Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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■,-, «■, ■• •■ ' ■ ' y-. . •«? HE week to which some had looked forward for a full year, examination week, had suddenly come and ' one, and Friday, June 6 was upon us heraldmi; the close of the 1946-1947 school year. The followmt; day marked the opemnt of the four-day Senior Week. In the annual Alumni Reunion held on the campus, the class of 1947 was ofiicially inducted into the Alumni Society and unofficially met an over- flow crowd of enthusiastic old grads. Monsignor William R. McCann delivered the Baccalaureate sermon at a Mass attended by the Senior Class and their relatives and friends on Sunday, June « in DeLaSalle Chapel on the campus. On Monday, the t raduatint; class with- drew to the campus for a one-day retreat conducted by the CoUet e chaplain. Father Steffens, and on the followint; day, June 10, His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman presided at the 92nd Annual Commencement Exercises of the Collet e. Bachelor ' s degrees were conferred upon one hundred and forty- six members t)f the Class of 19-47. As though to mark the return of peaceful achievement the day was fine. An enthusiastic throng of parents and relatives, clad in their gayest summer things sat again on the sunny campus and witnessed the unrolling of the traditional Lcremony in the balmy out-of- doors. As they peered through the thick foli- age at the ivy-ct)vered walls they must have drunk in some of the peace the scene so suc- cessfully portrayed. We might well be on our way tt the struggle with the world but our closing ceremony was redolent and expressive of peace and fulfillment. Honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws were conferred on Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Eastern Church; Monsignor William R. McCann, Pastor of the Churches of St. Charles Borromeo cUid St. Aloysius; Joseph F. Lamb, Supreme Secretary of the Knights of Columbus; and Patrick F. Scanlan, Man- aging Editor of the Bronkly) Ttihlet. Gradu- ating Scienceman William Byrnes delivered 216

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RADIO CLUB THE Society for the Study of Electronics, known familiarly as the Radio Club, is probably the only active club on the campus that cannot boast a duly elected group of officers. Nor has it had a scheduled meeting of members all year. However, Brother Bona- venture Anthony and an enthusiastic group of prospective hams have combined to form the oddest and yet one of the most active extra-curricular organizations at Manhattan. Early in the school year Brother Anthony realized that it would be impossible to gather all students interested in radio at one meet- ing because of the great difference in class schedules under the morning-afternoon-exe- ning mixed system of classes. As a result. he announced that radio-interested men need not wait for regular meetings in order to avail themselves of the considerable appa- ratus in the college laboratories. So that with- out regular meetings or a group of executive officers, the Society has proven to be one of the most popular and most practical of the campus activities. At the very end of the school year, on June 7, the group gathered in one of its rare meetings and journeyed to mid-town New York for a tour of one of the largest broad- casting studios. Popular in interest, the group has decided to remain active during the sum- mer months and meet regularly novv ' that the morning schedule permits. 215

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Ia the Bachelor ' s Oration, while Mr. Scanlan made the Address to the Class of 1947. The final activity of the school year was the Senior Ball at the Hotel Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening, June 11, which marked the fittingly successful termination of the undergraduate career of the Class of 1947, according to Dance Chairman Raphael G. Riverso, graduating Engineer. Not long after our departure from the campus the halls and walls rang again to the sound of our successors as they registered for the summer sessions and began classes on Monday, June 16. Their story belongs to an- other volume. They belong to the future, to the long line of young men of which Man- tan has been and will be a part. Theirs is the link that binds us to them and binds them to the long lines who will continue to learn to love our Alma Mater. 217