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

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The Very Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J., P? ' esideyit

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Pre ident ’i eddag,e The character of the present graduating class is unique in the history of the college. While a small minority of its members are those who completed their course without interruption, the great majority have returned from the war, having begun their education in the years ranging from 1935 to 1942. Never before has this situation occurred in the colleges to the extent that It obtains at present. The boys who were here from July, 1944, wit- nessed a time when the student enrollment was the lowest in number since the first days of Loyola’s history. Upon them, therefore, devolved the re- sponsibi lity of maintaining the traditions of the college by tremendous effort in preserving its high standard of study and extra-curricular activities in the midst ol an accelerated program. The students who returned, after facing the experiences of the worst war in the history of the world, had the harder task of exercising greater personal responsibility in the most crucial sense, by their adherence to moral and re- ligious principles in the maelstrom of war. Fortunate indeed is the college to have, at the beginning of a new era in its history, this present Senior Class. They are men deeply imbued with its lofty spirit, severely tried in the school of life, and sobered by the force of confficting ideals. They will help chart Loyola’s course, blaze new trails for greater achievement, and assume their responsibility for bringing man- kind back to sound principles, straight thinking and right ways.

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Mean A eAAag e M EN of Loyola of the Class of 1947, yours has truly been an unusual college career. Yours has been a college career begun in a tortured, dubious peace — delayed by an albengulfing, devastating war — and completed in a victorious peace. You returned from the battlebeld older, more serious of mien and more eager of purpose. You may now face the future assured that you have been tested — and not found wanting! May you ever keep alive the flame of friend- ship with stucients and faculty which you en- kindled here at Loyola. May the twin lamps of revelation and reason ever be your guide in the days of darkness ahead. May Loyola, and all she stands for, ever he your frien d! My congratula- tions to you !