Salve Regina University - Regina Maris Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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First Joint Glee Club Concert with Providence College benefits D.P. Student Fund. First academic year closes with the blessing of the Sacred Heart Shrine by Rev. Gerald F. Dillon Fifteen

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Mission Queen, Eileen Schwenk, and court. The first few weeks were hectic. We in- evitably discovered that we were either short credits, or that, because we did not have the gift of bi-location, we were unable to attend two scheduled classes at nine. The year book staff was pulling out its hair wondering how three figures could possibly be stretched into four without robbing a bank. The Glee Club members had a collective case of laryngitis (three concerts in three months). The Dra- matics Club members were worn out just running back and forth from Glee Club and year book meetings. In the midst of all this confusion, the Seniors saw the sun breaking through the clouds. Mr. Cornelius Moore, prominent lawyer and benefactor of the col- lege, donated a new building to become a Senior hall. Innumerable hours spent amid paint and plaster finally produced the cozy, homelike Moore Hall that we had dreamed of. Needless to say, Mr. Moore was the first invited guest to our new home. Our grati- tude to him knows no bounds. Thank you is sincere but inadequate; it is only through our prayers that we can repay Mr. Moore. January to May was one continuous round of exams — mid-years, graduate records, quart- erlies, comprehensives and finals (blessed word!) And then it was June . . . Bacca- laureate Sunday celebrated in the chapel, class day exercises on the terrace, the Commence- ment Ball, and graduation — first and last events that disdain descriptive powers; they arc indelibly engraved on our hearts. Most Senior years are a mixture of glad- ness and sadness, and ours was no exception. It may have been a trifle gladder because our graduation was something extra-special — we claimed the honor of being the first graduates of Salve Regina College. Yet, by the same token, we were sadder than most alma mater- ites, for we were leaving a college that we felt belonged to us in a way that no deed of ownership could surpass. We were truly the pioneers of S. R. C. — the traditions, the clubs, the publications — we had initiated and fos- tered all of them. Our ideals, our laughter, our hopes, our tears had built the spirit of Salve Regina as surely as the bricks and mortar had constructed the building. Future Salve- ites will carry on the traditions we have be- gun. Future Salveites will enlarge and im- prove the work we have started. But none will have that encompassing love and pride in the college that is ours, for that is some- thing that only a first class can know and feel. Court Cotillion Queen. Frances McGuiness, and escort.

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Eileen Schwenk studies comfortably; Claire O ' Connor enjoys company of Frances Bridgeman; Beverly Missirlian concentrates — Joan Shugrue forgets books, and puts her clothing in order.