Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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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

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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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MANHATTAN ENGINEER Proudest moment of O ' Keefe ' s editorial career was the night of November 21 at At- lantic City ' s Hotel Ambassador when he accepted the A. F. Davis award for 1946. THE MANHATTAN ENGINEER was peared twice in its new quarterly format, founded in 1940 to give the undergradu- Joseph Gambone then succeeded to the seat ates in the School of Engineering a medium of editor w4ien the Spring term t)pened. in which they could expound their ideas in the engineering field. The first departmental periodical published at Manhattan, it is still the only technical journal. The Engineer is an outgrowth of The Transit News, an engineering alumni pub- lication which acted as a medium of news of the engineering alumni. The News is still retained, but only as one department of The Manhattan Engineer. Junior Engineer George E, O ' Keefe su ceeded former editor John B. Walsh as Edi- tor-in-Chief at the beginning of the school year, and under O ' Keefe the periodical ap- 185