Seton Hall University - Galleon Yearbook (South Orange, NJ)

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iw iSl We plunged into Philosophy with all the gusto of a Notre Dame backfield hitting the army line. Father Dilger patiently and carefully explained the fundamentals of the Science and answered the thousand and one questions flung at him. He also gave us lucid explanations of our Religion in Evidences. The other subjects were well taken care of, professorily speaking. Father Jarvais gave us a very instructive as well as entertaining course in Rhetoric and English Litera- ture. Father Maine indulged in his old tricks of making the boys burn the midnight oil” to master Physics. Father Glover inculcated the principles of Sociology. The Juniors won the inter-class football championship. Who can forget that last game when we plowed through the mud and snow to defeat the heavier Seniors? Due to the efforts of the Committee, notably the efforts of Martin Byrne, Vincent Mclntee and Brian Daly Conlon the Junior Prom held at the Robert Treat Hotel, was a great success. On the night of March 18, we presented the traditional Junior Night Entertain- ment in the Auditorium. To celebrate Washington’s Bicentennial Anniversary year, the program was strictly early American in character. After preliminary music by the string ensemble under the artistic direction of the Leopald Stokowski of the class, Michael Jackovics, and a speech of welcome by the class President, a playlet with its setting at the Delaware River in 1776 was presented. More music and a very well delivered speech entitled George Washington: Hero, Patriot, Christian,” closed the program. John Ansbro acted as chairman of the Junior Night Committee and Father Jarvais the Moderator. The scholastic year soon faded into the past. Exams came and passed quickly. Commencement day finally arrived and we found ourselves on the threshold of the Senior Year. The long-awaited peak of our mountain trail loomed just ahead. 1932 SENIOR YEAR 1933 Our last respite as undergraduates was over. We again set out, this time for the last lap of our collegiate careers. It did not seem possible that we were looking back over three years of successful climbing. We looked eagerly ahead with intermingled emotions of gladness and regret. As soon as possible we selected our officers. Joseph Fleming became our new President; Leo Fitzsimmons assumed the duties of the Vice-presidency, and Thomas Connors and Thomas Finn were chosen Treasurer and Secretary respectively. The Doctors of Philosophy who came to Seton Hall this fall set to work to further our education more than ever. With our studies and our many extra-curricular activities as well as the preparations for graduation, we knew from the outset that we were in for a full year. Father Guterl, an intimate friend of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas greeted us with a very systematic and error-proof course in Philosophy. Psychology, Natural Theology and Ethics kept us busy. In the A. B. section Jim” Flannagan and Harry McTague acted as stooges in order that the rest of us could more readily understand the matter. That apt Senior Philosopher, Vincent Mclntee, almost developed a leaking heart when his Philosophy mark dropped as low as 97% one month. We suspect that he left out a semi-colon in one of his exams. Page Twenty-five

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The end of our first year on the trail was at hand, and in fear of the dread finals we buckled down with renewed application to the mastery of our studies. Incidentally, Mr. Gilmartin’s pronunciation of 0-0-0, was rivalled only by Felix Masterson’s pro- nunciation of the same figures. Soon the Black Knight of the Final Exams drove his charger toward us, but the mjjst of us deftly side-stepped the onrush and emerged victorious from the combat. We said Auf Wiedersehen” to our Freshman days and awaited the arrival of the Sophomoric Daze”. 1930 SOPHOMORE YEAR 1931 Back fresh and vigorous for a strenuous sophomore year, we started once more along our trail toward the mountain peak. First of all, we selected our class officers. Thomas Gilhooley was again chosen to lead us. His understudies were Martin Byrne, Joseph Fleming and Joseph Walsh. Our studies — for A. B. and B. S. — presented a united front. In point of diffi- culty Latin, Greek and Organic Chemistry stood in the front rank. Father Powers, Father Guterl, and Father Maine handled these subjects in their respective order. Father McNulty set about showing us, in Evidences, how reasonable was our Faith. In his class we received our first inklings of Philosophy, which we were to take up formally in the coming year. Mr. Joyce led us through the wars and diplomatic relations of History and discoursed on the English Literature commentary of Brother Leo. Mr. Gilmartin continued to roll his O’s in Chemistry, even more dramatically than in Freshman Trig.” Incidental music to the various lectures was supplied by the Basil (Rudy Vallee) Kane Ensemble, which rendered — in the true sense of the word — sundry selections, including Hearts and Flowers”. The football team, the first varsity squad in twenty-five years, took to its bosom four of our classmates— Dal” Sabo, Vin” Hurley, Dugan and Bud” Conlon, who was elected captain. The mid-years passed and Spring came again to Setonia. Martin Byrne emerged victorious in the tennis tournament for the college championship. June arrived and with it Diamond Jubilee week. Garbed in academic cap and gown we assembled in the quadrangle to witness the graduation exercises marking the seventy-fifth anniver- sary of Alma Mater’s existence. Having reached the half-way house on our collegiate mountain trail we stopped to rest before resuming our work. 1931 JUNIOR YEAR 1932 Refreshed and strengthened by our summer months at the half-way house, we returned for our Junior Year. In the elections Martin Byrne was chosen President Joseph Fleming, Vice-president; Thomas Connors, Secretary, and Harry McTague’ Treasurer. James Gray, was elected Editor of the White and Blue” and Thomas Finn, Business Manager. The Last Mile”, our annual play, found Bud” Conlon and John Lopresti playing titular roles. Page Twenty-four ft

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zd In Biology Dr. Lackey made us microscope-conscious. Frogs, dogfish, earthworms and grasshoppers were carved and examined minutely. The methods and psychology of Education were explained by Dr. Proctor while Dr. Woodall presented courses in English and American Literature which were both cultural and instructive. Father Glover visited us once a week and often brought with him as guest speakers men who were topnotchers in Journalism, Law, Psychiatry and Immigration. In football Bud” Conlon again captained the team and led the gridsters through some very rugged games against first-water opponents such as Villanova, Manhattan and Davis-Elkins. Dal” Sabo also represented our class on the team. In basketball Captain Shorty” Zdanewicz, our miniature classmate, literally burned up the courts of the East with his brilliant playing. He led the team to eight victories and demonstrated in three years of varsity basketball that he was one of the best basketeers ever to represent Seton Hall. Bud” Conlon and Leo Fitzsimmons were among the cast selected for Smilin’ Through”, the Annual Play. All these events which have been narrated are now of the past, but they are enthroned in our memories, never to be effaced. Just ahead is the crest of the mount- ain. Our vision, broadened and softened to a mellow understanding by Catholic Philosophy, enables us to look over the wide vista of knowledge which we never knew existed. We have learned how to learn; if we stop trying to learn now our four years shall have been in vain. The closeness of parting from Alma Mater and our classmates fills us with emotion and makes us inarticulate. Let Cardinal Newman’s words be our valedictory parting showing our love for Alma Mater: It is the shrine of our best affections, the bosom of our fondest recollections, a spell upon our after-life, a stay for world-weary mind and soul, wherever we are cast, till the end comes.” $ Page Twenty-six