Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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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.

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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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Missionary Association The Missionary Association is moral encouragement and material support for many missionaries. The activities behind this support are feverish and varied: the monthly dues, the New York gathering to pack Christmas baskets, the Bridge and Fashion Show, the speakers at Assemblies, the newly born Mission News and Mother Britt s talks on the Far East. The Propogation of the Faith, kept before us by dozens of ingenious methods, has become and will always remain a living thing at Manhattanville. Defense Council Organized in a minute-man manner before Pearl Harbor, the eager, patriotic spirit of the Defense Council remains in this third year of war. Human effort extended to the limit can go only so far; aided by prayer, it can go farther, and that “farther is the purpose of the Council. Composed of officers of war committees throughout the college, it meets to combine aims in an effective manner. Without war paint or even gold braid, it is a serious, capable council. MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION DEFENSE COUNCIL