Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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WILLIAM E. MACKESSY.

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age of Father Richard A. Fleming, our present prefect of studies. Pleasant were the months we spent under Father Fleming’s guidance, and productive, too. The class of the Third Year High was a momentous one for us, marking, as it did, the entrance of four of the present mem- bers of the class. Jerome H. Joyce, Jr., made his appearance in our midst in September, and in February three others, August J. Bourbon, Andrew J. Harrison and Raymond J. Kwasnik were advanced from the lower class. Mr. Edward P. Duffy, soon to be made Father Duffy, spent his first year with us in this class, and immediately created the remarkable feel- ing of good-fellowship that so truly marked our scholastic life until his departure for Woodstock at the end of our Freshman year. Under his direction, many and enjoyable were the specimens and class contests held in English and Latin; and v e even ventured to present a Greek playlet in the College Hall for the edification of our less enlightened school-fellows. Seventeen we numbered the following Fall, when we took upon ourselves the mantle of dignity proper to High School seniors. The terrific jolt that our pride — and about half ou persons suffered, in our memorable elevator mishap, did not impair our scholastic powers. Fourteen of our number were awarded High School Diplomas. Throughout our High School course we had made an enviable reputation in every line. In athletics, our basket- ball team held the undisputed championship of the College for two years ; no opponents worthy of our team could be found in College or High School; and in H. Walter Ganster, Jr., we had the best weight thrower in the school, and, indeed, in the South. Two of our members, Andrew J. Harrison and August J. Bourbon, corralled many of the special prizes for class and composition work. And finally, to cap it all, we were the first High School class to produce a Benedict, John Borchers leaving us at the end of the Third Year to “take unto himself a wife.” Our Freshman year was quietly, but just as successfully spent. For the first time in years, the Alumni Prize of $25.00 for the best literary essay went to a freshman, Andrew J. Harrison, while the General Excellence Medal for the College Department was given to another member of our class, August (II)

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J. Bourbon. The following year in Sophomore, under Father John S. Keating, was interesting and enjoyable, our pro- fessor contriving to make our stay with the orators, Greek, Roman and English, one that will stand out always in our memory. At the close of this year, we lost another member of the original class, in the person of Harry J. Quinn, who entered St. Mary’s Seminary. Through sundry other causes, the other “charter” members of the class, had, one by one, fallen by the wayside, so that now, with the departure of Harry Quinn, there remained but one of the original forty, the writer of these notes. Our science courses, presided over by Mr. Joseph M. Kelley, in physics and mechanics, and Mr. J. Boiseau Weisel and Father Henry McLoughlin in chemistry, gave us many pleasant and many decidedly unpleasant hours, but we flatter ourselves we were able to get a good insight into the theories and facts of present day research. But the real treat of our last two years was the course in philosophy, presided over by Father Justin J. Ooghe and Father Timothy Brosnahan. In all departments of the sub- ject we received a thorough training, — much too thorough for some of us; but we took it, and feel lots better for it. Nor did we let our devotion to philosophy take the edge off our appetite for other scholastic honors. In Junior, Mr. Harrison carried off the General Excellence and Historical Essay med- als, and Mr. Bourbon the Alumni Purse and the Christian Doctrine Medal. And last, but decidedly not least, Jerome H. Joyce, Jr., won the Maryland Peace Associa tion Oratorical Contest at McCoy Hall on March 27, beating out the repre- sentatives of Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, and St. John’s College, of Annapolis. This year another surprise awaited us; for, on February 22, Raymond J. Kwasnik, the class musician, answered the call of the little God of love, and brought to a climax a romance that had its origin in Germany two Summers ago. Here’s health and long life to him and Mrs. Kwasnik. And now we are about to finish our course, and take our places in the busy world outside. Though but five in number now, the old class spirit is still as strong as ever. “Loyalty to Loyola,” shall be our watchword in after life; and, God willing.