Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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uit' The Very Rev. John B. Martin, O.S.A., who as pastor of Saint Mary's Church in Lawrence, participated in the drive and 'was a member of the Board of Trustees. K As at the commencement ol' thc drive, so at its successful conclusion the represemn. tives of ecclesiastical and civic groups sit down to compare notes. Here the Victory Dinner in October 1949 is in full session, fittingly enough, in a unit of tlte college they helped to build, the Merrimack gymnasium. A fervor of enthusiasm engaged the public in illiS, their college-to-be. From Chelmsford to the Atlantic, from Boston to New Hampshire the fervor increased, and the journals of these towns proffered Cdiwfial support. Wrote the Lawrence Evening Tribune: It is our responsibility to make available to Olll' children and to the generations that will follow the facilities and the tools they will 1161-rd to continue the advance for a better community, a better America. Drive ollicials informed civic leaders throughout the region that Merrimack College was planned t0 be il modern, complete, and functi0l1ill Center of the fine and manual arts. The solicitation of industrif-IS 81111 townspeople through hundreds of drive units fort-Zed ahead with this end in view. The drive formallY ended June 16, 1949. One million dollars had been the goal, but the total amount of the money and pledges exceeded that sum by over one hundred thousand dollars. We at Merrimack can only repeat what we have said so many times before, that for all the bounties of service, spirit, and means bestowed upon this col- lege we shall always be grateful. At the same time, we are proud to offer the high services of Merri- mack to those people who have built it, and are determined to safeguard and promote the ideals upon which they have built their hopes. For the people of the Merrimack Valley, this college shall grow and prosper- the realization of a dream.

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T mbly General The Honorable Charles W. ro , Chairman, together with a General Advisory Council of approximately eighty eminent professional and businessmen, and over seventy-five hundred men and women who constituted the hard-working corps of solicitors, under the guidance of Very Reverend Francis P. Fenton, O.S.A., devoted untiring efforts towards obtaining the thousands of pledges. And it was not long before their efforts were rewardedg the headquarters of the drive on Essex Street, Lawrence, was filled with a deluge of replies to the f brochures mailed to potential donors in rrimack Valley. hundreds 0 the Me l ff'4 '- 11... ,N 'Q The Very Reverend John T. Shee- han, O.S.A., J.C.D., who as Vicar Provincial of the Augustinians, carried on in the spirit of Father Mortiiner A. Sullivan, 0.S.A., and gave generous support to Merri- mack. '!': 4

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