Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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A .uxiliaify Sociezfie 235 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HR oldest, largest and most loyal Manhattan group is the association of former Manhattan nien known as the Alumni Association. For more than three quarters of a century this group has been the closest-knit and most enthusiastic asseinblege, of Manhattan rooters. From the honors and distinc- tions that come to them, they have indi- vidually and collectively reflected credit

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'41 is Permanent Chairman of the group. Staten Island Club is planning several social affairs to take place ou the Island before, and during, the Surnnier. An an- nual dance will be instituted, and a june Lawn Party and Club Dinner will be held. Gflicers oit the Staten Island Club are: Ioseph Kiersky, of the Senior Arts class, President: W'illiam Thompson, Junior Artsman, V ice President: V in Cavan- augh, Junior Business student, Business 2 Managerg and Kevin 0'Brien, of Junior Science, Treasurer. The potential strength of this club is great. XY e expect to be the strongest or- ganization on the Quadrangle in a :few short months. And with the full coopera- tion ot all uieuibers of our convival group, we shall win success in that endeavor. If we fail, and are not to be found. then everyone will know that our ferryboat was rainmed by a garbage scow, and that we sank with all hands right in the middle of New York Bay.

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on their Alma Mater, and in every crisis, through the years, they have been most dependable to assist her in her problems and in her opportunity. Primarily composed of those whose courses here were successfully termin- ated, whose work in the college was crowned with the scholastic success of a degree, the Society has taken on, partic- ularly during these war years, many an enthusiastic Manhattanite whose course in the college was but a short run, many who, in former times might have been listed as ex-members. The draft and the fortunes of war took many of these in whose work the college may justifiably glory and the alumni group has in recog- nizing the import of the situation, added here and there, many a name of a Man- hattanite in spirit and in the course of time, in fact. At the seventy-seventh annual ban- quet, held this year on Saturday evening, February ninth in the East Ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, more than six hundred members of the fifty-two hun- dred active alumni met in a festive spirit to rejoice in the reunion after military and naval campaigns, met to celebrate together for many their return to civilian status and to reshape the friendships so tightly knit in college days. Presided over by Dr. Joseph L. McGoldrick, F.A.S.A., President of the association, it featured a recall to Christian morality voiced by the United States Solicitor-General, the Honorable I. Howard McGrath, LL.D., honoris causa, '-l2. The most interesting talk of the evening was delivered by Brother B. Thomas, Ph.D., LL.D., Pres- ident of the college, to whose report on the state of the college the assembled group listened with the greatest attention and interest. Besides stressing the in- crease of the enrollment of the college 2 1 l fosvfwlz L. IUC Goldrick, AID., F.A.S.A. Pl'CSI.dl'llf of H10 JKHIIIIIIII' Society and the problems connected therewith, Brother Thomas commented favorably on the newest project of the Association, the establishment and maintenance of the Alumni Fund for the beneht of the col- lege. VVilliam I. Kenville spoke for the class of Nineteen twenty-one, observing its silver jubilee and Bryan I. Kellway voiced the confused sentiments of the average man in the class of Nineteen forty-live, whose career was so check- ered, whose program was so accelerated and whose outlook on life was so dis- ordered by the problems presented by a world at war. Notable in the achievements of the Association is the organization, under the direction of Brother Conrad, of the complete and modern alumni oflice at the school. From the files kept here, from the equipment installed here and from the painstaking and excellent care given to the details of the Association here, much of the benefits of the Society can be traced. It is here that records are kept that insure the mailing of the News- letter to all the members of the Associa- tion, it is here that the donations and annual contributions to the Alumni Fund are carefully recorded and checked.