Rockhurst University - Rock Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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The Baccalaureate Mass at St Francis Xavier Church inaugurates Graduation Day activities. Baccalaureale Pentecost Sunday was the occasion for the forty- third annual commencement of Rockhurst College. This year the college graduated its largest class in history, some 218 seniors of the day and evening divisions. Commencement day began with a solemn high Bace calaureate Mass for the graduates and their families. The interim hours before commencement exercises were marked by picture taking, campus tours, and complaining about the heat. At last the big' moment came. The graduates strutted and fretted their hour upon the stage, and then it was over. The graduates marched, diploma in hand, from the auditorium with mixed emotions. They were hot and tired, s ad and happy, humble and proud. 4 Then there were more pictures on the upper campus, congratulations from friends and relatives,post-gradua- tion parties, and the inevitable goodbyes between close friends and casual acquaintances. It was all over, at last, and what was there to say but It's been great! On tl Com: It's me-nc

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...dl The Class of 1963 September! A time of novae res : a totally new environment, a new educational experience, new classmates, and new problems. The September of 1959 was no different for the Class of '63, but what- ever problems existed were soon overcome to form what has been called one of the most unified classes ever to graduate from Rockhurst college. This unity has found its roots primarily in the individual members of the class. It has extended itself within both curricular and extracurricular ac- tivities, as well as various social activities. The class of 1963 was a well-wrought combination--a working class, a party class, an intellectual class. As freshmen, the class of 1963 distinguished itself with its presentation of Christmas atCa.melot. Attempting to better the dance of the previous fresh- man class, many of the students and faculty members felt that the 1959 Christmas dance was one of the most beautifully and elaborately decorated dances ever to be presented on the campus, Bud Hensgen, who left for the Jesuit seminary at Florissant after his first year at Rockhurst, was elected president of the class for 1959-A'60 school year. Under his leadership and the work of both the dorm and day students, the freshmen participated in most of the campus activities including the carnival and many of Rockhurst's fiftieth jubilee activities. The freshmen were introduced to the top quality of the Visiting Scholar series by hearing and seeing such men as poet Robert Frost, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, biblical expert Dr. William Albright, and philosopher Anton Pegis. Other figures to visit the campus that year were Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of Radio Corporation of America: former President Harry S. Truman, and the former chairmen of the Republican and Democra- tic parties, Sen. Thruston Morton and the late Paul M. Butler. The second semester of the first year was filled with much work on the student Variety Show. The freshman class was responsible for one-half of the show that year. Tom Plumberg directed the re- view of the col1ege's history that comically spanned fifty years. As the class of 1963 began to get the feel of college life, they rapidly became active in many of the campus organizations. During 1960-'61 the year- book was edited by two sophomores, Bob Boner and Bob Conroy. They also edited the book in 1962 and their products progressively improved to form a challenge to future staffs and to create a sense of the