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

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Our Lady’s Chapel of Evergreen Loyola pays lasting tribute to her twenty-eight sons, who gave their lives for a better world. For every Jesuit-Boy, the Chapel on the Campus is his starting point. Here he eommunes with his God. ... It is here, more than any- where else, that he learns most of his really valuable lessons — that life is real, earnest, and a victory to he won. It is to the chapel that he returns in later life, slipping in quietly with wife and child, heart aglow with gratitude and love. William M. J. Driscoll, S.J. A utumn brought to the students - of Loyola a new diversion — watch- ing a chapel steadily take form. Steam- shovels, stonemasons and bulldozers at Evergreen hold as much fascina- tion for the college student as they do for the common man elsewhere. Our Lady’s Chapel of Evergreen fdls the last gap in Loyola’s basic circle of buildings. It supplants a ninety-five- year-old Tudor structure, which served successively as a German Reformed church, the Church of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, and a parish hall, before it was donated to Evergreen. With a seating capacity of less than one hundred and fifty, the old chapel was seldom used for major religious functions. A war -born idea College presidents may be remembered in terms of the campus construction undertaken during their particular tenure of office. And so it is that the new Chapel of Our Lady of Evergreen is closely associated with the names of the Very Reverends Edward R. Bunn, S.J., and Francis X. Talbot, S.J. During the recent, war, the incumbent president. Father Bunn, drew up plans for a fitting memorial to Loyola’s warrior sons, who fought and died in the Second World War. His idea materialized in 1945, and he imme- diately commissioned Air. Lucien Gaiidreau, as architect, to design a chapel. Early in the following year the first announcement of his intention was made in a brochure. Lest R e Forget. The campaign for funds began in Alarch, 1946, at which time four hun- .ai THE ARCHBISHOP BROKE GROI XD

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LOYOLA RIFLEMEN FIRE A FOUR -GUN SALUTE The Loyola College Rifle and Pislol Club lackled many leading East Coast learns, including Princeton, Penn Stale, and Catholic U. Left to right, the first team gels set on the firing line, with Marion Restiro and Raymond Penn in the first row; behind them are Joseph Bartolomeo, range-master and club secretary, Daniel Downey, and William Volenick, president of the club. Hans Wilhelrnsen is vice-president and F. Neale Smith is treasurer of the fifteen-man organization. The lagging social season slowly accelerated with the approach of basketball season, the Christmas holi- days and the New Y ear. The ads were full of frills for Florida, and registra- tion for post office work was occupying many students ' afternoons. The Eng- lish pound was devalued, and eastern United States railway fares were in- creased. The Student Council objected to the change in exemption requirements from a singular ninety to a flat scale of ninety per cent. Rules for the awarding of five medals were also changed. The curriculum was slowly regaining its pre-war form. The first wall of the Chapel was taking shape five weeks after construc- tion started. Another flight of steps was laid leading from the campus walk to the Dell, to replace the barrelling man-slide formerly utilized by students late for class in 3D. Unprecedentedly fair weather was greatly aiding the construction crews; temperatures in the seventies were sending Weather Bureau statisticians scurrying for rec- ords of past highs. Renowned relic at Evergreen A world-traveling relic of St. Francis Xavier paused at Evergreen long enough for faculty and student devo- tions to be held. Some of those who attended that service heard the last of three lectures on “Atomic Energy and the Social Science” delivered a week later, under the auspices of the Evening School. The lectures were kept timely by the announcement during the succeeding few months of some of the later developments in hydrogen synthesis and of sensational spy trials. The cutting dow n of some of the old pine and other campus trees to make room for Chapel construction was partly compensated for by the experi- mental planting of an experimental seedling of Bartlett blight-resistant chestnut, placed behind the statue of Our Lady of Evergreen. The Athletes’ Fete kicked up the heels of the social season, suitably publicized by photos of biped hoofs distributed by the Block ‘L’ Club. Plans were made for the Junior Prom of the Class of 1951, the first in eight years to be held during the class’s junior year. The Student Council chose eleven students (Emidio Bianco, Edward Clarke, James Dietz, George Herman, Ferd Leimkuhler, Edward McNeal, Francis Meagher, William Mulliken, Daniel Rochowiak, Harry Shock and Walter Smyth) for inclusion in Who ' s Who Among Students in American Uni- versities and Colleges, and finished its work of the fall. A TELEVISION SET FOR ALAN MEEHAN FROM THE STUDENTS SOCIAL OUT-OF-TOWNERS Representing the students of Loyola, left to right, Oliver Krastetl, Martin O ' Connor, Emidio Bianco, Student Council president, Edward McNeat, and Richard Wojtek presented Alan Meehan with a television set which was purchased for him by con- tributions raised in a whirlwind campus campaign. At, Mason-Dixon high jump champion and B squad basketball player, was stricken suddenly with poliomyelitis late in October. He was forced to spend the remainder of the school year in the hospital. The Cosmopolitan Club of Loyola Col- lege entertained members of the Kymry Club of Notre Dame College at an in- formal dance. Left to right are Claire Schumann, Andrew O ' Donnell, Betsy Garrity, and Eugene Corrigan.

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EVERGREEN’S CHAPEL FROM THE ARCHITECT’S DRAWING died thousand dollars was the esti- mated cost. By November, Father Bunn and the alumni had raised one hundred thousand dollars each, and in December Mr. Charles M. Cohn bequeathed an additional one hundred thousand dollars. By early 1947 it appeared that the remaining sum would be quickly gathered and actual construction would start in shoi t order. Rising costs soon changed the picture. The gap between funds, pledged or on hand, and the amount needed steadily increased. When Father Talbot suc- ceeded Father Bunn later in the year, the goal had not yet been reached. Ground is broken in 1949 Father Talbot attacked the problem with the same determination as had his predecessor. Despite the fact that the original estimate was increased by more than half, he was able to an- nounce by July, 1949, that permission to build had been received. In an auspicious ceremony on October 9, 1949, His Excellency the Most Rev- erend Francis P. Keough. Archbishop of Baltimore, turned the first spadeful of earth at the chapefs inauguration. Less than a month later, the contract was awarded to John McShain, Inc. and construction work began promptly. The edifice, which is expected to be completed by September, 1950, will be the dominant building on the cam- pus. Mr. Gaiidreau’s architectural plans call for a building of striking and rich Gothic design, with a location on the highest point of the hilly campus. Its walls of seam-faced granite will be easily visible throughout Evergreen and the surrounding area. The en- trance to the chapel itself is on an upper level, while on the north side, at a lower level, is the entrance to the basement auditorium, originally in- cluded in the plans. The auditorium, named for Mr. Charles M. Cohn, seats five hundred and fifty and the chapel six hundred and twenty-five. The new cruciform structure occupies eleven thousand square feet of Ever- green ' s terra firnia. AFTER BLESSING THE SITE WITH ST. FRANCIS XAVIER’S ARM, CONSTRUCTION BEGAN