Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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DEDICATION The end of any era, especially a successful one, is often an occasion prompting reminiscence and bouquets of praise. Again it is a time to laud the instrumental figures of that period and their achievement. Perhaps the only lamentable factor in such a culminating process is the tardi- ness with which recognition follows. Then again, success has followed closely in the footsteps of Loyola College's retiring Director of Athletics, Mr. Ed Meagher. In 1953 when he accepted the post from Bill Orban, after initial athletic administrational work at St. Paul's in Winnipeg, the name Meagher had long become synonomous with a distinctive quality in the field of athletics. As an undergraduate at both Loyola High School and College, Ed Meagher distinguished himself with a fine athletic career and establish- ed a record that included the precedent-setting duty of player-coach of the Varsity hockey team. It was because of his eight year association with this institution that Mr. Meagher learned to eval- vate the role of athletics in student life and con- sequently Loyola prides itself on a close mar- riage between intellectual endeavour and ath- letic prowess. Indeed the most beneficial fruits of this man's genuine concern are mirrored in the attention placed on intramural athletics. Realizing early that extramural sports were of a somewhat esot- eric variety, Mr. Meagher perceptively saw the need of an organized system of inter-class sports which would provide a much-needed source of enjoyment and diversity to aleviate the pres- sures of a heavy academic schedule. Fortunately Mr. Meagher will not be complete- ly lost to Loyola. He has chosen to remain with the High Schoo! as Director of Athletics, a choice that will enable him to continue his invaluable contribution to the school’s over-all development. His decision to restrict duties to the one institu- tion has a twofold logic as well. With the College's extensive development, the dual role of Director had become an overly demanding one, and in addition, his move merely compli- ments the position he already assumes as one of the High School's finer mathematics professors. Of an equally important nature is the fact that presently he handies age groups in their forma- tive years—a fact that has been instrumental in Loyola's widely heralded athletic accomplish- ments. Indeed, it is not only in the field of athletics that Mr. Meagher has served Loyola. He came to know his students and to demand the most of them, and because of the reciprocal desire to please, Mr. Ed Meagher has more than succeed- ed in enhancing the achievement which charac- terizes Loyola.