J A I N T P E T~" E R 'J C O L l E ' E Graduation Graduation Special PAlJ WOW Special

Volume XXXVI June 16, 1968 Number 18 Graduation Ceremony Today Paul Ylvisaker To Address 77th Commencement 575 Seniors Will Also Join Ranks Be Awarded Of Alumni Hon. Degree Approximately 575 seniors Paul Nicholas Ylvisaker, New 485 day, 90 evening - will receive Jersey's Commissioner of their bachelors degrees this f Community Affairs, will deliver afternoon at the 77th St. Peter's the commencement address at College Commencement here at today's exercises in Roosevelt Roosevelt Stadium Stadium. New Jersey State In addition, the state's top Commissioner of Community urbanologist will receive the Affairs, Paul N. Ylvisaker, will honorary degree of Doctor of deliver the main address and Humane Letters. He will be cited English major John Walsh will for his constructive leadership an d deliver the Valedictory address. many acheivements in dealing Most Rev. Thomas A. Boland, with big city problems. Archbishop of Newark, will preside, and Very Rev. Victor R. Ylvisaker, one of the most Yanitelli S.J., St. Peter's College respected figures in Trenton, is President, will give the welcome. known as a committed but Fr. Yanitelli will also confer practical official. In a state where honorary degree~ upon many factions are wary of the Commissioner Ylvisaker, Fortune costs and implications of urban R. Pope, a College Regent and reform, Ylvisaker has remained JThis is how the St. Peter's College class of 1968 will look this afternoon prior to receiving Bachelors of the constant voice in favor of editor and publisher of II Arts and Sciences degrees. ------· forceful, imaginative renewal in Progresso ltalo-Americano, and John T. Connor, president and our big cities. Chief executive officer of the Ylvisaker has been attracting Allied Chemical Corp.. and a Alumni-To-Be A ttend attention in Democratic circles as former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. a possible candidate for various offices. Should Governor Richard St. Peter's College will also Hughes move into some other invest Nicholas Marchalis and Baccalaureate Mass governmental slot, talk has it that James McConnell into its Board of Bennett Cerfs Random House Dictionary McDermott, and Samt Peter Halls, and the Ylvisaker would be the logical Regents. defines Baccalaureate Mass as "a religious service procession commenced at 9 :35 A.M. President of successor to the governor in the There are 136 Bachelors of held at an educational institution prior to the the Class of 1968, Michael Ambrosio, led the state's Democratic hierarchy. Arts, 64 of them in cursu classico. graduate's receiving their bachelor's degrees. procession in to Saint Aedan 's, carrying the and 439 Bachelors of Science. This year's spiritual highlight of Senior Week, traditional mace. After the mass, Ambrosio handed With his far-reaching concern There are only two graduates in the Baccalaureate Mass, was held yesterday at Saint the peacock-on-a-pike to Paul Newell, Student for cities, Ylvisaker has emerged the Honors Program, but there Aedan's Church. The mass was celebrated by Senate President, to carry in today's as a prototype of the urban will be nine summa cum laude, Reverend Victor Yanitelli, president of Saint commencement exercises. thinker in government. His two magna cum laude and four Peter's. After the mass, the graduating seniors brunched previous experience includes cum laude honors awarded the The graduates assembled at 9:20 A.M. on in the Pavonia Hall and discussed their forthcoming urban planning work for the city graduates. Kennedy Boulevard in front of Dinneen, graduation exercises. of Philadelphia.

Seniors file into St. Aedan's Church for Baccalaureate Mass yesterday morning. June 18, 1988 - Mary Jane Emde Tops List June 16, 1968 PAUW WOW Page 3 College Aw ards Three Honorary Degrees The New Jersey Commissioner of Community Affairs, a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and a prominent businessman all will receive honorary degrees from Saint Peter's College during commencement ceremonies today here at Roosevelt Stadium. The degrees will be awarded to Commissioner N. Ylvisaker, John T. Connor, president and chief executive officer of Allied Chemical Corp. who served in President Johnson's cabinet from 1965 to education ad business groups. In 1967, and Fortune R. Pope, 1948 he was awarded the president of Colonial Sand and Presidential Certificate of Merit. Stone Co. Saint Peter's will confer upon him Commissioner Ylvisaker, who the honorary degree of doctor of PAUL N. YLVISAKER JOHN THOMAS CONNOR FORTUNE R. POPE will receive the degree of doctor laws. Imaginative and courageous Man of business and civil n dustrialist and of humane letters, also will give leadership has marked your servant, Phi Beta Kappa and philanthropist, leader in the the commencement address. Pope is a charter member of personal confrontation with the philanthropist, your entire career communications media, builder of He will be cited for his the Saint Peter's Board of Regents critical urban problems of our age. bespeaks your devotion to the international good will through leadership and constructive and one of the College's leading A man of the cities, your service cause of learning, the welfare of cultural relations, you continue achievements in dealing with benefactors. He will receive the to the City of Philadelphia was the nation and the common good with dignity the family tradition urban problems. doctor of humane letters degree followed by a series of of mankind. The distinction with bequeathed by your beloved for his service to the country, the constructive achievements which which you served in President father, Generoso Pope, and Saint Peter's will honor church and the College. enabled the Ford Foundation to Johnson's cabinet as Secretary of inspired by your gracious mother, Connor, a Morristown resident, He also is president of Progress focus its resources upon the Commerce, only confirmed the Catherine. for his dedication to education Broadcasting Co., the North crucial needs of the cities talents which years before The record of your and work in government and civic American Newspaper Alliance and throughout our nation. And now President Truman recognized in achieve men ts reflects the man: affairs. Connor has headed Allied is publisher and editor of 11 as Commissioner, you have helped awarding you the Presidential service poured forth to meet the since leaving the Johnson Progresso Italo-Americano. to make the Community Affairs Certificate of Merit. needs of students, of the ages, of Administration in 1967. He also is a director of the corporation and Departmet of New Jersey one of victims of earthquakes and flood; Pope, a native of West New Your spirit of public-minded serves on the board of directors of the most effective State agencies service to the building of the York, N.J., and now a resident of in the country. service and your willingness to General Motors, General Foods church on two continents, service Rye, New York, has received give of yourself have brought you and the Chase Manhattan Bank. to this College as a founding numerous awards and has been honors from the National A learned man of action, your member of our Board of Regents. cited on three occasions by the Conference of Christians and He has received numerous wisdom and your energy have The government of the United awards from the government and Italian government. created an alliance uniting Jews, from the many business and States has honored you and so has government, business and professional associations whose the Republic of Italy, the New education in the fight to remove citations are yours, and from the York Archdiocese and the urban decay and to restore hope eleven colleges and universities Vatican, the international to the inhabitants of the inner whose highest tribute of Universities of Rome and city, to develop the maximum in recognition was accorded you by Palermo. All this augments the human potential and to plan a way of their honorary degrees. special joy we share today in promising future for our State. conferring upon you, by directive One of the first to be chosen to of the Board of Trustees and with serve on New Jersey's newly the enthusiastic concurrence of Because of the Saint Peter's created State Board of Higher your fellow regents of St. Peter's College commitment to the ideals Education, Saint Peter's College College, our on new accolade, the of service for which you stand, we rejoices today in welcoming you Degree of Doctor of Humane take special pltvsure therefore, at to the ranks of her distinguished Letters, honoris causa. the directi,r of the Board of alumni, truly a gentleman and a Trustees ., conferring upon you, scholar in the great tradition. special sense of gratitude, we the Dec1ee of Doctor of Humane Therefore, at the direction of the confer upon you, the Degree of Letters, honoris causa. Board of Trustees, and with a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.

Sees 'Good Example' in Victory Frank Falcicchio Wins. Appeal Vs. County Prosecutor Tumulty Senior Frank Falcicchio enjoyed probably his best 24-hours Tuesday and had every reason to feel that way. Falcicchio, committee chairman of the overwhelmingly successful Senior Week, had earlier heard Hudson County Judge Paul J. Duffy uphold his appeal against an earlier conviction at the hands of the County Prosecutor, James A. Tumulty Jr. A Jersey City municipal court convicted Falcicchio for refusing to show his driver's license and registration to Tumulty on January 9. where he was held for Jersey Supreme Court had already Falcicchio had been illegally approximately one hour. held that the placing of the parked next to a fire hydrant on prosecution of the criminal Jewett Avenue and his car was At the municipal trial, business of the State in the hands Frank Falcicchio flashes victory smile after learning that he has spotted by Tumulty. According to Falcicchio pleaded guilty to the of the county prosecutor "has won his appeal. Falcicchio, Tumulty waited for illegal parking charge, but denied reference to indictable offenses a good example to show people "But being a little older," he him to appear at the car and then that he had violated the state and not to prosecutions under the my age that you can gain by going continued, "I've learned that this demanded that Falcicchio show motor vehicle law by refusing to Disorderly Persons Act." through the courts - by following isn't the case and I understood him proper identification. show his credentials. Judge Duffy's decision was: the system. that I could gb on to the next When asked if he would have court. I'm very happy with the The 21-year old senior flatly Jersey City Magistrate Samuel "Therefore, in the absence of any reacted the same way - appealing way things turned out." refused because as Falcicchio Scott, however, found Falcicchio statute which specifically or the verdict - if the situation arose Judge Duffy's decision on explained at the first trial, "I guilty and fined him an additional inferentially enlarges the county $25. when Falcicchio had just received Falcicchio's case was even made didn't know who he was. He prosecutor's responsibility or power in this area, I am his license, the senior said, "I the subject of a lead Jersey didn't show me his badge. He On March 21, Falcicchio's constrained to find that he is not guess if this had happened when I Journal editorial. could've been a mugger." lawyer, Jesse Moskowitz, appealed one of the officials to whom was 17, I probably would have the decision before Judge Duffy When Falcicchio refused to credentials must be exhibited." gotten disgusted with the whole At the Senior Prom, one could who reserved his decison until system, and I imagine a lot of easily see that Frank Falcicchio meet Tumulty's demands, the Tuesday. prosecutor had Frank handcuffed Falcicchio smilingly guys in my place would have lost was, as he said, "very happy with and taken to the Seventh Precinct, Judge Duffy felt that the New commented on the victory. "It is some respect for the law. the way things turned out." Page 4 PAUW WOW June 16, 1968 EDITORIALS

J!---.__ L--,--e---,-tt_er_s _T_o_T_h_e_E_di_·to_r-----=-=---___.l 1 To Fill a Void Last Thursday, an assassin's bullet tragically altered the editors of yearbooks should a number of color pictures but course of America's destiny when it cut short the promising Pie .. . receive something tangible under nothing suitable for printing on life of a young American leader of proven capabilities, one the realm of credits. I don't know. the Eyes' pages. As for listing All I do know, however, is that it names, I have already said the Pie who envisioned order for our nation's future. In The Sky? is not an ID book. Robert Francis Kennedy, the 42-year old junior Senator is indeed a shame that the To the Editor: . Peacock Pie is becoming less and d.) The only major orientated of New York, a leading candidate for the Office of President I am sorry at the general less a yearbook and more a more a activity in the Pie was the PSF, of the United States, is dead but he leaves behind a mandate direction the Peacock Pie is taking show of psuedo-sophistication in and that only because of a mix-up for his nation's youth. in content. Have the editors of out-of-focus photography of in status at the beginning of the His death hit the nation - and the world - hard. Yet, recent Peacock Pies ever asked the people's stomachs. year. I could not agree less with Robert Kennedy's death hit St. Peter's College particularly question, "Of what use will this Sincerely, calling the MBS and the CCS hard. book be to an SPC alumnus in James Pegolotti "active and vital student His lone surviving brother, Massachusetts Senator years hence?" If they have, I hope Assoc. Prof. of organizations." Edward Kennedy, is an honorary alumnus of the College. The surely they can see a use other Chemistry e.) The NIT also comes after our final deadline by about two grief felt by Sen. Edward Kennedy, Mrs. Robert Kennedy than being the instrument for playing the game, "I'll Surely Pie .. . weeks. It was only through the and the Kennedy family is shared by all of us. Never Forget What's His (or Her) help and understanding of our At this year's Michaelmas Convocation, Sen. Edward Name." firm, Foote & Davies, that we Kennedy gave us a glimpse of the Kennedy faith; a faith Examples of missing In the Face? were able to have the NIT in the which created and keeps alive the Kennedy dream. The key information that would be useful To The Editor: yearbook at all. to all this is, in a word, life. And if life means anything, it for future reference: The Editors of the Peacock Pie Dr. Pegolotti is the worst of all means youth. A) The names of senior feel the question, "Will the book the critics which is why I students whose pictrues ( either be met with student approval, bothered to answer. He sees only Where President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator especially with senior approval?" Robert Kennedy once stood, there now exists a void. To fill through their own fault or the "bad" points and succeeds in only editor's) were omrnitted; to be of much greater importance tearing down. He makes no that void is the responsibility of our nation's youth. than the one posed by Dr. You, the 1968 graduates of St. Peter's College, now b) the subject of instruction of mention of major alterations such each faculty member; Pegolotti. The Pie is not meant to as the informal faculty sections, stand in a position to fill that void to achieve the ideals for c) The names (and some be useful, nor to be used for ges. the expanded opening with a It is meant to portray a year - which two Kennedys and other Americans of courage have pictures) of the major productions 150% increases in color, the 1968 - not to be a giant ID card. given their lives. of the Argus Eyes ("Light up the introduction of a Greek Section, But, the class of 1968 must remember at least three Sky" and "The Merchant of Answering Dr. Pegolotti's the switch in size from the things: First, as Americans, you have a role to fill in making Venice."); suggestions point by point: conventional 9" by 12" to a new a.) Seniors are given more than your America a better America. Second, the chance to d) Some information indicating 11" by 11" shape being used ample opportunities to get their change the conditions of American life will be ever-present. the existence of such active and about the country at major pictures in the Pie . Those who do vital student organizations as the universities . Instead , he And third, you have to take advantage of these chances not care enough to be pictured Mendel Biology Club and the NIT-picked his way through the always in terms of the Faith of St. Peter's College, a Faith with their classmates can hardly Collins Chemical Society ; book, even to his summation of shared by.the Kennedy family. expect to be listed. e) Some pictorial or editorial 360 pages in one picture. There is This life-in-Faith is what being graduated by St. Peter's b.) A fine idea and one which indication as to the climate on no pseudo-sophistication in the College has always meant. Somehow, for the St. Peter's will probaoly be inaugurated next campus of the NIT bid and 1968 Peacock Pie, nor does College graduating class of 1968, the meaning is infinitely subsequent exuberation during year. throwing the word around scare clearer. c.) The "Merchant of Venice" the following weeks. M TI us . Perhaps all this takes more was presented Ia te in ay . 1e The Perfect Choice time than can be given under yearbook goes to press in early Dennis Moulton today's pressures of studies and March. "Light up the Sky" left us Editor, Peacock Pie This year St. Peter's College President Victor R. Yanitelli has an unusual - if not unique - honor. He was the dedicatee of the Peacock Pie, the College yearbook. Text ofJohn Walsh's · Today, when most presidents of America's colleges and universities cringe in fear of their students and shirk from facing their students, whether it be at a commencement ·valedictory Address exercise or in a person-to-person conversation, Fr. Yanitelli is Throughout a period of rapid As for ourselves, we face a one of the best loved members of the College Community. physical expansion, St. Peter's world riddled with the most This is strange in light of what has been happening College has maintained an threatening kinds of national and in places such as Columbia. But it is not strange at all if you intimate atmosphere. international problems. The know Fr. Yanitelli. As in any community, there recent assassinations, first of Dr. No matter where or when one happens to see him or have been periods of unrest and Martin Luther King and then of anonymity o the m 1V1dual. In a Senator Robert Kennedy, have talk to him, there is always a smile - more exactly a wide discontentment, sometimes quite country the size of ours, in a given rise to profound grin - on his face. When he talks, he does so through his vocal. But the faculty and world as involved as today's, what questionings on the health of the is the value of one voice, what is heart. administration have been attentive to the needs of the student body, American way of life. Our cities the weight of one man's vote? The PAUW WOW wholeheartedly concurs with the and the students in return have are torn by riots and handicapped Very little, it would seem, and Peacock Pie in its choice of its dedicatee. And we also wish to shown an awareness of their by inept political structures. despair at this has turned many to congratulate Fr. Yanitelli for this honor and thank him for all responsibilities and a concern for Negroes and other minority apathy and many others to more he's done so far and for all we are confident he will do in the the welfare and improvement of groups have been forced to resort violent means of making future. the college that have done much to drastic measure in the struggle themselves heard. to keep it vital and growing. to obtain their rights as But the Christian tradition has Mirror, Mirror • • • Nothing can make us forget the Americans. always insisted on the importance people here who helped us, the How do we respond to these of the individual, and democracy "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall; who's · the most teachers who combined a issues, as well as to the more is founded on the faith that outstanding of them all?" dedication to knowledge with a private crises that life will raise for enough individuals with the As any mirror will tell you, this is an unfair question. concern for leading students to it. each of us? We will all be moving common good at heart can make When you ask, "Who is the Outstanding Senior of the class of I think most of us can say that t~e into different areas of endeavor - this country an ever better place 1968?", it becomes a ridiculous question. teachers and administrators we into careers in business, into the to live in. We have spent the past We do not pretend to be able to answer that question. have known at St. Peter's have army, into teaching, into graduate four years of our lives in a smaller There have been many things accomplished during the cared about each of us as school. How, in these different world where people with faces and voices have worked together past four years, so many innovations brought about by the individual minds and souls. To spheres, do we maintain and develop the values we endorse as for the good of the community members of the class of 1968 (whether by themselves or in them we acknowledge a debt we can hardly express, and we wish graduates of a Catholic college? they formed. conjunction with faculty and administration), and so many them joy and fulfillment as they The answer to this question Most of us will never achieve seniors worthy of note, that it is virtually impossible to single continue their work with the will take for each of us no less any kind of national greatness, out any one man - or woman - as THE Outstanding Senior. students who come after us. than a lifetime to discover. At but all of us committed in our However, just because there are so many, the Pauw Wow We take this opportunity to present, however, we can look limited spheres to the rights and has no intentions of ignoring them altogether. We wish to list recognize also a prior debt, that to forward to what should be one dignity of every single human as many names as we can fit irrto the rest of this editorial. our parents. We thank them for important element in the answer, being can yet make a nation great. These are our choices: their continued sacrifices, for an element that is a major part of This spirit, this awareness of the Michael Ambrosio, M.J. Ascolese, Paul Newell, Dennis their enouragement and their life at St. Peter's. value of individuals in Moulton, Robert Gentle, Gerald Eak, George Alger, Jon support, financial and moral. We One of the most significant and community, is one of the things. troubling characteristics of we have GOT to take with us as Lake, Thomas Molino, Frank Falchicchio, Peter James acknowledge that this is their day modem life is the sense of the we leave St. Peter's College. Leahy, Ralph C Jaglia, Joseph Argentieri, to name a few. as well. June 16, 1968 PAUW WOW Page 5 Text of Fr. Yanitelli's Last Speech To St. Peter's College Class of 1968 You haven't left yet but this they have only just begun to sub-ordination of persons and Which brings me to the demands that the same respect be moment is probably filled with emerge. For another, the groups, but through a dynamic of question of our Catholicity - and accorded its Catholicity. By virtue nostalgia at the thought of leaving community needed for today's consensus." (p. 235). I mean Catholic with a capital of this posture, Saint Peter's Saint Peter's College, - modern world - the community Together with the faculty and "C.,, College places itself exactly in the - Even the most cynical must in which your life , your world, the alumni, I welcome the energy The magnificent Land O'Lakes world as it is, and invites all to feel something of it , - and your needs have helped to and intelligence you have brought statement drafted by 26 Catholic share their experience of faith Because as a class you have bring us far along the road to to bear on getting the dynamics of educators at the invitation of with one another on the demonstrated the brains to relevance - will never, can never consensus under way. Notre Dame University's academic , NOT on the distinguish the cynical from the be a static structure again. But the dynamics of consensus distinguished President, the confessional level. By this too, the truly sophisticated, a word, To live in today's world we also imply that we are a Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, Saint Peter's College community incidentally, once you've must be m9ving. The only other community of scholars, dedicated C.S.C., makes no bones about the works - even prays - that the stripped away the old Greek option is to stagnate. And the to the life of the mind. There are fact that the Catholic university Protestant student will graduate a denotation of specious and practice of community in a abrasive elements in the must do all that any university better Protestant, that the Jewish misleading argument - which has changing world has reached to the community of scholars - I cannot would do, and then do it in a student will graduate a better Jew, come to mean being at home in very basis of American higher help repeating Dr. Dana Catholic context without that the Catholic student will the ways of the world. education. Farnsworth's definition of infringing on the internal graduate a better Catholic, and Cynical comes from kunikos - John D. Millet, (THE education as "The friction of autonomies, the methodologies that all will graduate as more doglike and churlish. ACADEMIC COMMUNITY: AN independent minds trying to get and the freedoms required by the enlightened men of faith, better The true sophisticate - a man ESSAY ON ORGANIZATION, p. along together" - nobody can be disciplines of learning. The second human beings who have learned to whose taste, manners, and ideas 61) says that the practice of more fractious than the man who paragraph of that statement reads talk to people who are different. have been altered by education - community as a fundamental basis insists on thinking. There are (Fordham, October 1967, p.4): We are a community open to welcomes human emotion as a of organization is a reflection of abrasive elements indeed, which "The Catholic university ourselves and to the world. part of the fullness of being a the college's and the university's serve as healthy stimuli to the life participates in the total university Within, we open ourselves to the man. He controls it by reason by "concern to avoid absolute of the community of scholars life of our time, has the same world of ideas, rejecting all refusing to be silly. authority." He then goes on to because they function in the functions as all other true prejudices as symptoms of The cynic fears anything soft show that the principle of realm of reason. universities and, in general, offers ignorance and the irrational. in his make-up as a human and so hierarchy is unsatisfactory in These functions of the pursuit the same services to society. The Without, we open ourselves by controls it by snarling. terms of the preservation, of truth, these functions of what Catholic university adds to the love to the entire world. Well , whatever you may be transmission, and andvancement the Germans academicians called basic idea of a modern university Higher education can no longer feeling, I assure you, your of knowledge. A single power, LEHRFREIHEEIT, freedom to distinctive characteristics which be remote from society. Its nostalgia is no greater than mine. I organized on a hierarchical teach, and LERNFREIHEIT, round out and fulfill that idea. noblest role, especially in a really hate to see you go! principle is necessary for freedom to learn, and what Distinctively then, the Catholic democracy, is to serve as the critic But I have to learn from government, is necessary for American higher education sums university must be an institution, of itself and of society. George, - you know, the one business, because maximum up under the title of academic a community of learners or a Today, higher education must who's ben teaching here since long efficiency requires control of all freedom - these functions, I say, community of scholars, in which also serve as the instrument for before I arrived. George's ideal as the component groups. are a guarantee of our life as a Catholicism is perceptibly present social change. You, the students, a teacher has been to put himself In the college and university, college because they constitute and effectively operative." have accomplished that. And so out of business with the students, however, the social role differs the community of Saint Peter's the values by which an educated Boston College's equally to give them everything he had to from that of government or College has committed itself to man lives. I mean the intellectual distinguished President, The give and send them on to further business and, hence, the the community of Jersey City. In curiosity and the sense of wonder Reverend Michael P. Walsh, S.J., enrich themselves at the feet of organizational structure and the a larger sense, the community of which hold all things and all in the NCEA COLLEGE other masters. method of operation is different. Saint Peter's College has pledged people in high respect. I mean also NEWSLETTER for December Like George, though I hate to Hence, the college and university you, the graduates, ad all its the compelling desire to discover 1966 (p.3), also highlighted the see you go, your graduation is internally organized upon the students now and forever, to the truth, a restlessness and role of the Catholic university as proves - well, maybe not that principle of a community of taking your rightful role as men impatience with anything or the place "where the Church does you have absorbed everything authority. "Power is shared by the who will not only live in anyone who would impede the its thinking." He went on to Saint Peter's College had to give constituent groups in the American society but serve it. process of discovery. describe the Catholic university as you, but at least that you are academic entity, faculty, students, ''Commitment "the institution which insures the ready for bigger and better things. alumni and administration." And yet, I would submit that "Involvement;" "Dialogue." talents, the methodologies, and On the eve of your departure, I (p.62). these functions are rendered These are the words, the ideas, the instruments whereby the body can offer no greater prayer for This, I believe, is the content impotent unless .they operate the happenings of your corporate of Christianity can you than this: that you leave with of the AAUP's "Statement on the within what I have referred to as generation. bring its faith to self-reflective an abiding sense of pride in your Government of Colleges and "the realm of reason." Faculty Live now by the very ideas you understanding •and devise achievement and in your College, Universities," (AAUP BULLETIN, power, student power, alumni .have helped to create. appropriate lines of action in and pride in the dynamic process of Winter 1966) when it says: "The power - I interject a commercial You have taught us that if we upon the Church and the world." action and reaction with faculty, variety and complexity of the at this point to express the hope want to be somebody, and not a And all of us are familiar with fellow students, administrators tasks performed by the that you will all become active, zero, we have to be committed to the late Father John Courtney and alumni, the ferment of mind institutions of higher education powerful alumni, giving of your something positive. Murray's citation of Eric and heart, spirit and body, which produce an inescapable wisdom, wealth and work to make You have taught us that if we Pryzwara's, S.J., description of I call the Saint Peter's College interdependence among governing a greater and greater Saint Peter's want to be a person, to be the Catholic university holding a education. I pray that your pride boards, administration, faculty, College - even administrative fulfilled, we have to be involved. position on the borderline where produce in you a deep-rooted students, and others." The AAUP power, all these powers are You have taught us that the the Church meets the world and self-confidence, the knowledge Statement goes on to say that rendered meaningless if they are only way to make commitment the world meets the Church and that if you do your homework, do "important areas of action involve made to serve exclusively political and involvement realities in our having the supreme task of your job and not goof off until at one time or other the initiating ends. lives, is through dialogue - which interpreting the Church to the the thing is done to the best of capacity and decision making is the very lifeblood of the If Columbia has taught the world and the world to the your ability, you will be able to participation of all the community. people in higher education any Church. compete with any man on fairly institutional components; and, lessons at all, they are at least Finally, I conclude with these equal terms. I pray that no matter differences in the weight of each these two: that a community of My interpretation of these observations about real dialogue: what line of life, no matter what voice, from one point to the next, scholars must have open lines of statements comes down to the 1.) Dialogue begins in respect. calling you fellow, your pride will should be determined by communication among all the interpretation of the Second Each partner must believe that the force you to give yourself totally reference to the responsibility of various segments of the Vatican Council's "Declaration on other is speaking in good faith. to the proof that you need not be each component for the particular community, because without the Church in the Modern World" It is not a speech in which one second best. matter at hand." It is the them, pressures build up to the and the "Declaration on Religious person talks and the other listens, Let me try to summarize what implementation of this principle bursting point; and that the Freedom." Through them, I read or in which one participant has has happened and what is that makes for a proper sharing of terrible evidence that nilhilism, that with the truly Catholic certain advantages which are happening and why you should be power, that creates the true the destruction of a system for university, the community of denied the other. proud and confident in yourselves community of authority. the sake of destruction itself, Saint Peter's College welcomes 2.) Dialogue is blind. It does and in your College .. As John Millett put it, "The leads only to chaos. The uses of students and professors of every not know where it is going. To First of all, you have played a concept of community the college or university for faith to share in the added enter in to dialogue with strong role in stimulating faculty, pre-supposes an organization in exclusively political ends is as bad dimension that the value systems preconceived judgements as to administrators and alumni to which functions are differentiated or worse as their use for deriving from faith have brought what the conclusion of the re-evaluate, re-establish the and in which specializations must exclusively confessional or to man's history on earth and to dialogue should be, is nothing less validity of our goals as an be brought together in a dogmatic ends. Both inhibit the the history of ideas on what man than hypocrisy. Better to be educational institution through harmonious whole. But this freedom to pursue truth wherever really is. forthrightly authoritarian than to our existence as a community. process of bringing together, of it may lead. Both are in violation In the light of these pretend to engage in a dialogue The lines of our reality as a coordination if you will, is of the rights of others and in the interpretations, Saint Peter's which begins by being unreal. community may not be entirely achieved not through a structure respect which is due a scholar's College declares its respect for the defined as yet. For one reason, of super-ordination and opinion. person's individual conscience and (Continued on .Page 8) PAUW WOW June 1 , 1918 ''I Started Out June 16, 1968 PAUW WOW Page 7

Senior pictures on this page correspond As A Child • • • '' clockwise with baby pictures on Page 6.

MICHAEL AMBROSIO

WILLIAM TURCHYN MARIO PICINICH

HARRY LAURIE

M.J. ASCOLESE FRANK CANGELOSI

ROBERT J. GENTLE

DENNIS MOULTON STEPHEN JACOBSEN FRANK CARPENTER Page 8 PAUW WOW June 16, 1968

Fr. Yanitelli 's Speech At Alumni Dinner

(Continued from Page 5) 3.) It is the dialogue itself has shown that it is of the very which achieves community, not nature of revolutions to tear structure, not behavioral patterns. things down. 4:) It is the dialogue itself The challenge to your which keeps both the process of generation today is indeed to be a community in practice and the revolutionary - but it is a much process of education alive and more painful challenge than just fruitful. that. The overwhelming challenge 5.) Reuel L. Howe's THE to your generation is to become MIRACLE OF DIALOGUE sums "creative revolutionaries," men it all up, and I quote: "Every man who take the concept of (and I add, every group) is a revolution and reverse it; men potential adversary, even those who put things together instead of whom we love. Only through tearing them apart. The challege dialogue are we saved from this of your generation is a challenge enmity towards one another. to become builders, engineers Dialogue is to love what blood is who, before tearing down old to the body. When the flow of structures, labor to make a new Senior Awards blood stops, the body dies. When and more meaningful one to take (Continued from Page 2) dialogue stops, love dies and its place; yours is a challenge to resentment and hate are born. But become surgeons who excise a proficiency in the field of The Connolly Medal, donated Coughlin S.J., former Regent, is dialoguean restore a dead cancer for the sake of saving the advanced economics, will be by Professor John Connolly in awarded to Donald Tashner for relationship. Indeed, this is the body as a whole; yours is the presented to Robert Steeves. memory of his mother, Ellen, is distinguishing himself most in miracle of dialogue: it can bring challenge to become lawyers who Joseph B. Sullivan will receive awarded to Richard Bielecki for scholarship, character and relationship into being, and it can destroy lawlessness by bringing the Pavonia Medal, which is maintaining the highest average in leadership in college activities. bring into being once again a justice to the last and least citizen awarded to the graduate of the business law. The National Association of relationship that has died." (p.3). in the land; yours is the challenge School of Business Administration John McCafferty and Joseph Accountants Medal, donated by Fellows, I began by saying how to become artists who bring a with the highest general average in Guider are the co-winners of the the Jersey City Hudson Chapter much I hate to see you go. sense of beauty and wonder to a all subjects during his college Student Achievement Awards of of the N.A.A. is awarded to James Now I guess I want you to go. I world all too prone to worship the career. the Wall Street Journal for their Leman by the Accounting am impatient to see what you will ugly; finally, your ultimate The Gannon Medal, awarded in proficiency in economics, general Departent for his outstanding do in the world that needs you so challenge is to become priests honor of former Dean Robert scholastic ability, and active defense in accounting and much. even in lay clothes, who by Gannon S.J., to the graduate of participation in extra-curricular taxation. The English prizes, for the We are in anguish, uncertainty, building up the image of Christ in the School of Business activities. The award is donated doubt. The times are the worst for your hearts every day, can better Administration who has by the Economics Department. highest average in English are awarded to Valedictorian John M. revolution, violence, and senseless bring Him to a world so maintained the highest general The Management Medal is Walsh (firzt price) and Eugene J. destruction. desperately searching for the way, average in economics throughout awarded to Gregory Melnyk for Harding ( second prize). But these are also the best of the truth, and the life. his collegiate career. This year's achieving the highest average in Walter J. Brady will receive the times for incredible opportunity, Go now with our prayers and winner is Edward Matkowski. Management, while the Marketing Gordon Woodward Honors Award for creative building, for the our love. Paul J. McGovern will be Medal is awarded to Richard ecstasy of hope. • Be somebody. presented with the Dinneen Medal Zarate for showing leadership in for showing social concern while distinguishing himself in academic It will be relatively easy for Be it with pride. in honor of Joseph S. Dinneen marketing activities and high and extra-curricular activities. The you to become a revolutionary in Make Alma Mater proud. S.J., a former President. It is scholarship in marketing subjects. the turbulent context of our And for heavens sake, don't awarded to the graduate who has The Coughlin Award, donated award is annually presented to the graduate of the Department of times. Crane Brinton, in his ever lose your wonderful sense of maintained the highest general by the Class of '49, Evening ANATOMY OF REVOLUTION, humor! average in accounting. Division, in honor of Timothy Management and Marketing- June 16, 1968 Page 10 PAUW WOW June 16, 1968

Graduate Scholarship winners pose for group picture with members of committee during the dinner held for the winners. Graduate Scholarship Seniors, Dr. Caulfield Decisions Announced Honored By SPC Alumni Dr. Angelo Danesino, head of the Graduate Scholarship St. Peter's College Alumni The Outstanding Senior Committee, has announced that 48 seniors have accepted graduate Association held its annual Awards were presented to the scholarships and that eight award winners are still undecided about Alumni Senior Dinner Monday, four senior members of the their academic futures. The announcement came at the Graduate June 10, at the Robert Treat basketball team, none of whom Scholarship dinner, Wednesday, May 29. Hotel, Newark, New Jersey. The were present at first to accept, The Chemistry department counts thirteen of its graduating Senior Dinner honored the and Margaret Gillis. Miss Gillis is seniors as award winners. Golden Jubilee class of 1918 and an English major and worked on the graduating class of 1968. the Appalachia Project, living Mathematicians and historians fellowship to Ohio St. U.; Ronald The program opened with an there for Christmas 1966 and came in second best with six Michalewsky, an assistantship to winners from each group. Five address by toastmaster William D. 1967, and the summer of 1967. Stevens Tech; John Pecoraro, an Costigan, who single-handedly The four basketball players are English and five sociology majors assistantship to North Carolina U.; worked out the details of the Harry Laurie, Pete O'Dea, Tom collected awards, as did four and William Hayevy is still winners each from the physics and George F. Johnson, S.J. Alumni MacMahon and Ken Grant. undecided. DR. ANGELO DANESINO Faculty Award and presented it The George F. Johnson, S.J. economics departments. James Mu 1ana phy, has for approval to the Board of Alumni Faculty Award was then Three biology specialists were accepted an assistantship to and a John C. Hutchinson Scholarship to Minnesota U. in Trustees. presented to Education among the honored scholars, as Rutgers in sociology, while other The Invocation was delivered Department Chairman, Dr. Patrick well as two accounting, two sociology winners are Maurice classics, while Joseph Mark will accept a service traineeship to by Reverend Edmund G. Ryan, J. Caulfield, a member of the class political science and two French Prout, an assistantship to George Rochester U. for psychology. S.J ., Executive Vice President, of '47. majors. The classics, psychology, Washington U.; and Louis Farkas, and the alumni welcome given by philosophy, and art history a Mental Health Grant to Dr. Caulfield accepted the Timothy Verdon will study art William J. Gannon, '56, Alumni departments produced one winner Maryland U. James Dowd and award, praising Charles Dwyer and history in the University of Padua, President. Mr. Gannon urged the apiece. Ralph LaRossa, both sociology Father George J. Hilsdorf, whose Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship, graduating seniors to "follow the The chemistry winners are "fine examples" he attempted to majors, have not yet decided their while James Morris hasn't decided dictates of your conscience." Louis Allamandola, who has "emulate in every way." acceptances. where to continue his philosophy Gannon's welcome was accepted an assistantship to the studies. University of California at English awards have been responded to by the presidents of The main address of the Berkeley; Robert Aumann, an accepted by Charles Bordogna, an In biology, Alexander Fondak the class of 1968, Michael A. evening was delivered by assistantship at UCLA; William assistantship to Seton Hall; has been accepted to Georgetown; Ambrosio, President of the Day Reverend Victor R. Yanitelli, S.J ., Bailey, a traineeship at Notre Constance Flecey, Eugene Robert McKay, a scholarship to Division, and Carmine J. Cicchino, President, the complete text of Dame; Richard Bigg, an Harding, assistantships to Jefferson Medical College; and President of the Evening Division. which will be found on page 5. assistantship at Worchester Maryland U.; William Mullin, a Phillip Maguire, a scholarship to Ambrosio thanked his fellow The program concluded with Polytechnic Institute; and John Mental Health Grant to Fordham Cornell University. classmates for "a chance to feel Bene diction by Reverend important." DeValue, an assistantship at Seton and John Walsh, a Danforth Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., Hall. Scholarship. Assistant to the President. George Furst, an assistantship at Notre Dame; Gerard Kahle, an Edward Matkowski has Saint Peter's College Alumni assistantship at Florida St. U.; accepted a fellowship to NYU to Association's George F. Johnson, James McKenna, an assistantship head the economics aggregation, S.J. Faculty Award is presented at Fordham; John Napierski, a while others include Gary annually to that member of the fellowship at Columbia; Joseph O'Brien, a scholarship to Pace faculty whose excellence in Pecoraro, an assistantship at Iowa College; Robert Steeves, a teaching reflects a high level of St. U.; Frank Pilkiewicz, an fellowship to Johns Hopkins U.; success in leading students to a assistantship at the University of and William Tomkins, a fellowship knowledge and understanding of Minnesota; and Thomas to Cornell U. the subject matter. The 1967 Sanfilippo has accepted an George F. Johnson, S.J. Award assistantship at the University of In accounting: David Bourgoin, was presented to Fr. Hilsdorf, North Carolina for chemistry and a fellowship to Maryland U. and Chairman of the Department of physics. · John Trojan, a scholarship to the Chemistry. The other physics winners are University of Pennsylvania. In The Alumni Association Eugene Barrett, a fellowship at political science, Robert Bozzo, recognized the men of '18 and the the University of Rochester; and has accepted an assistantship to other alumni of that era as John Donovan, an assistantship at Delaware U., while Terrence establishing the grand tradition Western Michigan U. Kelleher is undecided. French that is Saint Peter's College today. Theodore Zrebiec (physics) winners are Ronald Castaldo, a The officers of the Class of 1918 and Thomas Kopacz (chemistry) S)Viss Government Grant; and were Bart R. Boyle, Emmet J. are as yet undecided. Steven Gordon, an assistant Connell, M.D., Charles A. Dwyer, James Barry heads the instructorship at Kansas ALUMNI FACULTY AWARD - Dr. Patrick J. Caulfield, right, George H. Endler, Reverend mat+iematics winners with a University. receives the George F. Johnson S.J. Alumni-Faculty Award from James M. Glotzbach (deceased), fellowship to the University of Alumni President William J. Gannon at last Monday's· Joseph Lindquist is the Thomas C. Mahon, and Edward R. Kansas; Howard Bell, a fellowship Alumni-Senior Dinner. College President Fr. Victor R. Yanitelli O'Keefe. to Lehigh U.; Michael D'Amore, a recipient of both an assistantship S.J. was on hand for the presentation. (Jersey Pictures) June 16, 1968 PAUW WOW Page 11 Graduates THEWEEVE By Pete Wevurski Say Hello It is not inconceivable that underneath their sweltering black graduation caps and gowns, Harry Laurie and Pete To. Dolly O'Dea are dressed in nothing more than a pair of cut-off shorts and white converse sneakers. The class of 1968 paid a visit It's not that the heat is so intense; it's just that maybe to Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway they'd rather be somewhere else - doing something else. at the St. James Theater on W. Don't get me wrong. It's not that they aren't happy that they 46th Street Thursday. are graduating because they are - really. But Pete and Harry have something else on their minds, The occasion was a safari - 150 seniors and their dates - to something closer to their hearts. Something called basketball. discover "Hello Dolly" in the When Pete hands his degree to his father later this wilds of the theater district. afternoon and Harry gives his to his wife, and after they School President Rev. Victor spend the next few hours celebrating along with the other Yanitelli, SJ. and various faculty 573 graduates, they will somehow find their way back onto a and administration members basketball court. They - the people who know about such Pearl Bailey makes her final grand entrance during Thursday laughed and applauded along with things - call it second nature. Others call it instinct. night's performance of "Hello Dolly." the lively group of graduating seniors. Chances are that the next time you see either one of them on a lamenated hardcourt again, it will be together: in Senior Week Semi-Formal Some couples arrived in Newark or Comack, Long Island, or the 69th Regiment Manhattan early for dinner and Armory, or wherever else the New Jersey Americans find a cocktails, thereby beating the place to call "home." Called "Campus Queen III'' crush caused by the sudden influx of out-of-state automobiles O'Dea is all set. He has already signed a contract with Senior Week fun activities drew to a close Friday with a Max Zaslofsky's Amerks. Harry is still deciding. He may sign semi-formal dance in the Maria Room of Our Lady of Mercy School, pressing into the midtown Manhattan parking lots. with the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Jersey City. Association, but don't bet on it. He'll probably stick close to "It's a Campus Queen III," said grad Frank Falcicchio, referring Private arrangements were the home. to the fact that editions I and II of the beauty bash were held at the thing, since no before or after same location. And Campus Queen Peggy Sciscione danced to the music Laurie and O'Dea are two of the four senior members of theater activities had been St. Peter's greatest basketball team. They are also the two of her orchestra in waiting, Tom planned. Naziola and the Rocking Jesters. who have been drafted by professional basketball clubs. The senior class rewarded itself Graduating senior Mike When Pete signed his contract with the ABA Americans, for its own efforts by opening the Ascolese, in charge of the affair, he became a professional basketball player. When Harry bar with the remnants of the class explained that "Since SeniQI Laurie ever gets around to signing one with either the Pistons treasury. "What a great idea," Week is mostly planned activity anyway, we decided to give or the Americans, then he'll be a professional basketball remarked Mike (MeeJay) player, too. O'Connell. people a break and let them make their own plans." But the fact of the matter is, both boys have been pros '68's class treasurer Frank for a long, long time. Not in the strict literal sense: being paid Cangelosi explained that the Post-performance supper party decision was unanimously reached plans are said to have ranged from for playing. But in the figurative sense: playing unselfish ball by class officers who wislied to the Chateau Henry Vlll to the with the knowledge, finesse, hustle, and desire of those who present a gift to graduates. Hawaii Kai. make their living putting a round inflated rubber sphere into "So we figured why not Graduate Dennis Keller was a little orange hoop with a net hanging from it. something that they're all going to especially enthused about the Harry Laurie is a prime example of a "pro." So is Pete, like," said ex-PAUW WOW boss theater party. but with Pete you don't notice it until you look at the box Mike Ascolese. "We always look forward to scores over an entire season. "Yeah, that's what I was saving trips across the river to New With Harry, you can see it while he's playing. the money for anyway," York," Keller said, "especially Laurie was simply amazing these past two years, passing Cangelosi added, and the natural when there's theater involved." instead of shooting, jumping almost as high as the rafters suggestion to open the bar at class Dennis earned a reputation as an when going after a rebound, high-stepping his way through expense was adopted. actor-type at St. Peter's, The Naziola dance group came clogged foul lanes. specializing in Greek drama. up with a startling mixture of "The show was great and Miss Harry is especially known for his unselfish ball-handling. dances, from everything Often, in fact almost always, Harry looked for an open man expectable to the polka, Vada Ferguson dances up a Bailey was terrific," said Public Relations director Ray to pass to instead of shooting. Yet if anyone ever asked him Charleston, and tarantelle. George storm with date Joe Marks (out Martignoni, a former theater critic the silly question, "Why do you pass instead of shoot?", Alger and Belle Samuels stopped of, picture) at Friday's for the Hudson Dispatch. the action several times with their Semi-Formal. Harry would probably say, "The hoop has no hands to catch terpsichorean pirotechnics. with; your teammate does. He makes you look good." In the course of the evening, During the past two years, with his spectacular passing, several enthusiastic graduates "Day At The Surf" Harry would've been leading almost everybody in assists if remarked happily about the those records were required by the NCAA. They're not, so prospect of getting out of bed you just have to assume that Harry was pretty close to the Saturday morning to attend the top. Baccalaureate Mass at IO a.m. · An All-Wet Affair But Harry passed differently than most ball-handlers. "I seem to express the "Day at the Surf," the annual Senior Week sojourn to the Jersey Harry passed under his legs, behind his back, even behind his consensus," said one, "when I shore might better be titled "When Sunny Gets Wet." opponents' backs at times. And there were very many cry." For the second consecutive year the affair at the Beacon Manor occasions when Harry Laurie would be passing by braille. He Hotel in Point Pleasant was dampened by bad weather. Almost 3.4 couldn't see where his teammates were, but when the ball inches of rain fell on the shore area Wednesday dampening much of the reached Harry's target, somehow, somewhere, somebody was festivities. there to receive it. Harry plans things that way. Congratulations Many of the seniors were to the disappointed that they were The buffet dinner and dance As for O'Dea, Pete led the Met Conference in rebounds Class of 1968 unable to go out onto the beach. was delayed until 8:30 pm to with people on his back. He led the Met Conference in "I was looking foward to playing allow late starters to arrive. infra-red exposure. He could've led the Met Conference in in the sand," Bill Turchyn said, Anthony Marrano, who made the Oscars, but Bob Leckie sewed that title up real good. "but I was kind of happy to get arrangements for the day, said some rest after the prom." "We wanted at least to make sure Pete is the type of player who doesn't do anything right. Some of the seniors did arrive everyone got something to eat. I At least that's the way it looks from the stands. It looks Nostalgia early, however, and spent the day tried to guarantee a good day, but different when you're standing underneath O'Dea when he's wandering around the hotel and I had to settle for just sand and going up for a rebound and some poor guy is waiting for Shop making use of its facilities. Jon water." elevator service to the hoops so he can see Pete eye-to-eye Lake and his date Jeannie Farrant once in a while. tried to get a group together to go Two of the more interesting wading, but met with little aspects of the evening were Senior For Pete and Harry, there are ·new worlds open to them 869 Bergen Ave. success. "We had to go by Week chairman Frank· Falcicchio's starting today. Those worlds are in professional basketball. Jersey City, N.J. ourselves," Lake said, "and brown and gray Nehru shirt, and a everybody knows that seven dancing exhibition by senior Class Whether they conquer those new worlds or not depends on ankles are better llian four." President M. Prisco Ambrosio. them. But either way ... we're still rooting for them. Page 12 PAUW WOW June 16, 1968 118 Senior ROTC Cadets To Receive Commissions Some 118 senior Reserve Officer's Training Corps cadets, the largest number in St. Peter's History, will receive their second lieutenants commissions in 11 U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserve branches this afternoon. Leman, will be commissioned into the Regular my, The cadets, wearing official U.S. Army green while the other 113 cadets will be commissioned uniforms somewhat different from ROTC uniforms, into the U.S. Army Reserve. will take their oaths after receiving their bachelor's Four cadets, Joseph Costello, Robert Gentle, J degrees. Col. Edward F. Gibb Jr., USA, will James Miller, and John Rafferty, will receive their administer the oaths to the cadets. wings at the ceremonies. The cadets took Five cadets, Joseph P. Argentieri Jr., Gerald J. flight-training during the last year. They currently Eak, David McConville, Thomas Molino, and James wear one-half wings. Approximately 14 cadets will not receive their commissions at this William Barry, Signal Corps: John Intelligence; and Patrick Manley time because they will have to make up Beirne, Infantry: Frank Bilella, Armor: Artillery. • summer camp. They include: Kevin and Michael Bochis, Armor. Also: Joseph Bongiovanni, Also: John Marra, Armor; Cuddihy, Francis Francin, Stephen Anthony Marrano, Quartermaster Jacobsen, William Keating, Terrence Armor: David Bourgoin, Armor; Timothy Brennan, Military Corps; James Matthews, Kelleher, Stephen Kubiszewski, and Transportation Corp~, Charles McCabe, John Kung!. Intelligence; Paul Brignola, Armor; James Bratton, Signal Corps; Douglas Military JnteJltgence; David Also: Vincent Lynch, Peter McConnville, (RA) Engineers Corps; Malatesta, James Moran, Robert Brustman, Engineer Corps; John Burke, Military Intelligence; Ronald James McKenna, Engineers Corps; Rodiman, James Scott, William Simms, Joseph McMaus, Signal Corps; James YES, SIRS! - Just as last year's picture shows, some 118 senior and Gary Orsetti. Buryk, Armor; John Butler, Military Intelligence; and William Byrne, Signal Miller, Artillery; Gary Mitterman, ROTC cadets will be commissioned into the U.S. Army and U.S. The commissionees and their Quartermaster Corps; Frank branches are: Norus Achemetov, Corps. Army Reserve as second lieutenants after taking their oaths this Armor; George Baccash, Military afternoon. Intelligence; Richard Balicki, Armor: Couples Enjoy A First-Class Senior Prom At Tammy Broolc (Prom & Senior Week Pictures on Page 8 & 9) Tammy Brook Country Club was the scene of one of the most elegant Senior Proms ever held by St. Peter's College Tuesday evening. The crowd of nearly 500 couples and one Pauw Wow reporter danced until 2 a.m., tripping the Terpsichore to the music of Tony Naziola and his group since the cocktail hour began at 8 p.m. An elaborate menu consisted of hot and cold hors d'oeuvres during the cocktail hour - an hour which, thanks to the meticulous planning of Prom Chairman Frank The surroundings of the Club One look at the outside could ROTC Flight Progrm cadets Robert Gentle, Earl Ewing and Jay Cangelosi, lasted exactly 60 itself lent much to the elegance of tell the seniors that the inside was Costello receive ratings from instructor Bruce Burns (second minutes. the evening. Situated atop rolling high class as well. right) at last lesson. The main course was prime ribs hills, the mansion was an The tuxedoed and lavishly Also: Dennis Casazza, Engineer Mitterman, Medical Services Corps; and Corps; Thomas Chace, Military Paul Newell, Infantry. of beef, which was Michael awe-inspiring sight for many of gowned assemblage would often Intelligence; Ralph Cicerelli, Infantry; Also: Nicholas Niglio, Armor; Ascolese's suggestion to combat the couples. Wlttiam etagnaz, Armor; Michael Cole, John Nola a, Signal Corps; Gary erupt into a sencs of Community Signal Corps; and James Colligan, O'Brien, Signal Corps; Anthony Michael Ambrosio's request that Along one of the hills, an Sing-A-Longs, with "Why Don't Infantry. Oliveri, Adjutant General Corps; Edward O 'Loughlin, Military egg salad be served. oblong-shaped patch of pebbles They Sing About Jersey" and Also: John Connallon, Military Intelligence; Rene Perdreaux, formed the background for a other Irish favorites heading the Intelligence; Robert Cosenza, Armor; Engineers Corps; and Thaddeus A set-up was included with the Joseph Costello, Artillery; Joseph Podbielski, Military Intelligence. cost of the bid, which amazing series of letters formed by hedges list of songs. Czechowsky, Military Police; Peter Also: James Polese, Military which read: Tammy Brook. DeMarco, Artillery; Richard Doerr, Intelligence; Paul Prather, Armor; cost ~nly $32. St. Peter's College President Signal Corps; John Donovan, Signal Jeffrey Quirk, Signal Corps; John Victor R. Yanitelli S.J. mingled Corps; James Dowd, Armor; Walter Ricci, Military Police; William Reuter, Dwyer, Engineer Corps; Robert Eagan, Quartermaster Corps; Larry Robertson, with the couples, pausing every so Signal Corps; and Gerald Eak, (RA) Armor; Hugh Roarty, Military often to have a senior sign his Artillery. Intelligence; Paul Roerty, Military Intelligence; Kevin Rooney, Military copy of the Peacock Pie. Fr. Also: Earl Ewing, Military Police; Intelligence; and Leonard Rosa, Thomas Fallon, Infantry; John Ferreri, Armor. Yanitelli dressed formally by Armor; Michael Fitzgerald, Artillery; Also: Michael Shannon, Armor; donning Bill Turchyn's Robert Ford, Artillery; Frank Fuino, Kenneth Sharpe, Armor; John Sheehy, Armor; Stephen Gallo, Signal Corps; Artillery; Thomas Sheehy, Armor; silver-linked neck chain. Robert Gentle, Engineer Corps; Ronald Richard Semon, Military Police; John The seniors and their dates Gironda, Signal Corps; and Chester Smith, Military Intelligence; William Crygorcewicz, Armor. Somers, Engineers Corps; Dominic exhibited a veritable rainbow of Also: John Guidera, Armor; Stimola, Armor; Edward Sweeney, color. Female outfits ranged from Robert Hoffmeister, Infantry; William Signal Corps; and Paul Switaj, Armor. Jordan, Armor; Joseph Kelly, Armor; And finally: John Trojan, Signal long flowing gowns to Robert Kelly, Military Police; Daniel Corps; John Tym, Signal Corps; almost-mini-length formal dresses. Kennedy, Quartermaster Corps; John Michael Vaccaro, Artillery; John Klink, Armor; Thomas Koleszar, Vecchio, Military Intelligence; Thomas As usual, white was the Infantry; Thomas Kopacz, Armor; and Youngblood, Armor; Robert Zahn, Albert Krajewski, Signal Corps. Artillery; Richard Zarate, Armor; dominating color of the women's Also: John LaRocca, Signal Robert Baratta, Medical Services gowns, but other shades included Corps; Ralph La Rossa, Artillery; Corps; Charles Ruggirello, Medical Edward Lenahan, Military Intelligence; Services Corps; Thomas Rossi, Medical every color imaginable. John Lonegan, Armor; Thomas Services Corps; Thomas Molino, (RA) The males attired in the LoPresti, Infantry; Andrew Lucas, Armor; homas Weldon, Medical Military Intelligence; Francis Lupo, Services Corps; and James Leman, conventional white or black spring Armor; Martin Maguire, Military (RA) Armor. dinner jackets and tux's, but surprisingly large number of them wore white or black turtle-necks YEARBOOK DEDICATION - Very Rev. Victor R. Yanitelli, with the formal garb. seated, St. Peter's College President, looks through the first copy Light blue dinner Jackets were of the 1968 'Peacock Pie' after it was formally dedicated to him also worn by a few seniors. at the Monday, May 27 ceremonies. Looking on from left are: When the band broke up at 2 'Pie' Co-Editors Jim Barry and Dennis Moulton; 1968 Student o'clock, coffee and danish was Senate President Paul Newell; and Senior Class President Mike served to the "stay 'till dawn" Ambrosio. (Jersey Pictures) crowd. Several of them commented on the gala affair. Mike Ascolese said that it kept The President's Book with the Class of 1968 tradition In one of the biggest surprises "Fr. Yanitelli has been here of "running nothing but first class of the year, Father Victor R. only five years," explained affairs." Yanitelli S.J., Presidennt of St. Moulton, "so he wasn't eligible George Alger, who was quoted Peter's College, became the for the honor. However, he was last year at the 1967 Prom as Dedicatee of the 1968 Peacock considered in each of his first four saying, "I hope next year's prom Pie in ceremonies held Monday, y.ears at the College." May 27, in Dinneen Aurom will be as good as this Alumni President William J. Gannon '56 (left) and Fr. Edmund Fr. Yanitelli, by surprise. referred to as "lousy." orie - just in case." G. Ryan S.J. look on approvingly. (J.-sey Pictures)