VOLUME ONE
JANUARY -
1948
NuMBER
Two
Safute ....
At this point, I would like to have you meet the one and only Mary Ann Quinn, our class president, and just about everyone's friend. It isn't that you haven't already met Mary, but this is just to help you remain aware of how very capable she is, and how much she has done for us and our Alma Mater in the short time we have been together. You ask me to describe her? Well . . . . Mary's just about the same height as most of us, perhaps slightly taller or shorter; her blondish-brownish hair is cut short, in bangs, and she wears the usual college togs; but when she's sharped up of an evening, watch out!!! Here too, we might mention the scholastic capabilities of our favorite executive officer. To the astonishment of the los estudiantes in Spanish class, Mary excels in the many translations which tend to stupify us. Moreover, Mary is also a good History student, which will come in handy in her future life since she hopes to branch out into government work. But her tastes aren't so intellectual that "Quinnie" doesn't always jump at a chance to golf, ski, swim, or go along on any unexpected excursions of this type. Sis (as her friends and family in Torrington call her) is certainly an all round girl. The Salve Regina pioneers are unanimously in favor of their "Fleet Admiral". For her leadership, their praises are high and their thanks long. Blessings on you, Mary, and every happiness now and always.
been granted, and there are the big things-the events that made the headlines which may not have affected us intimately but which benefited us generally as "John Q. Public." It's time to remember all these . . . to put them into the jigsaw pattern of our lives and thank the One Who gave us the New Year, Who gave us everything. It's time to take inventory of all we've learned from the experience of the past year. And it's time to shake the confetti out of our hair-tht: "Season to be Merry" was last year remember? We're going to settle down for a while and maybe make a few resolutions (ones we'll keep this year), and correlate experience into our way of looking at things. It'll be different this year. We have gratefully taken what 1947 had to offer and it has made us think. We're a lucky generation because our times are challenging, and we're lucky because we can meet the challenge by studying the past in the light of time. Then we shall have the courage to look squarely at the future and walk into it on magic feet of confidence. Of course we can do it-it's our New Year's resolution! I've always thought it fun to look back over the past years . . . to be able to recognize folly as folly, triumph as triumph in the true focus, only the future holds. Time provides prospective, and so with each successive year, it's sort of a ritual with most people to cast an evaluating glance at the past yearw January 1, 1948, brought parties perhaps . . . silly hats, noisy horns, strains of "Auld Lang Syne" . . . but it brought more than that. Ir painted another scene in the unfinished portrait of yesterday because it opened the curtain on the New Year. It's been a wonderful year1947. A great deal has happened. There is much to be thankful for. There are little personal favors that have
Sub zero weather is the forecast for tomorrow. Here at Salve Regina however, temperature is running high. It is an unusually quiet place. Everyone wears a serious look, an anxious air. No, it isn't an epidemic, or is it? Just semester exams.