Quincy University - Gyrfalcon Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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Bob Hope accepts an honorary Doctor of Letters degree The richly embossed Seal of Quincy College on each graduation parchment is the sacred signet indelibly identifying the distin- guished graduate as a competing champion for the high honors so conspicuously conferred. A molded brick will always be exactly like the mold. A folded page will long retain the impression of the fold. Like clay upon the potter ' s wheel you ' re formed through student days, With roughness smoothed and contour formed and then the finished glaze. Too late to change! When once the finished product stands A tribute or discredit to the potter ' s subtle hands. — From Graduation Address by Father William Powers, Air Force Chaplain Mrs. Robert Shriver of Chicago, sister of Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, accepts an honorary Doctor of Laws degree given to her brother.

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Final Visit to Chapel His Excellency, William A. O ' Connor, shown here with Father Owen Blum, O.F.M., offered the Bac- calaureate Mass. Graduation . . . The hour is sacred. It is a distinctive privilege to congratulate each of the graduates of Quincy College. Here is the consecrated culmination of consuming years of continuous academic labors. You have purchased this at a tremendous price. Success does not come easily. This academic achievement is a distinction of the high- est character. Acknowledgement of this accomplishment is rightfully recognized in the granting of your certifi- cates of graduation. This outstanding tribute is further attested by the personal signatures of its illustrious Pres- ident and the highly respected Deans of the Faculty concerned. 06

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Summer Institutes . . . The first annual music-liturgical workshop students worked under the direction of Fr. Tarsicius Fischer, O.F.M., (extreme left, first row) of St. Joseph Seminary and Dr. Laverne Wagner, (extreme right, second row) music teacher at Quincy College. The first annual liturgical music workshop was held at the college June 16 — 20 under the direction of Dr. Laverne Wagner and Father Tarsicius Fischer, O.F.M. The busy days were climaxed with a beautiful Mass rendered by the workshop students. For the second summer, Father Elric War- wick, O.F.M., drama instructor, and Mr. Hugh Fitzgerald, of the department of Fine Arts, mentored the dramatic workshop. It was held for two weeks this year and at- tracted members of religious orders from many different sections of the country. Again the students helped in the actual construc- tion of the sets used for the dramatic per- formance and acted in cuttings of several well known dramas. The Vocation Institute was held August 2 — 4 and the Medico-Moral Institute August 22 — 24, both under the direction of Father Pacific Hug, O.F.M. Sets must be constructed. Father Joachim talking to group of sisters gathered for the Vo- cational Institute. 08