Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

Page 28 text:

Debating Club A TYPICAL Tuesday night in the conference room would find Helen Gray presiding with quiet charm. Mother Tenney nodding assent, and Sally Cassidy or Marcella Weston firing questions at a fellow member. Throughout the year formal de¬ bates have alternated with informal discussions of current interest, offering opportunity in prepared and extemporaneous speaking. A round-table dis¬ cussion attended by the college, was conducted in November on the topic, “U. S. among the United Left to right: Kathleen Colligan, Helen « . ,, r ,, , . A r , , ... Gray (President), Jean Bautz. Nations iollowed in March by a similar presenta¬ tion of the question of “The Long Armistice.” The Alumnae and Public Debates in May climaxed the year s activity. Spectators at our public debates are often amused at the sight of an attractive girl, pushing twenty, attempting to solve the problems of a supremely complicated world. We have laughed a little our¬ selves at our own earnestness, but we take ourselves seriously, and who, now or in the future, will solve them, if not the educated Catholic. The purpose of the Debating Club is to teach us to think of these things and to express our opinions intelligently and articulately.

Page 27 text:

Dramatic Association EVERYONE knows the story of Hamlet and the “something rotten in Denmark,” but this is the story of the 1944 Dramatic Club “behind the scenes. As a matter of fact, there were only imaginary scenes un¬ til almost dress rehearsal! Have you ever tried resting your foot on a mythical step? There were certain Twentieth Century difficulties, such as the King’s thesis, and Ophelia’s nurse’s aide, although the Six¬ teenth Century flavor persisted and was responsible for such remarks as “Art go¬ ing to supper?” Then there was Mother Bourneuf wondering out loud whether Hamlet was going to say “eether” or “ey- ther,” having just said both in one speech, and Ginny Bradford frantically handing spears to the stage crew and hustling them out as extras. They finaliy arrived, the play went on, and became with the first term’s “School for Scandal,” another of those suc¬ cesses we don’t believe can keep happening, but do. Left to right: Virginia Bradford (President), Betty McCormack, Peggy-Pat Hurley, Marge Martin, Jane Vlymen. 23

Page 29 text:

Choir “Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.” WE doubt if Tennyson had us in mind when he wrote this, but we can feel a cer¬ tain sympathy with him just the same. However, the Choir is not only early ris¬ ings nor the culinary delight of the annual Tea. People aren’t in it for the ordeal of dragging themselves out of bed. or even for the pleasure of a feast. It isn’t that that brings them. Perhaps it is the fact that corporately they are lending vocal and never-ending praise to God through the timeless medium of music, or perhaps it is just that they are Catholics and it makes them want to sing. Left to right: Marguerite McMonagle, Esther Ann Whalen, Margaret Mary O’Rorke (President). English Club LATE Thursday afternoons in the lounge where sunlight and little puffs of blue smoke gave the room an enchanted quality; hours spent in Pius X Hall writing and rehearsing for Mother Dammann’s Feast, ending with all in caps and gowns at the feet of the symbolic figure of Mother Church; the autumn party with oak leaves, candlelight, coffee and the Evangeline sa¬ tire; the progressive novel; and finally our unit festivals, sum up a year of the liter¬ ary comradeship that is the English Club. Left to right: Mary Claire Faulhaher, Margaret Sullivan (President), Virginia Bradford, Betty McCormack.