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Emman el Alumn e News VOLUME 10 BOSTON, MASS., MAY, 1945 NUMBER 3
ALUMNA BAN U ET, iJ UN E 2
To the Alumnae Dear Alumnae:
Science Building
Fund Sister Teresa Patricia, S.N.D.,
President of our Alma Mater, recently announced the organization of the Emmanuel College Building Fund under the chairmanship of His Excellency, the Most Reverend Archbishop Richard J. Cushing, D.D. The immediate objective of the fund is the raising of of $800,000 for the construction of a new Science Building which will fill a definite need.
Our College has grown tremendously as the figures on enrollment reveal. In 1920 only 29 students were registered while, at the present time, the student body numbers' 647 with every indication of a steady increase in the future. The accomplishments of Emmanuel's 1500 alumnae in business, law, medicine, teaching, social r science, and other professions bear testimony to the quality of the academic training received, a training reinforced with the principles of our Catholic faith.
The familiar Gothic structure in the F enway is now extremely overcrowded and its facilities greatly overtaxed. A new building i:; all absolute necessity. Let us as alumnae be glad of the opportunity that is
of that motto, "Ut the exigencies of the time, but ours of being instrumental in bring-Te," adopted by our steady increase of the Fund ing to a full r ealization the hopes
As his followers we enable us to begin the buildin and plans of our Alma Mater for
the si cognoscant spiritual might well
I am very g rateful to you for this work soon as the opportunity expansion. She looks to us now more
Our beloved Archbishop than ever before for a particular ex-having given me the opportunity to My best serve as your president during these and my past two years. They have been busy
cepted the Chairmanship of the pression of our loyalty. There is
years, It IS true, but pJeasant ones, ' crowded with activities many of which have brought us all in closer contact with each other while we were endeavoring to make our College better known and better equipped. Without your assistance the officers and board could have done little, but .with your co-operation and loyal suppi)l~ we were encouraged to go forward. We thank you, and we kno v you will continue to give that same enthusiastic response to your newly-elected officers.
Work for and subscribe to the Building Fund. Interest others in it, and do everything you can to make it successful. Our College needs our assistance, and our beloved Archbishop Cushing, the chairman of the Fund, has expressed his confidence in our ability to reach the goal. The erection of a science building will mean so much to the future of Emmanuel, and our sharing in the furthelance of this great project will be an outward expression of our devotion to our Alma Mater. Likewise will it show our true appreciation of
His whole-hearted interest much to be done, but many hearts rlev~!f'l"ment ~hOt1Jrl h I' 2'1 j ., ,.. . lve ' &l:d :r.any hand:; uuiteJ will ol"ing us
Johnson, for us to do our part to the height nearer to our goal. President. of our ability.
• • Officers and Members of the Emmanuel College Alumnae As
sociation Dear A umnae:
The picture of the 'Science Building in the News makes the need for our Building Fund more real and gives a tangible reason for making every effort to increase it. The construchon of the building depends on
We are deeply grateful to you, our Alumnae, for what you have done. We feel confident that is is a presage of the work you will accomplish in the future.
May God, our Emmanuel, bless you! May He reward your generous efforts to further t he work of your Alma Mater!
Your devoted, Sister Teresa Patricia
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~i~ Reception, June 12 ~i~ A Y :i: His Excellency, Archbishop Cushing, has graciously offered to the :i: :i: Alumnae, the use of his estate for a reception in aid of the Building :i: :i: Fund on the evening of Tuesday, June 12. A musical program has :i: :i: been plalmed, and outdoor pontifical benediction will be held. Invita- :.:
± tions will be sent to all alumnae and their friends. Arrangements aa:e :i: :i: being made by Lt. (j. g.) Mary Beatty Muse, '40, and Dorothy:!: : .~ +t Noonan, '39. .:. X i :: .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. : .. :":":":":":":":":":":":":":":":":":":":":~:":":":":":4
• • Emmanuel College
Building Fund Committee
His Excellency, the Most Reverend Richard J. Cushing, D.D.
Chairman
Sister Teresa Patricia, S.N.D. President of the College
Sister Helen Madeleine, S.N.D. Dean of the College
Alice M. Johnson, '29 President of Alumnae Association
Mary V. Ayers, '26
Mary Campbell Conway, '28
Catherine O'Shea Giblin, '24
Elizabeth C. Logan, '23
Clare V. Stanton, '40
Helene M. Stout, '27
Chairmen of Assisting Committees
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The Emmanuel Alumnae News
May 1945
Editor-Barbara A. McGrath, '37, 108 Hemenway Street, Boston 15, KENmore 0504.
Associate Editors - M. Roquetta Curtin, '26; Anne McNamara, '30; Katherine F. Downey, '40; Polly Brunell, '42.
Business Manager-Anne Kenney, '36, 18 Mayfair Street, Roxbury 19. GARrison 7986.
Editorial In this issue we pay tribute to the
members of our Alumnae Association who are in the services which minister to the armed forces, We are proud of them, proud of them as women and as sister Alumnae.
As we go to press the long awaited news of victory in Europe has come. After we have given thanks, we must all surely pause to t hink soberly and gratefully of the millions of men and women in service whose work and sacrifice made possible the victory. Among them are tho::J Emmanuel graduates who, serving at home or abroad in office or in hospital, wherever assigned, are giving to the tasks before them all of the knowledge, strength, and devotion they possess that the final victory may the sooner be won.
To each of them we say, "You have our thanks and our prayers."
Barbara A, McGrath,
• • OREMUS
Almighty and everlasting God, who hast willed to restore all things in Thy beloved Son, the Universal King, mercifully grant that all the families of the nations, separated by the wound of s in, may become subjects of His sweet rule .
From the collect of the Mass for the Feast of Christ the King,
• • A CHALLENGE!
A diamond ring, valued at $3000, t he gift of Archbishop Cushing to t he Alumnae, will be the object of our attention for the next six months , This gift has given us an opportunity and a challenge, too, to show our degree of interest in the new Science Building, You have received a book which provides for donation to the amount of two dollars ($2,00). Fill this one and get another! Do this again and again until you have reached 10. Then you will merit the Emmanuel "E." .
At a tea in the fall, the Archbishop will present an emblem to those who fill 10 books. You'll be Emmanuel's "400·." To the grand person who leads us in the collection of donations will be g iven an "E" in diamonds.
Your district chairman has extra books. She will call on you by June 1. People are clamoring for the opportunity to donate. It is going to be easy to ask for "three for 25 cents" on a $3000 diamond-try ityou'll see!
Wear the Emmanuel "E!" Be one of the "400!"
Mary Foley.
EMMANUEL ALUMNAE NEWS
EMMANUEL ALUMNAE
HONOR ROLL WAC I Ensign Helen Hennigan, '42, Wash-
. . . " ington, D. C. MaJor MIrIam A, RIley" 28, Texas . I Lt. (j.g.) Marion Lynch, '43, Com-P,F,C. Anne Hogan, 30, Percy I munications Center San Francisco
Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, . California.' , Michigan. Seaman Anne
Dorothy O'Hare, '37. Philbrick, '43, Wash-
ington, D. C. Lt, Mary Flannery, '38, 2nd Signal Ensign H elen
Service, Washington, D. C. Florida. Kenney, '44, Miami,
Ruth Norton, '38, Denver, Colorado. N Doris Donahue, ex. '44, U. S, . R. Mary Louise Cahill, '42, Washing- C (W.), Washington, D. .
ton, D, C, 2nd Lt. Frances Wright, '42, Medi
cal Corps, England,
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WAVES Lt. Dorothy Rice, '27. In charge of
supply personnel, Meridian Hill Hotel, 260 16th St., N.W" Washington, D. C.
Lt. (j,g,) Esther Turnbull, '27, Meteorologist, Floyd Bennett Field, New York, N, y,
Ensign Elizabeth McMahon, '29, Com,missary Office, Algiers, New Orle ns, Loui siana.
L (j,g.) Louise Boulard Vaupotic, '29, a shington, D. C,
P acida Vileiki s, '30, U. S. N. R. (W.
L V. Z linar Rich , '31. First W AVE swo n in in this Naval District, Was ing ton, D. C,
P.M. 11c Coralie N elson, '34, U, S, Nav I Hospital, Navy #10, Chemical Lab ratory, F,P.O., San Francisco.
H A . 11c Roberta M. Daley, '34, WA ES Barracks, U. S. Naval Hospital Newport, R. 1.
E I sign Ruth Gallagher, '37, Phoenix, Arizona.
Lt: (j.g,) Catherine CuttIe Boyer, ,'37, I Communications, Washington, D. C
• • SPARS
Lt Agnes Bixby, '35. First Spar sworn in, Washington, D. C.
Lt. (j g,) Catherine Fllatley, '36, California,
• MARINES
Staff Sgt. Helen V. Burns, '39, EI Centro, California.
Sgt. Katherine Healey, '40. Second Lt. E leanor D iscoll, '42,
Mojave Air Base, Califor ia , Second Lt. Mary Thorp, '42, Cam
bridge, Mass , Cp!' Marjorie Riley, '2, Boston,
Mass. • •
A. N. C. First Lt. Florence O'Do oghue, '40,
Stationed in Panama, 8 Station Hospital, APO 837, cl o ostmaster, New Orleans.
• • AMERICAN RED ROSS
Mary Dowd Kelly, '29, Field Worker, ew York, N.
Dorothy Anderson, '38 . , Recently returned from England. ashington,
A LETTER OF THANKS The following letter was r eceived
from Sister Superior Provincial:
Notre Dame Training School,
Waltham, Massachusetts
April 25, 1945
Miss Alice M. Johnson,
President, Alumnae Association Emmanuel College, Boston, Mass.
Dear Miss Johnson:
Please accept my sincere and heartfelt gratitude for the generous check of $1000 received a few days ago for our Sisters in Namur. This is indeed a maganificant contribution toward the restoration of the Mother-house which is so dear to all Sisters of Notre Dame, and I deeply appreciate it. Will you please extend my gratitude to the Members of the Association for their goodness to us, and assure them of my appreciation of all the effort a nd sacrifice that went into the collection of this grand sum. Our Reverend Mother and the Sisters in Namur will be very happy to receive this assistance from the Alumnae Association of Emmanuel, and will give you all a big share in their prayers and good works ,
Again thanking you, deal' Miss Johnson, and a ll your associates for t hi s gift, as well as for your many acts of kindn ess and devotedness to the Sisters, and asking God to bless and prosper all your undertakings, I am,
Very sincerely yours, (Signed) Sr. Augusta, S, HI.
S. N, D.
• • DIOCESAN CONGRESS
The Ninth Diocesan Congress of the League of Catholic Women was held at the Hotel Statler on May 8 and 9. The theme of the Congress was "Mary of Nazareth."
A special feature of the program was the panel discussion held on the evening of May 8 and sponsored by the Catholic College Alumnae Associ-
M ry Duris, '37, U, S. N. R. (W.), WasHington, D. C,
D. C. Rita Walsh, '38. Overseas
months. APO San Francisco.
15 ations affiliated with the League. The topic was "The Mission of the Catholic Woman." We were very happy to have Mary R. Norton, Emmanuel, '26, included as a speaker on the panel discussing the position of the Catholic woman in post-war industry and we were proud to be the only one of the affiliated associations so represented.
Lt., (j g.) Mary O'Neil, '38, Boston, Mass . En~ign Rita Quane, '38, Washing
ton, iD. C. H,A. 11c Barbara Benson, '39, San
Diego, California. E Isign Mary Raftus, '39, Bar
Hal' or, Maine. Lt (j.g) Eleanor Spillane, '39,
Davisville, R. 1. Ensign Bernadette Maguire Barton,
'40, Pensacola, Florida. Lt, (j.g.) Mary Elcock, '41, Wash
ingt n, D. C, Lt (j, g,) Mary Beatty Muse, '41,
Bost@n, Mass. Lt, (j,g.) Claire Donovan, '41,
Waslington, D. C. Lt. (j,g,) Alice O'Hearn, '42, Phil
adelphia, Pa. Lt I (j.g.) Margaret Scully, '42, Bos
ton, Mass. En ign Geraldine Colligan, '42, New
York, N. Y.
Claire L, 1.
Devlin, '40, Mi~chel l Field,
I I Mary Feeley, '40. Recently ap-
pointed Supervisor of the Branches of Home Relief of Boston Red Gross.
Eleanore Whitney, '42, I Belgium. Mary Sprissler Wilkins n, '42, Bos
ton, Mass. . Eleanor Gallagher '42, Boston,
Mass. Mary Neiderberger, "12, . Dayton,
Ohio. l NATIONA~ ~AT OLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE
E lsie Brady, '41, Spok~ne, Washington
Frances McLaughlin, '4~, California. Beulah Burgess, '42, Washington,
D. C. I Doris Richards '43, Camp Hooks,
Texas.
Besides our Alumnae president, the other delegate to the sessions of the Congress was E leanor Connor, '27. Representatives at the Speakers' Dinner were Mary Sheehan, '29; Louise Fielding, '31; Polly Brunell, '42; Marie Glennon, '25, and Alice Johnson, '29. Mary Norton, '26, as one of the speakers at the CongTess, was seated at the head table. Assisting the League in other capacities were Katherine Flynn Piscopo, '30; Ida Finn Hackett, '23, Margaret Sullivan, '34, Kathryn McElroy Reilly, '28, and Catherine O'Shea Giblin, '24.
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SAN FRANCI CO AND THE PEACE earnestly entreat you to give them a sober hearing:
(At the recent Congress of the League of Catholic Women, a talk, from which this is an excerpt, was given on the above theme by the Very Rev. John J . Wright, D. D., Spiritual Director of the League. We are sincerely grateful to Monsignor Wright for his kindness in permitting the NEWS to bring to the Alumnae this timely and most inspiring message.)
The opening sentence of the historic statement of the American hierarchy, issued November 16, 1944, has this week assumed a special relevance with the news of the military victory in Europe·. That statement begins: "We have met the challenge of war. Shall we meet the challenge of peace?"
There is, of course, a war still facing us. We are told that it is a very serious war; it well may be. But it is easy, very easy, as contrasted with the work that remains to be done and the battle that remains to be fought on the European front in order to restore peace and the conditions in which peace can abide .. .
The first and most fundamental stratagem which we must devise in the campaign for peace is one which will bind up the wounds of war, bind up those wounds on every side Many people do not believe that or, they talk at least, as if they did not. Though once opposed to isolationism as an effort to isolate us from thc War, they now appear to believe it possible for us to isolate ourselves from the consequences of the War, at least as these tragic consequences have affected the vanquished nations. There is a marked tendency to believe that the vanquished can be left to "stew in their own juice for awhile", to quote the somewhat impolitic phrase of the political leader of one of our Allies.
Outside the Catholic Church, very few seem to appreciate in any lively and permanent way the powerful ties which, despite the War, still unite us to the members of all the Western nations, victor or vanquished. Some of these ties, natural and supernatural, material and moral, the War could not destroy and the peace cannot. There are, of course, outside the Church, many who try to cling to that realism, a realism which is dismissed as sentimental idealism by the rest. The Quaker!i perceive its truth, but, heroic band though they be, they are a little flock, indeed. Some sensitive souls still concede it whose religion has not gone political or, as the fashion at the moment is to say, Democratic; or whose faith has not been seduced by Communism, or conscripted by Fascism, or mobilized by Imperialism.
Even among Catholics, lamentably enough, not all retain a practical belief in the ties that still bind us to our enemies, ties that ha"e this day become the greater now that our enemies are vanquished. Some Catho-
lics cho us the demand that the peace be con eived in hatred because of sad per onal reasons, as the loss of kin or ear ones. With these we can only sy pathize and try to be understandin. Others ask a peace based on hatr d because of a strong but dis torte sense of what they would call a tern and realistic preparedness. ese we can only seek to control, for their brand of realism may eas ly poison the new-born hope the Sa Francisco parleys give us that SOl e measure of idealism may yet be a hieved in international relations.
Whate er the reasons in the heads of those who are being vic
y the hatred campaigners abroad, we can agree with them. We Catholics must peace; we must work for
peace w th the decent everywhere. And we ust not permit ourselves to forget, f l' however brief a moment, that the e are decent people everywhere. f there are not, then San
and all kindred gatherings as well adjourn. e beginning of the War,
indeed, ince long before it-we Catholics have been asked to pray for peace. I know that I will not be misundersto d by this audience when I say that prayers for peace are not enough. No peace will ever drop from He ven ready made. God does not non ally intervene miraculously in the so; ia] and political movements by which peace is made possible and the condi ions for peace are created and sust ined. God works through secondar causes, and we must be His inst uments, conscious and untiring, if t he world is to be bent to that Will in which is our peace. Too many of s take it for granted that we have one all we need or can do when we ue Heaven for peace in OUl' more 0 .1: .e"" fe r vent prayers. This is not ;merely hopeless politics, it is bad theology. Prayer has its best chance of being efficacious when it is implemented and complemented by consecrated action on the part of those who pray. That is what Pope Leo meant when he bade us pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended on Us •• •• •
Let not the devout be deceived; no peace will ever drop from Heaven ready made. No less than war, indeed far more, peace calls for heroic strategy, untiring vigils, generous sacrifice, and an all-out effort. Peace is the 'work of justice; so proclaims the Holy Father's motto, and the word to be emphasized is the word work.
Something of the magnitude of the work to be done in a spirit of justice before peace will be possible may be gained f rom the differences which are already evident among the Allies who have gathered at San Francisco. One of the greatest difficulties of the moment arises from the question of
the attitude we are to take oward those nations which are, or hortly will be, our erstwhile enemies. Under the pressure of official prop ganda and prevailing popular opinio , it is becoming difficult for sane Am ricans to remember a principle once ihvoked, curiously enough, in our defen e: you cannot indict a nation. T I ere is never any justification for isiting condemnation upon a whole eople. Even though the populations with whom we have been recently t war may have supported actively d deliberately their guilty leade 'S, we must retain sufficient sanity to recognize the circumstances under which however tragically, it was I10ssible for many of them to do so i good faith. It is true that the close y knit corporate character of the llodern national state necessarily imp ses an inevitable share by the innoc nt in the fate of the guilty or the oolish who lead a nation into a crim nal or senseless military escapade but moral guilt remains personal t those who make the decisions whi lead to war and who are in posd on to command obedience, so long a these hold and exercise the national sovereignty.
In any case, hatred against n entire people is suicidal in a ociety where mob psychology plays 0 unpredictable and overpowering role as it does in this age of natio alism and racism. If we sow hatred in the coming peace, we must expect reap it in a later and more horrib war. Christian charity is not mere y the way to save our souls; in th present state of the world's histor it is also the way to save our neck.
If it be said that the Christ ' n obligation to love our enemies s too idealistic and too difficult, th n we can only reply that Christian' y has never been offered as a cyn "(11 or easy religion. The good Catholic should know that painfully well. It is not easy in its teachings on chastity and family morality. It is not easy in its teachings on honesty and loyalty and national morality. And it is not easy in its teachings on international charity and interracial justice.
"To hope for a decisive change exclusively from the shock of war and its final issue is idle, as experience shows The hour of victory is an hour of external triumph for the party to whom victory falls, but it is in equal measure the hour of temptation. In this hour the angel of justice strives with the demons of violence; the heart of the victor all too easily is hardened; moderation and far-seeing wisdom appear to him weakness; the excited passions of the people, often inflamed by the sacrifices and sufferings they have borne, obscure the vision even of responsible persons and make them inattentive to the warning voice of humanity and equity, which is overwhelmed or drowned in the inhuman cry, 'Vae victis, woe to the conquered.' There is danger lest settlements and decisions born in such conditions be nothing else than injustice under the cloak of justice." . . ..
There is another and disturbing danger in the mood of many of those who are exerting their pressure at San Francisco. It is the danger that in the making of the peace we may become the victims of mentalities like to those which we went to war to conquer. We said that we were bent on the destruction of Fascism. We said that this was a war against Fascism and all its pomps and works. But Fascism is not just an abusive name we pin on people whom we do not like; it is an easily recognized and easily defined evil. There has been so much blood spilt in the effort to destroy it that we should be interested in an effort to define it. Here is one definition, the best I know: Fascism, no matter what t he name by which it calls itself or what the color of its partisans' shirts, is the technique by which a single resolute party under ambitious leadership, ready to use force and to exploit all the arts of mass suggestion, captures the machinery of government in order to impose its will on the majority. Fascism thus understood destroys the political transcendency of the State so that the single ideology of a single party becomes the criterion of all legality and morality . . ..
In the light of this definition of Fascism it must be obvious that not all the Fascists died in Milan and
The hardest commandment in all Berlin during the barbarism and the Christian moral teaching is the the bombardments which visited these commandment to love our neighbor; two cities in the past few weeks. It let us make no unrealistic mistake must be obvious, too, that the surabout that. That commandment be- viving Fascists, on both sides, will comes almost more than nature can have their work cut out for them if understand, let alone bear, when our the peace which we are about to neighbor has recently been an enemy. write makes no provision for correctBut the obligation still persists, and ing the evils which create resentwhatever punitive measures vindictive ments easily capitalized on by revojustice may dictate must still take lutionaries. A peace conceived in that obligation into account . . . . . hatred can only intensify Fascism
In the first encyclical of his ponti- among the victors and resentments ficate our present Holy Father wrote productive of further Fascism among sane and saintly words which deserve the vapquished . . . . . far, far more meditation at San Fran- A victory as smashing as ours has cisco than they are likely to receive been imposes upon us a tremendous in this week of our nation's triumph obligation to be humble. Humility in the European theatre of war. I is the parent of that charity which
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the victory also requires of us. There are consoling indications that this charity exists. It may not be manifest among our columnists, our commentators, or our armchair strategists. Significantly, however, it shines with dramatic beauty from out the ranks of those who have seen war at that close range which might give them greater right, did any such right exist, to nurture hatred. A graduate of Holy Cross College has recently sent home lines which perfectly blend the soldier's stern acceptance of his brutal task with the Catholic's unsullied spirit of charity. He dedicated his verses to an enemy whom he had shot, and he writes: I killed you; not pretending to be
lieve That you were enemy to aught but
sin -Unloved, unloving, able to conceive Only the sIaughter that I felled you
in; Not thinking of you more as beast
than man With every urge reducible to lust, Nor as a robot sent by fiendish
plan -Unfeeling, mechanized, undestined
dust.
I knew instead : you were the soul God made
Most like Himself after the Cherubim,
Brother to One Whose life for ours was paid,
Who bade me love you as myself for Him.
No hatred! As my trigger finger pressed
I loved you. May you find Eternal Rest.
God grant that, whatever programs for compulsory military service may be forced upon us after the War, we may still have free Catholic colleges to preserve the idealism which used to produce young men like this soldier-poet! Only by these, and their spiritual kin, can the hatred and we cynicism that is Fascism be destroyed; only by t hese can the work of justice be done which finds its fruit in peace.
• ALUMNAE BANQUET
The annual Alumnae Banquet will be held on June 2, at the Hotel Continental in Cambridge at 6:30 o'clock. It will be preceded by a business meeting with election of officers at 5:30.
All Alumnae are cordially invited by Elizabeth Eichorn Stanton, '38, chairman, who has planned a very interesting program for our enjoyment. Dorothy Noonan, '39, will serve as toastmistress and we shall welcome into the ranks of Alumnae the class of 1945. Reservations must be made early.
Among those who are working to make the Banquet a success are the following: Kathleen Ryan, '42; Eileen Mahoney, '43; Claire Lynch, '44; Alice Hackett, '2,7; Joan McAuliffe, '43; and Alberta Dillon, '43.
EMMANUEL ALUMNAE NEWS
MARGARET HIGGINS HEALEY AND FAMILY
MaI1garet Higgins Healey - first Presi ent of the Alumnae Association, :p,res'ents her family as a contribution to Society - Service on the Home Front. She introduces; Mary Margaret, Emmanuel's FIR S T GRAND DAUGHTER, Age 18, a Freshman Secretary at St. Joseph's College, Hartford, Conn. Her interest, alit . Joe, Jr., age 17, Junior at Cardinal Farley Military Academy. Anne Therese, 15, Freshman at Mt.
I CLASS QUOTA BOND COMMITTEE
Alum ae: Your interest in the growth of the
uel Fund under the guardian-the Class-Quota, Bond Com
is deeply appreciated. arch there was a meeting of
Class residents. At this time each Class resident was shown the financial s tus of her Class Quota, and given copy of the contributors of Bonds .
IWe hope you are following the sug·gestion of His Excellency: "Let each a umna double her efforts ." Soon you will receive a word from the Bond ~ection of this committee. The Seventh War Loan calls! Let us help ourselves as' we heed Uncle Sam.
If ther·e is any errol' in this list of contributors, - contributors since the last rE'ading of the NEWS, I shall be please to make the corrections.
St. Joseph Academy; plans to major Latin. Elizabeth Honora, "Betty," Senior at St. Thomas' Parochial School, blond, gay, and musical. John Maurice, 6, an embryo, lawyer, James, "Jimmie," a whirlwind. In absentia, Gerald, who after foul' months exchanged Hartford for Heaven.
Many of us have met Joe, Sr. CongraLulations.
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INCREASE IN CLASS Class of '39 Class of '41 Class of '33 Class of '36 Class of '33
OTHER SOURCE Contributions
QUOTAS
1 $10.00 4.00 5.00
366.62 400.09
$613.17 Elizabeth Logan,
Ohai man.
CLASS OF '23 A class business meetin~ was held
at the Alumnae Office on March 8. The class sponsored the showing of the motion picture, "The Virgin of Guadaloupe" at John Hancock Hall, May 2. Marie Whall was chairman.
Our class. president, Elizabeth C. Logan, is to be a blood donor for the 14th time on May 24. Congratulations, Elizabeth, on your splendid patriotism at the home front!
BONDS Anne rady Fleming, '31 Rose Mullen, '35 Imelda Munzing, '43 Lillian O'Neill, '34 Margaret Higgins Healey, '23
For Madame Leana Vannini, (Ceriacle)
Ethel M. Kelleher, '35
Mrs. William Whalen (Gertrude O'Toole), Mrs. Joseph Hackett (Ida Finn), and Mrs . W. Raymond Hewes
23 are planning to attend the Ninth Diocesan Congress at the Hotel Statler, May 8 and 9.
Marie Costello, '44 Mary J. McCarthy, '34 Elizabeth Eichorn Stanton, '38 Helen ' Cullen, '42 Franc~s A. O'Connor, '35 Eileen Keating Cronin, '25 Marie Daly, '44
Class Reporter: Mrs. W. Raymond Hewes, 162 Fair Oaks Park, Needham.
• • CLASS OF '24
At a meeting held at the League House on October 7, the following
I. F. C. A. BIENNIAL CONVENTION
The Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the Massachusetts Chapter of the I.F.C.A. was held on Sunday, April 29, with the Governor of the Chapter, Miss Margaret Sullivan, Emmanuel '34 presiding. Mass was celebrated at St. Cecilia's Church at 9 A.M. followed by breakfast at the Hotel Sheraton at 10. The gu(:::;t of honor was His Excellency, Archbishop Richard J. Cushing, D.D. Representatives of our Alumnae present, besides the Governor, Margaret Sullivan, were Mary J. McCarthy, '34, treasurer of the Chapter, Roquetta Curtin, '26, Lillian O'Neill, '34, Kathleen McIntire, '42, Rose Mullin, '35, Emily Maguire, '41, Anna Sheehan, '37, Mary Walsh, '25, Rita Omar Collins, '40, and Alice M. Johnson, 29.
• • We received the following letter
from His Excellency, Archbishop Cushing, in appreciation of the basket which we sent to him at Easter: My Dear Friends:
Thanks for your grand Easter remembrance. It was good to hear from you.
My affectionate greetings and blessings go by way of the enclosed card.
Devotedly yours, (Signed) R. J. Cushing,
Archbishop of Boston. The "enclosed card" was an offer
ing of .the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the Alumnae and their intentions.
We are sincerely grateful to His Excellency and ask God to bless him.
• • MERCI BIEN
To Marie Scanlin, '34, chairman of our very inspiring Alumnae Communion Breakfast.
To Milrlred Crowley, '27, chairman of the enjoyable Building Fund Performance of "Pilate's Daughter."
To J eanne Busby, '39, chairman of the delightful Emmanuel "Pops."
class officers were elected for the next five years:
P resident, Alice Mullen Burke. Vice-President, Evelyn Quinn Mc-
Keon. Secretary, Katherine Connor. Treasurer, Anna Fulham Healy. Louise Mahoney Sheehy held the
first meeting of the season a.t her home in Wellesley, on November 4.
The December meeting was at the home of our president, Alice Mullen Burke, in Belmont.
Annually, the February meeting is held at the home of Catherine Giblin on Commonwealth Avenue. Plans were discussed for a lecture to be sponsored by the class.
In March, plans for the lecture were completed at a tea giv·en by Mary McManus Colleran, at the home of her mother, Mrs. James McManus in West Roxbury.
Our most sincere gratitude is expressed to Catherine Giblin who generously offered her home for a
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1ecture given by Father Sullivan, .chaplain of the circus. It was thoroughly enjoyable, and we thank all who helped to make it such a success. Another thank you to Louise Mahoney Sheehy for her aid, and to our .class officers.
Helen Towle was hostess to the class on Saturday, April 28, at the League House. Plans for the drive
KathIe n Rogers Murray was we were glad to see at
the Alun nae Communion Breakfast. Kathie c me all the way from her new hom at Lynbrook, Long Island. Another ecent visitor to Boston was Maura G llagher McHugh. Sympath) :
The cl s extends its sympathy to Mae Sull van Purcell on the death
were discussed. Class eporter: Mrs. James E. . Our prayers and good wishes follow Tully, 30 Wilson Road, Stoneham. Thomas Giblin, eldest son of Dr. and Mrs . Thomas J. Giblin. Thomas entered St. John's Seminary on
Married :
• • CLASS OF '30
February l. Ellen Johnson and Helen Towle Madelin O'Brien to Fred Simonds
have been appointed to receive Alumnae dues. Sympathy:
The class extends its sympathy to Anna Carroll on the death of her mother.
Class Reporter: Helen Bruner, 14 Fenway, Boston.
• • CLASS OF '25
Beatrice Eaton presided at the meeting of the class which was held at the Statler and followed by dinner. Out of town members present were Madeline Doherty Haxton and Margaret McCaffrey Campbell. The committee chosen to plan our reunion includes Marion McDonald - Class Dinner, Margaret Hinchley - Baby Party, Sybil Turner-Banquet Day Activities.
Class Repor t er: Sybil M. Turner, 1 Governor's Road, MiltoTlJ.
• • CLASS OF '26
Class Reporter: Mrs. H a r old Harris, 276 Granite Avenue, Milton.
• • CLASS OF '27
Class Reporter: Mildred Crowley, 143 Park Street, West Roxbury.
• • CLASS OF '28
Class Reporter: Mrs. Francis D. O'Neil, 30 Langdon Street, Cambridge.
• • CLASS OF '29
Married: Lt. (j. g.) Louise Boulard to Fred
A. Vaupotic in DecembeI. Louise's address is 1739 N Street N. W., Washington, D. C.
At the last class meeting the following officers were elected:
President, Agnes Smith. Vice-President, Lucietta Piscopo
Doherty. Secretary, Eleanor Blagdon Aaron. Treasurer, Florence Toner. The class extends its most sincere
thanks to the retiring officers. Sister Mary James (Mary Walsh)
is directing the Alumnae Association at the Roxbury Academy of Notre Dame.
Louise Doherty, Lucietta Piscopo Doherty's daughter, is very happy about her new little sister, Amy Teresa.
on Decem er 22. We p oudly welcome our new
nieces an4 nephews. They include Charles Nolan, Margaret Culhane Nolan's f6urth child; James Ronan, Rosemary Standforth Ronan's fifth; and Ed ard Hale, Alice O'Neill Hale's si1h youngster.
Eileen f eaney is making excellent progress in her recovery from a serious 0 -' eration. Sympathy '
The class extends sincere sympathy t o I its president, Josephine Alberghini Hosman, upon the loss of her mothe,r; and to Eleanor Murphy upon the loss of her father.
Class eporter: Mary Martin, 5 Worthing t n Street, Roxbury.
• • CLASS OF '31
Bor·n: To Mr. and Mrs. Henry
a daughte , Mary Kathryn, ary 25.
Engaged:
M. Leen, on Janu-
Colette urphy to Paul R. Knight of Milton,l now serving in the Navy in the Pacific.
Gertrud Murdock gave a tea at her home on Sunday, April 15, at which the class discussed plans for the rummage sale to be held on May 12, at Horticultural Hall. Alice Gallagher Dooley was elected class treasurer. (See all you missed, you girls who did not come?)
Please send your news of the class to the class reporter.
Sympathy: The class extends its sincere Synl
pathy to Anne Sullivan and her fam ily in their double grief. Anne's father, Francis P. Sullivan, died suddenly January 4; her uncle, Daniel Sullivan, was unexpectedly taken a few weeks ago. Be assured of our prayers, Anne.
Class Reporter: Ml·S. T. J. Foley, 880 Chestnut Street, Waban 68.
• • CLASS OF '32
Class Reporter : Mrs. John D. Carroll, 122 Curtis Street, Roxbury.
• • CLASS OF '33
Born: To Lillian Cronin Crosby, a second
daughter, Regina Mary. To Margaret Donahue Ha\y, a
son, John Jr., born on March 5 On February 12, the class ad a
successful reunion and dinner t the Fox and Hounds Club in Boston
Eleanor Grady Sullivan's hu band, Lt. William Sullivan, U. S. N. R., has returned from eighteen months,1 duty in the Pacific. area, and is no sta-tioned in Washington, D. C. I
On March 24, the class of '33, under the capable managemeht of Margaret Br€win Breen and El1eanor Grady Sullivan, held a succbssful rummage sale in Horticultural Hall:
'Class Reporter: Mrs . David M rphy, 15 Avalon Road, Milton.
• • CLASS OF '34
Born : To Lt. and Mrs. Albert oban
(Helene Scanlon), their secon son, Albert Jr., in February.
To Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch (Elizabeth Beahan), their first ch'l d, a daughter, in December.
To Mr. and Mrs. John Va ghan (Elizabeth Turcotte) their first child, a daughter, in March. Married:
Dorothy Egan to Kenneth Ke liher, on February 1l.
Agnes McHugh Hogan enter ained the class at a lovely tea at her home on January 14. Many atten d in spite of the storm, and had a w nderful time.
Congratulations to Fortunat Caliri, chairman, for the ver y succ ssful lecture given by the Rev. rnest Foley, S. J., at Fisher Busines College, January 22, in aid of the uilding Fund.
Eleanor Sullivan Murphy meeting of the class at her ho e on February 11. The business meting was followed by a lovely tea.
Plans were discussed for a I' cture to be given by the Rev. Joseph l\ll.anton, C. S. S. R., at New England Mutual Hall on April 8. Lillian O'Neill was appointed chairman.
In February Lillian O'Neill entettained her committee at her home and plans were completed for the lecture.
The class held the March meeting at the Alumnae Office on Newbury Street.
We are grateful to Lillian O'Neill, her assistant chairman, Lillian Dale, and her energetic committee for the successful lecture by Father Manton on April 8. The topic was "A Catholic in America," and it was very much enjoyed by everyone.
Marie Castles Maloney entertained the class at a delightful tea at her home in Brookline, on April 15. Plans were discussed for future activities. It was decided to hold a weenie roast at the summer home, at Nantasket Beach, of Rosemary O'Neill Griffin, in June. Marie Castles Maloney offered her home at Green Hill, Hull, for a beach party, in July. These parties are for the Building Fund. It is hoped that all the girls will try
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to attend. It was a lso decided to continue the monthly meetings. We hope all the girls will come and renew friendships.
Lillian Dale entertained the class at a very enjoyable tea at her home in Medford, on May 6.
Fortunata: Caliri was guest speaker ~t ~ r ecent meeting of the Literary Society at Emmanuel College, her subject being "Best Sellers." Her book reviews appear regularly in "America," "The Sign," and "Books on Trial."
Grace Maloney Keleher and her son, George Jr., are at Norfolk, Va., with her husband, Lt. George Keleher, U. S. N. R.
Any of the class who cannot attend activities, but would like to contribute, may send contributions to our treasurer, Mrs. Wallace Pyne (Eleanor Stankard) at 77 Elizabeth Road, Belmont.
Class Reporter: Mrs. Terence Griffin, 1 Dow Street, Somerville.
CLASS OF '35 The Class of 1935 congratulates
Anastasia Kirby Lundquist on her fine performance of "The Girls They Left Behind" and other sketches which she wrote and presented for the benefit of 1935's contribution to the Building Fund.
We extend to Dorothea Hoar, Chairman, and her committee, a sincere thank you for their successful efforts in behalf of the evening's entertainment.
And to George Pink and Henry Lundquist we are very grateful for their cheerful assistance as ticket seller s and prop boys .
The class had one of its most enjoyable meetings at the Hotel Lincolnshire, on Saturday, April 27. Among those present were many of our brides of the past year, including Mrs . Stephen Duggan (Marguerite Maguire); Mrs. Francis Stevenson (Mary Weddleton); Mrs-. Henry Lundquist (Anastasia Kirby); Mrs. John Mullin (Kathryn Lynch).
Helen Keane, on a spring vacation from her interesting work in vaccine research in Michigan, was warmly greeted.
Kay Coyle's new position in Washington prevented her attending, but she will probably make our reunion at the New Ocean House in Swampscott, details of which Helen Attridge is arranging.
Mary O'Brien Donahue may be assured of our prayers for baby Jane's speedy recovery. Births:
To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frisoli (Mary DeGuglielmo), a girl, Mary Ann, born on Christmas Eve.
To Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Mooney (Martha Doherty), a son, Christopher, born in March.
To Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Reardon (Mary Groden) a son, Dennis, born in April.
To Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Pentis, a son, bo~ in April.
To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Curran
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(Eleanor O'Brien) a daughter, born in April. Sympathy:
To Genevieve Connors McCaffrey on the death of her father.
Don't forget to reunite with us at POPS, BACCALAUREATE MASS, CLASS BANQUET, ALUMNAE BANQUET, AND GRADUATION!
Class Reporters: Mrs. Joseph Donahue, 42 Orchard Street, Jamaica Plain; Kathryn Coyle, 1170 Lonsdale A venue, Saylesville, R. 1.
• • CLASS OF '36
Married: Helen T. Goodwin to Chauncey W.
Watts, Jr., in Cambridge, on Easter Sunday. Born:
To Alice Burke Cronin, twins,
Our sincere thanks to Genevive Bagley and Amelia Campbell for the very enjoyable Officers' Dance which was held at the Hotel Statler, on December 30.
Margaret Brooks recently enjoyed a very pleasant trip to Canada, where she vacationed at the home of Helen Delaney Wintermeyer.
Regina Duane was recently elected president of the Society of Technicians at the Carney Hospital.
Mary Kelleher Harvey is now making her home in New York, where her husband is stationed.
We are all happy to hear that Helena Cronan Miley's husband, David, is recovering from wounds received in Germany.
Class Reporter: Mary Dewire, 48 Central Street, Somerville.
• • CLASS OF '38
George, Jr., and Claire Marie. Born: To Harry and Eleanor (Elcock) To Catherine Shea Gaughen, a third
Strapp, a son, their second boy, on daughter, Elizabeth, on February 23. January 8th . His name is Eric. To Alice Petteruti Le Gendre, a
To Bill and Helen (Kelley ) Ray, baby girl, Judith Alice, born April 16. their second son, William Christo- Engaged: pher, Jr. Winifred Doyle to Francis Gens, of
To Norman and Eleanor (Barrie) Boston. Becchio, a son, Norman, Jr.
To Charles and Rita (Connelly) Carroll, a daughter, on March 29th.
To John and Rita (Shea) Griffin, a son, their second boy. on April 25th. News:
We are grateful to Mari-Elizabeth Donohue and Irene Ryan Ready, capable co-chairmen of a most successful Bridge Party and Fashion Show, held in January, at the Hotel Sheraton for the benefit of the Building Fund.
Many thanks to Olive Dalton and her capable committee for their work on our Bridge Party and Cake Sale, held on May 5th, at the Philomethia Clubhouse.
Several members· of our class are pianning to enLel'iain a~ small nouse bridge parties to increase our class gift to benefit the Building Fund. Why not plan to have one?
Peggy Mackin Lucey has returned to Newton after spending several months in Florida and New York. Her husband, Lieut. Donald Lucey, U. S. C. G. R., has recently left for the West Coast and overseas duty.
MaI7 Shannon O'Connor and daughter Ann have returned to Newton after spending the winter in Texas, where Mary's husband, Major Frank O'Connor, M. D., is stationed.
Class Reporter: Eleanor Fallon, 64 Chestnut Street, Cambridge.
• • CLASS OF '37
Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Walter May (Alice
Kenneally), a son, Walter, Jr., February 6. Married:
Peggy Nestor to Lt. George Van Beuren, U. S. M. C., of New York, on March 10. They are now making their home in South Carolina.
Doi Anderson would like to hear from the girls. She has just returne from England. Her address is 93 th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Th class wishes to express its appreci tion to Claire Killian and Mary Cronin for a very successful Penny Sale.
C1a s Reporter : Helen E. O'Connor, 277 Romer Street, Newton Centre.
• • CLASS OF '39
Born : To \Terry McEnroe Quinn, a girl,
Mary Teresa, on March 1.
Enga~d: Cat erine Dolan to CM-1c John Cu-
sack, . S. N. Marr:.-rl:
DOliOthy Breslin to Walter Cork. Mildred Tully to Herbert Schmidlin. Lor tto Logue to Frank Hiney. Au< rey . Swendeman to Thomas' E.
Gaquin. Teresa McEnroe Quinn, Winifred l<'ord, and Jeanne Busby served as bridesmaids.
Laura DePrizio is now working in the Transportation Division of the First Service Command.
All our best wishes to our new class president, Louise Toomey.
Class Reporter: Jeanne Busby, 144 Bellevue Road, Watertown 72.
• • CLASS OF '40
Born , To Heloise Leveroni Cunningham,
a da ghter, Sandra. To Marguerite Butler Torndoff, a
son. Engaged:
Claire Devlin to William Johnson, U. S'I N. R.
Mary Struzzieri to Lt. Louis Drinkwate~. Ma·rried:
Ensign Bernadette Maguire to
Sherwin M. Barton, a Navy flier, in February.
Barbara Morrow is working at Polaroid Corp., Cambridge.
Margaret Connors is a ehemist at M. 1. T.
Eleanor Carroll, engaged to Gerald Kearney.
Muriel McDonald, engaged to Dr. Edward Murphy.
Virginia Quinn, engaged to William O'Neil.
Dorothy Norton is Salem.
teaching in Change of location:
Eleanor Maffeo is a me ~eorologist
grade in the Worcester Public Schools.
Rita Omar Collins has been chosen chairman of the Baby Party.
Rita Sharry White is the very able chairman of our Class Reunion.
Patricia Smith Rotman is now liv-ing in Utica, N. Y., where her husband is stationed.
Agnes Loscocco to California, where her husband is stationed.
Frances Austin Murphy to Texas, with her two children, to join her husband. Change of Position:
Claire Dacey has become an Air Stewardess with the North East Airlines.
Eileen Knight, who has· given up teaching to care for the sick as a nurse. Barbara Duffy is a technician at
the Children's Hospital. Class Reporter: Polly Brunell, '42, liv- 228 Glenwood Street, Malden, Mass. Patricia Fallon Costello is now
ing in Newport News, Va. Mary Crowley is working at the
Marine Hospital in Brighton. Eleanor Maffeo is a meterologist
at the U. S. Weather Bureau in Boston.
Marie Bissell Dooley is very busy taking care of her daughter, Linda Marie, while her husband is away in the Army. Sympathy:
The class extends its sincere sympathy to Mary Welch Travers, on the death of her daughter, and to Mary Rose Welch on the death of her mother.
Class Reporter : Rita Desaulniers, 5 Romsey Street, Dorchester.
• • CLASS OF '41
Class Reporter: Jeanne Delaney, 135 Lewis Road, Belmont.
• • CLASS OF '42
Congratulations to: Margaret Henry Murray on the
birth of a daughter. Eileen McSweeney Tomlinson on
the birth of a son. Frances Austin Murphy on the
birth of a son. Agnes Burkhart Loscocco on the
birth of a daughter. Mary Carroll Carey on the birth
of a son. Mary Fitzgerald Finneran on the
birth of a son. Best Wishes to:
Elizabeth Manning, who became Mrs. Robert Dunn.
Eleanor Finnigan, who became Mrs. William Condon.
Mary Sprissler, who became Mrs. Francis X. Wilkinson.
Lorraine Smithson, WflO became Mrs. William Johnson.
Elizabeth Kohler, who became Mrs. Philip Dorion.
Irene Crowley, who became Mrs. Alton J. Woods.
Edith Forge, who became Mrs. Philip Perry.
Joan McGonagle, who became Mrs. Douglas Smith. Felicitations to:
Dorothy X. Emond, engaged to J. Clarke Reardon.
• • CLASS OF '43
Engaged: Bernardine Travers to Lt. Frank
J. Rines, U. S. M. S. Joan Clifford to Captain Wally
Breslin, U. S. A. A. C. Married:
Rosemarie Buckley to Lt. Robert Halligan, U. S. N. R.
Edna Murphy to Lt. Henry Wischmeyer, U. S. A. A. C.
Marjol;e Scanlon to Lt. Howard Christian, U. S. A. A. C.
Doris M. Richard is now lending her talents to the management of the USO in Hooks, Texas.
Catherine Connors Sullivan, and her daughter, Patricia, who is now thirteen months old, and holds the title of the first baby born to the class of '43, are planning to join Lt. Sullivan in Tennessee, where he will be stationed for some time. Lt. Sullivan returned from overseas duty last fall.
Virginia Fair, Marianne Kneeland, Phyllis DeCosta, and Elizabeth Devane are completing their studies this month at Boston College School of Social Work, while Mary Rohan is completing hers at Boston University School of Social Work.
Class Reporter: Mary E. Rohan, 55 Florida Street, Dorchester.
• • CLASS OF '44
A scholarship to the Simmons School of Social Work has been awarded to Catherine McQueeney by the American Association of Medical Social Workers.
Mary Printon has been awarded a fellowship at the Boston College School of Social Work by the Family Society of Boston. Sympathy:
We wish to extend to Jean MacDonald Stout the sympathy which has been felt and expressed by her classmates and other Emmanuel friends on hearing of the death of her husband. Lt. Stout was killed in action.
Class Reporter: Dorothy Hurley, 17 Willow St., Belmont 78.