St Francis College - Franciscan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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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.

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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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Senior Sagacity New grading system . . . honor points ... all (including G-men) are still baffled ... special course in Catalogue Interpretations”... all F’s”... professor leaves town . . . same Oral English teacher . . . this time with mustache . . . Paul Deegan named feature editor of VOICE . . . Delar takes pictures for yearbook ... Father McKernan comes in latest streamlined Packard ... Frank Sciacchitano is sports editor of VOICE ... College buys new building on Butler St.... College doesn t do anything about it . . . School Orchestra formed . . . Angelic Warfare . . . O Rourke heads Press Bureau . . . Glee Club makes debut . . . everyone makes exit . . . earbook campaign started . . . Father Pfeifer becomes Mon- signor . . . VOICE helps to organize Catholic Student Union . . . Tom Orr becomes a Will O’ the Wisp” . . . Murphy new Student Council President . . . Glee Club gets new director . . . Junior Prom at Victoria Hotel . . . Seniors start Grill . . . everyone starts a fast . . . Peace Conference at Rosemont . . Easter holidays . . . Comprehensives ... no holidays . . . Senior Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria . . . College Show . . . Cramming for final examinations . . . report cards . . . receptions begin . . . Alumni reception . . . Ladies’ Auxiliary Reception to Graduates . . . Communion breakfast . . . Baccalaureate exercises . . . last roundup . . . Commencement . . . Auf Wiedersehen. Offices of Senior Class FALL TERM Cornelius Condron President John Gorman . Vice-President Vincent Tuohy . Secretary Vincent Dunn . Treasurer SPRING TERM Austin Murphy . President Thomas Orr Vice-President Francis Sciacchitano Secretary Henry Yacobellis Treasurer