Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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2 ), ra malic Like everything else, the Dramatic Club gave its all to the Centenary year. Fall plans for inter¬ club plays were cancelled to give way in time and space to the production of the Pageant. But club life went on in other broader ways. Membership and interest was built with a series of lectures on a variety of subjects, Henry V, make-up, and lighting, to mention a few. The theatre party came back, so we saw Henry V and Cyrano de Bergerac. Then of course there was the constant chatter of the big production planned for spring. We welcomed with open arms, the charming.en¬ thusiasm and friendliness of Mrs. O’Connell. Mother Boyle, during the brief interval that we had her with us, brought us a vigor and inspira¬ tion that were reflected in the Townley Play. Then Mother Maguire inherited the key to the band-box and won our unwavering gratitude for Mimi Marchev, Mary Beth Hughes, Barbara Gilman (President), Katherine Wilcox. golden peace in the hectic keeping things in order. And Barbara Gilman kept days that marked her reign. So through the year all the campus was a stage. We are glad that it was ours. X pRS r i 4-j 1 v 1 II j By aL . yjfrjFfo-

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When we look back upon our college days, it will not be to the hectic days of exam week, or to long term papers; but rather to those things which we have all loved and worked at together. Among our most pleasant memories will be that of the Glee Club. We all love those days before Christmas va¬ cation when we don blue jeans and decorate Mary Becker (President), Isabel Hoffman, Virginia Durkin, the g}m for the Carol Concert. There are lights Mary Adeile Bernard. to fi e fixed, stands to be set up; but these are only the preliminaries to rehearsals, which come to a climax in the Concert itself. The Christmas spirit starts at Manhattanville in early November when we hear snatches of “Minuit Chretien” or a run from the Hallelujah chorus while passing the Assembly Hall of a Tuesday evening. This however was just the beginning of a busy year for soon we started “Ruddi- gore.” Memorizing the lines and solos followed and finally the Little Theater. The Bridesmaids practiced their entrances and Mad Margaret amazed us all. We were all a bit worried about our cues in the finale; but when the curtain fell and we heard the applause we realized that the Glee Club had scored another success. Mary Becker and Ibby Hoffman were warmly congratulated and as the audience left, we, behind the stage gave a hearty cheer for Mother Morgan which expressed our deep gratitude. She had helped us again to give a performance which we will look back on with joy and much pride.

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Peggy Couzens, Alice Farrell, Mary Fitzpatrick (President), Sally Gassert, Jane Crowley. With a resounding rap of the gavel, the Debating Club came to order under Mary Fitzpatrick last September, and the “floor was opened” to a very full year of meetings. With understanding and reluctance the Club had relinquished Mother Tenney who retains her position as “best friend of debating.” Mother Parton generously and warmly assumed the moderator’s work. Slipping into the year with Centenary stride, the Club voted to cancel its annual public discussion in favor of the fall pageant. March, then, brought Debating’s own contribution to one hundred years of Manhattanville Students, in the form of a Symposium on the National Student Organization. With the lively support of Mother Parton and Mr. McClelland—the club’s very special man behind the gun—Symposium, debates, discussions were opened cor¬ rectly and closed successfully by Madame President Fitzpatrick and meeting was adjourned until the following year. 24