St Marys College California - Gael Yearbook (Moraga, CA)

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MARK ARTHUR AIKIN, Arts and Letters VVILLIAIXI JOSEPH AHLBACH, Arts and Letters San Francisco, California San Francisco, California RAYMOND Josrspu ARATA, Arts and Letters LAWRENCE IOSEPH BETTENCOURT, Arts and Letters San Francisco, California Niles, California

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Qrahuates' iflilessage HE most interesting phase of college life is the manner in which the men grow. This growth is in a mental, not a physical sense. As Freshmen there is a great deal of sameness about the men, aside from the usual timidity and constant fear of going awry of custom and running afoul of the truculent Sophomore. The Senior Class is a case in point. They soon began to find that they had a position in the world to attain, that there existed obligations for them to fulfill, first of all to their God and then to the social order of which they were to become a part. , Campus luminaries boomed their way into prominence-and their satellites were not long in coming. The athletic field claimed its share. But the cause of good fellowship was not to be outdone. Decorous class rooms-many a time and oft had their equanimity somewhat ruffled by the belated arrival of one of these heroes of campus achievements. They were inevitably greeted with a hoot-a loud and discordant hoot which seemed to threaten the foundation of the Old Brickpile. These men of the Class of 1928 are of fine clay, they are the salt of the earth, and in the way the world measures success, they shall no doubt go far. But the minority-those in whose college career a certain blight intervenes-what will become of the dreaming lads? Those who sought the quiet corners and sought after, in their humble way-truth. Whither will they drift, these idealists who will not stoop to the standards of the world but will aim high? I am at a loss for the answer. They will build their worlds no doubt far different from this one which man has constructed. In conclusion, the growth does not appear on the faces of the men as they have been recorded on the preceding pages. With the photog- rapher, however, the Senior Class has no quarrel. What sacrifices to intelligence have been made, the Seniors feel have been made for the sake of art. So where this quality does not appear, beauty reigns in its stead. Some say both cannot exist simultaneously. What truth is pos- sessed in the assertion is of no import here. Suffice it to say that the photographer was intent upon beauty and not intelligence. -A. DE MARTINI, ,28.

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FRANCIS PETER BOLAND, Arts and Letters San Francisco, California JoHN Ioszcr: BROPHY, Foreign Trade Menlo Park, California JOSEPH ALBERT Bow, Civil Engineer Oakland, California VINCENT ALLAN BURKE, Arts and Letters Oakland, California