Members of Now Defunct Senators Club Gather in Pryz for Bi-Annual Luncheon

Alumni of the University’s Senators Club met in the Great Room of the Pryzbyla Center Thursday for one of their bi-annual luncheons. Members of the club who graduated during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were the majority of attendees.

“It was great. We had a full house. They just love this school,” said Martin Dowd, men’s tennis coach and class of 1960 graduate, after the event.

Male commuter students in the then combined School of Architecture and Engineering who lived in Brookland formed the Senators Club in 1923. “They were studying architecture and engineering because those were the things to study after the war,” said director of Alumni Relations Marion Gosney on the founding members of the club.

“The Senators Club was and is a tight knit group,” said Gosney. “They want to reach out to the next generation of architects and engineers.”

The Senators Club became a networking hub and a philanthropic organization, although it was originally created to be a social club.

The club no longer exists at the undergraduate level. The club is solely an alumni organization that has grown to include men and women graduates from all schools.

Today, the club consists of more than 250 former members of the Senators Club and other alumni. The Senators Club is supporting a mission by the Dominican brothers in Pakistan. In addition, the alumni of the Senators Club have set up a scholarship fund, which is now the largest organizational scholarship fund at the University.

“We had it great. We had it cheap. We had it so easy you could not believe,” said alumnus Bill Rogers, class of 1960. “The four years went by in a flash.”

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