Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Irish Cultural Society CINCE taking form in 1939, the Irish Cul- tural Society has been composed of stu- dents who are interested in learning and spreading the glorious heritage of Ireland, the culture of a people admired by all. Bi-monthly meetings and lecture periods have always taken place before a large and enthusiastic audience. The official organ of the Society, ' ' The Irish Record, ranked with the best of the campus publications before it ceased to exist because of wartime conditions. The guiding force last year behind the re- birth of the group was energetic John P. Grady, Junior Arts, President. Helping to unfurl the creen banner at greater heights than e er before was Vice-President, Tom Donahue; Secretary, Jim Keane; and Treas- urer, Jim Griffin. A year of successful activity commenced with the first annual forum featuring Pro- fessor Collins Healy. Other activities included a tea dance, sponsorship of a school song contest and a well attended dance at the Concourse Plaza on March 12. The bit: event of the year was of course the St. Patrick ' s Day parade where the march- ing group was organized into the most for- midable array of Manhattan representatives in the history of the parade, thanks to the work of the Irish Cultural Society. 191

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The Manhattan Engineers ' T ' HE Manhattan Engineers, running neck- - • and-neck with the Commerce Club in the race for unification and accompHshment, came out easy winner, in tlieir own words; but stand in unportance only as a ehicle for political campus maneu ers, if arts or businessmen are to be believed. In its ninth year of life, most probably neither of these extremes are true. The mem- bers look upon their organization as home, and one in which undergraduates of the School of Engineering can hold social and professional meetings. As a matter of fact, the closeness of the group has been demon- strated time and again; the Annual Engineers Ball and the Communion Breakfast are peren- nial sellouts. Getting into the Engineers ' Ball assumes the proportions of buying tick- ets for an opening night of a Broadway musical, though the club usually has the use of the largest dance floor in the city: The main ballroom of the Hotel Commodore. The Communion Breakfast boasts of the same enthusiasm — a matter of pride of this organization. And to further demonstrate their alue to the campus, the officers see to it that substantial contributions to the coffers of charity are made, the Brother Benilde Patrick Scholarship Fund and the Vincentians being two engineer favorites. The society deserves recognition for hav- ing built up an organization which brings much credit to the college, particularly off the campus. 193