Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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I l V rt, X. . Q' , 1 - ' ,stu A year to the day after the opening of the College, September 27, 1948, construction was started on the new Science Building located on the northwest cor- ner of what will eventually be the main campus quadrangle. Of classic colonial design the three-story fully-equipped building is fabricated of red brick and granite facing. In addition to classrooms, depart- mental ollices, and research laboratories the Science Building contains a chapel and assembly hall, a general lecture hall, faculty and student lounges, a lunchroom, locker facilities, and individual labora- tories for physics, electronics, optics, quantitative analysis, physical, organic, inorganic and advanced chemistry. High over the main entrance is indelibly inscribed in stone the motto of this hall of science, Deus Scientiarum Dominus Est. -, A'3ft.af'tl' Mum The Solemn High Mass invoking Cod's Blessing on the opening of Merrimack College, September 22, 1947 commences with the Provin- cial, the late Father Sullivan, as celebrant and Fathers McDonald and McQuade assisting. 5. n

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.qfjjl 3 . WM 1 1 u , . ,- V V 1' AP, Q-v Z CUpper leftj Members of the earliest student society at Merri- mack, the Glec Club, under the able direction of Father Wynne, make music around the pianoforte. CUpper rightj The intramural teams square away in the first game of a brilliant and close competition between student-organized, sectional teams. ' The original canteen in the Classroom Building made up for lack of facilities by the good humorcd fun of the budding: scholars as they dashed in for cigarettes and collee between classes.

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This event was closely followed by the completion its formal dedication in of the gymnasium and November 1948. During the fall term the Student Council organized its own court, one of the most f student self-regulation vital steps in the progress o at Merrimack. To encourage the study of philosophy i ' F M kham the Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas . ar ol' Lowell, who has since been elevated to the epis- copate and named auxiliary to the Archbishop of . I I . B t donated the Markham award 1n honor o us os on, arents A gold medal and a cash prize will be P . awarded annually to the student who gives evidence ' ' ' Th' ar of the greatest proficiency in philosophy. is ye too was marked by the enthusiastic activity of many groups in the Drive for the College. the further development of At the conclusion of the first academic year the faculty and student F lt House for b d ' f the College assemble on the lawn of the acu y o y o l ' eers of '47-'48, Class IS over and a panoramic picture of tie pion the long vacation beckons. From the pulpit in St. Augustine's Church, Andover, the Right Rever. end Monsignor Cornelius T. H. Sherlock preaches the sermon of the Mass. 1 'U' 4 ma Ill .famwg 5,2 51 D I 'EQ ,user Q K , r Wx- .3-v .5 - 'S 1 ' thi.