Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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ture commensurate with some of the ex- cellent volumes that have preceded it and to hold a torch to those that follow. It has tried with fairness to all concerned to record permanently some of the hap- penings during the tenure of this Senior class. its quality as a piece of literature can be best ascertained in retrospect - after it has gathered dust and reverence in the libraries of Manhattan men who may occasionally refer to it for this or that phase of their years at college. Only in the light of this retrospect can the editors know that they have created some- thing worthwhile in the history of Man- hattan and in the memories of the men of Manhattan. THE QUA DRA N GLE HORDE of veterans dropped their swords this year and came running back to Manhattan to give the pen a whirl through the medium of the Quadrangle. During the first se- mester, Ed Reilly, discharged from the Marine Corps after serving three years as a combat correspondent, took over the position of Assistant Managing Editor, with Bill Gately as Editor in Chief, George Collins, as Associate Editor, and Fred'Katzenherger as Managing Editor, chief cartoonist, and jack of all trades. VVith the advent of the second semes- ter though, things really began to pop. Some of the Quad stailf were drafted, some of the writers dropped out of school, and things became generally snafued with regard to personnel. Then came a change of printers neces- sitating a complete change of style for the Quadrangle. In keeping with new 2 modernistic type faces, the whole set-up' had to be streamlined, and the whole tone of the paper changed. Luckily the new semester also brought a batch of former Quad men back to fill in the gaps and help put out this revised newspaper. Gerry Fitzgerald Conce Man- aging Editorj left the Infantry flO3rd Divisionj and became News Editor, Frank Malley left off tinkering with P-38s, and became Managing Editorg Bill Miller returned from some island in the Pacific to fill the Sports Editor's slot, and these veterans plus the striplings who had missed the war, proceeded to work toward improving the Quad. There were plenty of troubles that had to be handled, but at long last there seems to be some sign of improvement. An effort was made to revert to many of the trademarks of the pre-war Quad. For example the various columns, Asides, Young Man of Manhattan, Present- ing, Hjaspers on Deck, and Jasper jottingsf' were reinstated in a form as close as possible to their originals. Still more important, a sort of humor- ous spontaneity that was an outstanding feature of past Quadrangles Qespecially through the work of such people as john Keating, Bill McHale, Dick Dunphy, Bob lfValsh and Frank Dohertyj was aimed at. We must have achieved some- thing of the sort, if we may judge from the responses we got when we ran a feature Cpurely as a gagj by Bill Thomp- son stating that Army jeeps could be bought for QB64.00. Frank Hennessy, Walter Ruddy and john McDermott have been outstanding for injecting a real note of humor into the Quad. Editor Reilly has covered a number of subjects in his Young Man column rang- l 4 J

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M ff QUADRANGLE BULL GATELY FRANK MALLEY FRED KATZENBERGER JOHN FLOOD FRANK SHERIDAN JOHN B. WALSH TXVO SCENES FROM MAISON BLANC ED REILLY 215