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The 1954 NCAA Basketball Champs. Page 5

The "lO O'clock .\'ews. "Page 14 STATE-OF-THE-ART

La Salle's nev^ $4.5 million high-tech Communication Center -was dedicatecd on October 8.

"I CAN SEE TOM GOLA NOW"

Robert S. Lyons, Jr., '61, Editor It's been 40 years since La Salle 'won the James J. McDonald, 'S8, Alumni Director NCAA basketball title. It was also a different .All'MNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS '^'orld then, as Bernard McCormick reports. Maria Tucker Cusick, '83, President Joseph H. Cloran, '61, Executive Vice President MEETEVG A COMMUNITY NEED Nicholas J. Lisi, Esq., '62, Vice President James M. Boligilz, '83, Treasurer Health Care Reform is alive and 'well at Elizabeth R. Lochner. '87, Secretary' La Salle's Neighborhood Nursing Center. L\ SALLE (USPS 299-940) is pulMislied quarterly by La Salle Universit>-, 1900 W. Olney Avenue, Philadelphia. PA 19141-1199. for the alumni, students, facul- ty, and friends of the University. Editorial and business FAMILY PRACTICE WITH A offices are located at the News Bureau, La Salle Liniversitv. Philadelphia. PA 19141-1199. Changes of address should be PERSONALITY sent at least 30 days prior to publication of issue with which it is to take effect to the Alumni Office. La Salle University, As a physician and a journalist, Brian 1900 W. Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199. McDonough has the best bedside manner in POSTMASTER: send change of address to office listed above. broadcasting. A profile by Frank Bilovsky. Member of the Council for the Advancement and Suppon of Education (CASE).

DESIGN AND ILLUSTRA'HON: Blake+Barancik Design AROUND CAMPUS PHOTOGRAPITi': Kelly *t Massa La Salle recently established a unique Center FRONT COVER: La Salle's new Communication for ComniLinity Learning, honored an a'ward- Center was dedicated on Oct. 6 and blessed by Philadelphia's Auxilian,' Bishop Edward P. Cullen 'uinning TV docLimentary host at its Fall (second from right). Also participating were Thomas Convocation, and is participating in the Curiev. (second from left), president and publisher of USA TODAY; La Salle's Brother President Jaseph F, NCAA's Certification Program. Burke (right), and Brother Gerard Molyneaux. chair- man of the university's Communication Department.

BACK COVER: The Explorers' 1980 Division II ALUMNI NOTES national championship field hockey team became only the third La Salle team inducted into the Alumni Hall Jim McDonald has announced that he will of Athletes on Oct. 7. Those attending the ceremonies retire after 34 years as Alumni Director. were: Back Row (from left to right): Bariiara McGugan, Elizabeth Crawford. Helen Near>-, Kelly 'Walker, Joan Also, the quarterly chronicle of some signifi- Ferrari, Cindy Ambruoso, and Laura Frieze. Middle cant events in the lives of La Salle's alumni. Row: .\lar\- Kai.ser. Liz McCabe, Mar\- Traurwein, Sheila Smith. Vicki Smith and Kath>' McGahey. Front Row: Carol 'Weber, Brother President Joseph Burke, Joanne Weber. Alumni Association president Maria Cusick. and Nancy Richards. The only other teams in the Hall are the 1954 men's NCAA basketball champions and the Vail titlists. 1957 Dad crew Volume 39 / Number 1 LA SALLE WINTER 1994-95 JUn ^

"A Milestone in tlie

Dawning of tlie

Information Age"

La Salle's New High- Tech Communication Q Center Opens

Salle dedicated its new Lastate-of-the-art Communica- tion Center on its South Campus in ceremonies on October 8.

Philadelphia Auxiliary Bishop Edward P. Cullen, D.D., 71 M.A., blessed the facility that was renovated at the cost

of $4.5 million and is housed in the former classroom building of the property purchased from the Sisters of

St. Basil the Great in 1989. A student lounge was also dedicated in memory of the late Gregg Argenziano, a senior Bishop Cullen blesses the new communication major from Wells, Comiviinicatioii Center. Maine, who died suddenly last year.

WINTER 1994-95 page 1 Sliicleiils at work in the Audio and T\' Studios: The Communi-

catio)i Center is the first hiiild-

i)i}i at La Salle to house only one

(icadenu'c discipline. It consoli- dates equipment, offices, and studio space origincdly housed

i)i Olnev Hall cnid St. Cassian Residence Hall into one com- plete. stand-alo)ie facilitv-

Thomas Cuiiey, 70, president and women have graduated since the publisher of USA TODAY was the program was introduced in 1974. featured speaker at the event. The uni\'ersity also began offering a master of arts degree program in La Salle's Communication Center professional communication last includes the latest high-tech TV and September. audio studios and control rooms \\ith sophisticated "non-linear" In his keynote address, Cudey editing facilities, as well as three described his tenure as editor of the traditional classrooms, two small Collegian during his undergraduate seminar rooms, two larger confer- days at La Salle in the late 1960s as C ence/presentation rooms containing an "extraordinary time" to enter the multi-media and computer equip- communications field. ment, editing and screening rooms for audio, video, and film, 14 "What an era," he recalled. "Civil faculty and administrative offices, rights, women's rights, faculty and the Argenziano Student rights, student protests, an unde- Lounge. clared war tore apart a nation and

undermined its economy. A bitter Some 300 undergraduates are cold war consumed other resources majoring in communication at and altered our values. La Salle and another ^9S men and

page 2 LA SALLE Brothers Joseph Burke Heft) and Gerard Molyneciit.x took care of rihhou-ciittiiig duties during a special student celebration for comnuinication majors on Sept. 8 that wasfollowed by refresh- iiieuts at the Gazebo on the South Campus.

"And La Salle was in the thick of it. A president was changed after student protests. A basketball season was played under the cloud of probation. Black students formed a union and made demands. Others recoiled. Long hairs didn't trust short hairs. And how was the campus to be prepared for women?

"The moment was one of foment—breaking rules, challenging authority, and experimenting. Who could imagine a more

intoxicating time to be in the communications field. 1 think those of you here today can and you've demonstrated your \ision in developing this state-of-the-art Communication Center.

"Two thousand years ago. more or Calling La Salle's Communication Center a "milestone in the

less, a young radical declared to dawning of the information age," Curley emphasized that such his disciples. 'We truth shall make a high-tech facility is necessary to help prepare students for you free, "said Ihomas Curley. in the revolution ahead. his remarks. "We gather to dedi- cate La Salle's milestone in the "And what a revolution it will be," he said, adding that the dainung of the information age. media is the chief beneficiary of this information age culture.

but our greater celebration is over the eternal truth instilled in a La "The public," he explained, "is showing e\er-growing interest " Sctllian culture. in the u-orlcl, both its promise and its problems. Yet the public is rebelling against ne^s that is trixialized into sound bites of crime and \iolence. against \i\id imagen' of lires and an

WINTER 1994-95 page 3 (.oDiDiiiiiicatloii professor Sic/ncy

/ MacLeod. Jr. (ri^ht). who spent the past year pki)uii)ig and clcivlopini> the )ieuiy-re)iorated facility, nas presented with a L(inu}iei)ioratire phiciitc hy Brother Molytieaiix during the dedication ceremonies.

Wefamily of the late Gregg Argenziano poses outside the stndetit lounge dedicated in his honor.

unending stream of victims. The than these disciplines, we must lead in information age must amount to will—the will to stand up for what's more than a dysfunctional stream of right and to ask the tough questions. news columns and broadcasts over- flowing with crises from anyu'here "You who enter the halls of communi- without perspective. And our emerg- cations are a special bunch. My o%An ing wired world of flashpoints, truth time here at La Salle proved this is an

is our only hope and our greatest ideal place to learn to develop skills of o challenge. communications because La Salle first nurtures the values necessary to suc- "And no place on earth offers greater ceed in communications. That these

opportunity to get it right at this \alues are now enshrined in a state-of-

moment than here in the USA. We the-art home is the kind of growth that are not at the last gasp of the Ameri- delights anyone with a La Salle degree.

can century but at the dawn of its I'm especially proud to be a part of it revitalization. We lead in all the key and to ha\e my degree from here and skills that are necessary in this era to join in this tremendous ceremony on including telecommimications, this special day." networking, and software. But more

page 4 LA SALLE "I Can See Tom Gola Now..." THE YEAR THE EXPLORERS WON THE NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

1953-1954 N.C. A. A. CHAMPIONS ^±:^

By Bernard McCormick, '58

Larry King had finished his nationally-syndicated TV show and had driven in a Lincoln Town Car across the Potomac to the radio studio where he does a two-hour show each night. This is his unwinding time, when he relaxes and kids around with callers, revealing an encyclo- pedic memory, especially for sports.

During a commercial break he asked a reporter from Florida who was following him around that day where he had gone to school. The reporter said La Salle.

"I can see Tom Gola now," Larry King said instantly. He looked into the distance, earphones on his head, eyes open but not seemg anything near him in the dark studio, seeing 40 years ago when he was a young man in

Brooklyn. "La Salle wore sleeves on their uniforms. I can see Tom Gola in that uniform in the Garden. What a ball player."

WINTER 1994-95 page > Larry King is unusual today, for he "That was a time when you stayed received less attention, at least can see a ball player and a team at home," recalled Tom Gola last attention outside their own town. that both outdressed and out- month. "The team I played on as Locally, they were huge heros. In classed its opposition. He remem- a freshman was all from the basketball, none had been bigger bered that just a few years ago, in Philadelphia Public and Catholic than Gola. Many schools were an era where increasingly, when Leagues. Wilt Chamberlain was after him. Southern schools in somebody mentions La Salle the first one to leave town." particular lacked home grown basketball, people are pressed to talent and were noticing a rich lode remember... "What was his name?" Today, of course, it is hard to keep in New York and Philadelphia. they ask. "Lionel something." a blue chip athlete in his home

territory, be it Philadelphia or "Actually, I pretty much had But for those who were at La Salle Dallas. Kids like to go away for decided on North Carolina State," or anywhere around big time college, and for athletes there is Gola said last month. "I made one basketball in the early 1950s, Tom the romance of Notre Dame foot- trip with my father, then another Gola in those sleeves cannot be ball or Duke basketball or the with O'bie (Charles O'Brien, forgotten, no more than more excitement of Miami or the west La Salle High Coach). And some- recent fans will forget Larry Bird coast. But in the early 1950s body from NC State came up here. popping a jumper in Celtics green recruiting was not as intense, and But each time the offer was differ- (or Indiana State light blue), or Dr. J TV exposure was limited. And in ent. I began to say, what's going soaring toward the backboard with terms of college basketball, there on here? And O'bie finally said, 'I arm held high, ball in palm, waiting wasn't much bigger time than think you better stay right here at for the basket to get up to his level. Philadelphia. The Big Five wasn't La Salle.' a formal arrangement yet, but local The reality, however, is that for teams played each other and "I had never even met Kenny most people, the era of Tom Gola anyone who didn't see one of the Loeffler (La Salle's coach at the and La Salle's 1954 NCAA champi- Palestra or Convention Hall time). The man who actually ons, who wore those classy jerseys doubleheaders—too bad. All the recruited me was Brother with sleeves, is beyond their Philadelphia schools were big Stanislaus." memory. And what is beyond basketball names. anyone's memory, now and forever, E. Stanislaus Duzy, F.S.C., was is ancient history. To them it is like La Salle was a day-hop school. La Salle College's president from our generation hearing uncles There were no residence halls. 1952 to 1958, a worldly Brother talking about the McNichol broth- Some upstate students rented who appreciated the promotional ers playing for Penn in the 1920s or rooms near campus. The old 26 value of good athletics. And when the day Marty Brill came home trolley car unloaded hordes of Tom Gola chose La Salle, he picked with Notre Dame and ran all over youngsters carrying books by day, a school that had already partici- Franklin Field. Very far away and a and older students by night. More pated in the NIT tournament and different world. The Civil War. than a few walked to the school, had produced a recent All-America having grown up in the half dozen in Larry Foust. In fact, it was a different world. It parishes surrounding 20th and was a of world when most the Olney. The high school and "When I was in high school I went players on a national championship college campuses were one, so the over to New York to see La Salle in team came from the same city, mix was distinctly heterogeneous. the NIT," says Gola. "I stayed in three of them just walking across Fresh faced 14-year-old high the hotel room with Ace McCann the campus from La Salle High school freshmen strode among and Larry Foust." School. And all but a few of those Korean war vets, some of them in players were white (and the 30s, taking advantage of the La Salle already had big stars, and La Salle was among the first GI bill. Two of the players on the in Dr. Ken Loeffler it had a very big schools to have prominent black national championship team were time coach. Loeffler was a Ph.D., a athletes). It was a world where vets. professorial, sophisticated, witty, fully one-guarter of La Salle's often profane man who was among students, all men at the time, were Gola, a business executive with the best in the business. He was veterans, many of whom were offices in Montgomery County, entertainingly guotable. After a married with kids and who worked remembers that he almost didn't La Salle loss in North Carolina, he jobs at night to support their stay home. At La Salle High he called it "the greatest steal since families. achieved a national reputation at a the Louisiana Purchase." His time when high school athletes record at La Salle from 1949 to 1955 page 6 LA SALLE ne 1954 NCAA basketball champions rettinieci t

was .829 - spectacular anywhere, young player that the next time he 6. His quickness was more than any time. The four years Gola had an urge to throw a behind- basketball speed, fast hands, and played contributed a lot to that the-back pass, hold the ball up half moves. He was Philadelphia's 440 record, but Gola says Loeffler way and shove it you know where. champion and the state 880 cham- contributed a lot himself. pion at La Salle High. Recalls Loeffler's team concept was made teammate O'Malley: "We were the only team in the for Gola's versatile talents. Al- country using a five-man weave," though he set scoring records "I never came across anybody says Gola. "Kenny didn't beheve which lasted until Michael Brooks with quicker hands. He was so big in a pivot man. He used Larry 25 years later, Gola could have and strong and he had those fast Foust as a flash pivot." scored more, but the team might hands. It was almost unfair. On a

not have been as good if he did. fast break he would strip you of "He was a very articulate man," Gola was as valuable passing off the ball. He was really intimidat- remembers Fran O'Malley, a to the open man as he was driving ing in practice." sophomore on the big team. "He to the boards, shooting 10-foot was absolutely outstanding as a jumpers, or lofting arching stabs There was nothing fancy about teacher in practice and a good from 20 feet. Gola. He almost never dunked. game coach. When he wanted to He scored with variety. But it was put you in your place, he did it." Defensively, he still ranks as one his defense that startled. Bill of the greatest in college history, Campbell, who did radio broad- Loeffler used to conduct practices and was all-pro five times, largely casts of the games, used to gag with a megaphone. One day a on defensive ability. His dominant trying to describe Gola's moves. freshman practicing against the rebounding (one record Lionel varsity threw a behind-the-back Simmons never came close to) "On defense, a two on one fast pass, which Gola stole and took made him seem a giant on the break was a mismatch against the other way for a score. Loeffler court, although he turned out to be Tom," remembers O'Malley. stopped play and, speaking accepted in the Army as just a "Three on one was about even." through the megaphone, told the shade under the height limit of 6-

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LA SALLE DAY LA SALLE DAY MONDAY MONDAY

VOLUME XXIV WEDNESDAY. MARCH ^K. 19S4 No. 22 GRAND WELCOME HAILS RETURNING CHAMPIONS

The team, the fans and the trophy pose at Internaltonal Airport after the return from Kansas City Sunday evening. 10,000 Greet Team La Salle Day Proclaimed; At Airport Sunday No Classes on Monday An estimated 10.000 fans were on hand Sunday evening Monday has been declared "LA SALLE DAY" by official proclamation of the Mayor of Philadelphia in recognition of the accomplishments of the Explorers' national champion- at International Airport when the TWA airhner carrying ship team. the proud and happy Explorers back from their victory in The day will be observed at La Salle with the suspension of all classes, the Dean an- Kansas City landed The crowd jammed the terminal nounced today. building and overflowed onto the apron despite efforts of Coach Loeffler, Mr. James Henry, Director of Athletics and the team were officially police to hold them back greeted by Mayor Joseph Clark in After ha.sly greetings and pcsing the mayor's reception room of City for news photographers, the team Cresechendo of Champion Chatter Hall yesterday afternoon. They was convoyed witnessed the signing of the "La to the campus where Father Mark Heath, College among the best In the game. cheers from those present when a rally was in Salle Day" proclamation, held their honor in Chaplain, took odds with the base Loefller left little room for doubt he declared that LfOefTler had not conquered opponents on Gola and the field house. ball manager who once said that when he specifically termed Tom only his Co-captains Tom Gola "the greatest college ball the basketball floor but also the Frank O'Hara accepted a gold seal The greeting and rally capped a nice guys don't win penants when " man whom he 'LoefTleri termed player there is He hailed the vie of the city on behalf of their week of excitement which has been he remarked "We have shown that tory as a team victory and empha "my most worthy opponent" at the unknown to La Salle .since the days teammates. Members of the press, a group of real nice guys did win sized the work of "my Sopho beginning of the season — the radio and television were also pres of the 1952 N.I.T. victory and. In the NCAA championship mores," Dean The Dean was credited by ent to witness the affair. many aspects. surpa.«ed Brother Stanislaus as having given that Mr. Jame.s hailed Ken Both Gola and Frank Flnneean Tom Loefller the opportunity to prove The announcement of a holiday event by far. A smaller but equal O'ilara paid tribute to their coach Loefrier as "The Knutr Rorkne what a great coach he Is was withheld until the date of ly uncer- enthusiastic group of fans of collere basketball." He Joined and their teammates In no Trainer Mario Vetere riftlmed "La Salle Day" had been deter tain terms. ''scortrd the team to the airport the others guests at the rally In that La Salle, "the little college on mined in order that the two events

• Conltnufd on Pace eiii hailing the Cxplorer roach as Brother Stanislaus brought (ContinuPd on Paat El|ht> I would coincide.

pagf S LA SALLE Gola invented a move that is still not seem so amazing at the time. about basketball in Philadelphia; rare today. He let opponents drive The 1954 season was, to many, we just thought we were better against him, then reached behind more or less expected. It was than those turkeys from North their backs and stole the ball. He much less of a sports shock than Carolina, Kentucky and New York. did it constantly in college, al- Villanova winning the NCAA in We certainly had them outdressed, though later in the pros the refs 1985. They didn't have as many with our tasteful sleeves. tended to call fouls on that move. national rankings in those years, The style of the era was impassiv- but La Salle would have been in The young team jelled quickly that ity. No high fives or celebrating, the top 10 or close to it throughout season. It had senior co-captain and Gola personified it. He never an eight year period from 1947 to O'Hara's poise and leadership. He changed his style, and in his 1955, during which it won 20 wfent on to a distinguished legal political career that was a liability games or more every season and career. It had Gola's catalytic skill. when, as a Philadelphia mayoral appeared in six post-season And the young sophomores turned candidate, he seemed the same tournaments. out to be ball players after all. way in a debate as he did on the They were a fleet group, and foul line, unemotional, mouth One who was surprised, however, excellent shooters, including the slightly ajar, swish. But on the was Tom Gola. Always known for sixth man, Frank Blatcher, who court, no hype was needed. At his modesty, he doesn't let the was the original "Super Sub." A his best he was blocking shots, years gild his perspective. 24-year-old Navy veteran who whipping accurate passes, picking always seemed to be eating well, pockets, sweeping rebounds, "I always thought our 1953 team Blatcher would come in and fire

scoring every whichway ... and (25-3) was our best," he says, "but away. Fans groaned when he put wearing the best suit in college we ran into St. John's in the first the ball on the floor, and he wasn't basketball to boot. round of the NIT. Jackie Moore always on. But when he was, look didn't play because his mother out. With today's three point shot, Sports Illustrated described had died, and Ken Loeffler sat me he would have registered 15 points La Salle's championship team as down the first half because I had in five minutes. "four students and a basketball been hurt." player, " which perhaps exagger- "Loeffler would use Blatcher when ated the academic stature of La Salle lost, 75-74, and it also lost we faced a zone," says O'Malley, a Gola's teammates as much as it three starters. "With only two recently retired IBM employee

undervalued their athletic talents. starters back the next year, I don't living near Fort Lauderdale, Gola was not a one man team. No think you could expect too much Florida. "Loeffler really wanted Loeffler-coached player was. But from us," Gola says. "There was you to play as a team, but a guy for four years he was the golden O'Hara (Frank "Wacky" O'Hara) like Blatcher would shoot more. boy of college basketball and and myself and three sophomores You wanted him to shoot. I am before it was over, little La Salle, up from the freshman team. And sure Frank missed some shots, but with only about 1600 day stu- that was the year Kentucky had a I don't remember him missing dents, was called "the pride of the lot of fifth year seniors, and they many first shots." East." were ineligible for the NCAA tournament. And Bob Petit's team The team was not as green as it La Salle won the NIT champion- (LSU) got upset early in the tour- seemed. O'Hara and Gola had ship in 1951-52 when Gola was a nament, and we won in the last grown up in adjacent parishes and freshman. La Salle handled second against Fordham in the had played against each other in Dayton in the finals at Madison eastern finals. We were lucky." grade school. Charley Greenberg's Square Garden. That was the grade school team had beaten

time Larry King never forgot. In It did not seem like luck at the Gola's in La Salle High's annual that era the NIT was as presti- time. To those of us at La Salle tournament. Then Gola, O'Hara gious as the NCAA Tournament. High, then located in what is now and Greenberg had played together La Salle was knocked out the Wister Hall, Gola and O'Hara were for several years at La Salle High. following year in the first game of stars we had known for six years, Charhe Singley, out of West Catho- the NIT. The 1953-54 season was watching them in high school lic and another fine outside the NCAA championship year, before they crossed campus. The shooter, had also played against and the following year La Salle same was true for Charles the others in high school and in was runner up in the NCAA to (Munchy) Greenberg, another La summer leagues. Blatcher, al- San Francisco and Bill Russell. Salle High product. There was a though older, was from Strange as it seems today, it did certain community cockiness Philadelphia's Southern High.

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Bob Maples, another veteran of hoopla for the NCAA was start- Jack Ramsay would soon make all the military, was from Illinois. He ing," says O'Malley. "It was too familiar in Philadelphia. Fore- Salle and O'Malley, from upstate Penn- exciting, but not the way it is warned, Loeffler had La sylvania, were relatively unknown today. Today with so many ready for the Nittany Lions. "We but turned out to be fme perform- teams, a lot of teams can win. But beat them 12 points a quarter," ers. On the basis of his three year then there were really only five or says O'Malley. "We knew what career, O'Malley was probably the six teams in the country that had was coming." Final score: 92-54. second best all-round player to a real chance." Gola. At 6-3, he led the team in Back in Philadelphia, all hell did loose. It fair to rebounding after Gola graduated. La Salle almost didn't make it past not break might be Unlike the Lionel Simmons era, the first round. In a game against say the excitement on campus when Simmons was almost always Fordham in Buffalo, the Rams was greater among the young the leading scorer, Gola often proved much tougher than just a high school kids than at the shared scoring honors. In the few weeks before. La Salle won college. La Salle practiced at the championship game against in overtime, 76-74, and although old gym in Wister Hall, and the Bradley, Blatcher and Singley both Gola finished with 28 points, the high school students were used to scored 23 points. But Gola was night is best remembered for the hearing the thud of bouncing there, with 19 points and 19 feed he gave O'Malley to send the basketballs late every afternoon as rebounds. game into overtime at the buzzer. the college team came up the steps from the locker rooms in the La Salle lost three of its first 10 "We called a time out to set up a basement. games that season, including a play," says O'Malley. "Gola was defeat by powerhouse Kentucky supposed to take the last shot It was March, spring. For one- of the on the road. But then it won 14 of from around the foul line. My job fourth the student body — its next 15, the only loss being a was to be under the boards for a vets, married with families — the fact that Salle playing for a one-point heartbreaker to Temple. follow up if he missed. Everybody La was Even in those great years, local in northwestern New York State national basketball championship opponents were always to be knew who was going to get the was interesting, a pleasant dis- respected. ball. The defense went after Gola traction from worries about mak- and left me alone. He went up for ing the next payment on the La Salle had players who were a jump shot, saw me and gave me refrigerator, or picking up formula virtually interchangeable, and the a perfect pass, on my side of the on the way home or doing some- the brakes on the starting lineup varied. "Our basket near the rim. I just thing about very-used '47 There practices were active," says touched it and let it go. Hudson. was O'Malley. "You never knew who not much rah-rah for old La Salle, for the Gipper stuff. would start. We had seven guys It had been a close call, but the win one who played a lot, so we could have next two games, both played in La Salle did not have cheerleaders, up to two guys having bad nights Philadelphia before a friendly much less pretty ones. Many and it could be fixed." crowd, were not. La Salle first students were so preoccupied beat North Carolina State, 88-81, with the serious business of As tournament time approached, for the second time in the season. college that they never even saw a the team seemed to find a groove. Gola and Charlie Singley both basketball game. You could tell by It finished the season with a win scored 26 points, but Gola also their clothes. Mature, sober- over Fordham and convincing had 26 rebounds. The following looking guys wore the same defeats of St. Joseph's and St. night the Explorers destroyed pegged pants and hair styles that Louis. Until that year the NIT, Navy, 64-48, with Gola scoring 22 they had known in high school played at the end of the season in points and pulling down 24 before a trip to Korea changed New York, carried more respect boards. their lives. There was a "colle- than the NCAA, but the balance giate" contingent (absurd term, that one) had picked up the was changing. The Explorers It was on to Kansas City. At this who were "ordered" to compete in the point La Salle was a favorite, for styles of the Ivy League—white NCAA by tournament officials the other three survivors were all bucks, khaki pants, sweaters, although the La Salle administra- surprises. Penn State, introducing crew cuts. The preppy look, we tion would have preferred the NIT. a zone press, had knocked off LSU would say today. But for the most and Notre Dame, both of whom part it was a blue collar school and "It was just about the time the big were unnerved by a defense that a blue collar team, but there was a page 10 LA SALLE Tom Gold iveiit on to lead the Philadelphia Warriors to the National Basketball Association chaiiipionsahip in 1955-56 and starred hi the XBA for ten years.

silent pride of neighborhood. This was no 35,000 student campus. It was a postage stamp in a big city and these fellows on the team were not people you saw occasion- ally. You bumped into them four times a day. And before he left campus, Frank Blatcher would take such an intense personal interest in his classmates domestic situations that he sold many of them life insurance.

The two previous years, when La Salle was in the NIT in New York, students had taken over the Taft Hotel near Madison Square Garden.

"There was tremendous support Illinois. All over the country men tiny rural school beat the big boys for La Salle in New York," says who had met personable Frank for a state championship. Bob Vetrone, the university's Blatcher in the Navy watched his assistant sports information moment of fame. The final score And yet it could have happened director who covered college ball was 92-76. again. The 1969 team which Tom for the old Philadelphia Bulletin. Gola coached and had a 23-1 "But not out at Kansas City. Only "We set a record for points in that record and was ranked second to a few made that trip. It was game that lasted for a long time," UCLA, had the stuff to go all the exciting, but not one-tenth the recalls Gola. "If you look at the way, had it not been ineligible for hysteria there would be today." film and see where the shots came post season play for problems from, there were a lot of three- caused by the previous coach. Those handful who made the trip pointers. With today's rule we saw La Salle's great moment of would have been over 100 points." And Lionel Simmons' senior year glory. Both teams were hot in the was one in which many thought first half, m what for the times Blink. Forty years have passed. It La Salle could make the final four. was a high scoring game. Bradley is the same amount of time that Perhaps some fine day, with the led at intermission, 43-42. But in separated the battle of right combination of players, that the third quarter (games were Gettysburg, where men rode one superb athlete who makes all played by quarters then) La Salle horses, and the founding of around him rise to the occasion, exploded. Singley and Blatcher hit La Salle, both in 1863 from the first with excellent coaching, and a long shots, the team ran well and flight of the Wright brothers in little bit of luck. Gola controlled the boards. La 1903. La Salle today is half Salle scored 30 points in the women. In the early 1960s the ...And it wouldn't hurt to put the quarter to enter the fmal 10 min- school gave up the sleeves on the sleeve back on the uniforms. utes with a 15-point lead. Back in uniforms and started looking like Philadelphia a city watched the everybody else. The campus is first nationally-televised NCAA vastly enlarged, although the championship game. They university's male enrollment is no Mr. McCormick is editor and watched in Carbondale, Pennsyl- bigger. With the years, the glory publisher of Gold Coast, the vania, where O'Malley grew up. of 1954 gains in stature. Almost magazine of South Florida Life, They watched m Bob Maples' like in the film Hoosiers, when a and a prominent free lance writer.

WINTER 1994-95 page 11 Health Care Reform is Alive and Well at La Salle's Neighborhood Ntirsing Center

phia, however, there is a place for each of these people to turn: La Salle University's Neighborhood Nursing Center, one of the few university-based neighborhood nursing centers in the nation.

La Salle's Nursing Center is a nurse managed center offering primary care, health promotion, disease prevention services, home visiting, case manage-

ment and outreach to its urban neigh- bors. The Nursing Center has two locations, one on the university's campus and the other at the nearby Public Health nurse Germantown '^'^'CA. Sban»i Starr checks the height aiul weight of 5- At this time the Center is funded mostly year-old Brittany by financial grants and .service con-

Biickuor at La Salle 's tracts, although fees and donations are

Neighborhood Nursing accepted. It is staffed by a public health Center^ nurse, pediatric nurse practitioner, family nurse practitioner, women's health practitioner, and nursing stu- dents.

By Rosalie Lombardo Maureen is a single mother of According to Patricia Gerrity, Ph.D., two with little money and no R.N., the Center's director, La Salle's

healthcare insurance. Bill is Neighborhood Nursing Center is simply retired. li\ing on a fixed income and "Nurses meeting the health needs of taking medication for cancer treatment. communities."

Anessa is a three year old with chronic Gerrit>' says that despite the current

asthma. Catherine is pregnant with no debate. Health Care Reform is not dead.

husband, no job and an alcohol abuse "Look, we're doing it, " she explained. problem. "The things that are indeed proposed in

health care reform, and looking at it All these people have one thing in based on community needs and the common, a need for continucuis. best proN'ider to meet those needs, and

quality health care. None of them all that stuff, well here's a prime ex-

know where or how to get it. ample. It's alive and well with us. In the northwest section of Philadel- W'e ser\'ice the working poor.

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Kay Kiiisey (right), acliuinistraldrofthe Meighborhouci Nursing Center's Home Visiting Program, discusses the

IkilJiL's First " Program

iviti} Jossette Pistoria.

"We do prenatal care, but we don't ignore the health needs of the family that we meet. We give primary care for adults and children, we give sick care, immunizations, well care. We've been asked to develop home visits for people with chronic ill- nesses, diabetes, asthma, sickle cell, lead poisoning."

The Center also provides community consultation in schools. La Salle's nursing students work with adoles- cent girls in the high schools who have reproductive questions and/or Pennsylvania's Maternal and Child "We will get a prenatal substance are pregnant and need prenatal care. Health Services Block Grant, the abuse counselor and a community will with They do health promotion programs Babies First grants will go to health outreach worker who work organizations to encourage women in the elementary schools and fill in care providers, community agencies for the private Christian schools in and city and county health depart- to go for health care and keep their the area that don't use school nurses. ments over two years. babies in health care.

The Nursing Center's Home Visiting Recognizing that social, cultural, Since its inception in 1991 that has Program operates for 12 months a economic and educational factors been the basic focus of the La Salle's Neighborhood Nursing Center, to year which is unique because it underlie the accessibility and utiliza- health for doesn't close down at the end of the tion of health care services, the provide care pregnant academic year. During home visits commonwealth's Health women and children, hi the three registered nurses and community Department's Bureau of Maternal and years of its existence it has grown to health workers provide care for Child Health designed Babies First so include adults, families and anyone mother's to be, new mothers and that local and regional agencies in need of health care. babies up to 18 months. could shape and develop health care The Center and all those connected delivery to fit their own imique "We have physician ccMisultants from situations. \\ ith it have dedicated themselves to the Medical College of Pennsylvania, sening the commimity whether at a doctor in ambulator^' pediatrics and "We will be targeting pregnant one of its sites, on the streets or in a one in family practice," Gerrit)' women who abuse substances such client's home. Until the time comes continued. "They come to the Center as cigarettes, crack/cocaine and when the need for their sen ices is eliminated they will continue to do once a month and they're available alcohol, " explained Kay Kinsey, what they do best, meet the health to us if a patient needs to be admit- Ph.D., R.N., who will administer the ted to the hospital." Babies First Grant for La Salle's needs of the community in whatever Nursing Center. "Through the grant way necessary. The Center was recently chosen as we will be able to offer direct, in one of just 21 centers statewide and home senices, as well as coordinate Rosalie Lombardo is the associate three in Philadelphia to receive a with existing activities of the Nursing director of the uni\ersity's News Babies First Grant. Funded through Center. Bureau.

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pAiviily PnACjicE Wiih A PersonaUty As a Physician and Journalist, Brian McDonough Has the Best Bedside Manner in Broadcasting

By Fniiik Bi/orsky, '62

Di\ Brian McDoiioiii>b displays his tiro ivfiioiial Hniniys and new hook in his office at St. Francis Hospital, where is practicing physician and associate director of the Family Practice Residency Program.

B rian McDonough, television balls in the air as this 36-year-old Thursday? Piece of fat free, cholesterol personality, politely excused himself. It member of the Class of 1980. His free cake —7 A.M. to 5 P.M. at St. was after 9 P.M. on an autumn Friday schedule reads like something the Francis. night in an office at Philadelphia's government told Henry Ford he had to Friday is a repeat of Tuesday. And then WTXF-TV and someone in the news- stop doing about eight decades ago. there are some book signings to attend, room needed him. He said he'd be back Monday is easy. McDonough sees medical reports to tape for Philadelphia's in a minute. And he was— laughing patients for ten hours at his family KYW Newsradio and Group W radio and about it. practice at St. Francis Hospital in programs to tape for his Health Talk Wilmington, Del.

"They couldn't read something I had America show for Temple's radio station, written," he said. Presumably they had You can get your dry cleaning done WRTI. "I'm on call only one of every

to call him because there didn't happen before he finishes his Tuesday. Back at four weekends, so I have three of four to be a pharmacist on the newsroom the hospital at 7 A.M., out of there at weekends free," he says, sounding

floor at the time. After all, Brian noon and on his way to WTXF, an hour's almost apologetic.

McDonough, television personality, is drive away. He's at the station by 2:30 "They are long days, but the Monday also Brian McDonough, M.D. And P.M. to prepare his segment for The Ten and Thursday nights that are free makes everybody knows doctors can't write. O'clock News, where he is the medical you more directed at family - doing reporter. He doesn't leave until 1 1 But hold on! This one can. He's also things and having fun. My schedule is getting home to Chadds Ford by mid- Brian McDonough, book author. comparable to a doctor's schedule." night. Not only that, he's Brian McDonough, Not many people are comparable to Dr. "Wednesday is my Temple day," he medical school administrator. And Brian McDonough. Not many students says. That's because in October he took Brian McDonough, radio talk show take a dual major in such seemingly a position as assistant vice chairman of host. And Brian McDonough, radio unrelated disciplines as biology and family practice at the Temple University medical reporter. And Brian English. For residents of the Delaware School of Medicine, his alma mater. McDonough, family practitioner. And Valley, he's nearly omnipresent. If He's at Temple from 7 in the morning Brian McDonough, family man. you're not catching him on your family until 2 in the afternoon, then hustles room television at night, you're listening Sharkey the Seal should have as many over to the TV station and stays until 1 1 page 1) LA SALLE to him on your car radio in the daytime. which sells for $27.95 and was pub- real creative, real imaginative. That's He's in the Poconos, at the Jersey shore. lished by Temple University Press this the other side of the brain. But Brian And don't get the idea that you're going autumn, McDonough thanks four always used the two of them together. to escape him at 33,000 feet because people who had huge influences on his "He would rather have everybody he's the feature host for USAir's in-flight decision to pursue careers in medicine saying that he is Mr. Personality and programming. and journalism/communications. One that he's a real quick learn and then he was Seydow. Not that anyone wants to escape from moves on to other things - the kind of

Brian McDonough. He's your next "He was the first one to say you can be electric person who is touching A, B, C, door neighbor, leaning on the back both a broadcaster and a doctor," D,, and E. But behind the scenes there fence on a lazy Saturday morning. McDonough remembered. is somebody who put in lots and lots of Except he never borrows the lawn hours of work." Seydow said it after teaching sopho- mower and forgets to return it. more McDonough a class in American McDonough pleads guilty, but quickly He has been described by broadcasting Dreams, American Nightmares. And reminds that the hard work was limited executives as having "the best bedside after observing McDonough's creativity to the science side of the brain. manner in broadcasting" and as being in blue. "I could do English better," he says. "I "a doctor who understands journalism "I have always maintained that if a could read the book and get a 98 in the ... no slick TV personality (but) your course is well-taught, good students will course. So I would read the English friendly family doctor." be able to anticipate what is going to be book for relaxation, then study seven

He also is the proud possessor of in the examination," Seydow said. "It is hours of chemistry. To get the A in bookend regional Emmy awards for incumbent upon them to do some organic chemistry might have taken 30 separate TV series he did on cancer in preparation - not memorization, but times the amount of time. The English

1991 and 1994. In 1991, he also won pulling some things together, sort of just came naturally. I was always able the prestigious Jules Bergman Award for anticipating questions. to write, but the science came hard." "Medical National Physician of the "I gave a test in which there was a Somewhere in between was the tennis. Year" from the National Association of question about Benjamin Franklin. I McDonough was the captain of the Physician Broadcasters. - open up this blue book I read them all La Salle tennis team in 1980. He And despite his hectic schedule, he blind - and there is a penny Scotch- wanted to go to England as a Rhodes makes sure that 3-year old Ashleen and taped to the first page. Written in big Scholar to study the effects of the British 14-month-old Brian know they have a script is, 'A penny saved is a penny Romantics on the writings of Nathaniel daddy. And that Diane McDonough earned.' He was right on top of a Hawthorne. He missed the final cut knows she has a husband. And that question that I asked about Benjamin and went to medical school instead. others know they have a friend. Franklin and the American Dream, And continued wondering why for a tying it in with some of the earlier "This is a person who, if gratitude is the long time. literature that we had done in the memory of the heart, then he is a course. He had no thoughts of becoming a person who is full of gratitude," says Dr. doctor when he was attending Arch- John J. Seydow, the La Salle professor "It wasn't just clever. He had studied bishop Carroll High School in Radnor, who taught McDonough two English for that test in a special way, so that he Pa. But when he won a scholarship to courses in his undergraduate days. knew what was coming. And then he La Salle, he found out the award was came in with a kind of creative re- "Since I have known Brian, he has been $2,500 for a science major and $ 1 00 sponse that set the whole thing up." saying thank you to people," Seydow less for a liberal arts major. He opted Right there, Jack Seydow knew that went on. "As busy as he is, he would for the bigger payoff while still leaning Brian McDonough was something call me on the phone every three toward English. special. months, just to chat. He is somebody "Then as now. La Salle was a major who really works to keep these relation- "A lot of us tend to think that people pre-med school," he said. "Surrounded ships alive." who are real disciplined, real rigorous, by all those people who just wanted to are the sort of people who are working In the forward of his book Talking become doctors and were fighting for with one side of the brain," Seydow Health With Dr. Brian McDonough, A's in classes and just being competi- said. "Then we have the group who are tive, I started trying to do better than

WINTER 1994-95 page It them in tests. When I got out of that

first year 1 had all A's and people in the

department were telling me I was going to be able to get into medical school.

"But really, until I was a sophomore in

medical school, I really question why I

did it. My junior year I started to see

patients and talk with them and then it became a whole lot of fun. That was Dr. McDonough. shown on the set at Channel 29. was more the communications side of me also the iiational medical analystfor NBC radio during the 1992 Olympics. coming out. And it's been great fun since then."

In his first years of residency at St. Francis, McDonough put both sides of his brain to good use. He sold his more expendable on television or "I think big things potentially that are communication skills to WHYY-TV radio." He admits that a decade from going to come down the road, major (Channel 12), which had its studios a now, television may be expendable for career decisions. And I'm going to block away, for two medical broadcasts him. have to constantly think of my family a week. The price was a bargain for the and how it would interact on them first. TV station: nothing. The training was a "I'll definitely be practicing," he says, solid investment for him. looking 10 years ahead. "I'll definitely "The 30-year-old man jumps at any

be doing radio. But I think television is opportunity. A 40-year-old man? I'm He's still using both sides now. He going to go through a metamorphosis. going to have to ask myself where does communicates medical information to If it stays the way it is, with responsible it fit in and what do I want to do with it. tens of thousands at a time. But then he journalists and good reporting, I think I It'll be a great position to be in because goes back to St. Francis and imparts his could still be doing it. If it turns more it's nice to have the capability to make knowledge and expertise one-on-one. tabloid, which I think it is, the role of a choices."

Which is more rewarding, passing on doctor will be minimized because your While McDonough isn't sure what he potential life-saving information to credibility is going to be challenged. will be, his old professor knows exactly millions on his national radio snippets "Right now I'm really lucky. The what he won't be. or saving one patient? station I work for is committed to doing "He is absolutely incapable of being a "I would have to say saving one things accurately. They are committed snob," John Seydow says. "There is not person," McDonough said. "Really, to doing it right and always thinking of a pretentious bone in his body." either one can be replaced. Someone the long-term effects." Nor a dominant side in his l")rain. else can save a person as well as I can, He sees his future challenge as one of and someone else can inform a million adjustments. people if they are a public spokesper- "You fight really hard to get to the point Mr. Bilovsky is a business writer and son. But I know there are times when I columnist for the Rochester Democrat do something on a one-on-one level where people offer you things, which is Chronicle that other doctors may not have been what the last 10 years were," he says. and and Times-Union and co-author of the New Phillies Encyclo- able to do. The experiences of all your "I have a feeling the next 10 years are going to be picking and choosing pedia, which is still one of the hottest- life make you make a diagnosis, but I selling books in the Philadelphia area think on television a lot of people can what's appropriate for me and I think keeping family foremost in my mind despite the fact that baseball hasn't do what I do. There are a lot better my selling for a while. communicators out there. And yoLJ are is going to be the big issue. been

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La Salle Establishes Unique Center for Community Learning

Rosemaiy Barbera (right) meets irith stiide)it volunteer leaders at the Ccimpiis Ministry.

Lki Salle University has established a Center Some 700 of La Salle's 2,800 full-time students for Community Learning to coordinate its devoted an estimated 1,500 hours of volunteer nuilti-taceted community sei^vice endeavors sen'ice last year as did a significant number of and encourage all of its students to partici- faculty, staff, and graduate students. pate in such activities, it was announced by Brother Joseph F. Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D., the The center's initial funding was provided by an university's president. $80,500 "Learn and Sen-e America" grant an- nounced by the Clinton Administration last June.

La Salle's center is believed to be the first of La Salle vvas one of only 65 colleges and uni\'er- its kind sponsored by a Philadelphia area sities selected from among -i25 applicants nation- college or university that will aggressively ally for the a\\ard which is designed to give integrate community senice across all disci- students the opportunity to apply academic plines in the academic curriculum and co- training and real world experiences to commu- curricular programs. nity problem-solving.

Although N'olunteer seivice will not be "Other campuses ha\e "passive' volunteer offices required of all students, said Brother Burke, \^ here students can learn about various projects." "we would like to essentially guarantee to explained Brother Burke. "But we're thinking of ourselves that eveiy member of the 1996-97 a much more 'pro-active,' infiltrating role for this freshman class will have been exposed to center. 'We want to make sure that all students some kind of a community ser\'ice experience and faculty' are immediately aware of all commu- in or out of the classroom by the time they nity services options a\'ailable to them. graduate. The faculty will be strongly en- couraged to include this component in their Roseman" Barbera, who has coordinated most of courses." ( co>itiuiie(i f)i! pnge IHl

1" WINTER 1994-95 page " I» und (CENTER—continued ) First Bucs Scholarship the stutlent coinnuinity outreach through La Salle's Campus Ministr>- since 1991, was appointed Recipient Selected director of the center.

Initiall)'. Barbera said, the focus will be at three neigh- borhood locations—tutoring and mentoring at Francis Pastorius School, conducting a needs assessment at Inn

D\\ elling Transitional Housing which is part of St. Vincents Roman Catholic Church in Germantown. and at La Salle's Neighborhood Nursing Center where non- nursing students are also assisting in various services offered to community residents.

La Salle has an "impressive track record of sendee to the community," according to Barbera. 'Volunteer activities sponsored by various student organizations include tutoring and organizing after-school acti\'ities for young children, teaching mathematics, English, or literacy to prisoners, working at AIDS hospices, ccmducting swim- IVristen Lease (center), a resident of Roebling, N.J., ming therapy at "SX-'idener Memorial School, and feeding stands with Florence Mayor George Sampson and the homeless. .Mrs. Elsie Bucs after being named recipient of the

first George J. Bucs Scholarship at La Salle. Lease is A number of La Salle professors have included commu- a freshman at the university, majoring in education nity ser\ace components into their academic disciplines. and preparing herself to teach the mentally and university's nursing students The conduct immunization physically handicapped. clinics; accounting students offer free income tax coun- seling, serve and criminal justice majors internships with The scholarship is earmarked for a La Salle Univer- such agencies as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tax, and sity student living in Florence Tt:)wnship to serve as a Firearms, Philadelphia Medical Examiner, and District living memorial to the late George Bucs, a resident Attorney's offices, among others. Barbera teaches a of Roebling for more than 80 years who was instru- course in the Religion Department entitled "Justice and mental in the growth and development of the com- Community Service. munity.

Last year, 43 La Salle .students made the traditional .Mrs. Bucs is the widow of George J. Bucs. annual spring break trip to the impoverished Appalachia The scht^larship was established by Roger G. Bucs, area of 'West 'Virginia to help rehabilitate houses. An- M.D., '64, and Thomas R. Burke, '60, the .son and son-in-law, respectively, of George and other 12 undergraduates are raising funds to visit Chile ^^ Bucs. to ^eatherize homes and distrii)ute eye glasses during Elsie ^H Christmas \acaticjn. La Salle also offers five grants every year to incoming freshmen who have demonstrated a Senator Paul Simon commitment to community ser\ice. to Keynote La Salle

According to Barbera, community service is a crucial Conference on Violence element in the educational experience of students.

Senator Paul Simon (D-lll.) v/ill be the keynote "Students are constantly coming up to me and saying. 'I speaker at a major all-day conference on violence understand what I'm learning so much better. I under- which will be sponsored by La Salle, on campus, stand psychology, sociology, economics because of from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. on April 20. Dr. Laura working with homeless people. I understand dynamics Otten, director of the university's Criminal Justice ol interpersonal relationships and tutoring children who Program, is coordinating the conference that will

I would never have tutored before.' focus on "The Media and Violence," "Religion and Violence," "A Town Meeting on Violence," and "It's all part of their education. U just doesn't take ^^ "Violence as a Health Epidemic." For further place w ithin the confines of the classroom." ^| information, please call (215) 951 -1118.

page IK LA SALLE Avs^ard-Winning TV Documentary Host Honored at Convocation

Dr. James Burke (center) receives hoiiomry doctorate o/hiaiiaiie letters from Brother President Joseph F. Burke 'left) and Dr. Barbara Millard, irho sponsored him for the deforce.

La Salle University honored James Burke, Born in Northern Ireland and educated at Jesus Fh D.. an award-winning TV host, author and College, Oxford, Burke taught at the uni\ ersities educator during the 1994 Fall Honors Convo- of Bologna and Urbino, Italy before moving to cation on campus on October 25. London and beginning \A-ork for BBC Tele\1sion. He co-ho.sted a popular weekly science maga- La Salle's Brother President Joseph F. Burke, zine program, served as chief reporter on U.S. F.S.C., Ph.D., presided over the Con\ocation and Russian spaceflight programs and later and presented Burke with an honoraiy doctor hosted his o^\n prime-time weekly science show. of humane letters degree. Burke was spon- sored for his doctorate by Dr. Barbara Millard, He is perhaps best known in the United States dean t)f La Salle's School of Arts and Sciences, for his two highly acclaimed, prize winning, 10 w ho praised him as "a renaissance man and part series, Connections :ind T]:ie Day the Uni- humanist who assures confidence in our future verse Changed, which aired on PBS. by connecting us to our past." Connections, which e.xplored the evolution of During the ceremony Brother Burke also technology and social change, achie\'ed the recognized 584 La Salle Dean's List students, largest audience ever for a documentar)' series in

including 75 from the School of Continuing the LTnited States. It has been broadcast in more

Studies, and 89 from the School of Nursing. than 50 countries and is on the curriculum of some 350 colleges and universities in the coun- In addition, five administrators and faculty- try. A companion book has been a best seller in memliers were honored for 25 years of serv'ice hardback and paperback on both sides of the to the uni\ersity. They were Arthur J. Bangs, Atlantic. F.S.C., Ph.D., a.ssi.stant director of the Coun.sel- ing Center, James Muldoon, F.S.C., Ph.D., In The Day the Universe Changed, Burke exam- associate professor of biology and retired dean ined selected discoveries and innovations that of the School of Arts and Sciences, Norbert have an irrevocable effect on societ\". This series Belzer, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, achieved the highest audience on PBS for the

Gary K. Clabaugh, Ed.D., professor of educa- season it aired. A new series, Connections 2. on tion and P. Sreeni\"asa Rao. Ph.D.. associate the interacti\-e nature of knowledge, is now professor of religion. t continued on page 20)

WINTER 1994-95 page- 19 Ld Salle Participates in NCAA Certification Program

(Bl'RKE —continued ) appearing on the Discov- eiT-Learning Channel.

Burke is also writing a book on the effect of technology on social e\olution, Axemakers of the Twenty-first Ceutiiry. Explorers in action at the Petui Relays: La Salle fields varsity teams in 11 men's and 11 women's spoils and had the nation's fifth highest gradua-

' A'ariously described as tion rate among Division I schools with a 94% graduation rate, accord- witty, wise, enthusiastic. ing to the latest NCAA figures. creati\'e. and brilliant.

James Burke is a living la Salle has begun a year-long, embodiment of the L A member of the NCAA compliance services campus-wide effort to study its athletics staff visited Oct. 4 for a Emersonian concept of campus on one-day program as part of the NCAA Division I orientation meeting with the university's Man Thinking," said Dr. athletics certification program, it was self-study committee members. .Millard while presenting announced by the university's Brother Burke for his honoran' Brother Sheehy explained that the certifica- President Joseph F. Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D. degree. "James Burke tion program's purpose is to ensure continu- Specific areas to be covered by the holds to the essential ing integrity in an institution's athletics study include academic and financial operations. con\'iction that the raw- integrity, rules compliance, and a material of education is commitment to equity. "It will open up athletics the rest of the knowledge because he has uni\ersity community and to the public," he Academic accreditation is common in broLight all of his amazing added. "Institutions will benefit by increas- colleges and universities. This program talents to bear on the task ing awareness and knowledge of the is the first to focus solely on certifica- of communicating such athletics program campus-w4de, confirming tion of athletics programs. Following a knowledge of the intercon- its strengths and developing plans to pilot project, the NCAA Division I improve in areas of concern." nect-edness of human membership overw^helmingly supported endea\or not only to the program and its standards at the Within each area to be studied by the students in colleges in 50 1993 annual Con\enticm. committee, the program has set standards, countries, but also to called operating principles, which were Brother Edward J. Sheehy, F.S.C.. Ph.D., millions of people world- adopted by the Association to place a vice president of the La Salle University 'measuring stick" upon which all Division I wide. He has done this Corporation and an associate professor members will be evaluated. The university with the energy of true of history, has been named chairman of also will examine how the acti\ities of the commitment and the zeal the .self-study steering committee. ScMiie athletics program relate to the mission and of the gifted educator." (i6 members of the unixersity's faculty, purpose of the institution. staff, alumni, and student body, as well

as personnel from its Athletics De- Once La Salle has concluded its study, an partment, will serve on various external team of reviewers will conduct a subcommittees. three-to-four-dav evaluation visit on cam-

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pus. Tliose reviewers will be peers tee and Fiscal Subcommittee, and ment; Paul V. McNabb, the from other colleges, conference Kathleen McNally, assistant athletic uni\ersity's comptroller; Joseph A. offices and universities. That team director, is on the Steering Commit- Mihalich, assistant coach, men's will report to the NCAA Committee tee and Equity Subcommittee. basketball; Michael Smith, instructor, on Athletics Certification, another communication; Michael A. Sweeder, .Frederick Van Fleteren, associate independent group. The committee director, audio-visual services; professor of philosophy, is serving as will then determine the university's Katherine M, TePas, assistant profes- chairperson of the Governance certification status and announce the sor of religion; D. Zook, C.P.A., Subcommittee. Other members John decision publicly. For institutions assistant professor, accounting; include: Marianne S. Gauss, assistant that fail to conduct a ctjmprehensive Thomas Leonard, a student, and professor of management; David B. self-.study or to correct problems, Cesidio Colasante, a student-athlete. Jones, assistant professor of market- tough sanctions can be imposed. ing; John K. Lyons, director of Kathleen S. McNichol, assistant The three options of certification aquatics/head coach-swimming; professor of finance, is serving as status are: certified, certified with Laura McKenna, director of student chair of the Equity Subcommittee. conditions and not certified. Univer- health services; Brother Gerard Other members include: Charles A. sities/Colleges will have an opportu- Molyneaux, professor of communica- Desnoyers, assistant professor of nity to correct deficient areas. Uni- tion; John J. Rooney, professor of history; Charles F. Echelmeier, F.S.C., versities/Colleges that do not take psychology; Kathleen E. Schrader, director. Campus Ministry; Theopolis corrective actions may be ruled director of student life; John J. Fair, associate professor of history; ineligible for NCAA championships. Sweeder, assistant professor of Jennifer McGowan, graduate assistant education; Kristen Stack, a student, coach, women's basketball; The NCAA is a membership organi- and Richmond Mellendick, a student- zation of colleges and universities Linda Merians, associate professor of athlete. that participate in intercollegiate English; Brother Tri Van Nguyan, athletics. The primaiy purpose of Carole Freeman, assistant professor associate professor of sociology; the Association is to maintain inter- of education, is chairing the Aca- Margaret D. Watson, assistant profes- collegiate athletics as an integral part demic Subcommittee. Other mem- sor of psychology; John Lloyd, of the educational program and the bers include: Brother Arthur J. Bangs, student, and Amy Antonelli, student- athlete as an integral part of the associate professor of education and athlete. student body. Activities of the NCAA assistant director of counseling John J. French, '53. former president membership include formulating center; Henry A. Bart, associate of the Alumni Association and a rules of play for NCAA sports, professor of geology and physics; member of the varsity basketball conducing national championships, David Falcone, associate professor J. team during his college days, is adopting and enforcing standards of of psychology; Joseph E. Gillespie, serving on the Governance and eligibility, and studying all phases of director of academic support services Equity Subcommittees, intercollegiate athletics. for student athletes; Thomas During the self-study process, copies In addition to Brothers Burke and Lochner, assistant coach for women's of the drafts and reports of the Sheehy and subcommittee chairs, the basketball; Susan E, Mudrick, assis- tant Busine.ss Steering Committee and various Steering Committee is comprised of dean, School of Admin- subcommittees will be available on Alice Hoersch. executive assistant to istration; Robert D. Shurina, assistant reserve in the Connelly Libran,-. All the president; Raymond Heath, vice professor of biology; Charles Torpey, alumni and other members of the president for student affairs; Annette coordinator of outdoor facilities/ La Salle community are invited to O'Connor, assistant professor of head coach of track/cross country; re\iew and comment on the material, biology and faculty athletic represen- Mary Jeanne Welsh, assistant profes- either \erbally or in writing, to tative; Maria Cusick, president of the sor of accounting; Raymond Necci, a Brother Sheehy (Box 201, La Salle .\lumni Association, and Mike student, and Allyson Blue, a student- University, Philadelphia, PA 1914 1 .Melchionni, a .student-athlete. athlete. or other members of the Steering Joseph Y. Ugras, assistant professor Rc^bert Mullen, director of recreation Committee. Dolores Lehr, of the of accounting, is chair of the Fiscal and intercollegiate athletics, is English Department, will edit the Subcommittee. Other members sening on the Steering Committee final report before it is submitted to include: Evelyn B. Cogan, assistant and Governance Subcommittee. the NCAA. Thomas Meier, associate athletic professor of busine.ss law; William J. director, is on the Steerino Commit- Gerzabek. trainer. Athletics Depart-

WINTER 1994-95 page 21 " und

La Salle Hosts ''Wister'' MBA Student Wins Fine Reunion and Names National Black Arts Studio in Honor of MBA Scholarship & Historic Family Hopes to Open Non-Profit School

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Ltiuni HaiUL's Bclnuiii accepts a limited edition James Laiij^ print commemorating the re-naming of the Fine Arts Studio ^m •.\\-:;~?;'.' from Brother President Joseph F. Burke as Dr. James Butler, a professor of English at the university, and Malcolm Wister V*indy Jones, a La Salle University graduate 'right), a descendent of the VC'isters. watch. Butler and Malcolm student, has received a prestigious National W ister were co-chairs of the event Black MBA Association Scholarship and hopes to open a non-profit, private secondary school in a lower socioeconomic area of Lei Salle renamed its Fine Arts Studio in honor of Mary- and North Philadelphia. Jones, who is pursuing a Frances Wister and Brother President Joseph F. Burke, F.S.C.. master's degree in business administration as Ph.D., hosted a reunion dinner for some 40 members and descen- a management major, is one of only 25 dants of the Wister family on October 1, at the Peale House on students nationally to win this S3, 000 scholar- the Belfield Estate portion of the campus. ship. She is also the first La Salle student to be .\ new sign was unveiled at La Salle's Fine Arts Studio on so honored in the 18 year history' of the (^larkson st. by Laura Haines Belman, of Washington, D.C., a great uni\'ersir\''s MBA program. grand-daughter of the first Wisters to live on the Belfield Estate in Jones, who e.xpects to complete her MBA 1H26. Mrs. Belman's father, William Wister Haines, was the author degree in 1995, plans to open a new, not-for- of CommcDul Decisiou. the play, no\el, and later a film starring profit, alternatixe, prixate secondaiy school (;iark Gable, as well as the film. On Wings ofEagles, starring John for appro.ximately 100 ninth grade students in Wayne. Much of the land comprising La Salle's 84 acre campus at North Philadelphia called the "Hope Institute, the edge of Germantown was once owned by the descendants of \^hich she "hopes to change the world one John Wister, a wine merchant who emigrated to America from heart and mind at a time. Germany in 172"'. rhe idea has always been in the back t)f my Mary and Frances Anne Wister were both born at the building head to do something along this line," ex- now housing La Salle's Fine Art Studio which was built in 1868 by plained Jones, adding that the idea "really William Rotch Wister, who later became known as "the father of hatched" wJien she enrolled at La Salle. In .•\merican cricket." fact, she added some marketing courses to .\kir> married her cousin, Owen Wister, the author of The Virgin- her graduate studies to better prepare to ian, which is believed to have been read by more Americans in promote an educational dream that she hopes the first half of the 20th century- than any other work of fiction. to realize by the fall of 1996 at a location still Mary and Owen first met in the building now housing La Salle's to be selected. Fine Arts Studio. Jones is optimistic that the Hope Institute will Frances Anne distinguished herself as one of the founders of the empower students from North Philadelphia to become important leaders in the 21st century. Philadelphia Orchestra and a member of its Board of ^ Directors for a half centuu'. ^B (ciiiiliiiued lilt /uific 2,^i page 22 LA SALLE La Salle Honors Community Leaders & Receives Its Ovs^n Leadership AvN^ard

Mcihcrose Senioii. a La Salle Uiiiuersity senior. receives 1994 Commuiuty Service Awardfrom

Brother PresidentJoseph F. Burke (left J and Herman Grady, chairman of the Urban Center's Advtsoiy Board. Seman. ivho'is niajoring in elementaiy

special education, is a resident assistant at La Salle and has been very active in the university's Commit- tee for the Homeless, Covenant House, University Peers, Week ofHope, and the Councilfor E.xcep- tional Children.

or the past 21 years La Salle Univer- Dr. Mildred Garcia, president of the James Berry, Harriet Carter-Knight, sity has honored area residents for AAUA, presented the prestigious Angel Medina, Re\'. Encarnacion and being leaders in the communiry. On award to Brother President Joseph Bonnie Rosado, and Jane Marazzo. October 14, at the 21st Annual Commu- Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D. and the Urban nity Service Awards Dinner in the Center's Director Mildred Car\'alho. The Community Ser\'ice Awards

Union Ballroom, not only did the Dr. Garcia also served as the dinner's Dinner is sponsored by La Salle's university honor community leaders, keynote speaker. Llrban Studies and Community hut La Salle was also honored for Services Center. All proceeds benefit c( >mmLmity leadership. Since 1973 La Salle has recognized the Urban Center's Adult Learning neighborhood leaders for their Project, which reaches over 250 La Salle's Urban Studies and Com- commitment to improving the com- adults annually. munity Services Center received a 1994 munities in which they live. Particu- Exemplary Model of Administrative larly sought are persons who have Founded in 1967, the overall pur- Leadership Award from the American given unselfishly of themselves to pose of La Salle's Urban Studies

Association of University Administrators make their neighborhood and city a Center is to assist in the physical, (AAUA), for its ^ork fostering partner- more just and safe place to live. social, cultural and economic ships between the university and improvement of nearby neighbor- surrounding commimity. Specifically This year's recipients included: Dr. hoods. The Center also aims to noted was the Urban Center's inter- William King, Aaron Libson, Edward improve interracial understanding generational literacy program Second Campbell, La Salle senior Marierose and cooperation between La Salle Time Around. Semon, Raynard Hughes, Cleo Prince, and its neighbors. H

(JONES — continued)

"We plan to teach students to use their minds well by nant, no education, no common sense - it just didn't make creating a comfortable environment where they can sense to me. From then up until now, I've always had a

learn, by offering personalized attention, and by in\'ol\- desire to give something back to that area, to tr\' to help

ing parents and guardians," she explained. people see that there is life beyond North Philadelphia and the way they exist there." Jones earned her bachelor's "Basically, we're in the beginning stages-JList trying to degree from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, figure out exactly what the students in North Philadel- where she later taught at a junior high school, and her phia need, and how we can best meet their needs," master's degree in mathematics education from the Uni\er- added Jones, who grew up in that area before moving to sity of Georgia. She taught high school math near Atlanta for North Carc^lina where she attended high school. a year and a half and then returned to Philadelphia in 1993

"I lived there for about three years and all I saw around to work as a secretary' for friends who (^•^ned a waste me \\as negatiw." Jones recalled. "People getting preg- removal company. ^H

WINTER 1994-95 page 23 Three Nev\^ Members Elected to University's Board of Trustees

Thiee new members have been Employees International LInion. AFL- elected to La Salle University's CIO. CLC.

Board of Trustees, it was an-

nounced by Brother President Brother Froehlich is a 1978 business Joseph F. Burke. F.S.C., Ph.D. administration graduate of Duquesne University where he majored in man-

They are Michael J. Bergin, '93, agement and minored in sociology. In administrator for facilities at the addition to teaching religion and Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Re- accounting in a number of schools of search Center, a part of the Baltimore Province of the Christian Georgetown University' Children's Brothers, he also has served as a

Medical Center, in "Washington, member of the Finance Committee and Benedict Olirer. F.S.C.

D.C.; Brother Timothy J. Froehlich, District Council. F.S.C., '90 M.A., director of finance of the Christian Brothers' Baltimore From 1991 to last June he worked as an Pro\ince, and Brother Benedict account representative for Christian Oliver. F.S.C., '60 B.A., '61 M.A., Brothers Investment Services, Inc., provincial visitor of the Christian where he obtained his license as a Brothers' Baltimore proxince, who registered investment advisor with rejoins the Board after having NASD. previously served as a trustee from 1989 to 1991. As provincial of the Baltimore district of

the Christian Brothers, Brother Oliver is Bergin was elected to serve the the major superior of the province's 23-i fi\e-year "Young Trustee's" term. Christian Brothers and the principal Michciel J. Berg,iii 1 le was a Cum Laude organiza- liaison Vv'ith the Institute's central tional management major at La administration in Rome. A native .Salle, where he played varsity Philadelphian, he has been a Christian bLisketball and was nominated for a Brother for 37 years. Rhodes Scholarship. A member of tlie university's Honors Program, he Brother Oliver holds two master's w as named to the Midwe.stern degrees (English and Education) from Collegiate Conference Academic Duquesne University and has done Honor Roll and the Alpha Epsilon post-graduate study at Carnegie-Mellon, Alumni Honor Society. He also was Fordham, London, Notre Dame and .selected as the outstanding gradu- Pittsburgh Universities. He taught and ate of the Management Department. later served as principal at Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School; was

Before joining Georgetown principal at Archbishop Carroll High Tiniii/h)' /. t-'roehltch. F.S.C. University's Children's Medical School, in Radnor. Pa., and was director Center staff. Bergin .sei-ved as field of the Jeremy House, a house of forma- representative for the Montgomery tion for young Brothers in Philadel[:)hia. County (Md.) Council of Supporting before being named director of cle\ el- Service Employees, Service Employ- opment at Pittsburgh Central Catholic in ees International Union Local 500. 1991. Pre\ iously he was a human re- sources associate for Service

page It LA SALLE alumni notes SCHOOL OF BUSINESS '72 '81 '85 ADMINISTRATION Caesar J. Primus was ap- Jessica Lake, Peter J. Sahd was promoted to CPCU, of The pointed an account executive, senior vice president/ manager Harleysville Insurance Compa- investments, at Dean Witter nies' New Jersey branch office, of operations for Fulton Bank, in '41 Reynolds in its Cherry Hill (N.J.; East Petersburg, Pa. has earned her Associate in George W. Lochetto was office Glenn C. Russell BIRTH: to Debra Delaney Management (AIM) designation recently inducted into the Hall of recently published a book of Cardell and her husband, from the Insurance Institute of Fame of Wissahickon High prose poems entitled How James, their third daughter, Amenca. The IIA is a nonprofit, School, in Ambler, Pa., for his Groundhogs Play Croquet. Kathleen Marie. educational organization serving achievements in athletics. He the property and casualty has also taught and coached at insurance industry. Hatboro-Horsham High School. MARRIAGE: Denise D'Antonio to Thomas F. Malecki, Jr. '61 BIRTH: to Anthony M. Verde John C. Hall was promoted and his wife, Barbara Kurtas from a teaching position to Verde, '85, a daughter, Cecelia assistant director of education at Terese. De La Salle-ln-Towne, in Philadelphia. John J. '86 O'Drlscoll was designated as a William I. Scargle, Jr., recently Certified Land Title Professional was appointed an officer in the '74 and treasurer of the Pennsylva- '82 Small Business Banking nia Land Title Association. He is George J. Walmsley, III, CPA, Department of Dr. Karen A. Garman is an CoreStates New vice president of agency has been appointed president Jersey National in assistant professor in the Bank, administration for the Philadel- and chief executive officer for Department of Medical Educa- Pennington, N.J. phia metropolitan division of the North Philadelphia Health tion at the University of South- Commonwealth Land Title System which includes St. ern California's School of 87 Insurance Company. The home Joseph's Hospital and Girard Medicine, where she recently Army Spec. James M. West of Kenneth J. Roberts and his Medical Center. received her Ed.D. recently completed basic wife, Mary, is located 750 feet training at Fort Jackson, S.C. from the recorded epicenter of 76 last January's earthquake in John M. (Jack) Finlayson has '88 Northndge, California. joined the Cellular Infrastructure Jeffrey R. Boyle was promoted Group (CIG) as vice president to manager in the business •62 and general manager of the Pan \1%] assurance practice at the firm of Stephen Beckson is borough American Market Division, Coopers & Lybrand, in Philadel- manager for the Borough of based in Artington Heights, III. phia. Ken Bullock received the Collingdale, Pa. Bronze Medal in the Federal Executive Board's 1994 '64 Excellence in Government Donald McAvoy was elected Awards Program for his work as for a second to the term Board a contract negotiator for the of Directors of the Malvern (Pa.) Jeffrey O'Donnell has been Naval Regional Contracting Laymen's Retreat League. Center, in appointed president and chief Philadelphia. Dominic Catrambone Is a '66 executive officer of Kensey Nash Corporation, a medical sales representative for Thomas J. Murray has left the Homedco Infusion, in King of device company based in Exton, International Trade Administra- Prussia, Pa. Pa. Carol Bailey Zellers is a tion of the U.S. Department of new affiliate with Re/Max Commerce and been appointed '89 Services, Inc., as a realtor in its regional manager of the J. Mark McLoone, associate David P. is Blue Bell (Pa.) office. She was Bauer director of Northeastern United for States administrator of the Alfred I. accounting for recently named one of the top- Home Health the National U.S. -Arab Chamber duPont Institute, in Wilmington, Systems, Inc., of Phoenixville, producing agents in Montgom- of Commerce, in New York City. Del., was advanced to "Fellow" ery County. Pa. Richard J. Clifford is status in the American College currently working at Financial '67 of Healthcare Executives. He is '83 Options. Inc. in Mt Laurel, N.J. Robert A. Martone was named among 2,500 healthcare Mark S. Bader, Esq., formerty He has also received the business information officer - executives in the nation who of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, LUTCF professional designation corporate, for Shell Oil Com- have earned this status, the and qualified for the 1994 Million is now senior tax counsel in the pany, in Houston, Texas. college's highest level of Dollar Roundtable. corporate tax department of Christine M. Michael J. McGee is serving as professional achievement. Kreeley has been Freddie Mac, in McLean, Va. named a the Montgomery County (Pa.) clinical manager at St. Lawrence "77 Timothy G. Murphy is vice representative to the Bucks Rehabilitation president, controller, of Center, in County Economic Adjustment John E. Pooler has been Dresdner Lawrenceville, N.J. Committee and Securities, (U.S.A.) the Reuse named chief administrative T. Inc., in New York City. MAR- MARRIAGES: James Subcommittee for the closure of officer at Pepper, Hamilton & Durkin, II to Jennifer L. RIAGE: Timothy G. Murphy to Hayes: the Naval Air Warfare Center, in Scheetz, in Philadelphia. Alandra C. Funderburk. Richard J. Ellerman to Nicole Warminster, Pa. Captain Walter Crowe. M. Migrala has retired from '79 the '84 BIRTH: to David P. Bauer and after Navy 27 years and is Rick Mauro was appointed vice his wife, BIRTH: to Carolyn Leonard Angela, a daughter, currently the naval science president and unit manager of Paulosky and her husband, Kathleen Mary. instructor at the Marine Acad- First Fidelity Bank's Private Mike Paulosky, a daughter, emy of Science and Technol- Banking Division, in Philadel- Michele Teresa. ogy, at Sandy Hook, N.J. phia.

WINTER 1994-95 page 25 alumni notes.

92 Temple University's College of Matthew Nunnally has been Engineering. named swimming coach for St. Rose High School, In Belmar, •57 Is a N.J. Lorraine B. Pappalardo Jack McDevitt recently signed Pennsylvania licensed real estate a two-book contract with Harper- agent with Summit Real Estate, Collins. An award-winning in Philadelphia. Her full-time science fiction writer, his work position Is contract specialist with has appeared In numerous Administra- the General Services magazines and anthologies and tion. In Philadelphia. his third novel. The Engines of God. was recently published by 93 Ace/Berkley. Shawn H. Lange has joined Hempstead & Co., Inc., a '58 corporate financial consulting firm William J. Weber retired after In Haddonfleld, N.J. based 33 years as a national account Jeffrey Neubauer is In his manager for Carolina Freight second year as a graduate Carrier Corporation's Philadel- basketball assistant at The phia office. Weber is now Citadel. In Charleston, S.C. regional sales manager for MARRIAGE: David John Owsik, Voipe Express, In Norrlstown, Jr. to Amy Alexis Koslorek. Pa. Winners of the annual Alumni A.s.sociation "Fun Run" celebrate at the finisli line in McCarthy Stadium on Oct. 8. 94 They are (from left): Kinstin Shrom. '96, the women's Jim Phillips Is a graduate '71, basketball assistant at Clarion winner; Frank Goldcamp, the men's champ, and State (Pa.) University. Richard Green, '70, the "over 40" titlist. Some 4O contes- tant.s ]-)articipated. SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES '66 '70 43 Joseph B. Berger, Jr., Joseph L. Spaar, M.D., was assumed the position of general elected chief of the division of James G. Bridgeman is manager of the National U.S.- gastroenterology at Shore conducting a training class that Arab Chamber of Commerce at IVIemorlal Hospital, In Somers will sen/e as volunteers on "Ala- '62 their headquarters in Washing- Point, N.J. Call," the New Jersey State Retired U.S. Navy Captain ton, D.C, Hotline for alcohol problems. George P. Vercessi, who now writes full-time and lives In '67 Alexandria, Va., has signed a John Fallon was honored for contract with IVIGM Studios to ten years of service as an produce a TV film, The Silver associate professor with Strand, on location In Australlla. Thomas Jefferson University In Its School of Allied Health, In '63 Philadelphia. Fallon Is teaching

Kyran W. Connelly is vice computer science courses at president of Stages of Design, a Jefferson. television production company BIRTHS: to Joseph A. Nickels,

located In Conshohocken, Pa. III, and his wife, Janet, twin '71 Over the past 9 years he has sons, Kevin and Michael. Robert J. Christian has been won 6 Ivlid Atlantic Regional named a senior vice president of 50 Emmy Awards as a producer, '69 PNC Investment IVIanagement James P. Tuppey was appointed writer, or director. He was John Clay was recently and Research, the principal assistant head coach for men's nominated for a National Emmy promoted to senior translator/ money management unit of and women's cross country and Award In 1992. Connelly Is also editor at Rhone-Poulenc-Rorer, PNC Bank Corp., In Philadel- track & field at Villanova Univer- a staff writer for Laservlews Inc. in Collegville, Pa. He phia. Kenneth S. Domzalski sity. John Bresnan has written magazine, the nation's leading recently received his American has been elected to a one-year From Dominoes to Dynamos: The publication devoted to video Translators Association term on the Board of Trustees of Transformation of Soutlieast laser discs. John P. accreditation for French-to- the New Jersey State Bar Asia, published by the Council on McMenamin was chosen by the English translation. In addition to Foundation, the educational and Foreign Relations. 1994 edition of Who's Who his Russian-to-English accredi- philanthropic arm of the New Among American Teachers. tation certificate. Thomas J. Jersey State Bar Association. •52 McMenamin, who has taught McElvogue has joined f^edical Dennis M. Powell is president John A. Schorr has retired as a for 30 years, teaches social IVIanagement Innovators, Ltd., of IVIassey Powell Enterprises, salesman after 23 years from studies and government at West as vice president for managed Inc., a organizational develop- Stanley-Bostlch. in East Green- Springfield (Va.) High School, care. Mlvll Is a Blue Bell (Pa.)- ment and outreach consultant wich, R.l. where his class was recently based management company firm In Plymouth Meeting, Pa. chosen for a broadcast over specializing In care for the He is also president of Massey •53 Radio Free Europe as a typical catastrophically III patient. Paul Powell DuBrow & Associates, Thomas J. Ward, Ph.D., has American class. J. Nicoletti, Esq., was pro- Inc., a direct communications, been named acting dean of moted to Lieutenant Colonel In printing service company In the U.S. Army.

page 26 LA SALLE alumni notes Wyncote, Pa. Robert J. Walsh, Jr., spent the past year in Toronto, Canada while on Jim McDonald to Retire sabbatical from the Central Bucks (Pa.) School District while he participated in a After 34 Years as Alumni Director teacher exchange program. He also served as assistant basketball coach at the University of Toronto.

73 Ira Shaffer has been hired as director of marketing for Seashore Gardens and the Cosmopolitan Club, a pair of Atlantic City- based non-profit facilities providing personal care and residential nursing home care for seniors in Southern New Jersey.

74 Thomas M. Croke, IV, Esq., was designated as a Certified Land Title Professional (CLTP) by the Pennsylvania Land Title Association (PLTA) at the Association's 73rd Annual Convention recently at Lake George, N.Y. He is vice president and Pennsylvania and Delaware state counsel for Stewart Title Jim McDutiald (ccnScrJ, wbu will be retiring as the Guaranty Company, in Norristown, Pa. Richard A. Rothwell, Jr., DDS, received his university's director of alumni in August, chats with Fellowship in Academy of General Dentistry. '66 George J. Keane. (left), and Peter C. McCormick. John S. Wargo was promoted to the rank of '67, at a recent meeting of the New York City Alumni Lieutenant Colonel and is assigned to the Club at the Swiss Bank Tower. U.S. Army Reserve Command Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

'58, 75 J. (Jim) McDonald, who James Harry McCann, Jr., is the director of the has served as La Salle's akimni McDc:inald, a native Philadel- of Police Training Center in Doylestown, Pa. He director since 1961, announced phia, a graduate of Roman devotes his spare time to the Bucks County Scholarship Fund, which college recently that he will retire next Cathc:>lic High School, and a LIS. Hero pays expenses for children of police, firefighters, August. A search committee is being Army veteran, majored in political and ambulance personnel killed in the line of formed by the university to select a science at La Salle where he won duty. successor to coordinate the activities the James Finegan A\\ard for 76 of the Alumni Association. outstanding student leadership Sidney J. Burgoyne recently taught a and fostering Christian ideals antl master's degree class in "Musical Theatre and Under McDonald's guidance. La was a member of Alpha Epsilon Cabaret" at The Benjamin Rome School of Music, at The Catholic University, in Washing- Salle's Alumni Association has grown Honor Society. ton, D.C. from a relati\ely small group of fewer than 5,000 men who primarily A resident of 'Willow Grove, 78 resided in the Philadelphia area to a McDonald sensed as an Abington Joe Mlhallch, in his 14th year as a La Salle men's basketball assistant coach, has been nationw itie network of 37,000 men Township Commissioner from named a District II representative on the and women living in every state and 197-t to 1985. He is currently a assistant coaches committee of the National participating in about a dozen member of the Montgomeiy Association of Basketball Coaches. chapters and clubs. The Alumni County Democratic Executive 79 Office, located in Benilde Hall, a Committee, the Edge Hill (Pa.) Maryclaire McTamney Dzik, a sales one-person operation when lim Rotary Club, and the Philadelphia associate with Weichert Realtors' Spring joined the staff, is now administered Public Relations Association. He House (Pa.) office, received the office's Top Producer Award for the greatest number of by three professionals. is a former member of the Penn- sales last April. sylvania Democratic State Com- Before coming to La Salle in Augu.st, mittee and World Affairs Council '80 Stephen F. Penny, M.D., has joined Central 1961, McDonald worked as an of Philadelphia. Delaware Neurology in Dover, after recently intelligence research analyst for the completing a fellowship in EMG/Neuromuscu- National Security' Agency at Fort lini and his wife, Bonnie, have lar Disease at Duke University Medical Meade, to 1960, Center, in Durham, N.C. Md., from 1958 and four adult children: James J,, Jr., MARRIAGES: Mark R. Goodwin to Cheryl then taught hi.stoiy and political Mrs. Leigh Tobin, Barbara, and Jaskulski; Robert T. O'Sullivan to Mary science for a year at Bishop Theodore, all graduates of Elizabeth Greaney. McDexitt High School, in Wvncote, La Salle. BIRTH: to Brian J. Falzetta and his wife, Pa. Garnett R. Losak, their second child, a son, Joseph Miles.

WINTER 1994-95 page 27 alumni notes.

daughter, Sarah Elizabeth. '89 •81 Craig Conlin, who holds 92 Michael W. Andrews is '85 La Salle's men's basketball field- Kevin D. Beck received a executive director of the Michele Mary Patrick is serving goal percentage career record master of arts degree in

Coalition of African-American as assistant managing director of (58.8% in 1 19 games from 1985- developmental psychology from Cultural Organizations in the City of Philadelphia. She also 1989) and played pro basketball Columbia University. Allison Affiliation with Latino Organiza- worked as a freelance "trivia in Cyprus and Ireland, is Hughes is a special education tions, a Philadelphia-based writer" for Merit Industries and is interning in La Salle's athletic teacher and a member of the consortium. Andrews has also a monthly columnist for the department. Thomas M. Ridgefield (N.J.) Board of been elected to the Board of nation's leading philatelic journal. McGuire is an assistant Education. Kerry McCormack is Trustees of Woodmere Arl Global Stamp News. Recently professor of biology and director an editorial assistant for Museum in Chestnut Hill. she won a PhilaPride essay of the Medical Technology Random House. Inc., in New MARRIAGE: Deborah Becker contest on why Philadelphia is Program at Jacksonville (Fla.) York City. Broderick President to Nicolae Bostan. the "Ail-American City ." She also University. He recently com- is employed at Carson Valley, a co-authored a chapter to be pleted his Ph.D. in molecular school for abused and neglected •82 published in the Municipal Debt genetics from The Catholic youngsters, in Flourtown, Pa. Michael De Angells, M.D., is a Handbook. Marcel Dekker University of America. and is a youth counselor at cardiologist at Roxborough (Pa.) Publishers. She has also been Bucks County Detention Center. Memorial Hospital. He is also a named to the Board of Trustees '90 MARRIAGE: Kristin Simmons member of Cardiology Consult- of the Regional Fulbright Alumni Michael Blash recently joined to Antonio 0. Mangabat, Jr., ants of Philadelphia, a group Association. Rosanio, Ballets & Talamo, Inc., '92. practice headquartered in South BIRTHS: to Mary Geyer as account executive in the Philadelphia. McLaughlin and her husband, agency's public relations '94

F. department, in Hill, is BIRTH: to Michael Rafferty Brendan McLaughlin, a son , Cherry N.J. Julia Breen one of 33 and his wife. Erica SztukowskI Conor James; to Annette Jennifer Dello Catrambone is a American and European Rafferty, '84, their second Cristiano Thompson and her 6th grade teacher in the volunteers who are teaching daughter. Miranda Rose. husband, Stan, a son, Stan Downingtown (Pa.) School English for a year in Poland and

Tompson, III; to Barbara Kurtas District. Cynthia J. Fliszar was Kaliningrad, Russia. These '83 Verde and her husband, promoted to regulatory compli- volunteers went to Eastern Thomas P. Forkin, Esq. Anthony M. Verde, '85, a ance auditor for Lemmon Europe through WorldTeach. a received a master's degree in daughter. Cecelia Terese. Pharmaceutical Company, in private nonprofit organization government administration from Sellersville, Pa. based at Harvard University. the University of Pennsylvania. '86 MARRIAGES: Ronald J. Jessica Jones is an account Steven Naide, M.D., an Gary W. Kennedy has been DeMaio to Cheri L. Athey; John executive with WJBR-FM, in orthopaedic surgeon with an promoted to senior vice president William Keuler, Jr. to Paula Wilmington, Del. Rhea interest in foot and ankle at Halpert & Company, Inc., in Jean Rutherford; KristyAnn Juntereal has joined the surgery, has joined North Penn Philadelphia. Anita M. Mellott to Gregory S. Hirtzel; Communications Department at Orthopaedic Associates, in Mastroieni has been named Maureen Rita Merk to Ronald Health Partners as public Lansdale. Pa. Rev. Paschal assistant director of public James Heffelfinger. relations coordinator. The Onunwa, Ph.D., pastor of Our relations for the University of Philadelphia-based organization Lady of Assumption Parish in Pennsylvania School of Arts and '91 is a not-for-profit voluntary Enugu Diocese. Nigeria, with a Sciences Brian Fennell has graduated managed health care plan that congregation of 15,000, recently BIRTHS: to Gary W. Kennedy from the Burlington County provides comprehensive care to visited the United States and and his wife, Linda, twins, a son (N.J.) Police Academy Special low-income families and celebrated the Mass of The Holy and daughter, Conor James and Services School, and is an individuals in southeastern Spirit at St. Katharine of Siena Mollie Elizabeth; Barbara Killlan officer for the Cinnaminson Pennsylvania. Suzan Yastrebov Church, in Wayne, Pa. Lamblin and her husband, (N.J.) Police Department. is working at a one-year David, a daughter, Grace Shannon O'Shea has been internship in the youth exchange 84 Elizabeth; to Hope Masluk named director of compliance service department of the Christa Pasqulnl Saltzman is Schmids and her husband, and senior women administrator Kolping Society of Germany in manager of corporate quality at Michael, their first child, a son, at Pittsburg State (Kansas) Cologne. This department offers Corporate Interiors, Inc. in Valley Nathan Donovan Schmids. University. Michelle M. Stewart work camps for young people all Forge. Pa. Diane M. Ungvarsky recently was named director of over the world. and her husband are stationed in '87 community relations at Nazareth Ft. Hood, Texas, where she is a Donna P. Mulloy-Forkin has Hospital. Mike Stock is coach- NURSING research psychologist with the accepted a senior physical ing basketball at Concord High SCHOOL OF Army Research Laboratory. therapist position at Frankford School and teaching at Mt. B.S.N. MARRIAGES: Angelo Hospital, in Philadelphia. Pleasant High School, both in Fiordimondo to Coleen Marie Delaware. David John Thomp- '85 Hara: Thomas J. Kuzma to '88 son is currently working as an BIRTH: to Linda Greenaway Patricia Ann Trujillo; Diane M. Jeffrey Fetterman is an illustrator at Eastern Outdoor Kryvoruka, C.R.N. A and her Ungvarsky to Maj. Thomas assistant sixth grade teacher at Advertising Company in husband, Kenneth, a son, Alex Brooks Lyies. Germantown Friends School, Baltimore, Md. His artwork Nicholas. BIRTHS to Erica Sztukowski outside of Philadelphia. Niel A. recently earned a first place Rafferty and her husband, Johnson, M.D., is chief resident award at the annual juried show '94 Michael F. Rafferty, '82, their in family practice at Dwight D. sponsored by the East Coast Mary Rita Webster is a health second daughter. Miranda Rose; Eisenhower Army Medical Center Arts Commission. His work was promotion nurse at a Bucks to Christa Pasqulnl Saltzman at Ft. Gordon, in Augusta, also recognized by the Artist's County (Pa.) area agency on and her husband. Dan. their first Georgia. BIRTH: to Niel A. magazine. aging for a Pennsylvania state child, a daughter, Laura Johnson, M.D.. and his wife, MARRIAGES: Cherle Lynn program called "Prime Time Catherine; to Carolyn Dunn Penny, a son, Niel Alexander DeFulvio to John Patrick Harte; Health." which promotes the Zaccagnl and her husband, Johnson. Joseph V. Lombardi to Nadia health of older Pennsylvanians. Michael, their second child, a Angelone.

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Catherine Doran '78: "In Line With The Saints' MASTER OF ARTS IN THEOLOGY She was to all generation.s at La Salle, especially to those in the '90 Gerald J. Wartenby ('80 Art Museum where she worked B.A.) was ordained a part-time mostly as a volunteer for permanent deacon and some 15 years: a living embodi- assigned to St. Anselm ment of Christian virtue, a devoted Church in northeast Philadelphia. He was also and tireless worker, a down-to- appointed chairman of the earth friend with an enormous religion department of capacity for fun, adventure and Bishop IVIcDevitt High laughter. School, in Wyncote, Pa. Her sudden death on a return trip MASTER OF BUSINESS from China on June 2nd has left a ADMINISTRATION huge void in our lives. As the

priest at her funeral so aptly put it, (.'citberiue Dorcm pcissed ciivciy oiil Catherine's generous heart put her '75 (lays after she posedfor this photo- Kathleen M. Burns has in line with the saints. She began graph during a trip to China. been appointed a vice her day by 6 a.m. picking up president of the corporation elderly friends who couldn't drive at AIco Standard Corpora- and taking them to early Mass tion, headquartered in Valley Forge, Pa. two hours before coming to work Her devoted late husband, Paul, would often in the museum. Here, she would come downstairs to collect Catherine only to '80 then give it her all for eight hours. find her usually rushing around involved in a William J. King is retiring as FeiA'ent agitation quickly set in Toots, it's to go," he'd chairman and chief execu- project. "Come on. time tive officer of Dauphin when she sat idly by with nothing remind her. Deposit Corp., in Harrisburg, to do. Although Catherine had children she "moth- Pa. King will continue to no serve on the corporation's She reminded students that this ered" us all-remembering oLir birthdays, baking Board of Directors. was not a good thing. Her eleven and bringing in cakes, cookies, candy at holiday hour work day could easily tire Thanksgiving, Christmas or '83 time—Halloween, Susan A. Norton was even the youngest student but not Strove Tuesday, or providing little gifts on promoted to regional vice Catherine. We were constantly returning from trips abroad. president of Hanover amazed and inspired for she Insurance Company's The care and concern for students and elders appeared to be ageless. Chicago branch office. alike for our general well being was constant She was always ready—in fact, the when sick, tired or generally let down. "Do you '84 first to offer or just jump in and need a ride?" "Can I bring you some dinner? BIRTH: to Carolyn Leonard — Paulosky and her husband, get the job done: lift the paintings, When not at work in the museum she was Michael Paulosky, '93, a move the furniture and frames, usually doing likewise for other friends. daughter, Michele Teresa. type, inventory art work, welcome And, oh. her energy and enthusiasm for ad\en- '86 visitors Vvith a big smile, and tailor ture, her get up and go v»'as boundless! Our David A. Wajda ('80 B.S.) is incredibly \aried and unwieldy great regret was that we didn't have more time the new controller at fabric for exhibition installations. to outside things with her. She could be Nazareth Hospital, in do The list goes on and no job was Philadelphia. impatient, out-spoken or even outrageous too big or beneath her. (though this was sometimes refreshing) but such '93 She was our Mrs. "Waste-not and moments passed quickly, overcome by that BIRTH: to Michael fix-it" Paulosky and his wife, lady. As we stood by look- abiding sense of humor and care. Carolyn Leonard ing perplexed, she'd say, "Here, She gave us so much, and the hole that was Paulosky, '84, a daughter, you don't know what you're doing, Michele Teresa. suddenly left is wide and deep. But her faith, let me help do that!" or, from the courage, abundant generosity and, or course, '94 outside, "Do you want me to come her fun and laughter will never be forgotten. Cecelia S. Cronk has joined in?" (to man the museum) no Geisinger Medical Center, in matter what off hour or extra time —Caroline Wistar, Curator, Art Museum Danville, Pa., as manager of was inxohed. dialysis services.

WINTER 1994-95 page 29 no^oumxyj.^ THE 1995 CHARTER DINNER/LA SALLE UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP AWARD CEREMONY

Honoring

Mr, William J. Avery

Chairman of the Board Chief Executive Officer and President Crown Cork and Seal Company, Incorporated

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1995

THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA BLACK TIE

PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE UNIVERSITY'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND

For additional information and an invitation, please contact La Salle University's Development Office, 1900 West Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141. Phone: (215) 951-1540.

page 3'J LA SALLE chapter/club notes alumni notes Alumni Cruise Scheduled From Miami To Mexico NECROLOGY The Alumni Association will sponsor a cruise from Jul)' 17-21 from Miami, Florida, stopping at Key West, Cancun •38 •53 and Cozumel, Mexico aboard the Nonvegian Cruise Rev. Walter J. Daiton, Joseph C. Duddy C.S.P. Line's M. S. Leeward. The rate, iiased on double occu- •54

pancy, is $909 per person, with single and triple rates •39 William F. Gordon, M.D. a\ailai")le, and includes air fare from Philadelphia to Edward J. Murray, Jr. '55 Miami. For more informatic:)n call the Alumni Office •48 Edward J. Farley (21S) 9S1-1535. Brother Daniel H. Barry, •58 F.S.C. Thomas E. Corkery • '66, •50 Dr. Lee J. Williames, chairman of the HOUSTON, '64 Clarence Joseph Harris Te.xas Club, has announced plans for a "Philly Party," Raymond S. Dominski with cheese steaks TastyKakes, at a local •51 complete and '65 sports bar on January 14, where they will watch the Joseph F. Gerety Charles J. Scache La Salle - Xavier game on Satellite TV. •52 '70 William A. Kelly John D. Tosto William C. "Bud • • As noted elsewhere in this issue, I will be retiring McMenamin '72 next summer as director of alumni. By the time this Thomas J. Breighner issue is delivered, I will have begun my "farewell tour" - ha\'ing \'isited NE'W YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES,WACO, TUCSON imd WASHEVGTON, D.C. r n • I will meet with the ATLANTA Club on January 17. MOVING?

Then, along with Brother President Joseph F. Burke, If your mailing address will change in the next 2 - 3

F.S.C, Ph.D., I will attend the LA SALLE in FLORIDA months, or if the issue is addressed to your son or CHAPTER'S dinner in Fort Lauderdale on January 19 and daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please help us keep our mailing a reception in TAMPA on Januaiy 25. addresses up-to-date by:

1 PRINT your full name, class year and new address • Members of the classes of 1950, '55, '60, '65, and '70 on the form opposite, and are invited to join Al Cantello, '55, as he guides hikers on

a two mile STICK WITH AL AND LA SALLF hiking tour of 2 Attach the label from the back cover of this issue the campus from 9:00 to 11:30 A.M. during Reunion and mail to the Alumni Office, La Salle University, Weekend '95 next May 20. Everyone who completes the Phlla., PA 19141. stroll will be awarded a 42" walking stick with its own ATTACH LABEL HERE commemorative logo branded into the wood. —Jim McDonald

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The following Class Reunion Coniniittces met on October 13, 199-t to begin planning for next year's reunion. If your class is listed, please mark these dates on your calendar and make plans to join friends from your college days!

page 32 LA SALLE Students around the country are noticing La Salle.

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