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

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MARYMOUNT COLLEGE MOTHERS' DINNER wALDo11F-AsTo1uA JAN.22,1944 2 e K V A S . 5 . ,K 3'

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liked it because Senior year had always been the subject of ominous remarks about dis- sertations, orals, comprehensives. We had been told that they were things to be dreaded, and we discovered that our in- formants had not been mistaken. We sur- vived the onslaught however, and handed in our dissertations on January 12th, several pounds lighter than we had been in the Fall. We looked forward anxiously to our last retreat and then tragically found that 'the whole Senior class missed the first conference through a dinner appointment and a mixed- up bus schedule. For the first time in four years we won the mission drive and the free day. During the Christmas season we trimmed the tree and sang beneath it in our red choir boy cassocks. After an extensive vacation, we returned with only a few months of our college life remaining. Again we prepared for mid-year examinations and this time we came through with two more Curians and a Gerard Scholar. March 17th dawned dark and rainy as it had done for four years. But the parade went on and with it went Marymount in deluged caps and gowns. Spring trembled around the corner and shied into a snow drift which threatened to destroy the for- sythia blossoms. Comprehensives and Easter came together. They were followed by the concert at Town Hall, a night of triumph for the Choral Club. May arrived in 1944 with- out the anticipation of May Day. It didn't seem right, but the girls accepted the fact and went right ahead with Nurses, Aide work and all the other defense undertakings they had begun. The Red Cross featured promi- nently on the campus now. Examinations came for the last time. They brought nos- talgia for Marymount this time, for all the examinations that had gone before, for the fragrance of lilac, singing on the steps, walks around the lake, evenings at Mary- mount. And now it is the eve of graduation. Tonight the girls will gather in each others' rooms to review for the last time incidents of four happy years. In hushed tones they will recall so many things that have made life dear to them at college and then they will steal away to their own thoughts, their own rooms. Tomorrow the Class of '44 will graduate from Marymount College. 39

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Marymount has been our Marymount, but it has also been our Mothers, Marymount. For four years they have followed as aven- rately as they have been able, the pattern of our lives on ealnpus, catching intimate glimpses ofdreams, meeting our friends. This then must be their book, as it is ours. It must eontain the record of our thanks. How grateful we are for the love which binds us and them and Mary mount into one whole. Their Mothers, Club with its enthusiasm, its ambitions, its friendship, has been our great inventive. Qu EQ . Sl T l 4 C J.