Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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THE CUMMERCE CLUB l-TE School oT Business oT lv1anhaTTan College is only OT recenT origin: daTing baclc a mere Tour years. IT has grown rapidly, iT we compare iTs TirsT Treshman class which numbered TwenTy and Today's Treshman class which approaches eighTy and bids Tair To go over The hundred marlc in The very near TuTure. CrediT should be given iTs Dean, James L. FiTzgerald who, almosT ouT oT noThing, creaTed a deparT- menT ThaT aT The presenT Time TulTills noT only The sTandard demanded by The College. buT compares more Tavorably wiTh The commerce deparTmenTs oT oTher colleges. The Commerce Club, in order To creaTe a compeTiTive aTmosphere in The com- merce deparTmenT, conceived The idea oT having some organizaTion donaTe a medal To The sTudenT mosT proTicienT in business subiecTs aT The end oT his senior year. The BeTa Sigma FraTerniTy generously oTTered To give This medal annually, and Their oTTer was accepTed by The Commerce Club. ln general, The TuTure oT The club is very brighT. The senior members oT The club desire To exTend Their sinceresT wishes Tor The club's TuTure well-being and To exTend Their graTeTul appreciaTion Tor The worl4 done by The TaculTy oT The commerce deparTmenT, especially ThaT oT Dean James L. l:iTzgerald. 246

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-Qi-E.. , ', ag ,f... -L.g,-,,....M A my I I ix Q . 'Ii , I1 AMERICAN 50cIETY UF CIVIL ENGINEERS PresidenT .............. LOUIS J. PERSBACKER SecreTary . . . . VICTOR J. LO PINTO Treasurer . . . EDWARD J. RUDDY I-IE sTudenT chapTer OT The American SocieTy oT Civil Engineers is one oT The mosT prominenT and heIpTuI organizaTions in The school. ITs main purpose is To bring The sTudenTs oT engineering inTo closer conTacT wiTh The acTiviTies oT The ouT- sTanding men in The proTession. IT likewise aTTords The sTudenT an opporTuniTy, during W! his undergraduaTe days, To view imporTanT deveIopmenTs in ThaT Tield in which he i will Ia+er be an acTive member. . V- In as acTive a year as The socieTy has had, iT wiTnessed, among oTher Things, I many such imporTanT consTrucTions as The building oT The Holland Tunnel, and The I erecTion oT The Florianapolis Bridge, Through The medium oT slides aided by careTuIIy sTudied IecTures given by one oT iTs sTudenT members. Membership in This socieTy is a marlced asseT To The undergraduaTe engineer desirous oT prominence in his Tield oT endeavor. Upon graduaTion he becomes eligible To membership in The ouTside socieTy OT proTessionaI engineers. This ouTside socieTy is The largesT and mosT noTed in The proTession ThroughouT The counTry. I - - - ,- -. ee- - f-hf ,Y A, ',,1fQ, :':1i.1f'-,i1fL1..1?.'-L H l-TT'-K-'71-'fvifili'-Y: i-'fiifffiiffif ffiiii15fiEfi??:.iifffffggbilf .... UA-I---VA 245

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TH E ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY PresidenT ............. AMBROSE P. O'NEIL, '32 Vice-PresidenT . . AMBROSE E. KIEFF, '32 Treasurer . . . CHARLES MURRAY, '33 SecreTary . . ....... GEORGE MORENG, '34 EDICATED To The memory oT The laTe BroTher Noel, The ArchiTecTural SocieTy TosTers The inTeresT oT The school oT archiTecTure. The growTh oT The organi- zaTion is commensuraTe wiTh The developmenT oT iTs spiriT and sTimulus To archiTecTure. The consTiTuTion oT The socieTy, adopTed in l928, provides Tor Three grades oT membership: probaTionary, Tor Treshmeng acTive, Tor upperclassmen, and honorary, Tor graduaTes oT The school oT archiTecTure. An execuTive board oT Tour members adminisTers The aTTairs oT The socieTy. Several new noTes oT developmenT were evinced in The socieTy, namely, The dis- TribuTions oT handbooks conTaining maTTer and daTa relaTive To The organizaTion, and a series oT Tour medals, donaTed by The socieTy, To be awarded To The sTudenTs who excel in Their course in design oT consTrucTion in Their respecTive classes during The year. Seven inTeresTing lecTures were held in which The sTudenTs Took greaT inTeresT. The visiTing lecTurers, ouTsTanding in The Tield oT archiTecTure, considered Their eTTorTs well repaid by The amounT oT enThusiasm displayed. 247