Spring Hill College - Torch Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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. . . contents Dedication 5 Administration 16 Features ..... 20 Classes 32 Social Fraternities .... 68 Organizations 76 Varsity Sports 102 Campus Life 128 Commencement 152 • 3 •

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. . staff Editor-in-Chief John Louis Olivier Associate Editors Thomas Lee Joseph Olivier Edward Sullivan Composition Staff Charles Coyle Carlos Escalante James Hietter Al Reynolds Snapshot Editor Richard Fedor Student Photographers Tommy Mier Rohert Olney Charles Simpson Staff Artist Earl Phillips Sports Editor James Browning Assistant Sports Editor Sterling O ' Shaughnessey Circulation Manager Joseph Coakley Assistant Circulation Manager William Dickson Advertising Manager Wadih Hawie Assistants Frank W. Bradley Charles Diez Donald Duff Angelo Greco Joseph King Paul McCahe Publicity Manager Gibbens Robichaux Business Manager Norman Berger •2

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Dedication o N January 19, 1950, Brother Joseph Eaton of the Society of Jesus died quietly in the Prov- idence Hospital. On the following Saturday morning he was buried without ostenation while the choir chanted the simple Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel. No one cried. There was no sobbing, no mourning. Jesuits never cry for their dead, and the laymen there seemed to catch the spirit. What was there to cry about? surcease of suffering? liberation from the flesh? the first glimpse of the face of God? . . . hardly causes to shed tears. But yet it is difficult to bury a man who has spent a lifetime working for God and his fellow men without some outward expression of feeling. Thus we think it meet to carry this lighted Torch to his bier and to offer it to him, not for consolation or pity — for they become ludicrous when they are obviously not needed — but rather because of our gratitude and ap- preciation for the lesson he taught us both in life and death. We realize that our Torch ' s flame will mean little to him now, for it is hard to see the beauty of a candle ' s flame in the sunlight. But we hope that the spirit that prompts our of- fering will in some measure pay the debt we owe him. We hope too that its flame may serve as a vigil to represent our departing prayer for him, so that our Requiescat in pace may become an eternal supplication before his God. •4 •