St Francis College - Franciscan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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History of the Senior Class Freshman Floundering £IGHTY hungry looking Freshmen appear on Butler St. . . . all very timid and cautious . . . Dean Sullivan conducts a first Orientation class . . . text book-three dollars . . . all not so timid and cautious . . . mostly broke . . . Pat Gleason becomes first class president . . . Prof. Harris cracks down with Digest and Critical Afethod . . . none escape . . . Soph-Frosh hold dance in college palestra . . . Prof. Woods holds chemistry class next morning . . . Woods alone . . . varsity football team is slapped together in mid-season ... Ed McKaba at half back . . . team drops two games . . . Cordts twins play varsity basketball . . . look alike . . . referees look perplexed . . . spectators look twice . . . Xmas holi¬ days welcomed by all . . . final exams welcomed by none . . . Harris still trying to sell last few copies of Digest . . . Jack Farrell is new class president . . . calls first meeting . . . George Rogers is the only one present. . . class holds Freshman Hop at the Hotel Taft . . . another social success” ... the college adopts base¬ ball . . . our team adopts Dodger technique . . . someone invents fundamental exams ... no one passes . . . every one forgets about them . . . Easter vacation . . . College Minstrel Show is a success . . . eight o’clock classes and late slips start to wear every one down . . . Commencement in the Academy of Music Opera House. Sophomore Splendor Football team begins training September third . . . classes resume the twenty fourth . . . new registrar . . . lose opening game to City, 14-0 . . . Prof. Sloane teaches Oral English . . . AIcKaba and Dunn still warming the bench . . . Educa¬ tion classes four to six as usual . . . Jack Corrigan renders a prize translation in Brother Columba’s Horace class . . . Father McKernan teaches Latin and Greek . . . also founds To Kalon K’Agathon classical society . . . French Club holds a play in the palestra . . . seventy three cents (in pennies) picked off the floor . . . Frank Sciacchitano supplies Terrier mascot at football games ... Brother Jerome becomes instructor in English.

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Farewell T“HE Senior representative was rather nervous; not that you could really blame him, ■ for he had a very difficult task to perform, having been chosen to say the ' good-byes to his Alma Mater. Of course, he was undoubtedly good at this sort of thing, or he cer¬ tainly would never have been chosen. But still and all, it was a rather rough spot for any man; and he hoped that he would be sincere enough and properly transmit the feelings of the whole class at this important interview. And so, though quaking somewhat, he knocked at the door of the inner sanctum where the personification of his school sat. Come in, called a voice, and the Senior nearly fainted. Nevertheless, he succeeded in pushing open the door, and made his way towards the desk where the object of his affections and felicitations sat. Sit down, please,” said the voice. The Senior could see nothing but a blur, but then again his mates had always said he was nearsighted. However, he did find the chair, and having thus come in contact with stark reality — for the chair was rather hard and not at all ethereal — he gained some much needed confidence. ' Tve been expecting you, my son,” said the blur behind the desk, and the flighty Senior thought he was back in Shangri-la or something like that. That’s what the 200 year old priest had said to Ronald Colman, wasn’t it? Maybe it would snow any minute. I suppose you have come to say good-bye for your class,” he heard, interrupting his reverie. Yes,” said the Senior falteringly. They thought I would be able to do it best; they say I’m a good student, I’m active in different extra-curricular activities, I’m an accom¬ plished speaker, and besides, I’m a pay student.” A very important consideration,” smiled the shadow, but go on, son. Are you just going to say goodbye and good-riddance?” Yes . . . er . . . no,” faltered our hero. Well?”, insisted the kindly voice. Suddenly the Senior remembered that Uncle Don had told him how courage would come in life situations if one would but eat Ferzens Baked-18-times bread; so, calling a small boy from the freshman class, he sent to the Subterranean Grill for a celery sand¬ wich. Having gained the much needed courage via the bread, he was ready to deliver the speech which he had spent so much time preparing. Well, it’s like this,” he said, I’ve been asked to deliver the Seniors’ goodbyes to St. Francis College. They all would have come, but it wasn’t possible.” I understand,” encouragingly from behind the desk. We really did have a good time at St. Francis, and really think we did gain an education comparable with that received at any other college. I guess we did cause some trouble here and there; and we re sorry if it hurt you. Naturally, in a way we’re glad to leave, if only to find our place in the world and vindicate the faith placed in us by our parents and by you. But since we did go to college, we are glad it was St. Francis. And we want to thank all the professors and members of the administration sincerely for all the help and hints they have given us. I guess that’s all.” The Senior turned to go. As he turned, he thought he saw a mist in the eyes of the shadow behind the desk.

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First issue of the VOICE . . . some typographical errors . . . Sophomore Class holds an amateur contest. . . Jim (Major Bowes) Moffatt at the mike .. . Professors Carway, Corlis, and Parsons judge the winners . . . also dodge pine¬ apples, chairs, bottles, etc. . . . college show, Good News,” for new chapel . . . Jerry Gorman develops two left feet in chorus dance . . . Walter McArdle sings . . . oratorical contest . . . John Schlereth wins . . . Joe Weigandt stars in the show, The Two Marys” . . . Art symposium by To Kalon with lantern slides . . . everyone slides . . . Dante Sena gives a talk on the opera . . . everyone still slides ... Lynch elected basketball captain .. . new catalogue appears . . . Pinker¬ ton and Scotland Yard fail to interpret it . . . everyone disregards it . . . com¬ mencement at the Academy of Music ... no air in the bellows of the organ . . . speakers still function . . . Apologetics Medal to Jim Donnelly . . . Ethics Medal to Paul Ciangetti... Science Medal to John Walsh . .. English Literature Award to George McFadden . . . faculty restless . . . Father Beck tours Europe, Asia, Africa by auto . . . Father McKernan visits Ireland . . . Professor Harris last seen heading for China. Junior Jargon Dr. Critchley comes with Ph.D. from Oxford ... no topper . . . Dr. Naggi heads history department . . brandishes a new tooth brush . . . another Oral English teacher without mustache . . . Tom Orr elected class president . . . general assembly with an all professor cast ... no decision . . . more dramatics . . . Weigandt winds up behind the dramatic eight ball from the fall of Herod .. . Austin Murphy secretary for Intercollegiate Literary Conference .. . McArdle joins Metropolitan Opera Chorus . . . Student Council dance for VOICE benefit ... no benefit. . . Paul Ciangetti news editor of paper . . . Ned Condron appeals for pennies to aid Spain . . . gets a few . . . Brother Jerome new dean . . . another Oratorical contest . . . Professor Delaney moderator . . . still no mustache . . . Henry Krisch wins . . . Interracial Society . . . elects” Ed Kane president . . . advocates chocolate milk . . . yearly show again . . . Weigandt plays a phoney Count ... is counted out. . . Orr new editor of the VOICE ... he fears for the future . . . then fears for himself . . . John O ' Rourke is found wearing Paris Garters ... Condron becomes Archon of Pi Alpha ... Moffatt leaves for Ireland.