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

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JOSEPH VINCENT ABROMAITIS BRO is one of those most remarkable persons, who have the gift of making others laugh. He is the most delectable fountain of non- sense that ever happened. As a mimic, he rivals the gifted ‘Elsie Janis’ and as a zoological impersonator he is better than the animals themselves. As creator of odd and bizarre noises, he is easily the worlds champion. Not infrequently has he been the object of our anger, for his presence at a class meeting is the most effectual barrier to serious business that could possibly be devised. Not until he has been gagged, can progress take place. Someone once said that the safety of America lies in the production of first class nonsense, for that nation is doomed that has forgotten how to laugh. If this is true, then ‘Abro’ is in a fair way to be ranked with Wash- ington, Robert Morris, and Lord Howe. He has intimated that his first work will bear the title “Adventures in Soup.” Page 20

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nineteen returned to begin Freshman studies in September. Loyola also greeted for the first time, Messrs. DeMarco, Manns, and Meagher of Cal- vert Hall : Mr. Bernard Donohue from St. Mary’s in Clarksburg, W. Va., Mr. Joseph Thaler of Rock Hill at Ellicott City, Maryland. The beauty of Tennyson, Milton, Shelley and Shakespeare was shown to us by our sympathetic and kind friend. Father Francis B. Hargadon, S.J. In sophomore, Mr. Oswald Rhinehalter, S.J. inculcated the principles of Rhetoric and taught us to appreciate the masterpieces of such orators as Burke, Cicero and Demosthenes. Father Henry McLaughlin, S.J. found a place in our hearts by his remarks that did untold good to strengthen our characters. At last we came to Junior, there to receive those principles for which we had unrelentingly prepared ourselves for six years. Under the Professorship of Rev. Francis E. Lucey, S.J. we became acquainted with the rules and precepts for correct thinking. | The crown of our many years of labor, the reward of our efforts, the actualization of our hopes, are now ..realized in ourselves as Seniors. By the clear, concise, and penetrating logic of Father Ooghe, S. J., our seem- ing philosopic difficulties were removed. By his kind and ever generous manner he has won a place in our hearts of which Time will never deprive him. When Youth has become Old Age, when our limbs are feeble, and our eyes are shrunk, when our brow is furrowed and our hair is gray, those principles which you, Alma Mater, have instilled, will then be, as they are now, our weapons of combat, our armor for Life’s Battle. When we look down the corridors of Time, truly may we point with pride to you and say. “The victory is yours. You have won the fight. You have freed us from the shackles of ignorance. You have given us the instruments of battle and in- structed us in their use.” Ungrateful it would seem were we to neglect offering our sincere gratitude to Father Joseph A. McEneany, S.J., who for eight years has been our Rector. Nor can we fail to offer our heartfelt thanks to genial Father John F. Duston, S.J., to Father Philip Finegan, S.J., to Father Robert H. Johnson, S.J., the respective Deans during our high school and college days And thus our story ends. Forsan et Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit. Three short weeks and we shall pass from the guidance of your hand, Alma Mater. But with our sadness is mingled a note of joy; for the day is not far distant when we shall give to the world what you have so generously given to us — the principles of right thinking, together with a spirit of true Christian Charity, whereby we can work for that good which you have always impressed upon us — Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. Page 19

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WILLIAM A. BOWERSOX ONE but the true artist has that happy faculty of doing much with no apparent effort. In his fours years of collegiate life Sox has done a prodigious amount of work. The daily burden of scholastic activities were all that most of us could manage but in addition to all this Sox has found time to manage a football team and a bas- ketball team, to preside in the Student Council, to engineer no end of dances and to fill the position of assistant editor of the “Chatter.” Only those of us who know him well are aware of the intensity of his labors. We know that behind that carefree smile there lurks an industrious soul, and that beneath that easy nonchalance there lies an energetic nature. Perhaps his greatest responsibility is that of taking care of Charlie. It is true that Reggie helps somewhat but the burden of the responsibility falls on Sox. Page 21