Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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Left to right : Janet Reberdy. Tese O’Reilly, Kay Norton, Jean Ellis (chairman), Jeanne Plante, Jody Casgrain, Joan Murphy. W elf are THE Welfare Committee is a group of delegates representing the student body and the faculty in equal proportion, whose aim is to control the extra-curricular activities of the college and to determine collegiate standards in matters of taste and social intercourse. It is the committee notorious for that certain well-known device, the persistent “social censure.” It is one of the reasons why moccasins do not appear at dinner, and spectators do — why even pre-war gum is, paradoxically enough, more advantageous in its wrapper than out. It is not the iron-dynasty of a few budding Emily Posts, Jr., but the consensus of the college opinion of what we want Manhattan- ville to be, a place where the best is never too good and anything less is never quite good enough. 17

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Left to right : Pat Coffey, Ellie Carr, Jody Casgrain, (chairman), Mary Ann Roney. Isabel Casgrain, Dorothy Murray, Pat Norton, Pat Skakel. Student Government ALTHOUGH at heart they really would not have it otherwise, there are times when Student Government must deplore the fact that man was horn a “social animal.” Theirs is a Jekyll and Hyde ex¬ istence. Though never quite the average campusite, they live in a human, humorous imitation of her until it is time for “those who wish to check in for demerits —or the eight-thirty bell. Then because we saw in them the look of a leader and elected accordingly, they become apart; become Student Government. Theirs is the supreme art of the tactful “we,” the preference for suggestion rather than demand. We like that subtlety of command, and it works. Perhaps it works also because we like Student Government, whose members we can forget to call leader because we ' re so busy calling them friend. 16

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Upper, left to right: Marian Moto, Janet Reberdy, Esther Ann Whalen. Lower, left to right: Betty McCormack, Kay Norton, Dorothy Murray, Carmen Valdes (chairman), Jody Casgrain, Ellie Carr. Children of Mary “Just a little bit more.” That one phrase sums up the attitude of the Children of Mary — just a little more time at meditation in spite of moon¬ light mornings or pouring rain, just a little more effort to arrive at the beads for peace. It is that especially warming smile, or that extra “Need some help?” that makes the difference; that willingness to go more than half way to discover what is on the other side. But at the root of it all, it is that driving desire to give the “over and above” to God—not long-faced asceticism hut love, pure and simple, of all that God has given us to do; a love which expresses itself above all in prayer, united with the rest of the Children of Mary from the gates of Manhattanville, around the world, and back up 18 Convent Avenue again.