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

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Thec lumni Building and Gymnasium On June twelfth, ground will be broken for another unit in the new and greater Loyola. What more fitting occasion than this to say a few words of praise and gratitude to those who made this accomplishment possible? In existence since 1852, although at no time a large institution as the term is usually conceived, our College has an Alumni Body of some 5,000, of which a large number are active members of the Association, or easily accessible. It is to these that we turn when we need assistance or advice from more experienced minds, and they never fail to respond. When Loyola felt new life course through her veins at breathing the clear air of Evergreen for the first time, the Alumni Body was the first to rejoice that advantages such as they had never known were going to be the lot of future students. What could they do to help? Could they not give something to their Alma Mater as a lasting reminder of their love? The Alumni Memorial Building and Gymnasium was the outcome of thought upon the subject, and a mammoth drive was started to raise the necessary funds. Under the enthusiastic direction of Father Ziegler, Moderator of the Alumni Association, of F. X. Milhollana, the president, and of Father McDonnell, himself an old student of Loyola, the Alumni rallied to the occasion, and in a short time enough funds were obtained to warrant immediate starting of the work. Every stone that rises above another as the building nears completion, will be one more bond of fealty between College and past students, between past students and present ones, between all who ever have or ever will come under the benign influence of Loyola. One had but to attend the rallies which were held every week during the drive to realize that here was something new in the annals of Loyola. Old grads mingled with new grads and with undergraduates. A new spirit had entered into the whole body, a spirit of co-operation, destined, we are sure, to last as long as Loyola lasts, and to grow as she grows. One saw pledges of material assistance pouring in, not only from those who had been long in the field of commerce or profession, but from men who were scarce started on their career, yes and from those who were yet students of both high school and college. It is a well known fact that the success of any institution of learning depends in great measure upon this union, and with such union so apparently assured, there is no one who does not look to the future but with the greatest confidence. W. T. B. APPRECIATION The editors express their sincere appreciation and thanks to the following members of Sophomore Class for their valuable assistance in the publishing of this issue of The Green and Gray: to Joseph V. Abromaitis, for the clever cartoons of this year’s Senior Class; to Leland G. Frierson, for the attractive cover design; to J. Paul Coolahan and George E. Urban, for aid furnished the business management; also to Francis Ireton and John Spellissy, of Freshman Class, for helpful co-operation. 10

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tories, splendidly equipped amphitheatres for lectures, arranged to best advan- tage, library, club-room, lunch room, all was as expected. From top to bottom all was as perfect as ceaseless planning and toil could make it. Mr. Jenkins’ magnificent gift to Loyola now stands, a monument to his generosity and love. He was the one who made it possible, but having done this, it was the work of others to carry on and assure that all would be done in a fitting manner. The wish of the donor was the satisfying of those who would be the future users of the building; as a result the man was chosen to control and direct the interior design of the building, for whom such detail would have the most interest. Primarily intended as the Chemistry building of the future Loyola group, no one more fitted than Father Henry McLoughlin, S. J., could have been found to perform this office. Enthusiastic over the prospect and willing to undertake what he knew would be a difficult task, he immediately threw himself whole-heartedly into the work. The end is not yet but he still continues with the same enthusiasm that marked his entrance into the project. Not only the faculty, but every student, considers that a great step forward has been taken, along the road to future greatness for our Alma Mater. The first, the hardest, was to obtain Evergreen; the second, nearly as difficult, as events proved, was the completion of the building in which we now gather. In the normal order of things the worst is over, the next achievement will no doubt be the early completion of the Alumni Building and Gymnasium. While it may have its unforeseen difficulties, these cannot approach in magnitude the trials which beset the way of those who were striving to give Loyola its new hold on life. As building after building rises to grace the growing institution and to accommodate the increase in student body which will naturally follow, perhaps the fact will be lost sight of that we owe the greatest debt to those interested and able persons who made the foundation firm and lasting. It is hard to realize as we hark back that four short years ago the College department of Loyola occupied three or four small rooms in the downtown building, which, large as it is, is already being pressed to provide room for the rapidly growing enrollment of the High School. The history of Loyola, however, is the history of Jesuit institutions throughout the world; ever humble in origin, it is not long before the good which they spread about them begins to reap its harvest of good will, and with good will growth is the natural outcome. As the years go on and Loyola takes its place among the larger institutions of the East, the George C. Jenkins Science Building will be remembered as the corner stone of the edifice which will be builded about it, an edifice of educa- tion, to which Youth will flock, there to be molded in the proper lines and sent forth again to add to the glory of Alma Mater. 9 W. T. B.

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To Start New Unit at Loyola College (From The Baltimore Sun, June 1, 1924) ROUND for the $200,000 alumni building and gymnasium of Loyola College, Charles Street Avenue and Cold Spring Lane, will be broken June 12 in connection with the commencement exercises of the institution. The ceremony will mark the completion of a successful campaign for a building fund that was conducted under the direction of the Rev. Eugene DeL. McDonnell and Francis X. Milholland, president of the alumni association. Invitations to attend the ceremony have been sent to all contributors. The alumni building and gymnasium constitute the second unit in the building program of the new Loyola College at Evergreen. The first unit, the George C. Jenkins Science Hall, was completed last summer and was opened to college classes in December. This structure is said to be one of the most complete of its kind in the country. A library, lounge, smoking and billiard rooms, gymnasium and swimming pool will occupy the east section of the first floor and will have a spacious bay window overlooking the athletic grounds. West of the main entrance on the first floor will be the loungeroom, the largest room in the building, with frontage south and west. This room also will be used as an entertainment and lecture room, as well as for a meeting place for executives of the alumni association. The smoking and billiard rooms will be in the east section of the second floor. The gymnasium will house swimming pool, shower baths, locker rooms, hand- ball courts, team dressing rooms, trophy and college athletic committee rooms. The floor of the gymnasium will afford space sufficient for two basketball courts. An indoor running track, level with the second floor of the alumni building, also will be provided. This may be utilized as a gallery for spectators during the basketball season. In the new college group the Jesuit fathers plan to give Baltimore an institu- tion similar to Georgetown, Fordham and Holy Cross universities. Work on the new unit will be pushed under the supervision of the Rev. Joseph A. McEneany, president of the college; the Rev. Father McDonnell and the Rev. Joseph I. Ziegler, moderator of the alumni association. 11