud to be our Alma Mater as we are to be her Alumni. Gentlemen, Loyola! y» 4 г Life Men look on life with different-coloured eyes. To some the world's a garden, filled with sweet, Forbidden fruit, a sensual Paradise Where fools go self-denied, and wise men eat. To others ‘tis a sea of boiling grief, Where shines no sun, and never sails draw breath, But storms sink hope, and sorrows’ grinding reef Brings evil-fated souls despondent death. But to the man who knows his princely worth Life is a narrow, all-important span That links his own, unprepossessing birth To open-handed God's eternal plan. And death, a gloomy portal, opening wide, Discloses Heaven on the farther side. James MELL, '43.