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              VOL. XX. NAZARETH COLLEGE, ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 5, 1945 No.7
39 TAKE DEGREES JUNE 6
CLASS OF '45 ENJOYS
WEEK'S CELEBRATION
This past week, which was designated
;;,nior Week, a time set aside !or the
~niors to epitomize and climax theiJ· Col­l>
ge clays. not only !ullilled its obligation
•• lhe brim, but also left n little trickle
down lhe •ides to be lapped up in future
$tllN- when rctrogpection scls in.
Coupled with the more solemn, tear­lllOving
events of Senior Week, as Day of
R•coUcction, Bacealaul·ente Mass, Moving­up
Day and Class Day, the socinl activities
tt.o had theh· place in a sequence of pa1 ....
UIS given the Seniors by their underclass­men
unci also the Alumnae.
First on the pt·ogt·am was Scnio1· Ball,
ll'hich was a combined effort of both Sen­,.,.
and Sophs. The Starlight Roof of lhc
Sbernton Hotel was the scene of the ball
•hleh took place on Satm·day, June 2 be­l
.. een !I P. M. and 1 A. M. Gene Zacher's
On:beslra provided the music to the com­pie<<
satis:laetion of all. Because o! the
piety and congen ialty of out· Naztuenes
and escorts, the entire house enjoyed an
trceptlonally good time.
t'ollowing the Baccalam·eate Mas.' and
tbe trnditional Rose Ceremony on Sunday,
June S. t.he Seniot·s were formally received
len tDIO the College Alumnae Association. The
sh- Order of the Day included dinner nt l :00
ch. P M. in the College Cafeteria, followed by
:ia· !he reception. 'rhe hono•·••·y guests includ­ny,
td the lay faculty and thei.r wives, the cele·
lCD bront or the Baccalaul'eate Mass, Assistant
;ue priests, Sr. Theresa ~h\rie, and St· .. Joseph
t.o l!ary. faculty advisor of the Alumnae As­er-
loOC'iation. Chairman of the Day was Miss
:h• llarjorie liowland, who was ably assisted
:am by Frances O'Reilly, chainllan of Arrange.
.he ml.'nt-s; Eileen Mcl.nerncy, chairman of
nd Gilts; nnd Betty Go·ifl1th Bart·y, chairman
of the Rose Ceremony.
The F1·eshmen, too. were ·wc.ll up on
•heir toes again this year. As n matter of
fact. yesterday they entertained the Seniors
tDOsl sumptuously at a combinAtion break·
f~:~t-luncbeon party in the college cafe­teria.
Rctty King and Karline Koenan, co­<
hairman o( the party, and their fellow
clas.~mates I'CCeived a hearty thanks irorn
1he Seniors.
And today the Juniors expressed their
farewell scntirnents to the Seniors at
1 luncheon in the Victorian Room of the
Sheraton Hotel. Appreciation from the
Seniors is extended to eve1·y junior with
n•enlion to Betty CloonHn and Helen Mary
Bau01nn, co-chairman of the J)al·ty.
REV. JOHN DUFFY
Dance Starts Round
of Social Mfairs
The termination oi dreaded comprehen­sives
and regular term exams \vas appro­priately
celebrated last Saturday evening,
June 8, from nine till one on the Starlight
Roof of the Sheraton Hotel with the tradi­tional
Senior Ball. Music was furnished by
Gene Zacher and his Ol'chestrn. The Seniors
and their "little sister class," the Sopho­moJ
·es, shared tbe sponsot·ship.
Seen, as they stepped on the dance ftoo•·
were Doris Dierdorl looking very demure
in a white net. gowo, with David \VaJ.
worth; Claire Yaxter, charming in pink net.
escorted by Raymond Healy. The "roving
reporter" also saw Loyola Nolan and Bob
Walsh "sitting ont out" with Dorothy
Smith and her fiance, Jim Schaeffer.
Among the other handsome c!ouples, we
spotted Dawn Realy with Dr. J. Finnegan;
Charlotte Brayer with Clifford Ym·ter:
Dorothy Argentieri with Walter Abelmnn,
Marge Keenan with Tom S1·ighnm, and
Marilyn Moore with A ntbony Pizzarelli.
Highl ight of the evening was the J)Cr­fonnancc
of the Conga by all present-­heading
the ''line" was none other than
our upremiere danseuse," Joan Dugon.
Joan captained it in her customary able
style And she received the hearty acclama·
tion oi her coll eagues.
+ -------------+ A special vote of thanks is extended to I all those who worked to make Senior Ball
the SUCCeS$ that it was. Special thaJ\kS go
1 to the t\vo co-chairmen of the Ball. C<>t·inne
Freet· and Martha Sheedy, for a job well
I <Ango•atulntions! best of "scoops," I ::~t~~:~~;I~~:i:::: are in order !or
1 The Gleaner will be u.nder the di·
1 rection of Evelyn Driver. while Maria
1 Bert will head the staff of Verity
I Fair.
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done. Thanks also to tbc committee heads
and their workers: Dawn Healy, in charge
of arrangements; Jean Flanagan1 publi·
city; Joan Dugan, Orchestra; Peggy Beal,
bids; Daisy Welch, Reception; Betty
Thon1pson, invitations: Marilyn Moore,
+ finances.
REV. GERALD G. WALSH
Nurses of '45 Fiuish Cor1rses
NAZARETH WELCOMES
REV. JOHN DUFFY AND
REV. G. G. WALSH, S. J.
Tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock the
18th annual Commencement Exercises will
take place in the college auditorium. The
Most Reverend James E. Kearney will con­fer
degt·ees upon thirty-nine graduates.
The address to the graduates will be given
by the Reverend Gerald G. Walsh. S. J ..
Editor of Thought and Professor of R.is­tory
in the Graduate School of Fo1·dbam
Univet·sity.
Father Walsh was born in S. Norwalk,
Conn .. and 'received his ea1·ly education in
Hamilton, Ontario nnd in Kingston upon
Hull, England. In 1910 he entered the
Jesuit Novitiate and Juniorate, Rocham­ton,
England, and was ordained in 1926 at
Woodstock College in Maryla nd. Father
Wt~lsh has been professor of Church His­tory
at Woodstock, professor o! Medieval
History, Gregorian University~ Rome and
head of the Department of Italian Studies
at Fordham University.
Among Father Walsh's accomplishments
is the authorship of several books and ar­ticJes:
He wrote The Empe ror Charlo• fV,
A Study in Holy Roman lmpcriali•m, Me~
diavel Huma.nitm, and he was collaborator
in The Catholic Philo•opby of Hi.atory. He
also is contributor of &J·tieles And reviews
Dorothy Reddington, who '"'as a mem­ber
of the Class of '46. will complete her
nursing training at Providence Hospital.
Washington, D. C. in Decembe1·. Dorothy
intends to come back to Rochester to work. to Th~ W~•tmin • t e r Re~i ew, Mo nth, Cre·
Rita _Piekunka, anothe1· faithful mem· ro,.ianum, Studium, Thoug ht, America,
ber of the Class oi '45. will soon <:ompl~te Ameri~an Catholic Hit toTicaJ Review, etc.
her training at Providence BospitaL too.
She is interested in staying in Washington
to specialize in surgery.
The Class of '45 has one Cadet Nut'Se in
its ranks, namely, Janet Meisenza.hJ, who
also studied at Providence Hospital, Wash­ington.
Among others of the Class of '46 who
su·e no lognel' with us because they have
chosen the married state, we find: Joyce
Schuler wbo recently became · Mo·s. Jack
Donnelly; Patricia Gleason who is Mrs.
Robert Breslin and who is now the mot.het·
of a month-old daughter, Maureen; and
Katherine Griswold ot Chno·lotte, North
Carolina, who is Mrs. Charles Carmichael
and the pt·oud mother of a baby boy.
Charles Jr.
FATHER McNAMARA
RETURNS to CAMPUS
Doctor Elmer McNamara retm·ned to
the ca.mpus on Saturday, June 2nd, to con·
duct a Da~· o! Recollection for the senior
class. known to Docto•· l\1eNamat·a as "his
sophomores." The day was opened wlth
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass followed by
a confea·ene(l ..
Bishop Keat·ney brought the day to a
close in the afternoon with a coniet·enee
and Benediction or the most Blessed Sacra­ment.
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Baccalaureate Address
On Sunday, June 3rd, the Revel'end John
Duffy delivered the baccalam·eate add1·ess
nt the solemn Pontifical Mass celebt·atcd by
the Most Reverend James E. Kearney. In
his sermon Father DuJfy told the g•·aduates
that t-hey have been favored in a very spe·
cial way. A small majority of the people
have had the opportunity of attending col­lege
and o! that number just n few wc1·e
given tbe opportunity of attending a
Catholic college. This lll'ivilege o( being
gTaduated from a Catholic college has de­manded
sacrifices on the part of parents
and labo•· and sacrifice on lbe part of in­stt\
ICt.ors. 'l'hese s..'l.criftces have been n1ade
willingly and nothing is asked in retuJ•n
except good·will, respect and affection ou
the part of the graduates. Yet justice de­mands
that the debt be paid, if not to
those who helped, to those with whom the
students come in contact. The girls should
all play an important part in the parish,
the community and in society in generaJ.
It is not a case of passing on the benefits
of college training this year, or the fol­lowing
year, but every day.
Charity ond humility al'e the two quali­ties
which should be most outstanding in
tbe life o( <he Catholic college graduate.
Fatbe1· Duffy is the newly almointed
pastor o! St. Augustine's Church. He
served for tnany years as Director of
Diocesan Educ.."ltion.
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EDITOR-LN-CAIEF.......................................... .... -· ························ Jeanne Chiavaroli
BUSINESS MANAGER ...... .................................................................. Mnrgurite Krause
ASSOCIATE EDJTOilS ............... - ........................................ Jean Foley, Doris Dierdod
NEWS EDITOR .................. - .... - ......................................................... Mary Meisen~abl
NSWS STAFF....... . ....... .......... Mary Jeanne Meyer, Virginia JUee, Mortha Sheedy
Madeline Sullivan, Corinne Freer, Patricia O'Grady
RUMOR EDITOR .. ...................... ..... .... ....... .. .... .............. Marilyn Moore
FEATURE EDITOR ............................ . .................. - ..... RoseMar>' Walch
FEATURE STAFF .............................. P•C&'Y Bcal, Charlotte Brayer, Jean Schantz,
Claire Yarter, Louise Benhon, Betty Keegan
HEAD TYPIST .. .............................. ....... .. .............................. Mnt"ic Di Giorgio
CIRCULATION MANACER .................................................. ............. Ann Mal'ie St,.uffer
1944
Member
Intercollegiate Press 1945
GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
Four short years ago, we gathered in the halls of the old Nazareth,
as new, green freshmen. Bricks, morta1·. studies, and social events have
mingled. Now Nazareth is a great new school and we are old Seniors.
That, my friends, is life!
And what is life? ... Life is much more than a ten-cent magazine.
It is a term (in two senses of the word) which can be divided into parts
-rlast, present, and future. When we entered those vine-covered build­ings
'way back in 1941, college (which can be a division of "life") was
our immediate future. Then-for what seemed at times like n million
years, and at others like a month or two-college was om· present Too
soon it will be our past-but it will always be a vital and living part of
our past.
·when we leave Naz;areth on graduation day, the faculty, the girls,
and all that goes with college life, won't be forgotten, as some might
expect. Yes! we might forget when the quantum theory was discov­ered,
or how many plays Lope de Vega wrote, but we will remember
many things-some of them big and important, others small and not
so important. As the yeat·s roll by, our memories of Nazareth will gt·ow
fonder, and our ft·iendships will grow bigger. Old memories and old
friends are gold, you know, and om· years at Nazareth have made us
millionaires.
Someday, no matter how fat· away, when we take out and count
the gold we've acquired, we'll find the biggest and brightest nuggets
are still the faculty. Our chances fot· shining them up were constant,
and we wanted to keep them as glowing as we could, to let others see
how kind and friendly the faculty were.
The next biggest nuggets we will come act·oss, will be our "little
sisters." We will always love our "liltle sisters" and we hope thnt their
nuggets, along with the faculty's will be shining right up on top, so that
in the days to come, we won't have to dig down deep to find them.
They'll be l'ight there I
Now, out· bag of gold, though heavy with nuggets, is spl'inkled
throughout with gold-dust. There is dust gently blown from a philos­ophy
book, from a Senior Ball gown, from a May Day rose:-dust from
an old exam paper, from a banquet favor, from a b·easm·ed snapshot
There is dust, too, from a letter, ft·om a cap and gown, from many,
many things.
It is true that some of the tiniest particles of gold-dust may leak
out through the scams as time goes by, but the nuggets will always re­main.
That's why we can't say good-bye, for we're taking you with us
in our bag of gold. Your value is proven by the weight of the bag, but
According to mathematical calculations (which we think are cor­t•
ect), the Class of 1945 of Nazareth College must have stat-ted as fresh·
men in September of 1941. lf memory serves us, out· country entered
the war in December of 1941 and the European war ended on May 8,
1945. You're probably asking at this point-well, what about it?
Well,-nothing, except that the war, or rather the war in Europe
just fitted into ou1· college life. Please don't misunderstand-we're nol
complaining. We merely want to say that a great part of the war whicl
is still going on happened at a time which will always be memorabh
for us anyway, but the more memorable because of the world even~
that occuned then.
Thirty years from now we might joke about the fact that it w
so hard to get a date for J unior Prom, or that we hnd such a difficu
time getting saddle shoes, ot· that the1·e was no nylon for civilian co
sumption. But we are certain to remembel' that the war that caused a
these shortages, also caused thousands of young men to go away fro
home nevet· to return; it caused the death of thousands of helpless p
pie; it caused untold amounts of property to be destroyed. Moreove
we will look back at the conferences at Casablanca, Teheran and Yal
and San Francisco-dare we hope that by that time they will have a
complished theh· purpose-that by that time, men will have learn
to be at. peace with each othe1·? We can only hope that. what has be
planned in theory these past few years, will eventually be cal'l'ied 0
in fact. We fet·vently pray that men will soon recognize the necessi
of basing governments on Christian principles rathe1· than on an infi
foundation of a man-made code of ethics. The youth of today is givi
ungrudgingly of its life's blood and in 1·eturn it asks only that the wo
spare the youth of all the tomo•Tows.
Is that too much to hope for'?
WORLD OVER
Never forget what a man bas said to
you when he was angry. U he has charged
you with anything you had bett<>r look It
up.- llenry Ward Beecher
Education has never been under com.
pulsion. aa hnvc business and science, to
keep abt·enst o! the times.
- Constance Warren, p•·csidcnt
ol Sarah Lawrence College
The tl'ilicnl question js not whether we
shall create power, but whether we can
produce 1>eople who know what to do with
it -Harold W. Stoke
To spend your life thinking about 'what
will be 1aid' would result in a completely
unprofitable and emhittet"ing exi1!tence.
-Eleanor Roosevel~
Uncommon ex pressions are n disf\gut·0·
ment rather than 811 embellishment or di~­course.-
Dovid Hume
Militur·y victory ;. not the real Jlrice of
a laSling peace. It is only the tirst down
payment.- Willinm G. Carr
The environment to which a veteran r~
turns must be as good as the on.- he thinks
he hnd before he le!t.-Gideon Seymour
The more! may var)' widely from coun­try
to country, but the moral law i~ the
san1e everywhere. Human beings nrc di{­ferem,
but lhey 11re identical in theil· hu­manity.
Their identical humanity 18 the
foundation of a desirable world civilizn­lion.-
Rohert M. Hutchins
Emergency ac~ion taken today may bind
and Crustrate all our tomorrows.
-Charlotte E. Whitton
Man shows his character best by trifles.
-Schopcnhouer
A little historic ohsCJ"vntion will revenl
very elenrly thn~ when a nation begins to
decay the llrOCI'SJ! starts with the adults,
not with the youth.-Dean Scbweickhar·d
The journey of a thou"8nd miles bew
with one pace - Lao Tz.e
\Vhen picture~ seem alive with movemtt
tree,
When ships like fi,h•• swim beneath
sea,
When men, ouU!tt•ipping bir·ds, shall "
the sky,
The half the wol'ld dcep.drcnched in bl
shall be.
- Inscription on a 500-year
Tombstone at Churchampsie,
Usually when people demand a clari&
lion they want thing,. clarified their •
way.-Edi~orial in The New York Ti.,...
Hatred does not eense by hatred at
time; hatred eeHses by love-this i3
old rule.-Budrlha
A lie can get hnl f woy nround the Wll'
before the truth hns time to get
breeches on.-Cordell Hull
ll you're looking for inspiration, ~
up-don't look around.-Sr. Rose Man.
He never walks gracefully who I
upon the shoulde•· or another. how"'
gracefully thnt other may wnlk.
- Wnlter· Savage LandO!
Lost, yesterday, somewhere be
Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours,
set with sixty diarnond minutes. No
ward is olfered, Cor they are gone fort
- Horace Mann, u·Houn
Four thing,. come not back:
The spoken word,
The sped ftrrow,
Time past,
The neglected OllllOrtunity.
it lies lightly upon our minds, Cor it's something we want to carry
us.
To those of you who will be here a while-gold is where you c;
it. And you can find it! Sometimes you have to sct·ape away the Outl
surface, but the gold is there underneath. There at·e treasures hidden
Nazareth College! May you have as much luck in linding them as
did I Until we meet again, then, and add up out· riches together, g
luck and good hunting!
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The Theatre of Anderson
By JEA..'I SCHANTZ
The theatre audience, declare$ ~laxwell
Anderson. is unot only ready but impatient
lor plays which wi ll take up ngain the
ton.sideration of rnan'a place and destin)'
1n prophetic rather than pro$Aic terms. It
1t incumbent on the J)OCL to be pl'ophct,
drea.met· nnd inlel'JH•eter of the rnciul
h drt.am."
e And if he writes no contemporary me•
"'ge lor the masses, It is perh&fll! because
8 ht• !eels that "the otago is still a cuthed•·al
but just now A journalistic one. dominat:
s td by thooe who wi•h to offer something
Immediate about our llOiitical. social or
t<onomic life. Like every othot• existing
!- C'clndjtion, it. gives the illusion or permll•
II ••nee, but it will change. An age of rea·
n wn will be followed once more by an nge
af rnith in things unseen."
THE GLEANER
CRAMMING - -
Every student i• guilty of it. It isn't
forbidden by lnw, but it Is deemed un­healthy
for the general welfare of society
and the individual. Cramming is the jam­ming
of Cacts, figures, personages and
misccllnneous dotes Into one'11 cranium roa·
a certain examination-aU of which nre
''Gone With the Wind'' when the terrific
ordeal IJJ finished.
By DAISY WELCH
foot, working with a pick, doing time. ••Jt's
lime to do the dishes, J nne," Mothtw de­clai'CJI,
You feign a splitting headache and
retire to the confines of your room to
t.ackle Ontolo(r)'.
uThe conCCJlt of being is nnr1·owcst in
its comprehension and widest in it.a exten­sion,.
. • . ''Sounds like Aunt Sophie,"
you mlll!e. Suddenly, the ring o! the phone
intenupts yout• •·everie and you strain
you•· ears to hear who it's for. "Oh I Mavbe
it.'s Beezie !" you silentl)· hope. But it is~ 't.
Bnck to Ontology ...
"An ideal being is t.hnt being . , ."
TEACUP
By C, BRAYER
You are quaint and gay
With dnlnty violel.!!
Holding hands tu·ound you•· r im.
If you were new,
People would aay
{,Another ehinn teacup,"
And puss you by.
But you are old dresden,
A rich. eccentric lady's whim.
The maid treats you with care.
You ft t·e served
On a s hining silver tray
And people deem it an honor
To sip tea
And pnss the time of day
With the wealth lbat owns
Such A precious teacup.
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This is th~ J)aradox: that he knows what
needed in the American theatre; that
8 he has on hond the verse in which to arrny
~ mugnifieently the poetic tragedy he would
:1 •·rite; that no one now but Eugene O'Neill
0 ran parallel his parade of carefully
t drawn, eloquent and hybrid characters. Yet
The ominous voice of the IH'o fessot· an­nounces
an Ontology Exam for t.he fol ­lowing
Tuesday amid a chorUll of groans
and grimaces. uor e:ou.rse. girls. the mark
ll·om this test will be averaged in with
your other testa nnd will count toward
your flnal grade.'' Horrors! and you with
two D's already. "Let's see ... next Tues.
da>• ..• thnt gives Friday and the week·
end to 11re1>are for this dest>ised exam. A
little bit each day and I'll have it ma.t­ered,"
you eonftdently cone I ude. But you
find in the next rcw days that you nrc
simply •·ushcd, swesot off )'Our feet and
swamtled with other things to do. A true
procrastinator. you put oft" 'til Monda)'
night whnt you could have done the pre·
ceding days.
"Beezie is certainly an ideal being-star
oC hia football team-big hard muscles
(when he wears tl:em.") The phone rings
agnin and it's the apple o( your better
eye-Beezie.
''1 don't know if ahe can make it to the
phone, Beezie; ohe has a oplitting head·
ache." you henr Mom say. Quicke•· than l
can wl'ite il., you're at the phone.
It's 110 long since you've beard the oound
or his cracked voice--not oinee (our-thirty
this afternoon In Handy's Corner Drug
Stoo•!'-that you oimply hnve to tnlk too• an
hour and a half. Your call finished. ~·ou
waltz up the mag-~c casement to your star­like
perch upon a feathery cushion of
cloud- there to dri(t out yonder where the
blue begins-and to meditate upon beau·
ea.·l:r in the morning when yo ua· mind is
(reah and your bead is tlear to •tudy, You
agree to Dad's plan and then 110licit his
Prayers Cor the following morning. He
Pl'omises to pray with that. 101'11 say "n
R8piration~+ look in hi.1 eye.
the soul or drama is conflict coupled with
)' it. •·•solution, and on author whose only
rredo strikes somewhtre between anarchy
g and humanitarianism can hardly be ex.
d peeled to prove that n set of idenlo is worth
dying for. ("The•• little huo·U.! Tbey'•·c
llction, like your souls. a nd they w .. h out
ike rain. With a new dress they're half. ! hoaled-add hal£ a dram of starlight, three
i k-IK.OW.!It and o. ring, nnd they're gone clenn.
IH>tter not spoken of. " ) Consequently,
when the opposing forces are brought face
Monday night you hurry home after a
quiek coke and a pack of cigarettes, arriv­ing
at about six bells. Dinner i• being
sea·ved nnd t he fnmily is planning n re­union
!o1· next Sunday . .,Sunday ... nh!
1'11 be u free .. a bold in d~ tree." you
choip, "No OntoiOlf)' exam to worry about!
Ah, thnt'll be the day!" Oh! Ontology!!
you should be studying now. Then Dad
mentions Uncle Willie's coming and Moth ...
er's eyes plead with him not to mention
Uncle Willie in front of the children. The
<'o nversation suddenly becomes more intN··
esting. Ontolog)• begina to fade into the
distance nod Uncle Willie occupies the
spotlight or your thoughts. "Who's Uncle
Willie, Mom, and whet·e is he?" you nsk.
'"He's been away !or ten years, dear, and
has been a victim of unfortunate c:h~um-
8tnnces." You have never heard very much
nbout Uncle Willie nnd you immediately
picture him in a striped suit, a huge black
ball and heavy link ehain attached to his
titul life-ita blessing ....... number lA of
which ts Beezie--nnd its vicissitudes-On·
tology ! !!
You climb wearily into bed nt about
One-thirty, and after tol!Sing Cor two or
mot·e hours you tinnily ne!'tle In t he arm~
of Morpheus only to be rudely nwakened
by the shrill call of yon alarm clock.
Through half-open eyes, laden with the
snnds or slee p, you perceive that the big
hRnd points to twelve nnd the little hand
is on six, making the time read aix o'elock
-too earl)• to rise. Snuggling further
down into the lu."<urious warmth of your
soft covers, you conclude that Leigh Hunt
certainly knew what he wu talking about
when he wrote the <'IBRy "Getting Up on
Cold Morning!." Your conscience sets n·
wo•·kin' and u-chantin·- --you goUu get u1-.t
You gottn get up! Only one-hundred sixty
more pages of Ontology to cover-to dis­cover--
to cuver--eover-cover up and go
to Alcep.'' Thus Hdvic~ 18 more t.o your hk·
ing, so you heed it.
l.fl to faee, someone dies because fate is on
imrtlucable rnnehine~ because Jove triu_mphs
in the human breast, or simpl)', we sus ..
1"'<'1. becauJe he ha• been elected the
• tragic hero. Thus the rul tragedy ;. within
~1r. AndenJon. His own ta·agie flaw reaches
" deep. cutting t he vitals f•·om his crafts.
manohip and his beautiful, rhythmic dia·
ioJCUe,
Having observed, "There is not one
trugedy by Aeochylus, Sophocles, Euripi·
r. des, Shak<'!J>eare, Corneille or Racine
which did not have the advantage of a set·
t- t1ng either fsr away or long ago:· Ander-
• ><Jn o·cto·entcd to the PMt !or the setting
lor his two best trAgedies, Eliubotb tho
QueeD and Mary of Sc.otla..nd. ln the for-­mer,
and more Aristotelian, Elitnbeth and
F.iliSex are both endowed with flCnctratin~e
Raws of character, pl'ide and ambition. We
ftnd conflict within each of these two prin-
:s dpttl characters, and between them when
they have fallen in love. A sel'ies or rea·
•onnble and convincing enco unters bring
about the downfall of each for what seems
logi(al motivation, and effects the most
&killlul catharsis to be had anywhere in
•• the entire body or Anderson's work.
•r Rudolph'8 de(ect in Muqu e o( King• is
more difficult to identif)·. As his gentle
mother remarks to her husband, Franz
n Jogeph, it nlny be thnt. t heir two natures
h are "at. war in his blood." More likely he is
,. tntirely his mother's oon. hating his ! ath·
r. er'a iron.clnd imperialis n1, and yet ~o much
n flllcifist at heart thn~ he CAnnot linish
what promises to be n successful revolu­tion
after the first blood is shed. By the
tin1e his true love haJ committed s uicide
love of Wnshington's youth Is sent by the
British to bargain with and discourage
him. WMhington overcomes his tempta.
tions and difficultiea, howeve r, und the ti nal
curtain closes on n note of vnliant hope.
All in all, it is a pity that Maxwell An·
derson's $hortcominp are so basic. Yet it
is possible to believe with Vernon Loggins
that any one of hi~ plays "presents n whil'l
of dislocated trutha; but these are all aub·
ordinated to a larger harmony-a bannony
t hat has caught the opirit of romance. It
is t hat hnrmony which one rcmcmbel's und
cherishes."
Lr he hu failed to become the American
Shakes peare, he haa at least endowed ua
with a cache of peo·celltive, infinitely quot·
11ble vel'lle. When we have forgotten thnt
his characters are inclined to die for ob ..
scure ren.sons.. we may remember some oC
t he more lyric pnssnges and enjoy thom
!or what they arc. This sp•ech or Ru­dolph's,
for example, deserves to stJJnd
alone.
we do not know whether Rudoltlh shoot8 "· ... There have been other women heo·e
hlm•elf because be wishes to follow her, in this •·oom, a handsonoc eom1.>any, 1 givo
or to escape the power that feeds on mur- my word, and wber~ they went alterwsrd
dered men. Though Anderson detests the concerned me only mildly. When you've
caption, be is in this instance a romantic gone I hear your laughter dying down t he
fJinywright. A •·ealist, nvoid ing tho intoxi· hull and think you'o·c gone, but then you
h tat1on of meter and metas)bor, might find run jn my veins like tun on Danube water
both plot and theme a triOe ludicrolll!, and your hair comes down between noe
tr Ande111on can be &nid ever to point nnd the book I write, and I curse you !or
d out. u wa)., fol' his nudience, in Valley tt witeh. Thi3 is rcw boys, this spring~anp
·r For•e we flnd the only door which open~ madness, this magic in a fealher, the one
n upward and outward. The usual tale of red feather in one rirl's dark hair, this
e WIU!hington i• varied somewhat, though the drcaminr at window&. memory of a per·
d Genco·nl o·emains ea1>taln of his own soul. f11me, this i~ tor boys and girls, and not
Congress is rep•·esented as plotting for n lor me, but with you it's noinc again. And
profitable llCace behind his back, while the 110 we'll keep it. Let. them try to take it
Continental Army starves in raga. An old from u.s."
Nervously you glance down at your
note3: .. An efficient cause brings a thing
into exi.stence." You, the e.fficienl C:Ruse,
bring last Sotuo'dny's bn,kctball game back
into existence. \\'hat a came. The score
was tied: Midville o-<:entcrville 0. Two
minute. left to piny-one and a hniC min·
utoe-ono minute-foul on Midvillo. It
was our ball! 'l'he lot w .. designated to
Beezie to make the shot. He jockeyed into
positio~>-pale and nervoua he glanced at
the crowd t•nse with nnxiet>·- rniscd the
ball~ond . .. fainted !!! He had given one
too many pinta of blood to the Red Cross.
Substitution- Horace McGillicuddy- he
fingeo·ed the ball- made the shot-the ball
soured through the nir-bounded 0 11 the
bankboa1·d . .. there wasn't a sound in the
smoke-filled gymnasium . , . and sank
through the iron rim for two pointa M the
gun souuded marking the end of the game.
We won! Hooray!
At this point you're shouting "Hooray
for our &ide!' ' and this brings in young
Tommy, who asks you to explain the impJi.
eatcd and com1llieated process or playing
Bingo. You have a big exa_m tomorrow­"
and Tommy wouldn't want Jane)"' to tail.''
would he? _ .. Ye&, he would, cuz Janey
won't even pin)' one game.'• So you play
one game and then Tommy promisea to be
quiet and read his big little hooks. Tom·
my's t iny vocflbUIHry doesntt even include
the word "ct1Hnming," n.nd, as you gaze
at hb little towhead bending over t he ad·
ventureJJ of PruneCaee, you suddenly wish
you were young ngain and the burdens of
liie would be lifted fo•om your nlready
round ohoulders. But ~hen, you med itate
on all the schooling you would have to
plunge t hrough again, nnd you secretly
thank God you no·e twenty,
An hour Jatet Mom interrupts your in­tensive
study and declares "it's time to go
to bed." But you insist you have to cram
ln you•· course. "It makes no diffe•·ence­i(
you've studied every day, as you should
have. you have nothing to worry about!''
That's Ju.•t the trouble, but you don't dare
tell Mom that. "Besides, the electric bills
have to be paid and your health io to be
considered. It's midnight now and way past
your bedtime.''
A hnlC-houo· Inter Dad enters upon the
tho·eshold and tells you to go to bed-to
please your Mother and to let him sleep
-.and Dad further sugge•ta getting up
Time MArches On! and you Awake with
a ~tart! The hond$ ot the clock menacingly
point. to SCY('n-thirty. You jUillJ) inlo YOUI'
clothes. dash some H2o on your face, gulp
down your breakfast, and after catching a
Pittaiord Oyer you grab a sent with the
thought thn t maybe you could lenn• a lit.­tle
something enrout('. Metaphy!ics, Re~
ftex Concept of Being, Real Being, Logical
Being, Genu•, Species-their black print
looms blaekco· and blnckor as the bus chugs
nem·e•· and nearer t.o the chambN· of hot··
rors. Tbe Nature of a Principle, Principle
of Identity, Being and Nothing,-it ought
to be easy to talk about nothing-Prin.
cislle of Conto·ndiction-
Arriving all too quickly a t Inner Sane·
tum, you don't walk but run to Chapel.
Beseechingly and imploringly and some·
what despco·11tely you ent•·ent Thomas
Aquinas' intercession and ask for divine
revelation You slowly walk to class. catch·
ing brief snntches of jargon a.• you go
nlong.
The Professor st•mds s milingly at his
deok reading out the death sentence, usual·
ly consisting of (our or Ave tortuous que$~
lions. Youo· heart nnd your I. Q. sink low­er
and lower as each one is read. You are
in potency (or are su pposed to be) to
write the an.swer. but the ad itsell is sn
extrinsic impossibility. You wt·ite-nt lcasl
you 611 the llBile•·· and then- it is over. In
one period you hav~ aged fifteen years;
the time set tor turning your hair to !Ylver
move! up a notch; the funows under your
eye. deepen and yom· s houldeo·s sag a
trifle more.
Wh~~t prico cramming! Is it worth all
this? Don'l you think i~ wiser to study
eAch night. and to prepna·e each l\83ignment
from day to day! lt'a niee work if you
ran gel it. But you may receive consola­tion
in the thought thot
All things In this wol'ld arc )lnssing.
I am in this world
I am pa"'ing. (We Hope.)
4 THE GLEANER
FACULTY GIVES ADVICE TO SENIORS
My dear Cirls:
As with every Clil83 or the t wenty t hnt
have finished the college course and snid
goodbye to Nazareth, 10 it is with you now
on your departure ns, aholl I say, the fin­ished
product o! a college education! I
dare not say 1 finished product, for the
produet is far !rom tini&hed. U every
Senior of 1945 were to pursue the paths or
higher learning until the Ph. D. were be­stowed
upon her, the produet would still
be far from finished. The•·• would still be
many mile-stones nhend. These she cou ld
reach only by continual upbuilding o! her
intellect, her underotnnding, her power of
!orming correct judgments, by coming to
know the soul or truth and j llStice, of
beauty and goodneas, and, most of all, by
a disciplined will that hu become able,
through grace and the gifts of the Holy
Spirit, to build strong defenoes for our
homes and the homes of all the world, de­fenses
of our Christina heritage and our
8piritua1 life.
Indeed our educntlon has just begun.
Of this we aJ'C pnin.fu11y conscious when
we nre confronted by questions of great.
moment in our lives or lhe great questions
which rock the world today. Yet we have
used our college yean well if we ha,•e
learned to think dearly, to judge honeat­ly,
to aet unselfiohly, to live nobly unto
holiness.
You must all !ace great issues. Upon
each of you is plnced, in some measur<'. 11
personal res pon•iblllty ro·· the l"ight aolu­tion
of these bunlin~ issues. Your Chri~Jo>
tian education ond principles are your
preparation for this great task.
Are you ready to uke your place in the
lhought and action which our momentoWJ
times demand! Will the ranks of woman­hood
be the stronger for your presence,
your inftuenee, your power to think
through and voice the ri~tht ' 'iew of nn
issue, its justice, Ita humnnity? Are you
racing life nnd the pe•·il• of our time,
bringing to it. n womanhood dedicated to
right and truth, to aoc.riflce aod service
and godlincas!
This is the qucnion that the great ooul
of Nazareth is asking today. Indeed. the
three blessed ones through whom Nazareth
i:& dear to ua, are atking the same question
of you today. Will you bring the Maiden
of Nazareth to the wo.-Jd, and the bleeding
world to her feetY And will you te11ch the
faithless world the tl·ue greatness of the
hidden, humble, just mon, whom, for hitJ
sanctity, Cod chooc •• the head of the
holy home or Natareth! Your lives will be
the answer.
SISTER TERESA MARIE
In The Reed of Cod we are told that Our
Llldy, in contrast lO even the srreatest of
the canonized sulnts nil of whom had spe­ciul
vocations, hnd to include in her voca·
tion the esscnlinl thing that was to be
hidden in every other vocation, in every
life. "The one thing that she did and does
is the one thing that we all have to do,
namely, to bear Christ into the world."
Therefore it seems to me a wonderful
thing to remember that Our Lftdy, if we
ask her, will give Chril!t to us and will
teaeh us, no matter what may be our spe·
cia) vocation in this world, to give Him, in
and through this \'Rcation, to others.
SIS'rfm JOSEPH MARY
As you Catholic graduates take over the
controls, be penuaded that your eoune to
beftven is eharted unerringly by the teach­ings
or Holy Mother Chureb. Remember
"Offerimus Tibi'' in your going-it is your
thrust to starboard, which will beget !or
you all possible joy.
Vale! May the am·cness of your vision
of God draw countless othc1'8 in your lend.
SISTER MARIE AUGUSTINE
"Commencement'' is A term happily
chosen to indicate the achievement of a
goal In formal education. So it is that tbe
same reluctant lagging step which takes
you regretfully !rom your loved Alma
Muter. in another imtant atrengthens,
quickens into a.n anxioutt determined gait
hastening to the threehold of the new
School or Ufe. Therein you will find new
thinp and old. Self education and sell
discipline will be the order of the day if
you really wish to move onward and up­word.
There will be even g•·cnt.cr need in
this school for much reading, 1tudying nnd
thinking. We have concern for you, but we
have Caith in you.
We believe Nazareth has implanted won­derful
things in your minds and your
hearu. We have glimpsed " passion for
knowledge and kuth in you. W c have
meo•ured you from time to time as you
grew in emotional maturity. 'Ve have been
quite certain that we saw lhe roots of deep
loyalties going down into your live•. We
ure s upremely hapiiY in the knowledge
thnt you have followed our lead in finding
and using the gTeat eternal apiritual re­sources
which are youn. Nor have we
missed in you your unmistakable recogni­tion
and fine appreciation of all that is
Beauty. Can anyone accuse u of over-­confidence
in you'! \Ve do recommend you
to this School of Life 8S young women
who will most generously contribute bal­nnccd
thinking, right judgment~, nnd the
highest, noblest type o! Comparative
Cntholic Action in the world in which you
live.
SISTER M. DOMINIC
To the Cadet Nurses:
The next two years of your course wm
be dillicult, but you will be rewarded on
the day that you can write "R. N." niter
your names. Then you will be pnrt of the
cavnleude of women th•·oughout the wo1·ld
serving Cod and humanity. Cood luck and
alway• keep the idealo or the "Lndy with
the Lamp" with you.
JANE M. MARASCO, R. N.
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"Take care to be as good as men think
you are, for many people have put their
trust in you." For you Nfizll.reth is here,
but to the world at large it 18 wherever
you nrc, honored when you n•·e hono1·ed,
shnmcd when you are shnmcd. Her influ­ence
will be what you make il, ond there­•
pect in whieh she is held will be only that
which you engender through your etTorts
to uphold her standards. And your etTorts
to enrich in yourselves her heritage, will
be the measure of your life.
To Jive is to grow and ~ince one grows
in giving of the best that is in his heart
and soul, your growth in oil thot makes
!or n life worth while will be as your love
nnd devotion to the cousc or Ch.-lst and
Nozn•·eth.
SISTER MARY FRANCIS
I canno~ it seems to me, express my
parting wish for you better than I one"
found it on an English birthday card:
"May Christ, Who love• you more than
I ean do
Outpour His blessings nnd Rls love on
you;
And may He grant thnt throughout the
coming year (to which I ndd 'and
nlways')
Whatever ahall befall Re rna)' be near,
Uplifting when the spirit is downeast,
Filling with jo)• all memories or the past,
Drawing you close. until His ,eeret bliss
1s whis pered to your soul in happiness,
And you are wrapt in Jlence and joy and
light,
One with Christ, Who•e love is infinite.''
ROSEhlARY A. WRITE
You ••·e lenvinr College at one or the
momento us J)Criods in World History when
t he struggle is being clearly drown be­tween
two easentinlly incompatible ways of
life-Democracy nnd Totalitarianism. The
loyalties of men and nations will be equal­!)•
clearly drawn-and you as a Catholic
College gTaduate cannot remain aloof. I
would advloe all or you actively to interest
)·ourselves in this struggle, for you ~m~rge
upon the contemporary world prepared to
testify to the truth. To you the heritage
of Christianity is humnnly trusted and you
must not, you durc not, fail.
SISTER PAULETTE
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You of all people have a knowledge of
truth. Your reopeet for the individual II
the keystone of your Catholic philosophy.
The world may not understand. The forees
of the oppo8ition wiU be great; but your
task i.s clearl)' defined. lt is to undeueand,
to accept und to help your fellowman to
the end thnt out of tbe mosses will emerge
human beings, each reborn in the knowl­edge
of his likeness to God and his re­sponsibility
to Rim and to humanity.
ELIZABETH GRIFFIN BARRY
As he sees hio pupils leave for com­mencement
of their life's work, the Chris-­tian
teacher may well be reminded of what
St. Paul eull cd his Calatian converts,
''My deur c hilth·cn, with whom I om in
labor nguin, until Ch1·ist is formed in you."
Your school yenra hove been spent in ac­quiring
wisdom and art and ~cience. but
always with the thought that this "'88 an
enlarging of the frame wherein the in·
creasing portrait of Christ should be en­closed.
Now your Leacbel"$' work is done.
but their footering prayers will accompany
you through life, that the forming or
Chri~t wit-hin you which your cullcgc hns
been nt. &uch pnins to assi~t, may be
b•·ought at the end to the full st.nturc or­dained
fo1· cnch of you by our loving
F'ftther in Heaven.
REV. BENEDICT EHMANN
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The world hu need of people who have
been trained in lhe type of education Naz­areth
gives.
Gene•·ously give then of the fruits, both
spil'itunl find mntc•·inl, that you hove l'C•
ceived.
SJST~:R FRANCIS SOLANO
You are going out into a Ule which is
filled with an almost desperate hope. In
spite of aU ominous portents. men will u11e
every kind of experiment in the attempt
to bring a lasting peaee to the world. You
have learned that charity and justice re­side
in the hellrts of men. Your whole
coul"se hAIJ tfiught you that virtuous men
and womcu- not lnw&-bring J)eaee.
Milke yom• homes and families vlrtuou3
with ChristiAn grace. As far as lies in your
power, help othen to do the same. Then
in a s pirit of trusting optimism leave the
rest in the hands of God who brinp good
from evil and gTeater good from the leu
among men and nations..
REV. EDWARD J. LINTZ
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.My pruye 1· fo•· you, girls, ns you nre
graduated, is that. you may have faith.
You must neve1· cease to ask it or God lor
yourselves--the gift of a marvelous faith,
a faith which believes that .. not only all
will be well, but that all ;. well" May the
Holy Spirit leach you to understand thue
words of our Lord to Mother Juliana of
1\orwich: "See! J am God: see! 1 am in
all thinp: see! I do all things: see! I lift
never my hnnds off my works, nor ever
shall without end. How s hould anything be
amiss?"
SIS'fF:R DOROTHY AGNES
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Dear Seniors.
Less than two ye..-a ago there cam~
n day o! dnys In OUI' lives, a cbr
which we shall neve•· forget. It ""
then at Point Pleasant that we "''"
first intToduced to you u our "hit
sisters." Midst the tun and froli< r.
the day we began to get acquaint&
Then with the beginning or eolltto
life t.he name "big aiater-'' took 11
real meaning. We s hall always rt­member
your help nnd understand­ing
during those first dillicult days o!
being a fros.h. I
Time has passed quickly since thea, I
leaving behind 11 wMith of cherished
memories o( the jobs and troubl,.
we have shared.
Soon you will leave us but yo.,
z:eal, ambition and example you lean
behind. It is our fervent desire tt
take up your standards and hold the11l
high, just like you hnve! I
Now, farewell, Big Sisters; we wish you well. I
Your Little Sisters,
TH~~ SOPHOMORES I
Yours is a t:hosen generation. yours
a peculiar stewardabip. for you are amofl:'
the first dtiz.ens of A brave new wo~
Forget the diversities of tongues and rate!
and nationalities; nnd •·cmember that 11
men are your brot.hcl'l in the strong bon
of the Mysticnl Body of Ch1·isL. Then aat
then alone you will deal justly and fairiJ
and honestly with the impelling probl••
of youT todays and tomorrows.
ELIZABETH M. FAKE
You are among those to whom much b.
been given. Cive lreely of your Light, tba
others too may see, and be guided by ill
brightness.
SISTER HELEN DANIEL
Carlyle said long ogo: "All that a un
vcroity or final highest •chool ean do !~
us is still but what the ftrst school bego:
to do--teach us to read." I hope the yean
will pro,•e that Nazareth has done for y
what Carlyle meant, hu taught you 1114
only to read, but what and how to read.
SISTER ROSE MARIE
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"Unless the l-ord build the hollSe, tbe,
labor in vain that build lt.''- (Psalm 12G)
\Vhetber your vocation be married, re·
I igious, or single state, moy Christ be tbr
Cornerstone of all your undertakings.
SISTER JOSEPfllNE LOUJSE
SICNS OF SPRII\C AT NAZARETH ·-·
-put. put o( J!tlr. Leary's lawnmower
-Mr. l1iller spading ''Tbc Cood Earth"
-gay voices babbling on the tennis court&
- Oeecy, downy clouds - - ••
-a uriver campus" .. - - -
-fp·een grass - .. -
-oprawling student• relaxing in its ve].
vety depth~ - - • -
-tiny buds on taU trees (con-eetion: tree)
- a smiling sun .. - .
-eager beaver's yearning, bul'ning lor h'
.. tan" t.alizing ttare .. - . -
~risp, cotton dresses - - ... ·
- bright ftowero in new hairdos - • - - I -ohiny cars in the pnrking lot - - - -
- a snow·freed drivewny - - - -
- n yawning ct·ocus - - - • yellow dande-lions
-election o! new officers - • - -
- fragrance ot congratulatory corsages - ·
-'profs' familiar admonitions ..........
-HJt won•t be long now!" - - - -
-"Study hard!" or '"You'll be sorry!" ... •
--students amblin' along to McConnell's -
-dreamy, faraway. '"pacifie"ied looks .. - ·
- "any place but school" expressions ..... ·
- Father Lintz's J5pring cassock - ... - ..
-and when you sec thot - - - -
-you just know t hnt- - - -
-Spring has arrived nt Nazareth!
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THE GLEANER 5
Se•ted: Ma.rie Di Cjor1io, Cinny Klee, Joan Oqaa, Ma.ree Keen.an, Marae Kra__u.t.,
Betty McNulty, Marilyn Moor,e and Dottie Smith. Standint: Betty Dri.c.oll. Loyola
Nolan, Loia Stoller, Dawn Healy and Helen Horey.
GRADUATES PLAN VARIED CAREERS
Daily Welch is the very fortunate and duerving recipient of a scholarship from
St. Louis Univer3ity. Daisy plan~ to spend two years a~ the School or Social Service
udying child welfare work.
Mary ~;liznbeth Melsenzahl will stao·t her ----------------­areer
at Catholic Charities in Rochester
the Family Diviaion. "Honey" plans to
~· ber graduate work at a later date.
Claire Ellen Mogenh•n wm lllCnd the
umm~1· fit CnntJ) Beechwood as n co unsel ...
r. Alter the summer work is coml)leted,
laire plans to enter the ranks of the Girl
out. Orcanization as a group worker.
MarthA ~hPPd)' will beeomo a member fl tl>e stolf at Catholic Charities In Syo·a­~
··•· N. Y. on Juno 15. She will be •
~cn>ber of the family division Cor an in-
•Bnite period. Later. Martha plan• to be­tin
graduate study at Fordham Unh•ersity
forbore she will •pecialize in p•ychiotric
cial service.
or the Clnss of '45, three will be g-rad-oted
from the nnaic department: Betty
"~ Corinne Freer. and Mary Knapp.
uy Keegan will be teaching music in
• !all at Nunda, N. Y., and Corinne
reer will be rloing likewise at Hilton, N.
'. Mory Kn•I>P's !llano are still Indefinite.
Our th·st Art graduate. Doris "Duek"
·erdorf. plans to continue art study at
fr
raphagen Art School in New York City,
d then she intends to go into the Beld
fnshlon illuoto·atlon.
Jennne Chiavaroli, our only- Spanish
jlaior. Is planning to use her knowledge
It Spsnish in interpreting and translating
~the commercial wor ld.
The S1>eech Department boas ts of two
aduates, Clail·e Yarter and J ean Schantz.
ire Yarter will teach speech at Dans­•
· N. Y. Jean bll! not yet formulated
~ plana. Ditto tor our English majors.
;.. Beahon. Charlotte Brayer, Dorothy
entiel'i, and Ann Matheis.
ome next fall, we'll ftnd three or our
rttarial seience graduates teaching: lltn Horey at LivinjiSton Manor, N. Y. ;
tty McNulty at her hometown, Oswego,
Y.; ond Marilyn Moore at Filmore, N.
Then. the businc•• world will welcome
trie Di Giorgio, Betty Dnscoll, J oan Du­D,
Dewn Healy, Marjorie Keenan, Vir­Kiee,
Margie Kraus, Loyola Nolan,
lorothy Smith. Lois Stoller, and Ann
k.auiTcr.
Six of the Class oi ' 45 are Science grad­~
t.,.: Jean Flanagnn. who will be n lab­htory
techni<'ian in Elmir-a~ Jean Foley
a,. h"" entered the Medical S<-hool of larquette Unh•ersity; and Ma•·y Jennne
t)•er, Mtu·ic O'Bl'ien, nnd Pat O'G1·ady,
d Doo·othy Wegmnn who are interested
indu~trial research.
l
Next September will find our two So­cial
Studies majors, Peggy Beal and Betty
Thompson in the teaching J>ro!ession:
Peggy will teach ot Central Islip, Long
lslund und Betty will teach at Sid ney, N.Y.
Another "only" iR Madeline Sullivan.
our only psychology graduate. Madeline
will do graduate work at Columbia Uni­ver~
ity in nursery education.
REFLECTION
Heo·e lam
Many t hings
Graduation
Must have
A sad world
Co·ccd fills
Wi~h I
Into future
See what
Pray God
Old maid
No husband
Bung! Bang!
That's all
By DAISY
twenty.one
to be done
from college
much knowledge
await.s n1e
country
could look
like book
lies ahead
I be wed
no fun
use gun
bot lend
me dead.
Advice to the Lovelorn
By JEAN SCHANTZ
Get yourself a new dream. do;
The old one breaking at the scam
No longer becomes you.
PcrhnJ)s you hoven't noticed-
It wo,s pretty once, when new­Perhaps
you thought it was a
dream,
The flnal dream for you.
But the (abrie's wenring thin, you see,
And time has fo·nycd the >·est;
You'll need more wramth, believe me,
There's a chill wind from the West.
It's not so mueb in making dreams
Or wearing t.bem we err,
But it we will ••• light stuff
It behooves us to toke cal'e
To put the gay dream on for dancing­Have
a warmer one for wear.
tn mutters concerning yourself, b·ust
6r1t your head; in matters concerning
others. tru.•t first your heart.
CLASS HISTORY
By PECGY SEAL
\Ve came, we saw and. before we rent.
ized it. we bod conquered! Four years­an
eternity when we looked ahead to them
in 19 41, but a Oeeting moment as we fond­ly
ga.e ba<k upon them today. Would you
5troll down Memory Lnne with us now
whi le we bring to life again some high­llghl8
in the career of the cr ... of '45!
It was September 1941: we were Fre•h­men;
we were young-and 8C"red . too. A
new life hnd been opened to us and we
11lunged right In with a pno-ty given to u•
by our Big Sistel'il out at Manitou. It
proved to be. Cor most o( us, our first con­tact
with tbe feeling of friendline .. that
we soon came t.O realize was synonymou8
with Nazareth Coll ege. We went home Ccel­lng
that now we really belonged to that
family at Nazareth. Of all our four years
it will be our Freshman year that we will
most cling to tor memories, for~ you see,
we are the lasL class to remember Augu.a·
Line Street with its campus, its wood.s. it"
old buildings. Room 11 in back o( a chapel
which was peace and serenity il8ell. Lad­die
the constant companion of our beloved
Dean, the front stah-way on the night of
11 eollege donee, and Dceember 7, 1941.
In tht s hort splln of four months we grew
to love everything that was a part o( the
old college u dearly u tho•• who bad
been fortunate enough to have spent years
the1·c! But when Jnnuary rolled around w(l
found ow'Selve.t: not alone in our bewHde•··
rnent at the new Nazareth. Evea·yone was
" •Freshman• again! Memories of our fint
term on Ea~t. Avenue bring ~houts of "'Has
anyone seen Mr. Leary?'' to actual as well
all mental pietu•·es. of Fr. Lintz's unexJ)cet­cd
'swim' in Conesus Lnkel Moreover, with
.Jean Foley to lead U>;, we pioneered our
ways thro~h dust and mud and snow and
came up sbouling, "'See you next rear!"'
September 1942 found us looking to
Jean Flanagt~n for guidance and with g1•im
determination we set out to tackle that
•in-between.year' we had beard so much
about. Our ranks had been depleted, to be
aure-we had lost our •touch of the Old
South' as wei as JG other members !ondl)•
•·emembered fol' one yeat· or wonderful
association But we put a.side the sorrow
we felt to welcome into our lfroup the new
members, M~trle Murphy. Betty Tbompl!On
and Dorothy Smith who became one of our
Mny Day attendanl8 that yenr. Now it WtlS
our turn to Initiate the new Freshmen ""
we had been initiated the pre\'ious year
and we all turned Gestapo with vigor!
"Remember the Air Rnids!" became the
slogan of thnt day. !t was dul'ing this yeao·
we proved the Class of '45 was going- plnecs
with ito talent. J ean S<-hant~ took over
SRO llO competently abc bteame the direc­tor
the following year. all!O. Joan Dugan
and Dorift Diet·dorf continued to add their
diverse talents , making- SRO the hit of t he
yea.-! It wasn't all fun , though, for this
year we said 'Thank-you' nnd 'Good-bye'
to our Big Sisters who hod stood by so
faithfully, ond we wondered if we would
do as well when out• tur·n came.
Before we could become fully adjusterl
our tut·n had come; we were Juniors and
Big Sisters! Rosemllry Welch took over
the gavel and got us off to a bang-up start
with a party for our Little Sisters nt !'oint
Pleasa nt. We thought they were wonder­ful-
and w~ weren't Ju•t prejudiced.
either! Soon we realited that the cr.,.. ot
'45 hadn't finbhed growintt yet, for tboujl'h
we lost more of our clAss this year we
had added several more. Ann Matheis hnd
come back to finish nt Nn>.nretb ttfter n
break during whioh she had raised n fam­ily
of 3 boy&-to be kept In mind by future
Naz.arenes! Also, Charlotte Brayer, Mftrt.ha
Sheedy and Terry O'Connor applied for
admission to lhe Cia•• of ' 45. We were
uppeo·-cla .. nwn nt last, but we had to an­mit
we didn't fee) a bit different.
September 1944 brought us back not as
grave Seniors but as enthus,iasts in our
new position at Na:areth. Pat O'Cnody
look over Daisy's pl•ce nL Class Meeting•
nnd Daisy. with her gavel. took over our
Undergraduate )leetingo. We had thought
our pioneer days had ended as Fre.tthmen,
hut w e wet~ ,.ooo t.o rc~Hxe it could not. be
-the Cia .. of '45 was doomed! We trudged
our way through snowd.-iCts-nll roo· the
glory of t he profession! \V e became true
teachers and social workers over-night. But
we were noL all business; the social activi­ties
continued, but it took a little more
ISeo·ious thinking to get the Seniors to
them! We climaxed out• Couo· years at Nn:­aretb
with a May Day which. though ac­tually,
at least in spirit could not be damp.
ened by the rain. Helen Horey left her
(Continued on Pnge G)
Doria Oierdorf. Jeann• Chiavaroli, Charlotte Brayer, Dorothy Arae.ntieri.
Jean Sc.b.&nl% and Clair·e Yarter.
6 THE GLEANER
CLASS PROPHECY
By CHARLOTTE BRAYER
MRS. EDWARD R. STETTINIUS Driscoll w•·ote "A Slight Aid in Passing
Whitehouse, College Comprehensives.'' Dean Stauffer
Dear.
Washington, D. C., SeJ>t. 6, 1957 and PJ•ofessor Thompson thought they were
Before I dash off "Her Week," I'll send
a few pages your way. Really I'm just get.
ing used to Washington. In one way it's
quite discouJ•aging. M soon us you move
into the Whitehouse so do all your friends.
I was so sony you were unable to at.
tend the ball we g-ave in honor of Doria•
engagement. Almost everyone else ·was
here. Doris looked simply ravishing in a
purple and orange fol'lnal with a black
feather in her hair. Practically nll the
women wel·e wendng dt·esses she had dcM
signed. 1 don't. know what A1nericaa's well­dressed
women will do if she givesa up he1·
work after she is manied. She sin1pl~· dic­tates
the wodd's fnshions. I tried to get
Dawn and MaJ"gc to explain the Healy­Keenan
system to me. But 1·eally it's vety
complicated. Culbertson is passe now that
Dawn and Marge have established theh·
4"lnternational Schoo) of Bl;dge.'' J ean
Schantz. Barker took thne out fl'om the di­rection
of he•· latest !>lay to be here. Mer-
1"il \va.~m 1t able to come. He mnnages the
business end of all Jean's plays now. Wet·e
you able to be at opening night or "Ma~·­tha.!
Martha!"? I hear it's having n tre­mendous
success. Nothing like it since
Oklahomn. Anne Matheia bl'ought Jer-ry
with her. Fie's seventeen now and realJy
handsome. Poor Daiay has gotten so fat
and so educated that she's having a hard
time getting a husbnnd. She certainly paid
a great deal of attention to Jerry. But
•·eally I think he's much too young for her.
Don't you? Anne really is just too bril­liant.
She speaks seven languages and
spent the evening conversing with the
diplomat.;. I believe she is the first person
t.o get a doctol'ate in ten different s ubjects.
Sometimes l think 1 would like to be in·
tclligent but then I guess I did well
enough. Claire Ell•~ likes her job as Na­tional
Girl Scout LeadCJ.·. She is now try­ing
to merge the boy and girl scouts. She
told me at the ball that she had decided
if she could marry the boy scout national
leader, her plan would be aeeomplished. I
gues.~ She's still looking for him. Belly
Thompaon and Anna Marie S tauffer
weren't. speaking to B e tty D·riaeoll and
Loyolft. Nolan. O.f course you know Anna
Marie is Dean of ~he Rochester School of
Comn1erce and Betty is bead of the De­partment
of Anthropology at Catholic
UniveJ·sity, It seems that Loyola and Betty
making information too easily ttecessible to
the students and banned the book. We had
to keep them apa1·t all evening. Louisa.
wasn't able to come.. She is in the lnteJ·m'­tional
l-ying in Bed Marathon and didn't
want to brenk her record. I think she has
it up to three years now. l was tel'l'ibly
sorry she wasn't here. She told me when
she got the reeo•·d up to five yea1·s she
would \'l$it me. Or. Foley caused quite a
sti•· with he•· "Theo•·y o£ Dimples-A study
of thei•· Exterior Aspeet..~ and Effects upon
Health and Personality," Jean told me
she used Marie Di Giorgio as the ~ubjeet.
of her expel'iments. Ma_ry Knapp has made
quite a success of her school of Boogie
Woogie. She played for us nt the ball. l
noticed Corinne and Betty Keegan leave
during the performance. 1 suppose such
suc<:es.!ful elassienl artists can't abide
HBoogie." Col'inne~s 1'Faithful Ferdinund"
has been highly praised by the music ct·it­ics.
1 rarely have a chance to hear the
opera .so [ couldn't judge. Betty ju.st re­tuJ•
ned from her continental tour. 1 hear
the Metropolitan and Chicago Ope1·n Co.
a1·e bidding against one another to get be•··
She was in excellent voice on the 31. Mary
Jea nne, Pat , J ea.o FJan_nigan nnd Mtlrie
O'Br ie n wet·e working on a new type of
tree to p1•event soiJ erosion, for the Dept.
of AgricultuJ•e so they were not here.
Dottie Smith, ~h's. J . E. Schaeffer, .sent
me a note to say she couldn1t leave Ntnv
York. She is waiting for he•· husband's
s hip t.o dock, You know they were marJ•ied
by )>roxy after he missed the first twenty
ships lenving ItAly. After 12 yen•-s he's
finally coming home and Dottie is all e..~­cited.
l should think she would be rntheY
bored. Aiter all she's gone down to the
docks to meet him eve•·y day fOl' the last
12 years.
Senators Sbeady and M~.iaenz.abl aM'i\'ed
n little late. They wet·e in conle,·ence with
the other members of the Tenement Com­mittee.
J re~dly enjoy going to New York
now that the)1 have succeeded in hO.\'ing a11
the tenements torn down. I think that the
prefabricated bouse Betty Ma.cNulty inM
vented is simply darling. It seems to have
only one defect. It's a bit topbeavy. A
slight push seems to upset it. Mac said she
was studying the p1·oblem and hoped to
have a solution in anothel' 5 years.
J eanne Chiavaroli and Mfldeleioe SulJ.i-
At the Piano: Betty Keeran and Corinne FTeer. Standing: Claire E llen Mogeob.a.n.,
Daisy Welch, Madeline Sulliva n, Honey Meiaenzahl a.nd Ma_rtha S h eedy .
Jean Fhtnnigan! Dottie Wegman, MaTie O'Brien, Peggy S eal , Mary J ea nne Meyer .
Pat O'Crtldy &Rd Betty ThompJ~on.
CLASS HISTORY
(Continued f•·om Page 7)
tYJlewl'iter .fo•· the do y and presided with
queenly grace ovet· her eouxt, with Vir­giniu
Klee und Dorothy Smith adding theit·
chaJ"rns as Senior attendants.
Now OUI' fonr years at Nazat•eth bave
finished- but it isn't the end of the Class
of '45. We have Jh·ed, laughed, even cried
togecheJ', and are thus bound together by
a bond of belonging that neither time nor
distance can destroy. Therefore. in th.is
June 1946, as we take our leave of our
Alma Mater, may we lll\Y th~t we hope
your yea1·s at Nazareth become as much
a part or you as ours have become a paTt
of ""·
PEGGY BF.AL
.. The best measure of a man's mental­ity
is the importonee of the things he will
argue about.''
van W('re too f~\r away tO get here. r think
Jeanne is the most success.full a1nbassndor
to Bt·azil we have ever had. Madeline is
doing fine work in China. Just how you
leach Chinese in Kindergarten l doll't
'Ve.l1, dea1·, that about exhausts the nev
from here. Oh, by the way, Edward to:
me to 1·emind you to dust off Mr. Roo~
velt's tombstone every JnoJ•ning and p1
fresh roses a•·ound the hou$e. After a:
being caretaker of the Hyde Park Mem·
dal is much better than selling $Oap 1
the Arabs in the Saharn.
In hnl5te,
CLAIRE
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know. 1\lercy me I could never leat·n 3,000 '---------------­letters
of the alphabet say nothing about .---------------­teach
them.
1 was so happy to see a new face on the
Ipnnn tooth paste ads. I certainly think
Loi• Stoller makes a chn1·nting model.
Did you sec the J>ict.ut·e of Dottie We,r.­man
in the newsreel. Mrs. N01"l"nlln Finni­gan
chosen American ~iotber of the yeat·
if you please. Her nine gh·ls UI'C as pa·etty
as pictUl·es.
Virginia Klee Miller and Dick stopped
on thei •· 'vay to Mexico. They heard that
gold had been discovm·ed on t he top of
Popocatepetl and were going to dig for H.
Helen Horey is doing exceHent work .as
Whitehouse P1·ess SeCl'ctAry but ( do be­lieve
thet·e is a romance b\Jdding. The
B;riti$h Ambassador is a1ways here an<l l'"m
sure it's not on official business.
OoY·othy Argentie ri and her husband are
ronning a home for old maids. It is really
• lovely place. They bought the Pentagon
building and remodelled it.
U you Pl'Omise to keep a secret, I will
tell you some real news. Edward bas de­cided
to shuffle up the cabinet. Peggy Baa.l
is to be Secretary of State. Margie Kreu.ae
is the new Secretary o! the Treasury. You
see hru· experience at school did some good.
Marilyn Moore Hiodcm is the Secretary o!
l.,.nbot. I expect Joan Dugan t.o be another
Pavloa but ever since she broke her toe
and had to •·etire {rom the stage [ ba ve
felt sor1·y Ior her. Arter an hour's argu­ment
l persuaded Edward to appoint h et·
Postmnster GeneraL
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