Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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IN MEMORIAM Reverend Mother Mary Moran, R.S.C.J. Manhattanville was inexpressibly saddened by the news of the death of Reverend Mother Mary Moran, at Kenwood, February 25, 1934. Reverend Mother Moran founded in 1917 the College to which she has been always united by the bonds of interest and love. Reverend Mother Moran was born in Ireland in 1851, was educated in France, entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in England at Roehampton, and returned to France in 1881 to make her profession. Later she founded the Training College at St. Charles, London, and was its first principal. From England she went to Montreal and was in charge of all the Convents of the Sacred Heart in Canada, until 1908 when she came to Manhattanville as Vicar of the Eastern Vicariate. She busied herself with the constant improvement and beautifying of the Manhattanville grounds and buildings. In 1914, she had the Joy of preparing fhe meeting of all the Superiors of North America for the retreat with Reverend Mother Janet Stuart, the Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart. In 1916, His Eminence, Cardinal Farley asked her to found a college here; and in 1917 a provisional charter was granted, which was made permanent in 1919. Reverend Mother Moran was the first President of the College, and it was under her wise guidance that its spirit and traditions took their mold. Always whole-heartedly devoted to the Church and the Vicar of Christ, Reverend Mother Moran did not hesitate to dare the unknown. Her foundation of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music in answer to the Holy Father ' s Motu Proprio is a lasting testimony of this. Reverend Mother Moran was present at both the Beatification and the Canonization of Saint Madeleine Sophie; and her last visit to the Holy City was in 1928 for a general council of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Three years later she celebrated her Golden Jubilee, shortly after which Reverend Mother Moran suffered a complete breakdown. She remained in ill-health until her death in I 934. No less remarkable than her work for Manhattanville were her accomplishments for the whole Eastern Vicariate. After 1918, she was no longer at Manhattanville; but she never failed to work for its welfare, including it in the wide field of her activities over all the convents. Reverend Mother Moran founded the Academies of the Sacred Heart at Washington, D. C., and Noroton, Connecticut, and transferred those of Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston to better locations. Her interest in and zeal for the college and the academies were undiminished to the end of her intensely active life, and her action is so bound up with the early days of the college that it is impossible to separate the thought of Manhattanville from that of its founder. Her memory, her influence, her ideals are alive in the college. [7]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION IN MEMORIAM TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION WARDENS FACULTY EDITORIAL STAFF CAMPUS SENIOR CLASS JUNIOR CLASS SOPHOMORE CLASS FRESHMEN CLASS CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS CALENDAR DIRECTORY ADVERTISEMENTS

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IN MEMORIAM The Most Reverend John J. Dunn While we were away from the College for our summer vacation, we were grieved to learn of the death, on August third, 1933, of The Most Reverend John J. Dunn, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. As pastor of the Church of The Annunciation, which adjoins Manhattanville, and as a friend of the College, his loss is irreparable. The Missionary Association of Manhattanville has special reason to regret his death and revere his memory. Bishop Dunn was Chairman of the Directors of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and for thirty years an inspiring leader in all missionary activities in the diocese. Wherever Catholic priests or nuns are working to bring souls to Christ in the pagan lands of the earth, there Bishop Dunn ' s name is held in veneration; for during the past thirty years millions of dollars have, through his efforts, been collected in the Archdiocese of New York and through the country for the relief and support of Catholic Foreign Missions. Bishop Dunn founded the Catholic Students ' Foreign Mission League, whose object it is to foster a missionary spirit in our Catholic schools and colleges. Manhattanville, all of whose students are members of this league, will never cease to revere the memory of Bishop Dunn. [8]