Marymount College - Elan Yearbook (Tarrytown on the Hudson, NY)

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Wfe ure their sunshine There is a flurry of vrisp hlue pinafores as Nurses' Aides on their way to the hospital hurry down Butler llall's cool stone steps and into the waiting station wagon. The joy of service is keen in their faces. They pass other students on their way to the City to do settlement work or see a third group hurry- ing towards the orphanage or neighborhood house. Q? gs in K' if 5 iiiyl 5 Q in e,v,Q So proudly we hull

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Bond Drive, Red Cross Drive, Mission Drivefdefense work keeps many of our extra-curricular hours at Marymount busy and gives us a sense of participation in the nation's struggles. Gladly do we give our blood, our money, gladly too, do we offer our services, make posters, present radio pro- grams. We rake leaves or garner fruit, for every hour of Work means additional funds. And While We strive to render material aid, We look beyond to the greater spiritual need of our armed forces. Thus our Friday morn- ing service Mass and our daily rosary acl as beams on which our pilots travel to safety. Our navy chaplain of whom We are justly proud, is the Rev. Charles Robinson, Sul. 26 DEFENSE ORE Blossoms in the Dust

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fd' ELA Sittings for portraits and the suspense at- tached to the arrival in Butler Hall of the long buff envelopesg character sketches and the stretching of imagination over the bitter- sweet memories ol' four vividly etched yearsg a class history, crystallization of spirit, char- acter and aehievementg record of spiritual, mental and physical trainingg essence of Mary mount in its cool spring sweetness, its autumn richness or Winter lovelincss-all this and more is the ELAN to the class of '4fl. C0lllVl0NT lleeting the deadline in a flutter of galleys, paste, scissors, frayed 11erves and tired brains, is the most vivid impression of the Cormont staff. The spirit of the new born paper is accompanied to the door in silence. Eyes follow the departure anxiously as nervous fingers continue to fumble with scraps ol' paper on the littered table. A last injunction is issued-The Cormont leaves.