St Josephs University - Greatonian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE GREATONIAN 1934 The Senior Ball USIC soft, music sweet, music softly sweet--fthe Senior Ball of l934! The Bellevue with age-old traditions! l-eo Reisman of world-wide recognition! Soft lights and sweet music! Memorable occasion! The Senior Ball, presented by the departing Class on Easter Monday evening, April the second, of this year, was one of the most entrancing affairs that the Col- lege ever offered. lt was preceded by months and weeks and days of intensive pub- licity with Thomas Galbally, as Chairman of an enthusiastic Committee that dared all and did all, conducting a campaign of appeal that resorted to every known device ranging from a torrent of posters to a miniature broadcasting station There were bill-boards and floaters, handbills and stickers, letters, speeches, and voices, all with the one keynote, Come to the Senior Ball l They came. Through the regal portals of the Belle- vue on that night poured a stream of immaculately dressed and stunningly gowned couples, lured from the gloom of the streets into the bewildering delights of a festooned ballroom. Soft, rhythmic notes! The lurer, Leo Reisman. The Freshmen were there, trying desperately to look blase but nervously fussing with ties that always seemed to be slipping anchor, worrying about unruly hair and exposed collar buttons. After the first half hour they ceased to care'-ethe night was too short, Came thg- Sophomores, listening with critical ear to the soft strains of the orchestras, smiling in commendaton and makina Leo Reisrnon mental notes for the future, Everyone spoke highly of Seventy- four

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1934 THE GREATONIAN The Ring Committee THERE are many reminders of the four short years spent in college-acquired knowledge is gratefully realized and lasting friendships are highly cherished. But, since athletic sweaters and Junior blazers lose their usefulness, photographs fade and social programs yel- low with time, all these soon become sentimentalities. The sole memento of college life, that is at once tangible and unchanging, is the ring. lt is a difficult task to choose a ring that is both appropriate to the occasion and pleasing to the student. l-lence, a Ring Committee is necessary, To each mem- ber and especially to the Chairman, Joseph A. Cornely, do we owe our thanks for their happy selection, This ring now becomes our mark of identification, whereby all alumni, present and future, will recognize us as their collegiate brothers. A sparkling stone, with its encircling band of letters, is set deeply in the face- of the ring, Each broad shank holds a picture of the tower with a monster hawk, wings spread wide, perched on the topmost spire. The class numerals and the col- lege seal appear to the right and left of each tower. Across the breast of each hawk, there flourishes a brilliantly lettered ribbon-1 ee-- mens agitat molem balancing the name of the particular school of individual graduation. Seventy-three

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1934 THE GREATONIAN Reisman's music, the Sophomores added their praise of the green foliage that so generously bedecked the room. Green foliage, soothing melodies, blue eyes, and soft voices wonderful nightl One Junior so tar forgot him- self in the flood of music, the sound of laughter, the hum of voices, the exotic night and the fleeting hours as to stop aff in the middle of a melting waltz, look deep into the starry pools that met his gaze, and exclaim, lf this be life, my sweet, then let us live! For the Seniors it was the night of nights, the pin- nacle of things social. They came bearing upon their arms the most beautiful of the beautiful, as the Seniors are wont to do, and maintaining that envied calmness of exterior as they strolled about the long ballroom with the ease of past' experience, one hand resting lightly Clwirmaii upon the fair one tucked beneath their arms, their heads inclined at just the right pitch to carry on an intimate conversation in a crowded ballroom, There were laugh- ter and singing and dancing as the hours sped away, yet there were few Seniors who at least once during that evening, did not gaze about at the dancing couples and forget to laugh as the thought of never more flashed upon them. Never more? Alas? Thomas Galbally COMMITTEE Chairman Vice 'Chai rrnen THOMAS A. GALBALLY MANUEL A FLICK GERARD C. MCKVOY COMMITTEEMEN James A. Byrne Williant A, Halpin Thomas G Leis Joseph A Cornely Charles F, Kelly Thomas J, Quinn, Jr. Francis J. I-lallpenny Paul E. Kelly John I Schwab F Byron Kempl Seventy-five