Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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1 Ts C' 7 X ,f,,, :yung fa 5 THE PLAN IS THE THING ET us dream oT skyscrapers and double-decker ciTies, Tor The road To greaTness and accomplishmenTs resTs ahead. Cnly a shorT while ago we were being TaughT how To manipulaTe correcTly our draTTing insTrumenTs, and use a scale rule. Today we Teel Tull conTidenT oT being able To Take our places among The celebraTed V archiTecTs oT The TuTure. Four years ago a group oT Twelve earnesT, Tar-sighTed young men eagerly awaiTed Their TirsT insTrucTion in archiTecTure. They were noT disappoinTed, Tor Their young proTessor, Marcel Qngenae, Tresh Trom The produchve Tields oT Europe, had given Them Tood Tor ThoughT, and awakened Their inTeresT. The class acTiviTies, social and poliTical, were closely bound up wiTh The ArchiTec- Tural SocieTy. This organizaTion was TirsT esTablished by The presenT graduaTing class d l d d Tured To oT archiTecTs, and daTes back To The Tall oT l928. lT has eve ope an ma such an exTenT ThaT iTs records are The records oT The school oT archiTecTure. The class scholasTically, has an average raTing oT over eighTy per cenT. Truly T ' T'ceable an enviable sTandard Tor TuTure classes To aim aT. A marked pro iciency is no i in all deparTmenTs. As a disTincTion, The TirsT group oT embryo archiTecTs will receive Their bachelor degrees in June. Since one looks To acTual deeds when iudging The meriTs oT a group in a close perspecTive oT Time, we musT necessarily sTaTe iTs mosT ouTsTanding TeaTure. lT has aT iTs head Ambrose P. G'Neil, an eTTicienT organizer and a man well-known in all school acTiviTies. ln The TirsT place, The annual bangueT oT The SocieTy was held This year aT Rock's resTauranT immediaTely aTTer The ChrisTmas recess. ProminenT members oT The TaculTy were presenT and The l-lonorable John Devaney was The guesT speaker. Keys were procured Tor The enTire socieTy as a disTinguishing mark Tor iTs mem- bers. These keys are oT gold, wiTh The seal oT The college on The obverse, and a ' ' ' d l ' column on The suiTable emblem consisTing oT a T square, Triangle an an onic reverse. Scheduled lecTures were given by many prominenT meTropoliTan archiTecTs. These men, auThoriTies in Their chosen proTession, were James O'Connor, designer oT lvlan- T B ArTs: Clarence lvlerriTT, a graduaTe oT Colum- haTTan College and secreTary o eaux ' ' T' ' William Knowles, a graduaTe oT The bla and presidenT oT The lvlerard Corpora ion, ' ' ' ' A T ' William Delaney, an asso- Ecoles des Beaux ArTs in Paris and a criTic Tor Beaux r s, d reci ienT oT a lvlasTer's Degree Trom ManhaTTan1 ciaTe oT James O'Connor an a p 'd l k wn exponenT oT modern archiTecTure. and Raymond l-lood, The mosT wi ey no ' ' ' b r neverTheless, by The members oT The class, alThough admiTTedly Tew in num e , I 'l held The poliTics oT The senior class in Their Torce oT Their personaliTies, have easi y u ' ' ' T Th nior class and holds besides, oTher hands. Ambrose ONeil is presidenT o e se . . ' ' ' ' ' F k D'Amico is presidenT oT The imporTanT posiTions in exTra-curricular acTiviTies. ran i ' TTooTball. Leonard Palumbo is capTain, and RoberT lTalian Club as well as manager o n . l l TT rTs have exTended To acTive parTicipTion Burns manager oT The golT Team. Ts e o in dramaTics, debaTing, Glee Club rehearsals as well as To Quadrangle and lvlanhaT- TaniTe enTerprises. ln conclusion iT may be Truly said ThaT many TacTors: ioyand sorrow, humor and Th T 'lure and Tinal success Tellowship and enduring Triendship were so com- uls wiTh sweeTesT pa os, ai . I , I bined as To make our career aT college a delighT, Tilling our so f melody and richesT harmony Thar shall compel us To reTurn oTTen To The source o This scholasTic symphony-lvlanhaTTan. V ' on gui, i UMM - ff7fi'i?2: , . air. iiiif - J ,.. - .,,'5n.... 9'as...,.of4., .T -.A ,,, 1...,, . 299

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