Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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LEO LABOR CLUB EXPOUNDING the teachings of Pope Leo XIII, the great champion of labor, the Leo Labor Club has of recent years assumed an important role in the extra-curricular world of Manhattan. L ' nder the capable supervision of Brother C. Justin, President Joseph Beaney, Vice- President James Moran, Secretary John Ryan and Treasurer William Rooney, the club has been one of the hardest-workinc and least- publicized groups on the campus. Acting as a regional commission on labor in the National Federation of Catholic College Students, the club has sponsored, in conjunction with the Commerce Club of the School of Business, a series of talks on labor and management open to the student body. Among the prominent speakers brought to the campus were Reverend John Monaghan, chaplain of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists; Harold Zulauf, vice-president of the Alexander Smith Carpet Company, and Edward Scully, ' 2y, one of the founders of the A. C. T. U. President Joseph Beaney and Vice-Presi- dent James Moran graduated in February, and a new election was held. The excLutne group thereafter was William Rooney, John Ryan, John Cassidy, and Philip Beninato. 167

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COMMISSION ON STUDENT GOVERNMENT SINCE April, ly 10, when Manhattan Col- let;e assumed the responsibility of organiz- ini; the study ot undergraduate administra- tion of campus aeti ities, the chau-manship of the National Commission on Student Government has been located at the Ri ' er- dale campus. Handling over eight thousand pieces of correspondence, the Commission has acted as a national clearing house of student go ' ernment information during the seven years of its existence. Through a program of research, study, and preparation, the Commission is patiently working toward completing one of its pri- mary objectives, that of issuing a model con- stitution. The task of completing a hnal model constitutuin for student governments throughout the country being a difficult and time-absorbint; one, the Commission has been carefully studying and e aluating every fea- ture of the numerous Catholic college con- stitutions, utilizing worthwhile articles in secular college student constitutions, and carefully checking recent publications for new innovations in the student government held. During the past year, the Commission composed of Chairman John Bach, John J. McCarthy, John Brosnan, and Albert J. Coak- ley has published a revised draft of a pro- visional constitution as well as a revised edition of a bibliography on student govern- ment and parliamentary procedure. In March the group issued a ten-page Sur ' ey Report of student go ernment status today which was distributed to each chapter president and Faculty moderator in the country. 166

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In spite nf promises and fanfare, however, the Veterans t roup failed to beeX)me the potent gn)up which those concerned hoped it would be. Weary students who had spent three long months trying to figure out crazy class sched- ules which kept them up on the Riverdale HE final month of 1946 was re- plete with all the festive events typical of the season of Christ- mas. The yuletide spirit prevailed as the waning year slipped swiftly into the unknown abyss of the past. The Manhattan College Veteran ' s Organi- zation made its bid for a place in the sun by organizing and holding elections of offi- cers. Phil Beninato, Senior Businessman, was elected president. His fellow officers were Vice-President Walter Ruddy, Secretary James Quinn and Secretary Joseph Tobin. hillside at odd hours of the day and night were reHe ed to hear on Wednesday, De- cember 11, that classes would immediately return to a normal schedule that ruled out all evenin classes. In a memorandum to the heads of the various college departments, Brother B Thomas, president of the college, said: 1 wish to express my sincere appreciation for the patience exercised by the faculty and students alike under the trying conditions to date. I also appeal to all for a further exercise of patience knowing that the physi- 168