A Word to our Alumni.
GLADLY do we use these pages of our First Annual to extend our sincere and
cordial greetings to our Alumni, the Old Boys, of S. A. C, and to offer to them
this interesting record of the deeds and glories of our Alma Mater.
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An Alumni Association—?
WHY do the old students always come back to St. Ambrose? Why is it that the
"old grads" seem to enjoy themselves so thoroughly during their hurried
visits? The answer is that St. Ambrose possesses a lure which the student…
the alumni as to such an organization. Then active steps must be taken toward the formation of an association. The proper time for the organizing of the alumni would be in June, and, as the commencement exercises at St. Ambrose are confined to one…
Laymen and St. Ambrose.
That a representative of the Laity or the of Diocese of Davenport, in the person of the undei signed, constituted one-half of the first
corps of professors of St. Ambrose College, is a rather unusual thing to record in…
Here in Davenport we have scores of them, prominent in banking, commercial and professional life, in offices of public and private trust, citizens of upright life, a credit to their church and their state. Of alumni from outside the city, I have…
Athletics in Early Days.
THE athletic history of St. Ambrose College began, when, on a crisp November morning in 1883, Tim Mullen, then a lay professor, now pastor of Adair, kicked a football over the belfry of the Old Hose House on Iowa…
