Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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were C. Bernard McCartan, Dave Maloof, John Bird, Romeo Sterlini, and William Burns. Lauer and Fleenor teamed up on the busi- ness end of the annual. Their slogan, Let ' s make the Maiihattanite a credit, not a debit to Manhattan! inspired them to browbeat the local merchants and anyone else who had some money to spare into buying those lucrative advertisements, hicidentally, please do patronize our advertisers. Art Bunce of the Sports Department went along methodically piling up pictures and copy until the baseball season sneaked up on him and knocked his nice schedule into Van Courtlandt Park lake. Among his major difficulties was getting pictures of the base- ball team in action in a blinding blizzard. But he did get the pictures. Copy Editor Joe Price had so little to do in the early Spring that he was begging for some work. His cries turned to moans, how- ever, when in early May he found himself literally snowed under ' with copy. However, Gerry Fitzgerald managed to get things fairly well organized along about 183

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M.i ' J.l.ii ' ' -y i ' U ' t J ' . J Lj tt I . Phuto,e,ruph) Ediliji f) ' Coiiikji . AXjnjgiu Editor Eiautrjn. pus were ery anxious to pnmde us with informal snapshots of the campus, espe- cially with him. plates, and flash bulbs scarce and expensne. While we were tryint; to conMnce them that they should be t;lad to put forth time and money for the glory of seeing their pictures appear in the Man- hattanite, we had other troubles: a) Finneran ' s girl returned from Florida, b) Malley went to work in a drug store, c) Thompson graduated, d) No one would turn in anything. e) No one would ha e his picture taken, f) There is more to graduating than meets the eye, g) Time marches on. Art Editor joe Kiersky, the mad Bohemian who has a studio in the attic of Cniribaldi ' s House in Staten Island, sas the only one who started to work early. He was turning out colorful title pages like Ford rolls out V-8 ' s until one day he iips and leaves for Fordham. Can vou imagine a Fordham man as an Editor of a Manhattan publication.- ' Worst of all, he had not completed all the title pages when he got caught in the toils of the Maroon law school, and Fitzgerald broke down and wept bitter salt tears until we dug up Sophomore Jim Bangert w ho also dabs a mean canvas. Photography Editor Joe O ' Connor organ- ized an enterprising crew to take informal photographs of activities at Manhattan. The Termini Brothers, John and Al, did yeoman work by turning up at all hours and in all places with their trusty cameras. Of the thou- sand-odd prints that appear m this Md)!- hattiUiite. It is safe to say that Al Termini alone is responsible for at least a quarter of them. Quadrangle Copy Editor No. 5, Charles Cdiuck Riker. proxed to be a find when he prox ' ided Fitzgerald, Malley and Co. with excellent prints of such e ents as the May 1 Pray for the Russians meeting on the Quadrangle, and Graduation Day. Among the others who contributed worthy material 182

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Riiiiie ' . Mjllcy and FinatKild. the iniJJIc oF the second semester. With the aid Dt his side kick hnm the 0 hiili iii li- ' (and from way back), Frank Malley, and one other retired (J uul l;ditor-in-C ' hief, John Finneran, he finally t;ot his aried editors to operatini; with something that resembled efficiency. Make-up was largely a matter of collabo- ration. Associate and Manasiini; Editors Mai- Copt Edlhil PllCt .III J l-IIZi O.lU. ley and I ' lnneran worked out the typography and layout, and then consulted with Fitz- gerald ft)r final approxal. Gradually things began to shape up. After hectic weeks of organizing, typing, sketching, and selecting we began to work with the printer. Then we had our h.mds full with consultations at the printer ' s, with proof reading and final re isions when we should ha e been locjking for )obs. Thanks to good copy and better linotypers Alt EJi ' i Kiciily. few errt rs were spotted in the hnal proof re.iding. True we are harried by the thought that there just must ha e been more that wc did not catch. Then, with the last minute check-ups, with labels and final switching of engravings and photographs, with an eye to color and the trust our imagined spots would work out satisfactorily, we abandoned our work to the hands of Mr. Kelly and our hopes to the hands of Ciod. 184