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

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Our J ady d CItapel o Cveryreen Ihe next permanent addition to the campus will be “Our Lady’s Chapel of Evergreen,’’ a memorial to the Loyola alumni who fought in the second World War and to those who gave their lives. Ground will be broken before the beginning of the school year next Fall. In the early war years, Father Bunn had planned a war memorial in the form of a classroom or administration building. As the war progressed and the list of Loyola dead grew longer, he realized the need and especial appropriateness of a permanent memorial chapel. He asked Mr. Gaudreau in the Summer of 1945 to design a college chapel in the collegiate Gothic style. The first formal announcement of the proposed memorial was made in the brochure “Lest We Forget,’’ issued in February, 1946. This brochure included a complete alumni honor roll and the architect’s sketch of the new chapel. A campaign tor funds began on the last day of the Novena of Grace, March 12, among the alumni and friends of the college. The total amount to be raised was $400,000 and Father Bunn agreed to secure $150,000 himself by personal solicitation. The alumni agreed to raise $250,000. Isaac S. George, ’01, was named general alumni chair- man. Constant meetings were held among the various leaders in the Alumni Association. By the close of November, 1946, Mr. George reported that the alumni had raised $100,000 and Father Bunn an- nounced that he had raised an identical amount. Mr. Charles M. Cohn, ’97, chairman ol the Lay Council of the college, died suddenly on December 6 and left $100,000 in his will to the college. This raised the amount ol the funds obtained to $100,- 000 short of the goal. Since December, a steady flow of contributions has been steadily reducing this deficit. The Chapel and Auditorium will be placed to the west of the Science Building. However, the Chapel will not he placed on a direct line with the Science Building but slightly to the north so that the front of the Chapel may be seen from almost any portion of the campus. As may be seen in the floor plan {hcloiv), the entire building will meas- ure 150 feet long and 85 feet wide. The Chapel will seat 750 people. Two war shrines will be placed within the Chapel. To the left of the main entrance, a special war shrine will honor the alumni who gave their lives in the war. To the right ol the main entrance, the Oratory ol: Our Lady of Montserrat will be placed. This oratory commemorates the apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Saint Ignatius Loyola in a cave at Montserrat, Spain. The complete list of service alumni will he placed here. The Chapel floor will be the main floor ol the new building. Underneath it, and partially sunk into the earth, will be the Auditorium. This seats 600 people and has a stage equipped for the most elaborate dramatic productions. To alleviate the need lor classroom space, partitions may be placed temporarily across the auditorium floor. 27

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TJke Senior CladS SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS. First row: Malloy, Arthur. Second row: Shea, Connor. It seems like an omen of the good things to come that this year Loyola ivill graduate the largest class in its history. — 1922 Yearbook- It would be expected that the largest class to graduate in the history of Loyola College should also be the most complex in the college’s history, especially when the class graduates so soon after the war. Even among the sixteen graduates of the Class of 1922, there were one or two men whose education had been interrupted by the war. We seriously doubt, however, that any other class can match us in our prized complexity. Among the graduates of 1947, there are men who entered college as early as 1935 and 1936; there are also men who entered as late as October of 1944. The scale of ages within the class runs from thirty years to scarcely nineteen. We have our scattering of fathers throughout the class yet the father of the oldest child (four years) is himself not much older than the majority of the class. During the war, two men attained the rank of Major in the Army and one, the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. We have our share of Distinguished Flying Crosses, Air Medals and Purple Hearts. In the class there is a survivor of the U.S.S. Franklin and a former prisoner of war in Germany. But at least two men were too young to be eligible for induction into the Armed Forces until they were well into their senior year. Our plans for work after graduation also vary widely. We have more than the usual percentage of post-graduate students. One man is now a suc- cessful contractor who is already building small homes. And those two men will still be eligible for immediate induction into the Armed Forces if the Selective Service Bill is ever reactivated. Despite these wide divergences, the Class of 1947 is as much an unified whole as any other class before or after it. The spirit that binds us together is not merely the fact of common gradua- tion. During the past year, through the trials of ethics, the intricacies of the Aristotelico-Scho- lastic theories and the problems of theology, we have come to know each other so well that the harriers of age and different backgrounds have disappeared. We have also the realization to bind us together that we will be the class to preside over the next twenty- five years of Loyola at Evergreen. May we help to make this second era as fruitful as the first ! 28