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Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Loyola University Yearbooks University Archives & Special Collections 1947 The Loyolan 1947 Loyola University Chicago Recommended Citation Loyola University Chicago, "The Loyolan 1947" (1947). Loyola University Yearbooks. Book 20. http://ecommons.luc.edu/loyolan/20 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives & Special Collections at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola University Yearbooks by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois http://www.archive.org/details/loyolan1947unse ^ THE 1947 L oyolaH PRESENTED BY THE STUDENTS OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY AS A RECORD OF THE YEAR'S ACHIEVEMENTS yB The Staff Clare C. Acton, Editor Managing Editor William J. Kilkenny, E. John Clark Paul F. Elward Stuart D. Corboy James F. Bourgeois Edward V. Donovan William A. Isaacson Frank McCabe Robert J. Dempsey John Malone Bernard J. Cunningham Francis X. Steggert Richard Quinn Raymond A. McDermott Robert Carroll Zkc Campus Beautiful OREWORD The forerunner of Loyola University, St. Ignatius College, was founded in 1870 on the West Side of Chicago. The school was faced with a problem common to every new institution of learning—the establishment of a cohesive unity in the student body and the foundation of a tradition for succeeding students to follow. The students themselves had to solve this problem, and they solved it admirably. It was then the task of succeeding Loyolans to nurture this unity and enrich this tradition during their years of study. As a result of this erForr on the patt of th^ 5tudeht b6dy, h6 ttue L6y(I)la graduate nas lett the school without benefiting from this spirit or contributing to it in some way. The diamond anniversary of Loyola University was 1945; the same year also saw the school entering into a new era. During the way years enrollment was abnormally low in many of the departments. Simultaneously, then, Loyola entered into its second seventy-five years and expanded its facilities to accommodate the great influx of students. This issue of the LOYOLAN records the accomplishments ot tne student body in the first full year of this new era. The task of today's Loyolan is comparable to that of the student of old St. Ignatius. It has been his duty to re-establish Loyola's unity and tradition in the face of a rapid expansion and further decentralization of campus life. How well he has succeeded in his task can be seen from the following pages. AT WORK AT PLAY E D IC This book is respectfully dedicdted to those Loyolans who gave their lives in the service of their country. m1 J !!K ^rti >-* {> ^%ivw, ' Tl) ^i ^^ 1 ^Si ^•'1'^ 1 >m I T I O N Zke M^^ Whom We Monor Baker, Eugene L. Grady, Edward J. Neff, James G. Barthes, Frederick E. Gresik, Herman E. Noesges, John C. Beauregard, Joseph F. Grimm, Robert W. O'Day, William E. Benjamin, Lawrence Heaney, John J. O'Neill, Vincent M. Branman, George E. Herthneck, Robert G. O'Reilly. Edward Richard Plahetka, Broccolo, Frank J. Huston, J. Henry Hyman, Abe A. Purdy, ). Burke, John J. Iohn Burke, Raymond G. Jagor, Thomas R. Rall, Richard R. BuTTiMER, James M. Johnson, Robert S. Reinert, Dean P. Cahill, Joseph E. Kasper, Albert W. Roberts, H. William Carmody, John L. Kelly, John E. Shay, Thomas F. Chap, Norman R. Kennedy, Joseph A. SiERKS, Richard J. Cherikos, Thomas G. Kiely, George W. Simpson, Robert F. Kloss, George E. Smith, Robert W. Clarke, John J. Cleary, Michael D. Krucks, Kenneth E. Spellman, William J Courtney, Henry A. Lavin, Edward J. Stevens, John E. Curran, Eugene L. Leach, Edmund L. Sweeney, Edward H. Denny, John P. Murphy, Jerome J. Terlecke, Rudolph Drew, James F. Murray, James W. Vader, John J. Duffy, Stephen B. McAndrew, Harold J. Waldron, Robert C Edwin L. Walsh, William B. Faltysek, Edward J. McCoRD, Peter E. White, Ralph Farrell, Warren J. McDonnell, W. McKitrick, Thomas A. WiLCZEWSKi, Edward Fedigan, James J. J Gaffney, John C McNuLTY, James J. Wiley. Frank W. Twm small begmlngs 1870—1947 Reverend Charles Truygens, S.J., and Reverend Arnold Damen, S.J., arrived in Chicago in 1857 to set up the first Jesuit parish in the city. Father Damen, who was to be the pastor, was severely criticized for selecting a site in the southwest section, far from where most of the homes were then located. Holy Family Church, hov, e. er, was erected at the corner of Eleventh and May as Father Damen wished. The devout priest burned with the desire to form a Jesuit college in what he knew was to be the leading city of the area. He received permission and was granted a charter in 1869. The building for St. Ignatius College was begun immediately. The doors were opened for the first time on September 5, 1870, before the building was even Snished. Thirty-seven men were enrolled in that first class. The college was an immediate success, however, and before the end of the first year the enrollment had swelled to ninety-nine. Sixty-one students were present at opening-day classes in 1871. On October 8 of that year, the College almost suffered a tragedy. The Great Fire broke out just a few blocks north and east of St. Ignatius. Father Damen, now president of the college, was not on the grounds at the time, but arrived in time to see a sudden shift in the wind turn the flames toward the lake and river and away from the school. To this day seven vigil lights are kept burning in Holy Family Church as a token of gratitude to Our Lady of Perpetual Help for this seeming miracle. The first class was not graduated from the college until 1881. Of the two graduates one, Thomas Finn, became a priest; the other, Carter Harrison, is renowned as one of Chicago's greatest mayors. Through As the number of students increased, old St. Ignatius College began to make plans for expansion. In the earliest years of the present century work was begun on the Lake Shore Campus, which now houses the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1908 the Lincoln School of Law was founded by a group of alumni ; this school was soon accepted as an integral part of the College. In the following year, 1909, the Jesuit institution attained university status and became Loyola University. The University olfered its first extension courses in 1913. At first these studies were limited to the social sciences; but, as the demand and enrollment grew, the department was divided to form the present University College and School of Social Work. Loyola purchased Bennett College in 1915 and incorporated it as the Loyola University School of Medicine. The demand of business for trained men in the fields of accounting, economics, and finance led to the formation of the School of Commerce in 1924. Several departments had long been offering graduate studies which were to lead towards graduate degrees. These advanced academic studies were incorporated into the Graduate School in 1926. The school otfered its first opportunity for the doctoral degree in 1932. The Graduate School now offers masters' and doctors' degrees in most fields. Mr. Charles E. Ballard gave the famous resort hotel at 'West Baden Springs, Indiana, to the Society of Jesus in 1934. The building was to be used as a house of studies. The college now is the Jesuit school of philosophy and theology for the Chicago province. It operates under an affilation with Loyola University. Loyola has had affiliated with it several nursing schools in Chicago for many years; however, the curriculum in each school was vastly different. In 1935 a project was begun through the efforts of Sister Helen Jarrell and the Reverend Terence H. Ahern, S.J., to unify these schools under a single course of studies. This undertaking has met with great success. 10 iradual growth '>^i^^'\ ^ v";^ Ti> coHtempomry In keeping with the expansion program of the University, through the generosity of Frank Lewis, J. prominent Chicago manufacturer, Loyola obtained the use of Lewis Towers, at 820 North Michigan Avenue, for the downtown schools. In December of Lewis 1945, Mr. donated to the University the first nine floors of this building. Classes were begun on the thirtieth of September of last year, with 721 students attending the day classes of the Commerce School. In addition to the School of Commerce, Lewis Towers contains the Graduate School, the School of Law, the School of Social Work, and the University College. All incoming freshmen to the pre-legal and bachelor of philosophy curricula are also in attendance at Lewis Towers. These changes in the shifting of B.S. (C), new pre-legal, and new Ph.B. students from the Lake Shore Campus were due to the forty per cent increase in registration. The total enrollment of Lewis Towers was, in September, approximately 2500. At the beginning of the second semester in February, the number of students was more than 3000. Reconversion of Lewis Towers from its wartime use in training naval officer candidates has recently been made complete. Offices for the Dean of Men, the Dean of Women, the Student Counsellor, the Public Relations Officer, and other administrative heads, have been established in this building. A student lounge provides the students a place for relaxation in ease between classes.

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