Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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Brownson Honor Society Since its establishment in 1940, we, “the Uninvited,” have gazed in reverence at the members of the Brownson Honor Society, and dared only to whisper their names. Yet, as we become Juniors and Seniors, our own best friends join that select body and we realize that they are human after all. The paragons of perfection are not members; they are too busy being perfect. But the girls who are vitally alive in mind and spirit are elected. They are intellectually stimulat¬ ing yet we have all gone to a horror movie with them; they show promise of continuing intellectual interests in the fu¬ ture yet we have also seen them concerned over the future of a new red gabardine suit. In Orestes Brownson we ob¬ serve a “logical mind at work.” In the members of the Honor Society, we see modern logical minds, discussing anything from contemporary scholastic thought to the best yarn for socks. Standing, left to right : Camille Fleck, Muriel Reno, Kathleen Parrish, Betty Baxter, Ellie Carr. Seated, left to right: Carmen Valdes, Betty McCormack, Marian Moto, Ruth Nurre, Sally Cassidy, Mary France Hislaire, Dorothy Mur¬ ray, Peggy Corcoran, Pat Dempsey, Alice Jourdain, Marie Arrellano, Joan Smyth, Gabrielle Morin, Anna Moriarty.

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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.

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Catholic Action Council “THE participation of the laity in the work of the hierarchy” is the defini¬ tion of Catholic Action. Therefore almost any action can be Catholic and Manhattanville has made it so. Nurse’s Aide, Basketball, Cooking, and posters have become as integral a part as Catechism classes, Girl Scouts, and the Inter-racial and Liturgical Committees. Those long subway rides to Barat have become interwoven in our minds with the monthly forums and the N.F.C.C.S. Carmen and Father Carrabine stand out against a background of speakers. We won the National Inter-racial Commission at the Chicago meeting of the N.F.C.C.S. and are determined to “plant the seed that will grow into a tree of justice,” educating people out of a prejudice. Proudest of all is our boast that at Manhattanville every girl is a Catholic 20 Actioner, participating to the best of her ability in the work of the hierarchy.