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

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One of the Songs at the Alumni Rally Air “Mr. Gallagher — Mr. Sheehan” I Oh! Mr. Gallagher! Oh! Mr. Gallagher! have you heard about our plans at Evergreen? Everybody’s on the run And we’re going to have some fun For we’ll have the finest building ever seen. Oh! Mr. Sheehan! Oh! Mr. Sheehan! do you think you’ll ever build at Evergreen? Will the boys be on the spot, With the money that they’ve got? Positively, Mr. Gallagher. Well, I thought so, Mr. Sheehan. II Oh! Mr. Gallagher! Oh! Mr. Gallagher! When we’ve finished building out at Evergreen. Then you bet we’ll have some Gym, And a dandy place to swim. I invite you to contribute of your means. Oh! Mr. Sheehan! Oh! Mr. Sheehan! I must admit you have a wonderful scheme. And Five Thousand in this case, I’m delighted now to place. Good investment, Mr. Gallagher. I should say so, Mr. Sheehan. 29

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The Swimming Pool of the most attractive features of this New Home will be i splendid Swimming Pool, up-to-date in every particular, with all )dern improvements. It will occupy the West half of the lower floor of the Gym- nasium, extending North and South. It will be the regulation size, so that all records made there will be recognized by the Athletic authorities. Here you will come on the hot summer days to cool off and drown your troubles in its refreshing waters. 28

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Alumni Activities T its first meeting during January for the annual election of officers the Loyola College Alumni Association evidenced its intention to make this the banner year of its existence. The serious mien with which the assembled members attacked the task before them showed that they fully realized that much depended upon the selection of capable officers to carry out the ambitious program which the Association had arranged for the current year. After appropriate discussion and deliberation, the officers were elected and, headed by Mr. Frank Milholland, newly-elected President, they immediately took up the matter of raising $200,000 with which to erecet an Alumni Building and Gymnasium to be one of a group of six buildings for the Greater Loyola College at Evergreen. It was decided that this sum should be secured from the Alumni and students of the College and that the pledges for the whole amount should be made before June first of this year. The newly-elected officers, by the zeal with which they assumed their new duties and the diligent manner in which they performed them, showed the members the wisdom of their choice. Preparations for the campaign, in which the officers were assisted by the Rev. E. de L. McDonnell, S. J., were begun at a meeting of representatives of all the classes during Lent. This meeting was followed by one on April 20, when the plans were completed and were made ready for presentation. It was on April 28 that the drive was inaugurated and the plans were outlined to the monster mass meeting of all former students held in the High School Gymnasium. The campaign, it was announced, would last the entire month of May and pledges for the amount would be received June first. The speeches at this meeting aroused much enthusiasm, but it remained for the singing of the old College songs and the new campaign songs, composed by Father McDonnell, to awaken the enthusiastic spirit with which the audience was soon imbued and which caused the pledging of the whole-hearted support of all present to this ambitious program. Since the new project was immediately concerned with Loyola’s future athletic activities, it was thought fitting that these activities should be made public. Accordingly, Mr. Victor Noyes, a former famous Annapolis athlete, outlined in very graphic manner the progress that Loyola might reasonably be expected to make in athletic circles during the next decade. At this meeting the captains selected for the different teams were announced, as follows : 30