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

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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

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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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Joseph A. Fleming ' President Leo P. Fitzsimmons Vice-President Thomas G. Connors Treasurer Thomas J. Finn Secretary Page Twenty-seven