Loyola University of Los Angeles - Lair Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Senior zArts Maurice J. Bernard, Jr. Entered from Loyola High, ' 24. Member of Alpha Lambda, Glee Club, Sodality, Block L, El Padre 2, Loyolan 3. 4, Foot- ball 3. 4, Sec. Student Body 3, 4. Pall M. Bickert Entered from Loyola Hig;h. Member of Sodality, St. Vincent de Paul, President of Sanctuary, Kappa Alpha Sigma. Grover LaGrande Bossert Entered from Lovola High, ' 24. Member of Alpha Lambda, Block L. Debating, Baseball Mgr. 3, Basketball Mgr. 4, Loy- olan 2. John D. Brown Entered from Loyola High, ' 24. Member of Sodality, Glee Club, Block L, Football 1, 4. 25 W Sill

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Senior zArts THE PASSING OF THE OLD GUARD It seems incongruous, somehow, to regard the graduation of a class in the same manner that we would consider the passing of an del and much- loved friend. For such graduation has not the air of utter finality that render the cessation of human life so depressing. ' (n the threshold of life the gentlemen of 1928 indubitably stand; we have heard the egression too many times to doubt its veracity. At the beginning of the ascent to their distant goals, our scholastic associates most certainly are: valedictorians without number ha e so informed us, and we can nod our heads in affirmation, with a positiveness that a long-continued observation has given us. But com- mencement is something more, both to graduate and undergraduate alike, than a time for inspirational advice, for congratulatory words; it is eminently an occasion of reminiscence. A special significance is attached to Commencement, 1928. It marks de- finitely the end of an epoch. The old l.oyola College is being surely oblit- erated in the shadow of a dream that is finding its home in the setting Sun. out in the Del Rev Hills; and with the end of the epoch, passes likewise the Old Guard. The ld Guard . . . and when the door is closed on the scholastic year it will have closed at the same time on the last of the pioneers. The Old Guard . . . Loyola unites in bidding farewell to the gallant sons of her early days. The days of Struggle are not yet done, but the era of those who blazed the trail has reached its termination. The i;host of the Knee I ceps - that glorious menu iry-stirring organiza- tion — is condemned to wander the halls and aimlessl) circle the camps. The body has all hut departed, the spirit will ever linger on. The Simian Society, insouciant youth ' s def) to staid convention; where have its mirthful members betaken themselves? Why do hollow echoes of bygone laughter echo faintly through the halls? When-, indeed, is that multitude of memory-stirring organizations that rendered so brilliant the career of Twenty-eight? Where, in truth, blooms the rose of yesterday? Athletes, actors, writers, speakers: above all loyal gentlemen, we salute them. And the Faint echo of their gallant answer reverberates softly through the corridors; Morituri te salutamus ! But they will not die, they will continue to live on in the throbbing heart of Alma Mater. 24 L. ™r

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Paul Currin Entered from Loyola High, ' 24. Member of Alpha Lambda, Sodalitv. St. Vincent de Paul. Glee Club, Block L, Football 1, 2. 3, 4, Basketball 2, Baseball 1. 2, 3, 4. Samuel Dagley Entered Santa Clara from Pasadena High. Entered Loyola from Santa Clara ' 28. Baseball, Debating. Thomas C. Delany Entered from University of Dallas Academy, ' 24. Member of Alpha Lambda, Glee Club, Block L, Sodality, St. Vincent de Paul, Loyolan 2, 3, El Padre 3, 4, Dramatics 2, .]. 4. Debating 3, Student Athletic Trainer 2, 3, 4. Martin ' Dillon Entered from Polytechnic High (Evening), ' 2.?. Member of Sodality, Dramatics 1, Loyolan 1, 2, 4. 26 l TM r njC