Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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TO THE CONTENTS Hook I... CLASSES Hook II... ACTIVITIES Hook Ilf... SPORTS

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A FOUR-YEAR PERIOD involves many things: happiness, sadness, gains and losses. Their effect has strengthened our character to a degree which will enable us to overcome the obstacles life periodically imposes. Scholarship, religious training, and fra- ternal association have been the basis which inspired the events suggested within these pages. Our emerg- ence from these experiences is fortified with lasting memories. INTRODUCTIO

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9n M wosUam Father Mortimer A. Sullivan was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on January 2, 1887, and received his ele- mentary education at Saint Mary’s Grammar School. After leaving Lawrence to attend the former Villanova Preparatory School, now the building known as Alumni Hall, he furthered his education by enrolling at Villanova College. Upon receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1906, he embarked for Rome, where he attended Saint Monica’s College. He was ordained a Priest in the Order of Saint Augustine on July 4, 1909, and returned to the United States. Following three years of service as a missionary, he was assigned to what later became his new home, Saint Nich- olas of Tolcntine Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey. When the call to battle was sounded during the first World War, Father Sullivan enlisted in the ranks as a United States Navy Chaplain. His post-war activity brought him back to Saint Nich- olas’ Parish and within a short period he was asked to become the President of his Alma Mater, Villanova College. In 1932 Father Sullivan was elected Provincial of the Augustinian Order in the United States. He attained one of the highest, most respected and honorable adminis- trative positions in the Order, and remained in that office until 1938. His first term in office saw the beginnings of a vast educational expansion of Villanova College. In 1944 he was reelected to his former position as Provincial, and car- ried on the work of expanding the educational activities of the American Augustinians. Father Sullivan founded and sponsored the current growth of the University of Saint Thomas in Havana, Cuba. He planted the seeds of another institution, Merrimack College, in North Andover, Massachusetts, a suburb of Lawrence, to further cooperate with the desires of the 6