Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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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

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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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THE MENDELIAN SOCIETY ModeraTor ............. REV. BROTHER CELESTINE PresidenT . . . . JAMES R. DONALDSON, JR., '32 Vice-PresidenT . . ' ..... FELIX eENTiLE, '32 SecreTary ...... . . JOHN ALIBERTO, '33 Treasurer ....... . . BERTRAM MOORE, '33 Sophomore RepresenTaTive ........ MORGAN WEBER, '34 HE Mendelian SocieTy, one oT The mosT acTively TuncTioning clubs on The campus. was Tounded in The early parT oT l929, when The Reverend BroTher CelesTine rallied around him sTudenTs inTeresTed enough in science To meeT regularly aTTer class in order To discuss The problems encounTered in- The pursuiT oT scienTiTic knowledge. Gregor Mendel, To whom we owe much oT our presenT knowledge on herediTy, was chosen as a model To inspire The members in Their work. AT presenT The socieTy is a member oT The AssociaTed Biology Clubs oT CaTholic Colleges, a naTional organizaTion which holds a convenTion every year. l.asT year The meeTing was held aT Fordham UniversiTy. ManhaTTan delegaTes won excepTional praise Tor Their well delivered papers on The work oT The French naTuralisT, Jean BapTisTe Lamarch. WiTh a Tirm ToundaTion and an acTive membership The TuTure success oT The socieTy is well assured. 248 l S li l T his he The hi, play v as wel Tl