Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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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

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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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STATEN ISLAND CLUB FOR thirteen years the Staten Island Club has laid substantial claim to bein L; Manhattan ' s most active campus organiza- tion. This IS largely due to the close tie-in between the campus group and its parent organization, the Manhattan College Club of Staten Island, which has been a strong- hold of alumni activity for several years. Enrollment in the club has always been limited to bona hde natives of the forgotten borough, Staten Island, but this year saw an innovation when the doors were thrown open to all those who attended the old Staten Island Dnision of Manhattan, be they Island- ers or not. With these relaxed membership restrictions, the club has this year grown to the greatest strength in its history, fifty-two active members. Early in the school year. Brother B. Thomas, President of the College, made an appropriate appointment when he selected Brother Bernard, former Dean of the Staten Island Division, to become mod- erator of the Richmondites. A well-hlled stjcial calendar was high- lighted by a Combined Operations Tea Dance on the Island which was sponsored jointly by the Staten Island Club and the upper classes of Notre Dame College for girls located on Staten Island. A sell-out affair, the success of the Tea Dance fore- cast many such similar socials between the two schools . Under the iruidance of Brother Bernard, the officers of the Staten Island Club for the 1946-19-i7 year were as follows: Junior Artsman John T. O ' Brien, President; Junior Businessman Mel Taverna, ' Vice-President; Senior Businessman George Fosket, Secre- tary; and Senior Businessman Al Widmayer, Treasurer. 218