Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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The atmosphere of spirited discussion is not restricted to the Debating Club. Thursday afternoon in the Lounge is apt to be as lively a session as any on the campus. English Club meetings are especially entertaining and informative, for the reason that they cover so many of the interests of the College as a whole. As an offering to Reverend Mother on her feast the Club turns suddenly dramatic and presents its interpretation of some particular aspect to which we all aspire. During Interracial Week the literature of various races is read and discussed in an attempt at deeper understanding and sympathy. A a result the Club is a symbol of the broad interests and activities that typify the College as a whole. Randy Bowman, Jane Crowley, Joan Christie (President), Joan Fleming, Jean Ford, Ann Marie Brady. U Out,

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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

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ddsscuj ( Soared What resident on the Heights has not at one time or another seen a member of the Essay Board a victim of “deadline delirium”? Somehow those contributions never came in quite soon enough despite Dini Ornstein’s urgent pleas in Assembly. As a result the “Board” spent a rushed week-end amidst typewriters, widely scattered manuscripts, and coke bottles. But somehow, by hook or by crook, the finished prod¬ uct always appeared, an object of fond pride for Board and contributors alike, and a source of pleasure to the College. Seated—Patricia Foley, Ann Marie Brady, Elizabeth Ornstein (Editor), Joan Fleming, Joan Christie. Standing—Jane Crowley, Jeanne Austin, Jane Skelton, Randy Bowman. E : ■ jpfigft t . ' w r-5 - ‘