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

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Reverend Joseph A. d’Invilliers, S.J.

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dedication We respectfully dedicate this volume to the Reverend Joseph A. d’Invilliers, SJ. If it is an honor bestowed, it is but an inadequate token of the honor due him for his hard work as Dean of Studies during the long, lean war years. Under his sympathetic and devoted guidance, from 1942 to 1947, Loyola maintained its traditional atmos- phere of broad interests and intellectual curiosity — a scholastic temper dilLcult of attainment under the most favorable circumstances. Father d’Invilliers’ health has forced him to resign those duties through which, in matters academic as well as personal, we came to know him so well. We have always depended upon him for just decisions and wise counsel and we rejoice that he is still with us as priest, teacher and friend.

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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.