Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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UIIMME CEM Forty-two candidates were awarded the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, nine the certifi- cate of Doctor of Jurisprudence, nine the degree of Master of Arts, six the degree of Bachelor of Laws, three the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and two the degree of Bachelor of Science in Commerce. The ceremonies were opened by the Reverend Martin Phee, S, J., Arts student counselor, who pronounced the invocation, and were closed with the graduates taking the pledge of loy- alty to the University, The June Conunencenient Exercises for the year 1937 will he held as usual on the field of the stadium. Speaker for the day as mentioned above will be the Reverend Williziin M. Magee, S. J., the President of John Carroll University of Cleveland. At this sixty-seventh annual com- mencement the highest mnuber of graduates in the history of the University will receive their degrees. Classes from all departments are larger and better rounded as a result of the inten- sive campaign of the administration to increase the requirements and develop more interest in the student towards the facts of his school life. The addition of the St. Francis Nursing School has increased the number of nurses to receive their degrees and in the School of Medicine there has been a decided advance in the number of men to he graduated. Perhaps the most solemn occasion in the life of the graduate is the Baccalaureate service. Held in St. Ignatius Church this constitutes the hnal religious act on the part of the student receiving a degree. Whether or not this custom and the meaning of it is realized by the general public makes little difference. To the graduate it means the last blessing from his spiritual fathers during his school life. And in a Catholic university ,this must be and is a most inspir- ing occasion. ' Commencement is always a solemn moment in the life of the graduate. To the Loyola grad- uate as he stands to take the oath administered to all who receive degrees from the school there is the thrill that he has completed the final scholastic step of his life. From this point on the issue is squarely before him. It is his own work that will he his life. It is indeed both the end and the beginning. 285 Slumbcrlfnul Gmdunles in Review The Last Mile Uenlul Gymnnsls

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ACHNUWLEDGMENT It is hard to come to the end of a long year's work and it is harder still to properly thank those who have made that year one of extreme profit to an editor and his staff. However, this fourteenth volume of the LOYOLAN is finished and credit must go to several persons who are 11ot ofhciully carried on the staff page. Mr. C. A. Mattison of the Standard Photo Engravers has done nobly on this LOYOLAN as he has done on so many previous volumes. Without a doubt he has been the greatest friend of the staff in meeting and overcoming the technical difficulties of the lay-out work. At the Loyola University Press where the printing was done we single out the Reverend Austin G. Schmidt, S. J., and Mr. Frank L. Vander Heiden for special attention. Father Schmidt proved to be the philosophical stabilizer of an otherwise distracted editor and kept peace and order at all times. His contributions have been in the way of advice at all times but never once did his advice fail to solve our dilhculties. Mr. Vander Heiden as the production manager of the Press belied the appelation that has been given to him by members of the school publica- tion staffs as the 'Tlying Dutchman falways up in the airj. His sure and certain control of the vital factors in preparing und printing a LOYOLAN made the editor, for one, sit down with a sigh of relief when the work was over. The photography for the LOYOLAN this year has been done by Sidney Cordon. Since the selling point of all annuals is the pictures they contain we must let the readers decide what they think of his pictures. From our side of the picture it can be said that his work was satis- factory in the extreme. Intimately concerned with the production of the LOYOLAN since the first volume was published has been Dr. Morton D. Zabel, the fculty moderator. Without attempting to over- do ourselves we may say of Dr. Zabel that a LOYOLAN could not be issued without his ready and able guidance. It was only after our conferences that his worth was really grasped by the staff. It is certain that his occasional visits to the oihce kept the staff ill working order and no editor can find a man more familiar with the items concerned in annual production at Loyola than Dr. Zabel. In the staff head a few munes have been omitted but not forgotten. Barney Brennan wrote all the Cross Country stories for the last four issues of the LOYOLAN and this year has been his best. John Lane did much to aid in contacting the Nursing Schools with the others of the staff. And to these names we add tl1e many freshmen who helped address letters and made themselves generally useful at one time or another. The last word of thanks goes to a few people not officially connected with Loyola but who did much to help produce this LOYOLAN. To one person in particular who helped the editor when things looked bad at times we extend a heartfelt vote of thanks fname on request-maybej . So until the next LOYOLAN is published the work is fini. 286

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CUMMENCEMENT Seven hundred and three Loyolans from all departments of the University, graduate and undergraduate, will receive their sheepskins the night of Wednesday, Julie 9, in the open air of the Alumni Stadium. Doctors, lawyers, merchants . . . nurses, teachers, dentists, and Arts . . . social workers, Loyolans all, will assemble on the broad green of the all-but-forgotten gridiron to hear the Rev. William M. Magee, S. J., President of John Carroll University and Past-President of Marquette University, deliver the Commencement address. Prior to the night of Commencement, the grad- uates will assemble at St. Ignatius Church, Sunday, June 6, for the all-University Baccalaureate Mass. The Rev. Henry J. Walsli, pastor of St. lVIary's Church of Riverside, Illinois, will be the Baccalaureate speaker. With diploma day but a few weeks away, thoughts turn to recent University commence- ments which have not as yet been chronicled in the LOYOLAN. The largest Summer Session graduating class, ninety-two graduate and undergraduate stu- dents, in the history of the University, received degrees on August 2, 1936, from the Reverend Samuel Knox Wilson, S. J., President of the University. The Commencement ceremony, which took place at St. Ignatius Auditorium, marked the close of Loyola's sixty-fifth academic year. The Reverend Daniel M. 0'Connell, S. I., Executive Secretary of the Jesuit Educational Association, read the invocation to a class which included forty-three candidates for graduate degrees, forty-seven for baccalaureate degrees, and two for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The class had representatives from Indiana, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Michigan, as well as from many parts of Illinois. The Commencement address, on the false practical philosophy of the modern day, was delivered to the class by the Reverend William J. Ryan, S. J., moderator of the St. Louis Uni- versity Alumni Association, and professor of psychology at the Loyola University Summer School. The annual mid-year convocation of Loyola University was held this year on February 3 in the St. Ignatius Auditorium under the direction of Dr. Patil Kiniery, professor in the depart- ment of history and assistant dean of the Graduate School. The Reverend Samuel Knox Wilson, S. J., President of Loyola University, delivered the Connuencement address for the graduates, taking as his theme the need for generosity and un- seltishness as a prerequisite for success in the world of business and profession. 284' Spvllbmrler Slmrluws in June ffhnl Is ll? You Left Your Seal