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

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The Rev. Joseph A. d ' Invilliers, S. J. Dean Yours is the first Loyola class to graduate since the close of World War II. Until recently, we heard and read much about the postwar world. Column- ists, commentator, editor and educator expressed their ideas about the changes all of us would experience in the world-after-war. There was truth in what we heard; yet fundamentally the world and its peoples are much the same. There have been technological improvements and changes in many fields, but that very ancient thing called human nature has not changed. Fundamentally, all post-war problems, whatever they may be, are radicated in man’s intellectual and moral life. And this is precisely why education is important, for only through education, vitalized by Faith and religious principles, can we hope for a better and less evil world. May you, few though you are in a world of millions, be a part of that leaven which may tend to make the world the kind of place God has ever intended it to be. Page Four

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The Very Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S. J. President You are leaving the College at the most critical period in the history of our country. While your aspirations are high, I do not think that they are lacking in realism. Your experience during this period of tremendous strain on both the economic and social structure of the world has enabled you to realize more deeply the necessity of being firm and tenacious in your ad- herence to the immutable truths and principles that you have learned at Loyola. These will make you truly free and bring freedom also to those who follow your lead. Page Three

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Senior Write-Up When I consider how my light was spent” Unique must be the only word for it! For unique indeed, was the Class of 1946 of Loyola College. We who were the members of that class may sit back in later years and wonder how it all happened, wonder that we experienced it, wonder, and remember, recalling fondly every one of the happy days. To begin with, we of the Class of 1946 attended Loyola during what is undoubtedly the most unusual period in its history. We entered Loyola at a time when it was blossoming from its pre-war prosperity. Many of the former students had entered the Armed Forces (and many of us who started were to follow), but Loyola was still at the peak when we entered. War, however, began to take its toll. Activities and sports began to wane. On through Sopho- more year the student body grew smaller and activity decreased proportionately. With our Junior year, came the lowest ebb. In all of Loyola there were only 85 students; in all of the class of 1946, there were 9 students. Of 23 once active groups and clubs, only eleven functioned. Twelve former varsity sports were reduced to one, Basketball. Only one thing remained. That was the indomitable spirit of what few Loyola students there were. Those students, of which the Class of 1946 was a big part, did two things. They carried on through the most trying days, and they set to work with the task of rebuild- ing. Now, as we of the Class of ’46 depart, Loyola College is back on its feet again, destined for the greatest period in her illustrious history. Three hundred students will double themselves in September and this largest student body in Loyola’s history will go on with all the former activities, plus a few new ones, with ten varsity sports, and with other plans that call for greater and greater things to come. That’s what did happen; that’s what will happen — and we of the Class of 1946 were part of it all. We lived it. And we lived it happily. Just how we lived it is a story far too great for this small volume. Only the main outline of the highspots can possibly be traced. Thirty-five of us entered that first day of February, 1944. Customary speeches about the glories of Loyola, then the order of the day, became, all too swifty, the dire realities of Freshman Hazing. Swing Sessions’’ and Pup Caps blended with Chemistry, Math, Religion, Languages and English. There Page Five