Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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Jlw .wide In the fall of 1948, Merrimack's second year, plans were formulated for the launching of a million dollar drive in twenty-eight northeastern Massachu- setts communities. The efforts of the campaign com- mittee were channeled among six major groups: the ninety-five parishes of the Merrimack Valley, the industries., professional and mercantile organizations., the philanthropies, the cluhs, and the Association of Merrimack College, an organization of students' parents and friends. For nine months hundreds of volunteer committees and their clerical help labored tirelessly, preparing and distributing mountains of press releases, information folders, and pledge cards to an enthusiastic public. N Q X WF Rabbi Herschel Levin, Father Fenton, Father McQuade and Mr. Irving Rogers listen to Archbishop Cushing's address to the Civic groups in behalf of the drive for the college. -1-1, ' ...A I fgyx.

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-vs- S A N .xxx me . ' ml, m 4 U nurvantilel nrganivalio ' 'li elub- f 1- ' ll 1ull1,f,q- . . 1 H, the Au -' ' or Ihr nu o ,ua It nun ry mmm 'nv tpln-r lh-hgionw, and un.lHHm,cmn D , Jrustnnan, H , 1 . . - . . A rlesls ri-hu ,m Hsin' Ml Im Hunt mu:-amls ul friends and WH .Q , und the pro usional incl It Wm 'hi H we -WlhllC1'S uf me Collegi- A s en lllSltlWIll tha A - I assured Q -- V . neeess. - uni nn lmnnn tra i nn nor n- ,. intl Governor Dever I F U nun 4 ol olhar liumls of M1 Flllllllflk attend the Ml I I I In I mrcnu Nlunorml Slllllllllll in May ll 1 H fur soln mn fnmls for the College. inaugurated the pnhlie ilrive in May of 1940. Again, the Archbishop, Governor l'anl A. llever, anal many other dignitaries of the Church and state, aflclressing three thonnancl parish solicitors, the baekhone of the whole eainpaign, urged full support for the drive they were undertaking. The speakers 0lllpllilSlZ0tl that the provision of adequate college facilities for the Merrimack Valley should he the vital concern of every citizen of that area.