Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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1934 ♦ THE TOWER The Trustees of the College GERTRUDE BODKIN, R.S.C.J., Ph.D., Honorary President GRACE C. DAMMANN, R.S.C.J., President DEMETRIUS ZEMA, S.J., Ph.D. ELLEN C. GREEN, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. LOUISE HAMILTON, R.S.C.J. MARY B. TENNEY, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. JEAN LEVIS, R.S.C.J., B.A. THOMAS F. WOODLOCK, A.M., LL.D. MRS. NICHOLAS F. BRADY BRUNO BENZIGER BASIL HARRIS, B.Litt. Officers of Administration GRACE C. DAMMANN, R.S.C.J. ELLEN C. GREEN, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. LOUISE HAMILTON, R.S.C.J. MARY B. TENNEY, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. ELIZABETH IVES, R.S.C.J. .President .Dean .Treasurer Secretary and Registrar .Librarian Wardens FLORENCE SMITH, R.S.C.J., M.A.House Warden BERTHE LECROIX, R.S.C.J. .Warden for the Senior Class LOUISE BENZINGER, R.S.C.J.. Warden for the Class of 1935 MARY ESTHER McCARTHY, R.S.C.J., M.A.Warden for the Class of 1936 ELEANOR O ' BYRNE, R.S.C.J., M.A..Warden for the Class of 1937 [ 10 ]

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IN MEMORIAM The Right Reverend Monsignor William J. Guinan The Right Reverend Monsignor William J. Guinan died on May twenty-seventh, 1933. He was a trustee of the College, one of the originators of the New York Apostolate Mission Band, and for seventeen years rector of the Church of The Blessed Sacrament. In Monsignor Guinan we lose an eloquent preacher, a fruitful missionary, an efficient administrator, and a learned and devout priest. To him Christ was a great and living reality. He saw Him in every man, and this faith and vision became the foundation of his boundless charity. His capacity for friendship impressed itself upon all those with whom he came into contact, and this fact is witnessed by the large number of friends whom he left behind him. Manhattanville knew him well, not only in his position as an efficient trustee but also as an invaluable friend. He continually practiced the virtue of prayerfulness and he himself gave a devoted example in his preachings. Perhaps the best summing-up of his character is given by the Reverend Michael A. Riley, who, in the funeral address for this distinguished prelate, said: Monsignor Guinan will continue to live in our affections; he will live in his work, in the hearts of the children he educated, and above all he will live in the hearts of the Master Whom he always strove to love and serve. IN MEMORIAM Mother Edith Olive Edmands, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. On November twenty-ninth, 1933, the college was informed of the death of Mother Edith Edmands at Kenwood. This sad news meant a real loss to Manhattanville; for Mother Edmands was not only known but well-loved by all who had come in contact with her during her years at the college. She was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, in 1880, and educated at the Tilton Seminary, N. H., and Boston University. At both these institutions she was remark¬ able for her brilliance of intellect and for her beauty of character. Later, while working in a publisher ' s office, she made the acquaintance of a Catholic friend. She read the Fathers of the Church and had a particular interest in St. Augustine. Father Gillis ' talks and sermons, and daily attendance at Mass finally led her into the Church. She was baptized in 1911. The next year she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart at Kenwood, and made her vows in 1914. She was sent to Boston, where she taught for two years. At the end of that time, she was transferred to Manhattanville, where she remained, with the exception of six months in Rome in 1920, until 1930, as head of the department of Latin and Greek. Her health broke down in 1930, and she was sent to Kenwood in the hope that she would grow better. After an apparent recovery, she came back to Manhattanville, but she suffered a relapse and was obliged to return to Kenwood, where she died on November twenty- ninth, to the sorrow of her many friends. At Manhattanville, Mother Edmands was loved and admired for her straight¬ forward manner and ready wit. She was a special foe of sham or unreality in any form. Witty without being sarcastic, the impersonal way in which she could point out flaws or errors never left a sting. Her love of, and interest in the classics was infectious; and so great was her enthusiasm that a lesson in Latin syntax took on something of the nature of an adventure. Mother Edmands founded the Classical Club and started it on its distinguished career. An interesting sidelight on her love of the classics, was her collection of elephants—which her successive classes assembled as a memento of Livy and Hannibal. Mother Edmands was the author of our well-loved In Exultatione Metens which is sung at every commencement. She was faculty adviser of the TOWER and the ESSAY for some years. But with all her duties, she always had time for friendly conversation with any of the students. The girls who knew her, remember her best for her understanding and sympathy, which, out of class hours, was given equally to the just and the unjust. Mother Edmands ' death is a loss to Manhattanville which can hardly be measured. [9]

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THE TOWER - 1934 Faculty GRACE C. DAM MANN, R.S.C.J..President ELLEN C. GREEN, R.S.C.J., Ph.D.Dean and Professor of Philosophy JOSEPH ASSMLCH, S.J., Ph.D..Professor of Biology VICTORIA AVELLANEDA, R.S.C.J...Professor of Spanish ENID BARHAM, R.S.C.J., B.A.Instructor in English LOUISE BENZIOER, R.S.C.J.Assistant in the Art Department AC ' HILLE BRAGERS (Conservatory of Brussels).Assistant Professor of Music SARAH BROWNSON, R.S.C.J., Ph.D.Professor of English ANGELA M. CAVE, M.A. (Oxon.J.Associate Professor of English LUCIENNE VAN DE CAVEYE (Medaille d ' or de L ' Academie Francaise) Professor of German KATHLEEN CONNICK, R.S.C.J., M.A..Instructor in Mathematics MARY CORRIGAN, R.S.C.J., M.A. Director of Laboratories of Physical Science WILLIAM F. FAIR, Jr., Ph.D.Professor of Chemistry JOHN J. HARTIGAN, S.T.L.. .Professor of Religion HELEN MARIE HAUBOLD, B.A.. Assistant in Chemistry LLOYD BURDWIN HOLSAPPLE, M.A. (Oxon.). Professor of Latin and Greek ELIZABETH IVES, R.S.C.J.Professor of Italian LOUISE KEYES, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy BERTHE LECROIX, R.S.C.J., Brev. Sup..Professor of French MABEL C. LIVINGSTON (Mrs. James Duane).Instructor in Speech and Dramatics JOHN F. LOHAN, M.A.Professor of Sociology MARY ESTHER McCARTHY, R.S.C.J., M.A..Associate Professor of Music RUDOLF KARL MICHELS, Ph.D..Professor of Economics and Finance JULIO A. MIRA, C ' .E. Professor of Mathematics CHARLOTTE MITCHELL, R.S.C.J., B.A.Instructor in English ROBERT BURNS MORRISSEY, S.M.Professor of Physics ELEANOR O ' BYRNE, R.S.C.J., B.A. (Oxon.), M.A.Associate Professor of History FRANCIS CRAWFORD PAGE, B.A., B.Mus. Assistant Professor of Music MARY PHELAN PATTERSON, R.S.C.J., M.A..Instructor in English ELIZABETH G. SALMON, Ph.D. (Louv.) .Assistant Professor of Philosophy CM]