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“The Crucifixion” La Salle Art Museum LA SALLE Spring 1991 Volume 35, Number 2 A QUARTERLY LA SALLE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE (USPS 299-940) CONTENTS

1 RETHINKING WHAT IT MEANS history has been mirrored by our na­ TO EDUCATE tional pastime. La Salle’s new provost takes a peak into 19 AROUND CAMPUS the university’s academic future. Classroom visits by 61 prominent local 5 MAN WITH CLASS business executives highlighted Business Awareness Week and featured recent Doug Overton has wanted to be part of significant events on campus. the NEA a lot longer than he has wanted to be part of the NBA. 27 ALUMNI NEWS 9 MUSCLE INN A chronicle of some significant events in the lives of the university’s alumni plus Martha Ledger’s camera captures the a report on “The Explorer Network,” university’s exciting new Fitness Center sponsored by the Career Planning and in St. John Neumann Hall. Placement Bureau. 12 FROM STUDENT CONGRESS CREDITS: Front cover, La Salle University Art Mu­ TO THE SEVEN SEAS seum; back cover, Martha Ledger; inside back cover and page 30, Bruce Reedy; page 14, Mark B. Sarah Green, ’75, teaches computer liter­ Jacobson; 15-18, Urban Archives, Temple Univer­ acy on luxurious cruise ships. sity; 25 (left) portrait by James A. Hanes; 32, Mike Maicher; all others by Ledger. 15 “WE START BY GRIPPING A FRONT COVER: “The Crucifixion, ” a Bavarian Baroque stained glass window was completed in BASEBALL” the Franz Mayer Studio, in Munich, Germany in 1905. It was donated to La Salle University’s Art A La Salle professor explains how Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Barclay D. Heckmann. almost every development in American

Robert S. Lyons, Jr., ’61, Editor James J. McDonald, '58, Alumni Director ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Stephen McGonigle, ’72, President Joseph H. Cloran, ’61, Vice President J. Patrick O’Grady, ’82, Treasurer Thomas J. Feerick, ’71, Secretary The Historical Pastime, Page 15

La Salle Magazine is published quarterly by La Salle University, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141, for the alumni, students, faculty and friends of the University, Editorial and business offices located at the News Bureau, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Penna. Changes of address should be sent at least 30 days prior to publication of the issue with which it is to take effect, to the Alumni Office, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Postmaster: send change of address to office listed above. Member of the Council for Strength and Conditioning, Page 9 the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Rethinking What It Means to Educate

La Salle’s new provost reflects on national educational priorities as they impact on the university’s journey into the 21st century

By Joseph F. Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D., ’68

I still remember calling my parents last June to tell academic service units report to the provost. More them that I had been offered the position of provost importantly, it means that the provost is responsible at La Salle. I had been working as a dean at a New for assuring the “fit” between the education we England university, and my parents were delighted provide and the long-term personal and professional that I would be returning home to La Salle and Phila­ needs of our students, as well as the needs of our city, delphia. Still, it only took a few minutes for my region, and nation. What follows is a reflection on Mother to ask, “What, dear, is a provost?” Mom’s national educational priorities as they impact on La question has been asked of me many times since I’ve Salle’s journey into the 21st Century. It is much less returned home, so it may be well to answer the ques­ a blueprint that an invitation to dialogue among all tion for the reader also. At La Salle, the provost is of us who understand the value of a La Salle educa­ the vice president for academic affairs, the chief tion and seek to maintain its position as “second to academic officer. Structurally, this means that all of none.” the schools, academic departments, library, and Our Liberal Arts Tradition. Across our nation

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educators are rethinking what it means to educate one critic has even prepared a catalogue of ideas, students for the future. At La Salle, like the majority terms, and seminal works that ought to be ex­ of similar institutions, we have emphasized the en­ perienced before one can be considered truly during value of a liberal arts education. But what do educated. we mean by “the liberal arts”? The term “liberal This issue of the content of a true education is not arts” comes from the Middle Ages (artes liberates), a new one in higher education. Rather, it is the con­ and refers to seven branches of learning: logic, tinuation of similar arguments that have taken place rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, and over the centuries, including the most recent (and grammar. Our modern understanding of the liberal ongoing) discussion over integrating the voices of arts is broader, including the modern disciplines of women in the content of various disciplines. On the language arts (English and foreign languages and surface, this argument about the content of education literature), philosophy, history, mathematics, science, may seem merely “academic,” but it is much more the fine arts, and in the view of many, the social than an issue for sciences and the more recently developed field of professors to be con­ communication. But what relevance does all of that cerned about. In our have in the age of quick-paced technology, pop cul­ colleges and univer­ ture, and the cult of the quick buck? sities today we are The most narrow view of a liberal arts education emphasizes information: what happened in 1066; what is the meaning of Plato’s cave; who said cogito ergo sum; what is impressionism. But a liberal art education is much more than that. The goal of a lib­ eral arts education is liberation. Its goal is to free us from the stereotypes, prejudices, and transient products of our own age by connecting us with enduring ideas, values, and masterworks. It provides us with the ability to think critically, to engage in effective discourse, to enjoy creative works, and to place day-to-day life in a rich intellec­ tual and spiritual context. Even in our own day, few educators would disagree about the value of the liberal arts, but lurking be­ neath the surface of our affirmation of a liberal arts education is a significant argument about the actual content of what should be included in those four short years called college. For some, the typical content of the liberal arts curriculum in American colleges and universities is too narrow. They point out that it is almost exclusively Eurocentric, thus ig­ noring the rich heritage of other cultures, particularly those of Africa and Asia. Further, they argue that the growing numbers of minority students in our institutions need to feel con­ nected to their own heritages, and beyond that, they contend that even majority students have much to learn and experi­ ence by expanding beyond a European-based curriculum. At the opposite end of the argu­ ment are voices that say that today’s colleges and universi­ ties have already taken too many liberties with what should be taught, and they sub­ scribe to the “Canon” of major Western works. These people often argue for a “Great Books” approach, and

2 shaping the values, aesthetics, and intellectual con­ of other traditions into our liberal arts curriculum tent of the educated citizens of the 21st Century. That while at the same time preserving the best of our thought keeps more than a few in academe awake at traditional approach? That is a key issue facing high­ night. er education as it rounds out this century. Diversity at the Doorstep. Only the most casual Of course, the issue of diversity goes far beyond observer is unaware of the enormous demographic curriculum. How do we build a social community on changes in our city, region, and nation. Not long into our campus that makes all students, regardless of the next century one third of the nation will be com­ their racial and ethnic background, feel secure, ac­ posed of minorities, particularly African Americans, cepted, and challenged? In this regard, it is worth Asians, and Hispanics, and the challenge to educate reflecting on La Salle’s history. Like numerous other this increasingly diverse student body is a present east coast Catholic institutions, La Salle built its repu­ preoccupation of American higher education. We tation on its ability to successfully educate first gener­ have already referred to this issue in our discussion ation college students. Most of these students were of the liberal arts. The curricular question can be from families of modest means, and they came from framed in two different ways: (1) how do we bring a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Anyone associated Americans from different cultural heritages into the with La Salle over the last one hundred or so years rich Western liberal arts traditions characteristic of can remember this rich ethnic mix of Irish, Italians, our institutions; or, (2) how do we incorporate the Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, and others. These were cultural heritage of these diverse groups of Ameri­ the children and grandchildren of immigrants seeking cans into the curriculum in our liberal arts colleges success in the new world. With them we built a com­ and universities for the benefit of all of our students. munity that was welcoming, even comfortable, and Those are very different questions, but they are not the success of these students can be readily mutually exclusive. Is it possible to integrate the best documented. Of course, La Salle remains committed to the future generations of these same peoples, but at the same time, our mission, drawn from that of the Christian Brothers, is to educate people of modest means and to bring into the American mainstream those who might remain outside of it but for the education we provide. Our history of accomplishment in this regard is impressive, and it compels us to make a La Salle education available to an even wider group of citizens. The increasing diversity in the nation’s population provides us with an unprecedented op­ portunity to expand the La Sallian family. The challenge is to create a community where this next generation of students will feel as “at home” as past generations. These facts have important implication for us as we hire faculty and staff, revise our cur­ riculum, and develop new programs, but it is a task to which we have committed ourselves. Moral Education. For the most part, American high­ er education during most of this century has been squeamish about moral education. Catholic institu­ tions, of course, have always emphasized moral education, albeit less by regulation than by exhorta­ tion and example. However, much has changed in the last few years in American higher education, and now there is a fairly clarion call to reinvest our energies in moral education. How best to do this is the ques­ tion. Some institutions of a more fundamentalist bent have returned to the rigidity of the 1950’s, but most institutions have chosen to look at curriculum and student programming for the answers. In addition to the more formal instruction in moral and ethical is­ Brother Burke studies one of the three works by American artist sues that takes place in religion and philosophy Samuel Chamberlain (1895-1975) now hanging in his office. They courses, you can see this new emphasis at work in the were purchased with funds provided by Michael J. Duffy, ’73, to mission statement and curriculum of our Business honor the distinguished service of Burke’s predecessor, Emery Mollenhauer, F.S.C. They are (from left): The Tower of the Church School, in the recent conversations among faculty and of St. Martin, Colmar; La Charite-sur-Loire 1930, and Market Day students in our “Community on the Catholic Campus” in Lillebonne 1930. discussion series, and in the ethics component in the new curriculum of the Communication Department. But perhaps the most dramatic place to see a new sense of responsibility based upon our religious and

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“The women and men of the 21st century will need a new level of literacy about science, technology, and the media”

ethical values is in the area of student volunteerism. itiatives in the corporate and political communities. Service Learning. The nation’s campuses are alive At La Salle, an international emphasis is increasingly with volunteerism in the form of community service. evident in our curriculum, and new international On our own campus, for example, over 400 students study abroad programs to complement our European have been involved in formal programs to benefit the operations in Switzerland and Spain are under homeless, the elderly, disadvantaged youngsters, serious discussion. Institutionally, we have the ad­ AIDS patients, the illiterate, low-income expectant vantage of links with Christian Brothers’ institutions mothers, and many other groups and individuals. The throughout the world, and we have only just begun challenge facing American higher education in gen­ to capitalize upon that important network. eral, and La Salle in particular, is how to link this Other Issues. Two additional issues deserve men­ experiential piece of ethical education with the more tion. The first has to do with life-long learning: how formal curricular offerings. Nationally, this effort to do we communicate to our students that learning is establish links between the classroom and the com­ a life-long process that does not end when they gradu­ munity is referred to as service learning. Note the ate. Indeed, as we often remind students, commence­ emphasis on learning in this expression. The old way ment is a beginning rather than an ending. Related of thinking about learning (you learn when in class to that, how do we as an educational institution or sitting in your room studying) is giving way to a provide a welcoming home for the adult learner. more activitist mentality. Clearly, we are not talking Another issue: the new literacies. The women and about replacing more traditional modes of learning. men of the 21st Century will need a new level of Rather, the issue here is how to integrate classroom literacy about science, technology, and the media. learning with what the student learns from volunteer Here we are not simply talking about being able to activities. Doing this requires a new way of thinking. write a letter on a computer or word processor. Our Most of our institutions have two distinct branches: world is being revolutionized by scientific dis­ Academic Affairs and Student Affairs. In many in­ coveries and technological advances, and the world stitutions, the relationship between student affairs is at our doorstep on television. What analytic skill professionals and the faculty is one of reciprocal and knowledge do the consumers of science, tech­ skepticism. Student affairs folks often feel under-ap­ nology, and the media need? We simply must answer preciated while faculty feel under-consulted and that question and change our institutions accordingly. under-involved in the lives of students outside the The La Salle Way. The re-thinking of what it means classroom. The impetus toward service learning is to educate is going on nationally, and in one sense, one avenue of common interest. The best institutions La Salle is simply a small part of those efforts. But, will forge productive partnership between these two as you know, we always do things our way, the La committed groups of professional people, and the Salle Way. That means that we always keep respect beneficiaries will be the students because their learn­ for the individual at the forefront of our discussion, ing experiences will be integrated rather than com­ it means that we do so in the light of our Catholic partmentalized. heritage, and we do so in an atmosphere of openness Internationalizing Education. We have many politi­ and collegiality. The challenges to La Salle in the 21st cal, economic, social, and even psychological reasons Century are formidable. But successfully facing for anticipating the “global village” we were prom­ serious challenge has been a hallmark of our 128 year ised some years ago, and colleges and universities are history. We continue to believe that with our determined to be part of it. From “study abroad” outstanding faculty, loyal alumni, spirited student programs to elaborate international studies curricula, body, and many good friends we will continue to be American colleges and universities are building links “second to none.” with educational, social, and political institutions throughout the world. While much of this activity has Brother Burke became provost last July 1. He is for­ to do with enhancing the institution’s attractiveness mer chairman of La Salle’s Psychology Department to applicants and making additional research op­ and, most recently, dean of the University of Hart­ portunities available to faculty, there is also a grow­ ford’s College of Basic Studies as well as special assis­ ing awareness that international cooperation among tant to that university’s president. He also served for educators is an important parallel to similar in­ two years as president of La Salle’s Faculty Senate.

4 Man With Class Doug Overton has wanted to be a part of the NEA a lot longer than he has wanted to be part of the NBA

By Frank Bilovsky, ’62

Overton was a big hit as a student teacher at Widener School this spring.

Doug Overton always has had the proper per­ And he never stops learning. spective. He wants to be a professional basketball player, The La Salle University guard is a great basketball too. player, perhaps a No. 1 pick in the upcoming National But here’s what makes him different from a lot of Basketball Association draft. the other inner city youngsters with athletic and But the greatest? Overton is the first to admit that academic ability. he wasn’t even the greatest player in his dorm room Doug Overton has wanted to be a part of the NEA during the 1989-90 season. a lot longer than he has wanted to be part of the NBA. Same with life off the basketball court. He has “A lot of guys come to college and they don’t know known what he wants to do with his life for a long what they want to take up, don’t know where they fit time and has found the path to get there while avoid­ in,” Overton was saying a few days after his last ing the shortcuts. Explorer team ended the season with a loss at Massa­ He wants to be a teacher. chusetts in the first round of the National Invitation

La Salle, Spring 1991 5 OVERTON —continued

“Doug is personable. He’s articulate. He’s genuine. He’s organized

Tournament. “For me, from the day I walked in my Ask Dr. Preston Feden, an associate professor of freshman year, I knew I wanted to be affiliated with education who was one of Doug’s first teachers. something to do with kids. “I’m not a big one in believing that teaching is just “I thought elementary education would be the best an innate thing, but he has certain personal qualities thing because I wanted to work with kids at the early that lend themselves very nicely to a ‘people’ field— stages. That’s a real important period for kids. High and teaching certainly is a ‘people’ field,” Feden said. school is fine, but to help kids at even a younger age “Doug is personable. He’s articulate. He’s genuine. has to have a little more impact on them.” He’s organized in his thinking. It was in Overton’s pre-high school days when his “His freshman course, which I taught, we had re­ idea of being a teacher impacted him for the first flective teaching lessons. He did his with a sense of time. humor, but focused on the task he had to do. Some­ times you get kids in those freshman level courses who are just silly and they think that’s a good way H e recalls that he was about 10 years old at the to teach. And they don’t know how to organize any­ time. There was a boy in his neighborhood with a thing. But he was able to do that. In tests, sometimes body that was older, a mind that was younger. it didn’t come across. But in terms of actual teaching, Mark Williams was a victim of Downs Syndrome he was all those things—articulate, good and ap­ and man’s inhumanity to man. propriate sense of humor in the teaching situation, “A lot of kids were alienated from him, but I kind organized and focused.” of felt sorry for him,’’ Overton explained. “At that young age, kids often don’t feel those things for a kid who is special. Everybody else was teasing him while C oming to La Salle from Dobbins Tech, Doug Over- I was playing with him. I felt, you know, affection for ton was a question mark academically and ath­ him. And I think that kind of triggered my thinking letically. The chances of a student from Dobbins suc­ about education. Nobody really knew it, but that was ceeding in a college are slimmer than, say, a student one of the main reasons why I had an interest in with the same mind coming from a suburban high education and in working with kids.’’ school like Abington or Cherry Hill East. The Dobbins Another reason was the part of Overton that every­ student traditionally will do poorer on tests and will one seems to recognize first—the fun-loving part. not have developed as strong study habits. “It’s like you could put me in a sandbox at 6-3 with a bunch of little kids and I’ll have fun,’’ he said. Ask the people who have worked with Doug Over- ton the closest and the combination of characteristics that they’ll point out first are his ability to have fun while getting the job done. Ask La Salle assistant basketball coach Joe Mihalich. “He brings with him every day some things that a lot of people don’t,” Mihalich says. “He’s the guy who makes everybody laugh. He’s the guy who walks in the room and everybody gets happy. Every day, not only is he happy to be where he is, but he makes everybody else happy to be there. That’s the quality that sets him apart from everybody else.” Ask Lionel Simmons, La Salle’s College Player of the Year in 1990, candidate for NBA Rookie of the Year with the Sacramento Kings in 1991. “I know Lionel misses Doug,” Mihalich says. “Doug made Lionel happier every day. Doug makes it a fun thing—not in a silly way that keeps you from getting the job done. But he makes every day a fun day. Overton emerged from the shadow of his former All America “He’s just a pleasure to be around. He’s got those teammate Lionel Simmons (background) to win a host of honors in 1990-91 including the U.S. Basketball Writers, District I, Metro qualities that make everyone not just a better player Atlantic Conference, and Big Five first teams and honorable men­ but make them enjoy themselves.” tion All America.

6 in his thinking”

But it didn’t take long for Feden to realize that in everything. That’s what I mean by genuine. I don’t Overton was an exceptional person. Nor did it take think he puts on any airs.” long for the sixth grade students at Simmons School Overton likes to say that he learned that attitude in the Hatboro—Horsham district where Overton did from Simmons, his roommate two years ago when the his student teaching in the first semester this Explorers were 32-2 and made the NCAA tournament academic year. Or at Widener School where he stu­ for the third straight year. dent-taught for the second semester. ‘‘You never would have known that he was college “I was one of the first in the Education Department player of the year,” Overton said of Simmons. ‘‘He to have him as a student,” Feden said. ‘‘And you know was so humble, so down to earth. Stick with Lionel, what? I did think he would make it because he’s very model yourself around him and you’ll be OK. And I articulate and he exuded a certain kind of confidence can say I did that. and you can just tell that he’s bright. ‘‘He stayed focused on school. He could have very ‘‘Academically there were a lot of demands put on easily just thought all basketball, but he didn’t.” people, so I’m not necessarily saying his grades re­ Neither did Overton. Not even this year when he flected his potential. But my instincts over 22 years became THE man. told me that he was going to make it—and not only that but that he was going to contribute in the field. H e first exhibited athletic humility four years ago He had an interest. He made comments in class that when he was honored as the Philadelphia Public were insightful even at the freshman level. He just League Player of the Year by the Markward Club. struck me not only as a person who probably would ‘‘I would like to thank Brian Shorter for making this make it through, but who had a commitment to it. I’ve possible,” he said at the banquet. Shorter had trans­ had students from private schools who haven’t been ferred from Simon Gratz to Oak Hill Academy in as articulate and focused, frankly.” Virginia before his freshman year. Overton was im­ plying he wouldn’t have had a chance for the award if Shorter had stayed at Gratz. Feden has had plenty of students who needed more Ironically, four years later, Overton is rated a bet­ than four years to graduate. Doug Overton, despite ter pro prospect than Shorter. the pressures of playing basketball at the Division I He had an outstanding career at La Salle. It would level, is scheduled to graduate with his class in May. have been even more outstanding if he hadn’t suf­ It’s an impressive achievement, especially consider­ fered a sprained ankle in practice the day before the ing that Overton also was able to make the same kind City Series game in February against St. Joseph’s. of progress on the basketball court as he made in the classroom. At the time, Overton was averaging 24.2 points a ‘‘The (education) program’s tough and it’s a tribute game. He missed five games, played sub-par the next to Doug that he was able to handle it,” Feden said. three, shot poorly against Massachusetts when he was ‘‘Along the line, I think he did get a good (primary finally at full physical strength and saw his average and secondary) education, but I wouldn’t say that he slip to 22.3. was polished. His educational background, plus a tug on his time by the basketball situation, caused him perhaps not to do as well in courses as he might have. ‘‘But he’s certainly done well enough. And as far as I know, nobody in our department ever cut him a break. What he did, he did legitimately on his own with only the help we would have given anybody else. But I made a very concerted effort from the get-go not to concede anything and not to give a B where a C was deserved or an A where a B was deserved. I’ve had him for three classes and he didn’t always get the best grades. But what he got I knew was his. I knew he tried and I knew he cared and he would come in for feedback. He followed up, cared, was concerned about what he knew and what he didn’t know. ‘‘I think pretty much what you see in sports is what Ever since he was 10-years-old, Overton has wanted to work with you see as a man and I think he’s probably like that children at the early stages of their development.

La Salle, Spring 1991 7 OVERTON —continued

“He’s got everything you need—the speed, the quickness, the size, he knows how to play the game”

Even so, he finished his career as the sixth leading Dr. Robert Vogel was the La Salle professor who scorer in La Salle history with 1,795 points. He is the observed Overton’s student teaching at Simmons all-time Explorer leader in assists (671) and steals school. (277). He was three-time All Big Five and Metro At­ “He has such a draw about him, such a charisma,” lantic Athletic Conference player, a first-team Vogel said. “People automatically like him because Basketball Times All-East as a senior and a highly- he puts on no pretense. rated prospect by NBA Director of Scouting Marty “He’s not a natural academic teacher, but he’s a Blake. natural person with people. And because of that, it’s like any good teacher. If you’re a good person and you respect other people and play to their strengths, you Tw o years earlier, the thought of playing pro­ could even be a little bit weaker in the way that you fessional basketball hadn’t crossed his mind. Nor had his coach, Speedy Morris, given it much of a thought. teach and people will stay with you because they like “When we got him, he wasn’t even that good a ball you. The comfort level is very high. handler as I remember him from high school,” Morris “The kids loved him. When he finished up his last said. “He was certainly good enough to be Public day, the day he was leaving for Japan, he had come League Player of the Year, but he had some things back to return some papers. He brought some cup­ he had to work on and handling was one of them. But cakes that his mother had baked for the kids. He it just improved significantly each season. He played didn’t have to do that but he did it for the kids. It was every day in the summer (with Bo and Hank), but he beyond the call of duty, but it showed how much he also worked by himself on the individual things he cared. needed to be a player. All the great ones do.” “He learned a lot from student teaching. I was very Overton remembers the day someone told him that critical with him because I didn’t want him to think he had a chance to put the NBA in his future. he was going to get away with anything. And he re­ “Joe Mihalich told me at the end of my sophomore spected that. His first two evaluations were extremely year,” he said. “I had made a drastic improvement critical, but that’s what he wanted and he was glad from freshman to sophomore year and Joe told me, about that. ‘If you continue to improve like you did from your freshman year to your sophomore year, you’ve got a H e came here to learn because he wanted to be chance to play in the NBA.’ And I said, ‘Joe, you’ve a teacher, and he played ball that way. He dealt with got to be kidding.’ what he had to do and he never made any excuses.” “But I really worked my butt off that summer, real­ And that was before the second semester at the ly worked to improve myself. And Lionel was getting Widener School for handicapped children, where the a lot of attention. He was bringing a lot of scouts in. idea of not making excuses was reinforced for him. And I know they were saying, ‘Hey if this guy keeps “It’s been a great experience,” he said. “I really it up . . .’ But I still don’t believe it.” enjoy it. I get up every morning and get away from Believe it, Doug! Mihalich surely does. the basketball side of things, really get into the teach­ “He’s a very well-rounded player,” Mihalich said. ing side of things. “He’s got everything you need—the speed, the quick­ “I really feel that I’m helping the kids who are not ness, the size, he knows how to play the game. But as fortunate physically or mentally. Playing basket­ I think the one quality that sticks out more than any­ ball, you take things for granted. But when I was thing else is that he makes everyone else better. down because of the way I played or frustrated be­ That’s what a point guard has to do. cause of the way my ankle felt, I’d go to Widener “I think that in all honesty, that’s why we struggled School and here are these kids. Some of them can’t this year, because he couldn’t be just a point guard even walk. It kind of slaps you in the face, says, ‘Wake this year. He had to score for us. He didn’t have up, these are the problems they’ve got to live with.’” anybody to throw the ball to. You don’t have to be It’s just one more current lesson for the future a coaching genius to realize that. We just didn’t have teacher. enough guys who could finish off the plays that he Mr. Bilovsky is an award-winning columnist and would create. But he’s got everything you need. He’s writer for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. He the total package.” formerly covered the Big Five for the Philadelphia On the court and in front of a class. Bulletin.

8 MUSCLE INN Ed Lawless (above), the Explorers’ wrestling coach, has recently been appointed strength and conditioning coach and director of the university’s new Fitness Center located in St. John Neumann Residence Hall on the South Campus

(Photos by Martha Ledger) La Salle, Spring 1991 9 FITNESS —continued

The center, which opened in November, will eventually contain equipment from Paramount, Universal, York Barbell, and 15 Nautilus stations. Aerobic/cardio- vascular facilities will be located on a newly-decked mezzanine level. Lawless and his staff are available to demonstrate appropriate techniques or training regi­ mens for all weight-lifters from the novice to the expert.

10 An average of 300 men and women weekly are currently using the facilities in a bright, airy atmosphere, many of them employing the “buddy system” shown here. Varsity crew coach Pete Sigmund (in baseball cap, below) works with some of his rowers. Alumni are also welcome at the center which will be open until June 15. Hours be­ ginning in September will be daily from 11 A.M. to 8 P.M. and on Saturday from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M.

La Salle, Spring 1991 11 From Student Congress to the Seven Seas

Sarah Green had rough sailing during her days as an Evening Division student. Now she’s teaching computer literacy on luxurious cruise ships

By Robert S. Lyons, Jr., ’61

S arah Green’s education at La Salle University not only changed her life, it has literally sent her cruising around the world with one of the most unique part- time jobs imaginable. When she’s not at home in San Jose, California running her own computer training and office auto­ mation consulting firm, Green, ’75, can often be found sailing one of the seven seas offering computer liter­ acy courses to people vacationing on luxury liners like the Queen Elizabeth 2, Rotterdam, Noordam, and Nieuw Amsterdam. She’s made 28 cruises in the last six years. Her 1,200 students have included people like Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick ( Tea House of the August Moon] and her colleagues on the leisure/entertainment staffs of the ships have been people like Flip Wilson, Dave Brubeck, and Van Johnson. “The skills that I learned at La Salle have taken me right through life,” says Green, who majored in psy­ chology, wrote for The Evening Collegian, and be­ came the first woman to serve on the Evening Division’s Student Congress. “If I had not en­ countered La Salle, certainly I would not have been the person I am today. The support there was just marvelous. La Salle turned my whole life around and it gave me a real feeling of success.” Things weren’t always so marvelous for Sarah Green. She came from a background that was “some­ what disadvantaged” as a youngster. When she started at La Salle at the urging of a friend in 1969, she had just been through a bad marriage. “I was kind of down and out in life. Things just were not going right.” Sarah also wasn’t sure if she was college ma­ terial when she enrolled for an English course in the Evening Division. Six weeks later, she knew. The in­ structor, Vincent Kling, said that she was being trans­ ferred to a higher level course because she had ex­ ceeded all expectations. “That was the real turning point in my life,” recalls. Green. “It gave me all the Green has offered computer training on cruises that have ranged confidence that I needed.” from a week to 30 days.

12 Green’s “Basic Introduction to Com­ puters” course typically ranks on the popularity charts up there with trap shooting, dance instruction, and cook­ ing classes.

Before long, Sarah was not only excelling in the it was just another “term project.” One day she was classroom, she was traveling all over the country rep­ reading the manual, the next day she was teaching resenting Student Congress. But there were still road­ employees. By the time she left to start her own busi­ blocks. Her elderly parents were ill and she was ness in 1983, Sarah had trained 200 people—a task working full time as a single parent, putting herself that her psychology degree from La Salle helped through school, keeping a house, and taking care of prepare her. two generations. One person who was very helpful “I am helping people enter the age of technology on a couple of occasions was Brother Jack Dondero, and they’re terrified,” Green explained. “It’s a big professor of psychology. “He had to put me back psychological problem for them. Some of these together one day when I went into his office totally people never thought that they had the skills for com­ distressed,” she recalls. “I’ll never forget it.” Shortly puters. They certainly didn’t have the interest. Using afterwards, she lost her job with the federal govern­ my psychological background, I went in, found the ment after 17 years when the U.S. Army Electronics right approach, and had them totally enjoying it.” Command in Philadelphia was phased out. Sarah then transferred to full-time day school and gradu­ ated magnum cum laude two years later. Her son, S arah’s other career aboard cruise ships developed Kevin, became the first non-spouse to be awarded quite by accident. She happened to read in Travel one of the university’s Ph.T. (Putting Her Through] and Leisure magazine that the QE2 had been re­ award. Today he’s a successful video photographer, furbished after the Falklands War and one of its new working with some of the top model and talent agen­ innovations was a Computer Learning Center for cies in San Jose. passengers who had plenty of spare time on their hands. A few phone calls later, Green was in touch with Southampton, England. She found out that the G reen earned a master’s degree from Temple Uni­ Cunard Line had an opening for another instructor versity, then went to work for Minneapolis Honey­ and within two months she was on her way to New well in nearby Fort Washington as the company’s first York for her first transatlantic crossing. “Talking female purchasing agent. Two years later, in 1978, about being out on a limb,” Green said. “ I had never Sarah relocated to San Jose as purchasing manager been on a cruise ship—any ship—in my life. I had no for American Microsystems, Inc., a semi-conductor idea if I would get sea sick. And I had no experience manufacturer. Not long afterwards, she was asked to develop a computer training program for all em­ with IBM computers.” ployees. The only problem: she knew absolutely Everything worked out fine, however. One day at nothing about computers. sea, Green heard that another cruise line was con­ “It was just like I was back at La Salle,” Sarah sidering introducing similar computer training recalls. “Every semester you’ve got new books, new classes. As soon as Sarah reached shore, she tele­ teachers, new subjects, new challenges.” For Green, phoned the representative of the other shipping com-

La Salle, Spring 1991 13 GREEN —continued

“My world has expanded so greatly largely because of my La Salle education”

pany on the East Coast. She was told that he would Needless to say, Sarah had herself dozens of new be interested in using her and immediately suggested bookings. She now works for four different cruise getting together. “I think it would be nice if we got lines—Cunard, Holland America, Regency, and Sit- to know each other,” said Green. “He said, ‘Sarah, mar—and is often the first person contacted when a that’s all right. I already know what you look like.’ cruise ship operator sets up a new computer training Now we’re 3,000 miles apart so I said, ‘How could you program. She handles all the logistics, figures out the possibly know what I look like?’ He said, ‘Remember best way to run the program between certain ports, when you boarded the QE2 in New York? You came and oversees the operation of the computer room that dashing into the cruise director’s office and you often is occupied 24 hours-a-day. Her ‘‘Basic In­ almost ran over somebody.’ And I said, ‘With a troduction to Computers” course typically runs for an beard?’ And he said, ‘Yes, that was me.’ Isn’t that hour-and-a-half each day and finds itself right up incredible? I said, ‘O my God! Was that you?’ because there on the popularity charts with trap shooting, I remember dashing into that room. I threw the door dance instruction, or cooking classes. ‘‘At the begin­ open and there was a man on the other side of it. And ning, computers were installed on ships as an experi­ I said, ‘Oh, I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to hurt you.’ He ment or on a trial basis,” Green recalled. ‘‘We hoped said, ‘not only that. I attended your classes. You’re that the cruise directors would use them to encourage great!’ If I had known that I was auditioning, I would other passengers. Now we’re chasing the staff off to have died.” let passengers have their turns.” G r e e n ’s cruises have ranged from a week to about 30 days. She spent two monthly segments as part of world cruises, once sailing from Peru to the South Pacific and, another time, going from Los Angeles to Hawaii, China, Thailand, and Singapore. She’s been to Alaska several times and sailed through the Pan­ ama Canal only two days before the American in­ vasion of Panama during the Noriega crisis. She dis­ embarked from another cruise as it approached Libya three days before the United States bombed Khadafy’s stronghold. Two years ago she was stricken with a life-threatening intestinal blockage while aboard the QE2 in the middle of the Caribbean. The ship made an emergency stop in Barbados where she spent eight days ‘‘hospitalized and totally trauma­ tized in third world conditions.” Last year, on a return cruise, Sarah revisited the hospital, which she remembered as a ‘‘shack,” in Barbados. ‘‘Now the hospital had been completely rebuilt into a new modern facility,” she recalled. ‘‘I went back, met with the doctors, and staff, and thanked them for literally saving my life.” The only drawback, says Green, is the fact that the trips take valuable time away from her own consult­ ing firm. ‘‘I’m not doing as well as I would like be­ cause each time you’re away for a few weeks or a month, you start losing a little ground. I haven’t traveled as much recently because I’m concentrating on promoting my business.” All in all, though, Sarah says that her career has worked out phenomenally well. ‘‘My world has expanded so greatly largely because When Sarah graduated magnum cum laude from La Salle in 1975, of my La Salle education,” she said recently. ‘‘La her son, Kevin, became the first non-spouse to be awarded one of Salle prepared me for what has turned out to be a the university’s Ph.T. (Putting Her Through) certificates. wonderful life.”

14 “We Start by Gripping a Baseball”

Almost every development in American history has been perfectly mirrored by our national pastime

By Dr. John P. Rossi, ’58

Mounted police help with crowd control as fans clamor for a “bleacher seat” on the roof of one of the homes on 20th street across from the right field wall at Shibe Park during a World Series appearance by the old Philadelphia Athletics in 1930.

“W hoever wants to know the heart United States a sporting environment rapidly spread throughout the country and mind of America had better learn similar to that provided by cricket in because they were logical and easy to baseball.’’ England. The first American baseball master. Such features as three outs for Jacques Barzun’s oft-quoted remark clubs were precisely that: clubs where an inning, bases ninety feet apart and is as true today as it was 35 years ago people of a like mind could recreate nine players a side were all part of when he first made it. Baseball is not and socialize. Cartwright’s rules. This version of just part of our history; it is intimately Baseball developed in the generation baseball soon swept aside all other entangled in our past. Since its emerg­ before the Civil War largely because of variants of bat and ball games that had ence as a serious sport in the 1840s a plan that systematized the sport been played in America since the co­ baseball has almost perfectly mirrored drawn up in 1846 by Alexander lonies were founded. every development in American his­ Cartwright (not Abner Doubleday who The Civil War saw the game played tory. had nothing to do with baseball) a mem­ by soldiers on both the Confederate and Baseball began as an effort by ath­ ber of the New York Knickerbocker Union side. Photographs have been letic types, mostly successful middle baseball club. Cartwright’s rules, called found showing soldiers playing a re­ class WASPs, to create for the young the New York game, caught on and cognized version of baseball. According

La Salle, Spring 1991 15 BASEBALL —continued

to Ken Burns, creator of the much her­ alded series on The Civil War and now working on a similar documentary on the history of baseball, the sport’s grow­ ing appeal was part of the country’s at­ tempt to forget the Civil War and find a peaceful game that would unite the nation. The late nineteenth century laid the foundation for the final emergence of baseball as “America’s Game.” As the country became more urbanized due to the Industrial Revolution, baseball switched from a rural game to a sport played in, and dependent upon support, in the cities. The game left the open cow pastures for ball parks built in the heart of the city. By the 1870s leagues that bear resemblance to modern ones came into existence and schedules were play­ ed that also are similar to a modern one. The starting lineup is introduced “the old fashioned way” at a Phillies game at the Baker Bowl located at Broad St. and Lehigh Ave, less than a mile from Shibe Park. Baseball also changed in another dra­ matic way in the 1870s. What began as a sedate, club-like form of recreation popular poem about baseball in 1888 wrote, “is the very symbol, the outward was transformed into a professional that he named his hero, Casey. It is also and visible expression of the drive and sport with highly paid athletes. As city sad to note that Kelly died young of the push and rush and struggle of the rang­ teams became competitive they tried to effects of heavy drinking establishing a ing, tearing, booming nineteenth cen­ lure the best amateur players to their pattern of substance abuse, especially tury.” teams by paying them to play. Baseball alcoholism, that still plagues baseball was a fully professionalized sport by today. I n 1893, after various experiments the 1870s with the highest paid player, The Irish came to so dominate with pitching distances, a rule was Harry Wright of the Cincinnati Red baseball in 1880s and 1890s that people passed placing the pitchers mound 60' Stockings, making $2,500 a season, a began referring to the ‘Irish game,’ 6" from home plate. No one is exactly huge sum in those pre-inflation years. meaning a brand of rough-house sure why this figure was settled on. It The sport was further defined in the baseball, best or worst exemplified by appears to have been the result of 1870s by a variety of changes. The box the Baltimore Orioles. Led by Irish- chance but when combined with over­ score was invented. Gloves were in­ Americans like Willie ‘Hit em where hand pitching and a raised mound it troduced and quickly became com­ they ain’t’ Keeler, and John McGraw, meant that pitching could keep hitting monplace making fielding more re­ the Orioles played a new and exciting under control. Three hits every ten liable. The catcher began wearing a style of baseball but one vastly dif­ times up now became a sound measure mask that enabled him to move closer ferent from the gentlemanly game of of offense. A workable tension between to the batter and take the pitch on the previous years. The McGraw-led Or­ hitting and pitching had been reached. fly rather than a bounce. Fielders took ioles looked for every edge—they used It continues today despite all kinds of positions that closely resemble modern brush-back pitches, baited umpires, tampering with the game—souped up positioning. The bunt had been in­ tripped opposition runners when the baseballs, the ban on trick pitches, vented and runners began to slide into umpire wasn’t looking and used their artificial turf and that most odious con­ bases. spikes to intimidate the infielders. They cept, the designated hitter. The 1870s also witnessed another sig­ fought on the field and off with their As the American public had more nificant change in the nature of opponents leading to fears by sports- leisure time available, attendance rose baseball—the ethnic makeup of the writers that this type of play would and baseball seized a virtual monopoly players changed. Among the best play­ scare fans away. Instead the fans loved of the sporting dollar. Baseball had no ers in the game were the immigrant the new brand of baseball. The game serious sporting competition. Boxing Irish. For the first, but not last, time became enormously popular with was popular but its brutality limited its baseball showed that it could con­ crowds of 3,000 to 4,000 being com­ appeal. College football was just getting tribute to social mobility in America. monplace and the best players becom­ started and basketball had only recent­ The Irish broke through initially in the ing lionized. Sliding Billy Hamilton, ly been invented. Baseball’s monopoly 1870s and by the 1890s they constituted Keeler, McGraw, Amos Rusie, ‘Kid’ led to the influx of sports entrepreneurs 1/3 of all the major league players. Nichols and Ed Delehanty became who were fans but also were interested WASP holdovers like Adrian ‘Cap’ household names in the ’90s. in making money out of the game. For­ Anson now had to share the spotlight mer players like Al Reach and Albert with Irish players like Tommy Bond T h e game achieved its final defi­ Spalding became highly successful and Tip O’Neil. The first great Irish- nition in the 1890s just as the nation manufacturers of baseball equipment. American superstar was Mike ‘King’ grew more diverse because of immigra­ In 1877 Spalding founded the profitable Kelly, a huge multitalented player who tion from southern and eastern Europe. SPALDING BASEBALL GUIDE, one of could hit, run, and throw with the best Baseball served to help unify the nation the first books devoted exclusively to in baseball. His daring base running by providing a game that everyone baseball statistics. He was the first, but gave rise to one of baseball’s first (but could play. It served to validate the not the last man, to become a million­ not last) chants—‘slide, Kelly, slide.’ It democratic ideal. Mark Twain, a aire from the exploitation of baseball. is no accident than when Ernest L. superb judge of American values, re­ Rich businessmen, many of them Thayer came to write his enormously cognized this appeal. “Baseball,” he brewers, bought baseball teams and

16 cognizable part of baseball for the first time. Fans responded by turning out in record numbers to see him and the new brand of baseball. Attendance figures in the 1920s were 37 million higher than the previous decade.

T h e 1920s also witnessed another in­ novation— radio broadcasting of baseball. Slow to catch on at first be­ cause some owners feared that fans would stay home and listen to the game, radio actually created new fans, includ­ ing women, who could learn about the game at home. After broadcasting the World Series in 1922, Graham McNamee found himself famous and got 17,000 letters from fans praising his description of the game. The St. Louis Shibe Park was later re-named Connie Mack Stadium and served as the home of the Athletics until Cardinals and Chicago Cubs discovered 1954 when they moved to Kansas City and the Phillies until the end of the 1970 season. Veterans that widescale radio broadcasting all Stadium opened the following April. over the Midwest created a new loyalty that transformed into added gate re­ ceipts as fans journeyed hundreds of used them to market their products, es­ enthusiastic to the serious, the witty miles to see major league baseball. tablishing a trend that has lasted to the and the analytical. Interest in the sport Over the next twenty years a whole present day. This helps to explain the continued to expand as new heroes new generation of fans were tutored in proliferation of German names among emerged to dominate the game: baseball expertise and ‘lingo’ by an­ the early baseball owners. Napolean Lajoie, Honus Wagner, nouncers who became household Early in the 20th century, just as ‘Rube’ Wadell, ‘Wahoo’ Sam Crawford. names: Red Barber, Mel Allen, Jack Theodore Roosevelt led the nation in a The first two decades of the century Brickhouse, and Byrum Saam among war against the Trusts and monopoly, also saw the breakthrough of another them. Radio not only spread the popu­ baseball also lost part of its monopoly. ethnic group, this time the German- larity of baseball but eventually The National League which had Americans led by Wagner, Herman brought in more money to the owners. survived competition from a variety of ‘Germany’ Schaefer, and an amiable Along with new stars like Joe DiMaggio, challengers in the 1880s and 1890s was supertalent from Baltimore named Bob Feller, and Ted Williams, radio confronted by a new threat. Ban John­ George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth. The Ger­ also helped baseball survive the hard son, a former journalist and avid man and Irish contingent of players was times during the great depression. baseball fan, organized a new league, large but they had to share center stage In the late 1920s and early ’30s, the American, in 1901. He put teams with the southerners, led by Ty Cobb, baseball also resolved a number of into many National League cities among the ‘Georgia Peach,’ ‘Shoeless Joe’ Jack- problems that had plagued the sport them Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, St. son and college men fresh from cam­ over the years. Led by Branch Rickey, Louis and eventually New York. By puses all over America, best rep­ the Cardinals developed the first farm 1903,16 teams were in place and no new resented by Christy Mathewson, Eddie system to provide a steady supply of franchise moves were made for 50 Collins and ‘Gettysburg’ Eddie Plank. new talent. By the late 1940s there were years, a degree of stability not likely to 58 flourishing minor leagues with over be matched again in the world of sport. B y the end of World War I, baseball 500 teams playing from class D up to Players took advantage of the situation began to experience stiff competition triple A. Last year there were just 18 and jumped teams. As a result salaries for the public’s money from college minor leagues functioning. More im­ rose, new team rivalries developed and football and boxing. While having to portantly for the public, baseball in the fans all over America clamored for a share popularity with Red Grange, 1930s created the first and most success­ playoff between the winners of the two Notre Dame, Man O’ War and Jack ful sports Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, leagues leading to the first World Series Dempsey, baseball more than held its New York. It soon became a shrine in 1903. Despite hesitancy on the part of own in the 1920s largely because of the worthy of any saint or patriotic hero the National League owners, the idea dramatic appeal of Babe Ruth. Ruth with thousands of fans visiting it every caught on and became a regular feature saved baseball in the 1920s by distract­ year. of baseball in 1905. ing the public’s attention from the Black During World War II, baseball almost Sox scandal of 1919. More importantly, collapsed as 90% of the players went N ews coverage of baseball escalated he also transformed the game from one into the military. The game was left to in the years before World War I until of strategy—moving runners, hit and greybeards, teenagers and those with a the sports page was virtually mono­ running, stealing bases—into a game of 4-F rating. As a result its quality suf­ polized by baseball. Even in the off long ball. In 1920 Ruth hit 54 home runs. fered. In 1945 Snuffy Stirnweiss of the season baseball stayed alive through For some idea of how astounding that Yankees won the batting title by hitting the so-called ‘hot stove league’ where figure was consider that it was 25 more .309, the lowest average in almost forty writers and fans argued about the past than anyone had ever hit before and his years. The American League home run season and plotted trades for the com­ total was greater than the total home title in 1944 was won by Nick Etten with ing campaign. Around 1915 a generation runs of fourteen of the remaining fif­ 22. When the St. Louis Browns won of superb journalists led by Ring teen teams in the major leagues that their only pennant in 1944, they had 18 Lardner, Damon Runyon and Grantland season. The ball was made livelier, bat­ players on the roster who were 4-F. The Rice transformed the writing about ters began to swing from the end of the game only survived because President baseball from the naive and bat and the homerun became a re­ Roosevelt believed that baseball would

LaSalle, Spring 1991 BASEBALL —continued in Montreal and Toronto. All of these factors showed that baseball could adopt to the modern world and at times could demonstrate imagination in the face of challenges from other pro­ fessional sports like football and basketball. Baseball even survived the abolition of the reserve clause in 1975 which for a century had bound a player per­ manently to his team. Predictions of dis­ aster from owners and writers proved premature as the game thrived from the mid-1970s on. Despite escalating salaries and players acting like prima donnas, the sport looks safe for the fu­ ture despite the worst efforts by greedy owners and players.

T h e immense popularity of baseball is rooted deeply in our culture. Baseball had long validated the American Dream. It is the only sport that has spawned serious literature. Beginning with Ring Lardner’s You Know Me Al stories through Bernard Malamud’s The Natural, and Mark Harris’ Bang the Drum Slowly, a rich and complex baseball literature has emerged, one that reflects the hold the game has on Phillies players prepare for their last appearance at the Old Baker Bowl in 1938. our psyche. In recent years this genre has been joined by superb films such as Robert Redford’s version of The Natu­ serve to build morale in the nation and the past. Roberto Clemente, the Alou ral, Bull Durham, and Eight Men Out. the public needed something to take its brothers, and Orlando Cepeda played a Every few years I offer a course in mind off the war. new and exciting style of baseball. At­ the summer dealing with the complex tendance figures rose by 30 million in relationship between baseball and the 1950s and 56 million in the 1960s. America’s history. It is an easy course T h e war also established the primacy Along with ending the color bar, to organize because so much excellent of night baseball. First introduced by baseball incorporated television into material is available. The level of Larry McPhail in 1935 in Cincinnati, the the game in the 1950s. Again there were serious writing about baseball led by concept was slow to catch on. The gov­ fears that television would keep fans at David Voight, of Albright, and Harold ernment preferred night baseball dur­ home. Instead as with radio it created ing the war because it provided leisure Seymour as well as the work of brilliant new fans especially kids who dis­ activity for war workers while not inter­ journalists like Roger Angell, of the The covered a new generation of heros like fering with their jobs. Within five years New Yorker, has made it simple to con­ Mays, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, of the war’s end every team in the ma­ nect developments throughout jors except the Cubs would adopt night Robin Roberts and Stan Musial. baseball’s history with crucial changes baseball and begin to play a greater in America’s past. part of their schedule under the lights. Showing that it could still reflect the The student leaves the course under­ The two decades following the war way America was changing, baseball in standing a great deal about how the pro­ fessionalization of sport developed, were the most important for baseball the 1950s began moving franchises since the game was formalized in the around: the Boston Braves to Mil­ about the workings of racism in one 1870s. Facing increasing competition for waukee, the St. Louis Browns to Balti­ area of American society and about the the leisure dollar from other sports es­ more, and the A’s to Kansas City. Then complex economic and social changes pecially college football, baseball’s ad­ in 1958 baseball went transcontinental that are involved in sport. Baseball is a justment took many forms. The owners by shifting two successful franchises, perfect microcosm for what happened successfully promoted baseball as the Brooklyn and the New York Giants to in America over the past century and a family game, the one sport that every­ Los Angeles and San Francisco. The half. It is in our very bones. one could enjoy and understand. Most Dodger franchise became the most As Jim Bouton once quipped, “we significantly, it ended the color bar by prosperous in baseball, setting the stan­ start by gripping a baseball and end up allowing blacks into the majors for the dard that other teams sought to copy. being gripped by the game.’’ first time since the 1880s. Led by Jackie For the last thirty years the Dodgers Robinson, blacks like Willie Mays, have drawn more fans than any other Dr. Rossi, a professor of history, has Larry Doby, Ernie Banks, Don New- team in baseball. written extensively about his specialty, combe, and Hank Aaron not only im­ Early in the 1960s, baseball added modern British and Irish history, along proved the quality of baseball but also new teams for the first time since the with work on the career of George Or­ helped increase its popularity. The turn of the century. Eventually it ex­ well, World War II, and baseball. He blacks were followed into baseball by panded beyond the continental United spoke last June at the annual con­ the Latin players, a source of talent that States by establishing teams in Canada, ference of “Baseball and American only a handful of teams had tapped in including highly successful franchises Culture’’ at Cooperstown.

18 AROUND CAMPUS

Classroom Visits by Executives Highlight Business Awareness Week

Panel discussions on “Minorities in Business executives who participated ton, PA; Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, ’72, Business: Challenges and Op­ in classroom sessions were: Richard president & CEO, Spring Financial Ser­ portunities” and “Preparing for Di­ Alexander, ’74, chief financial officer, vices, Mount Laurel, NJ, and Brian J. versity in the Workplace,” as well as Tozour-Trane, King of Prussia, PA; Gail, '69, senior vice president, group classroom visits by 61 prominent local Erwin von Allmen, president, W.C. management supervisor, Lewis, Gilman business executives highlighted Busi­ Smith Co., Villanova, PA; Benjamin G. and Kynett, Philadelphia. ness Awareness Week from March Baird, ’83, general manager, FAG Bear­ Also: Peter Gallagher, ’80, vice presi­ 11-15 on La Salle’s campus. ings Co., automotive division, South- dent, W.H. Newbold’s Son & Co., Bala The discussion on special challenges field, MI; John Barton, ’80, senior busi­ Cynwyd, PA; John P. Gallagher, ’62, facing minority students was held on ness analyst, Financial Research, Inc., vice president of finance, Nichols March 11. Panelists who analyzed their Ardmore, PA; G. Michael Bellenghi, ’70, Group, Horsham, PA; Steve Gardner, own career paths included former partner, Deloitte and Touche, Philadel­ partner, Deloitte & Touche, three-time Olympian Ira S. Davis, ’58, phia; Uneeda O. Brewer, manager, Philadelphia; Elizabeth H. Gemmill, president, Ira S. Davis Storage Co.; training and development, Ortho Esq., v.p., secretary, gen. counsel, Tasty Sharon B. Durham, senior provider re­ Diagnostic Systems, Inc., Johnson and Baking Co., Philadelphia; Joseph M. lations representative, Prudential In­ Johnson Company, Raritan, NJ; Gindhart, Esq., '58, attorney, Wissow, surance Co.; William Ford, ’85, branch Kathleen Burns, ’75, treasurer, Alco Odza, Steckiw and Gindhart, Philadel­ manager, Meridian Bank, and Gilberto Standard Co., Valley Forge, PA, and phia; Edward W. Graham, ’77, manager, Medina, Esq., CPA, Milligan Co. Henry J. Clemente, '64, president and building services department, Philadel­ The discussion on the diverse groups CEO, Immunicon Corporation, Hunt­ phia Gas Works; Robert F. Graham, '85, and new issues of the changing work­ ingdon Valley, PA. audit department manager, Deloitte & place was held on March 14. Panelists Also: Patrick E. Coggins, vice presi­ Touche, Philadelphia, and John R. included Joanne A. Barnett, director, dent, administration, Sun Refining and Greed, ’82, audit manager, Arthur multicultural affairs, La Salle Univer­ Marketing Co., Philadelphia; Charles J. Andersen & Co., Philadelphia. sity; Hoyt J. Phillips, MBA ’90, vice Corace, '68, director of management de­ Also: R. Thomas Guinn, export sales president, employee relations, CIGNA, velopment and training, McNeil Phar­ manager, AMETEK, PMT Division, and Cecilia Moy Yep, executive direc­ maceutical, Spring House, PA; Feasterville, PA; William Hankowsky, tor, Philadelphia Chinatown Develop­ Wilhelmina Davis, ’85, project manager, president, Philadelphia Industrial De­ ment Corp. CIGNA Corporation, Philadelphia; velopment Center (PIDC); Dean Henry, Each of the 61 business executives Alfred DiMatties, '71, v.p. & sr. asset '86, principal technical support analyst, served as a guest instructor in a La Salle mgt. officer NJ coordinator—Midlantic U.S. Health Care, Blue Bell, PA; Eugene School of Business Administration class Trust Office, Midlantic Bank, Mount R. Johnson, ’86, vice president, Frank- on March 13 or 14. They described their Laurel, NJ; Dennis M. Durkin, ’80, of­ ford Hospital, Philadelphia; Peggy K. individual industry or firm and ex­ fice leasing specialist, Jackson-Cross Jones, ’86, vice president, St. Francis plained opportunities, skills needed, Company, Philadelphia; Leon E. El- Medical Center, Trenton, NJ; James M. and educational requirements of their lerson, ’56, president, Keystone Com­ Knepp, ’68, assistant corporate con­ particular careers. puter Association, Inc., Fort Washing­ troller, Air Products, Allentown, PA;

Ira Davis (left) and Sharon Durham discuss challenges and opportunities for minorities in business.

La Salle, Spring 1991 19 bright’’ students, especially if they have already decided as undergraduates their future area of specialization in nursing. “This option will enable some stu­ dents to speed up their graduate work by as much as a year,” explained Dr. McHugh. “Not only that, but, graduate level courses are often much more stimulating for the gifted students.” Dr. McHugh said that this program “adds a new dimension to education at La Salle” because it is believed to be the first time that La Salle under­ graduates have been permitted to take graduate level courses. La Salle’s RN/BSN curriculum, which is one of the largest programs of Gilberto Medina, Esq. William Ford its kind in the country, is designed for graduates of Associate Degree and James Lord, ’66, vice president, finance, 76, corporate controller, Technitrol, Diploma nursing programs who hold SmithKline Beecham Laboratories, Inc., Wyndmoor, PA; Allen L. Twiford, the R.N. license. King of Prussia, PA, and James J. Lynch, 76, director of materials, Paper Manu­ La Salle’s M.S.N. degree program 71, vice chairman, Continental Bank, facturers Company, Philadelphia, and prepares nurses for advanced practice Philadelphia. William T. Wagner, ’81, sales manager, as clinicians and administrators in tra­ Also: Thomas Lynch, ’62, president, Hewlett Packard, Valley Forge, PA. ditional and non-traditional settings. United Valley Bank, Philadelphia: Also: Joseph Walton ’60, former presi­ For further information, please con­ Peter A. Martosella, Jr., ’60, managing dent, Abraham Lincoln Savings, tact Mary Levda, the Nursing Depart­ director, The Palmieri Co., Philadel­ Dresher, PA; Joseph V. Weber, CPA, ment counselor at (215) 951-1430 or phia; John S. McElderry, ’81, vice presi­ partner, Ernst & Young, Philadelphia; write to La Salle University, Depart­ dent of sales, Lumberman Associates, John J. Welsh, 74, vice president-direc­ ment of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia: Francis T. McGettigan, tor customer service, CoreStates First 19141. 77, partner, KPMG Peat Marwick, Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia; Rob­ Philadelphia: Stephen L. McGonigle, ert Allen Wentz, ’89, senior consultant, 72, national account manager, AT&T, management consulting division, infor­ Philadelphia: Patricia McNamara, ’86, mation technology group, KPMG Peat La Salle Student senior account executive, Smith Marwick, Malvern, PA, and John F. Barney, Philadelphia; John B. Millard, White, ‘67, partner, Coopers & Lyhrand, Named to USA TODAY president, Millard Consulting Services, Philadelphia. All Academic Team Inc., Fort Washington, PA, and James V. Morris, 79, senior client executive, SEI La Salle University senior Andrea Corporation, Wayne, PA. Nursing Program Offers Kelly, of Philadelphia, has been named Also: James F. Mullan, ’61, president, Graduate Course Option by USA TODAY as a member of it's Phillips & Jacobs, Inc., Pennsauken, NJ; 1991 “All-USA College Academic Dan Nagle, 71, vice president, sales La Salle University’s Department of Team”, which salutes the “best and the and marketing, TastyKake, Philadel­ Nursing now offers an option that brightest” students from across the phia: Francis Palopoli, ’69, president, enables undergraduate students to take country. Vesterra Corporation, Blue Bell, PA; graduate level courses while still pursu­ Kelly, a biology major with a math­ Joseph Panchella, '82, partner, Arthur ing their bachelor of science in nursing ematics minor, was selected as one of Andersen & Co., Philadelphia; Stephen degree. only 60 students nationwide who made P. Pasquini, president, Conrail Undergraduate students who qualify one of the newspaper’s three Mercury, Inc., Plymouth Meeting, PA; for the program that began in January “academic teams”. USA TODAY used Harry Pearce, '66, executive vice presi­ may take up to six graduate credits in the word “team” to show that academic dent, chief financial officer, Tyco Toys, one of the three areas of specialization skills deserve at least equal recognition Mt. Laurel, NJ; Archangelo J. Pergolese, leading to a master of science degree in to athletic honors. ’58, principal, Huver & Associates, nursing offered by La Salle. Kelly, who has a GPA of 3.97, was Media, PA, and John Pettine, ’65, vice The three tracks available in La nominated by La Salle professors be­ president, Tasty Baking Co., Philadel­ Salle’s Graduate Nursing Program are cause she excelled not only in scholar­ phia. Adult Health and Illness Nursing, Com­ ship, but in leadership roles on and off Also: Richard Prendergast, ’60, presi­ munity Health Nursing, and Nursing campus. dent, ICS Corporation, Philadelphia; Management Administration. One of the key elements for selection Carmen Romeo, '65, executive vice- Courses are offered at La Salle’s was a student’s outstanding original president, SEI Corporation, Wayne, PA; main campus at 20th st. and Olney ave., academic or intellectual product, and Charles A. Schmidt, ’65, former general in Philadelphia, and in Bucks County at the student’s ability to describe that manager-aerospace, General Electric, Archbishop Wood High School, York endeavor in a written form. Kelly was East Windsor, NJ; Brian R. Schofield, and Street roads, Warminster. chosen, in part, for her research on the '86, regional marketing manager, Dr. Marylou K. McHugh, R.N., assis­ resistance of cancer cells to a specific American International Companies, tant professor of nursing, emphasized chemotherapeutic agent. The research Philadelphia; Kenneth Shaw, Jr., '64, that the program is not for everyone, was performed while she worked in the president and chairman, Fred Hill & but added that the new option offers a pharmacology department at the Fox Son Co., Philadelphia; Albert Thorp III, number of advantages for the “really Chase Cancer Center in northeast

20 La Salle’s Department of Nursing has been awarded a $4,371 grant from the Delaware Val­ W.W. Smith grant recipients Charles Snyder, ley Chapter of the March of Dimes. It will be utilized to expand the university’s health III, and Bridget Beynon. promotion services to include pregnancy testing for low-income women in the Germantown area. Here Dr. Patricia Gerrity (right), associate professor of nursing at La Salle, discusses the grant with Dottie Schell, chairperson of the March of Dimes Health dent assistant in one of the university’s Professional Advisory Committee. dormitories. She has tutored at Building Blocks Child Development Center on La Philadelphia during the summer of educators to select the students for their Salle’s campus, at Widener Memorial 1990. outstanding blend of scholarship, in­ School and Logan Elementary School, At La Salle, Kelly is the chairperson itiative, creativity and leadership, and both in Philadelphia. for the Senior Gift Committee, which their desire to use their talent to help Beynon has volunteered at Our Lady presents a parting gift from seniors to others. Help of Christians Church in Abington, the university. She is also a member of where she assisted with church ac­ La Salle’s Homeless Committee, the tivities and fundraisers. This semester Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Medical she is student teaching at Shawmont Honor Society, and the Alpha Epsilon Two Seniors Awarded Elementary School in Roxborough. Alumni Honor Society. W.W. Smith Grants Upon graduating, Beynon plans to Kelly is a member of La Salle’s Cam­ pursue a career in teaching or special pus Ministry Liturgy Planning Commit­ Two La Salle University seniors have education in an urban or suburban tee and she was recently named to been awarded $5,000 scholarships each school near the Philadelphia area. Who’s Who Among Students At Ameri­ from The W.W. Smith Charitable Trust The W.W. Smith Charitable Trust can Universities and Colleges. She is a to help finance their education at La scholarships to Snyder and Beynon past member of the university’s Justice Salle for the 1990-91 academic year. brings its total amount of various grants Week Committee. The recipients are Charles Snyder, and scholarships awarded to La Salle As a member of La Salle’s Homeless III, a senior accounting major who lives University to $86,000 for the current Committee, Kelly volunteers for food in Maple Shade, NJ, and Bridget E. year. and clothing drives. She has partici­ Beynon, a senior elementary and “All of us at La Salle deeply ap­ pated in Project Appalachia, a student special education major who lives in preciate the many forms of support our volunteer organization where members Factoryville, PA. students have received over the years spend their spring break performing Snyder is a member of La Salle’s Beta from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, home repair/renovation and farm work Alpha Accounting Society, the Account­ and we are especially grateful for in the Appalachian area. ing Association, and the Association for having the opportunity to participate This year Kelly spent her spring Business Excellence, as well as a par­ again this year in the W.W. Smith Schol­ break participating in the Campus Min­ ticipant in various intramural sports ac­ arship Prize Program,” said Dr. Fred J. istry’s “Week of Hope,” where she tivities. Foley, Jr., the university’s vice presi­ worked at a number of sites throughout A volunteer for income tax as­ dent for development. Philadelphia including Project Rain­ sistance, Snyder is also a volunteer Recipients of the W.W. Smith grant bow, which cares for children and coach and referee for his home-town are selected on the basis of academic homeless mothers, and Women of soccer team. Upon graduating, he plans distinction, financial aid, high personal Hope, which works with emotionally to pursue his master’s degree in taxa­ character, involvement in on-campus disturbed women and victims of spouse tion or possibly attend law school. extracurricular activities and/or off- abuse. Beynon is a member of La Salle’s campus community service projects Upon graduating in May, Kelly plans Conflict Mediation Team, which at­ and leadership. to attend medical school. tempts to settle disputes between stu­ The W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, the USA TODAY used a panel of nine dents and/or faculty. She is also a resi­

LaSalle, Spring 1991 21 third largest private foundation in reports written in those classes. In some Philadelphia, awards $6 million in cases they also staff the Writing Center. grants annually in the Delaware Valley The Conference was attended by 100 Region to support: medical research students from Swarthmore College, into cancers, heart disease and AIDS; Williams College, Brown University, financial aid at colleges and univer­ The University of Pennsylvania, and La sities; free hospital care for the in­ Salle University. Each school assumes digent, and programs providing food, responsibility for a segment of the con­ clothing or shelter for children or the ference program. With the aid of their aged. instructors, students plan and conduct the conference workshops. The program this year addressed University Co-Chairs such topics as the image of the peer tutor, gender and ethnicity issues as East Coast Writing they affect peer tutoring, “creative con­ Fellows Conference ferencing,” the role of the peer tutor when discussing content, the rela­ Writing Fellows from La Salle Uni­ tionship between the faculty and the versity and the University of Penn­ peer tutor, the writing center as context, sylvania chaired the East Coast Peer how to publicize peer tutoring pro­ Tutoring Conference on Nov. 3-4, at grams, the role of written versus oral Parsippany, N.J. comments in responding to student According to Dr. Margot Soven, coor­ papers, writing in different disciplines, dinator of La Salle’s Writing Fellows and the nature of academic rhetoric Program, the East Coast Peer Tutoring and style. The University of Penn­ Conference provides a unique op­ sylvania demonstrated a workshop on Dr. Margot Soven portunity for students to discuss the­ writing college papers which they offer ories and strategies related to peer tu­ during freshman orientation week at The Conference gives La Salle stu­ toring. The purpose of the conference Penn. dents a chance to learn from both the is to facilitate an exchange between La Salle sent eight students to the students and instructors who represent schools which have Writing Fellows conference. Each of them led a small the other schools involved. programs, programs in which peer tu­ group workshop session with approx­ Furthermore, all of La Salle’s partici­ tors are assigned to classes in all dis­ imately ten to twelve participants. Ma­ pants had the experience of serving in ciplines to help students with their terials were prepared in advance. They a leadership role in a multi-school set­ papers. Writing Fellows read and re­ participated actively throughout the ting. In addition students have com­ spond to the drafts of the essays and conference. mented that the conference helps to strengthen the relationships between the La Salle tutors. “In broader terms, I believe the East Coast Peer Tutoring Conference gives students a chance to gain a better understanding of what it means to be an academic,” explaned Dr. Soven. “By observing the interaction of their professors, as well as by participating with their professors and fellow stu­ dents as colleagues in a serious dialogue about primary issues in the academy—literacy, pedagogy, issues of ethnicity and gender, and student-fac­ ulty relationships, students experience the exhiliration that many of us as­ sociate with meaningful scholarly ex­ change.”

Kemper Foundation Awards Scholarship La Salle University freshman Jennifer Lilly Schenk, of Virginia Beach, VA, has been selected to participate in the Kemper Scholars Program, supported by the James S. Kemper Foundation. La Salle University is one of only fifteen A permanent memorial to honor the university’s recipients of the Christian R. and Mary schools nationwide to participate in the F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award has been installed in the foyer of the Connelly program. Library. Some 65 La Salle professors have been honored including Dr. Joseph F. Flubacher, ’35 (center), emeritus professor of economics, and the 1990 awardees, Dr. Stephen F. Andrilli, A graduate of Lejeune High School on ’73 (left), assistant professor of mathematical sciences, and Dr. James E. Biechler, professor Camp Lejeune Marine Base in North of religion. Carolina, Schenk is a political science

22 “clues" such as mugshots, videotapes were taught how to perform other and handouts. chemical analysis, such as identifying With the assistance of La Salle Uni­ poisons and soil samples. versity chemistry, biology and geology/ Dr. Belzer says the project attempts physics faculty, the students were to get high school students interested in taught fingerprinting, ABO bloodtyping, the science field, as well as in attending and chromatography. The students also college.

Jennifer Schenk and economics major at La Salle, where she has participated in various in­ tramural sports activities. Following graduation in 1994, she plans to attend law school. The purpose of the Kemper Scholars Program is to help highly motivated stu­ dents combine their university studies St. John Neumann High School student Warren Honeycutt (center) practices fingerprinting with carefully selected summer jobs to while Dr. William A. Price (left), an assistant professor of chemistry, and other students enhance their personal and pro­ look on during La Salle’s recent Forensic Workshop. fessional development in preparation for a career in business. Kemper Scholars must maintain a grade point average of 2.8. It is not man­ datory that recipients major in busi­ ness, but they must be committed to work in a business related field. Once chosen, the Kemper Scholars must com­ mit themselves to three summers of em­ ployment at any Kemper Office across the United States. In addition to the summer employ­ ment, Kemper Scholars may be granted financial aid to meet any unsatisfied financial need. They also have access to the academic and career planning re­ sources of the Foundation.

Forensic Workshop Held for Students La Salle University’s second annual ‘‘Forensic Workshop” was held recently on campus. Dr. Norbert Belzer, chairman of the biology department, said that approx­ imately 40 students from St. John Neu­ mann participated in the project, which William Quinn, F.S.C., Ph.D., La Salle’s former academic vice president and dean, shows was presented to the students as a part of his stamp collection depicting “Birds of the World,” that was recently on display murder-mystery scenario where they in the Union Building. Brother William’s collection totals about 28,000 and includes “all but had to ‘‘solve a crime” through the vari­ about 80 or 100” of every stamp ever issued prior to 1970 depicting some species of a bird. ous procedures taught to them, and by

La Salle, Spring 1991 23 In Memoriam La Salle Mourns Deaths of First Admissions Director,

inspiration as an advisor to pre-medical students.” Brother Christopher, who also taught for two years at the University of Scran­ ton and one year at La Salle College High School, was chairman of La Salle’s Committee on Recommendation to Medical and Dental Colleges from 1947 to 1974. Brother Christopher, who loved horti­ culture, took great pride in helping to landscape La Salle’s campus. During the 1940s, he personally planted pin oak trees along 20th St. and Olney Ave. bordering La Salle’s campus. In ad­ dition to teaching biology, he also mod­ erated the university’s undergraduate theatrical group, The Masque, for a while, edited the day school catalogue, Richard Lautz and served on such campus committees as College Council, Athletics, and Pub­ Dr. Richard Lautz, associate F. Christopher, F.S.C. lic Relations. professor of English at La Salle, died on A native of Baltimore, Brother January 22 after a long illness. Richard Brother F. Christopher, F.S.C., Ph.D., was 55. the first director of admissions and a Christopher worked as a salesman in one of his father’s men’s shops and at­ A native of Buffalo, New York, Rich­ former dean at La Salle University died ard came to La Salle in 1968, after re­ on March 30 at Germantown Hospital tended Law School at the University of Maryland for a year before entering the ceiving his M.A. from the University of after suffering a heart attack. He was Arkansas and his Ph.D. (specializing in 82. Christian Brothers in 1929. One of his most cherished honors came 50 years Victorian literature) from the Univer­ A member of the Brothers of the sity of Pennsylvania. He had taught Christian Schools for 61 years, Brother later when Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer proclaimed a “Day” previously at Brockport State College in Christopher served as La Salle’s direc­ New York. Richard quickly established tor of admissions from 1955 until 1972 for him in commemoration of his golden anniversary as a Brother. He was desig­ himself as one of the most talented when he stepped down from full-time teachers at La Salle, and he was honor­ duties and worked as the university's nated an “Admiral of Baltimore Harbor” at the same time. ed by the university with its Lindback coordinator of transfer admissions until Award for Distinguished Teaching. Ac­ his retirement in 1983. Brother Christopher earned his cording to John Keenan, former chair of Brother Christopher, who joined the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate the English Department, “Richard La Salle faculty as an associate degrees from The Catholic University Lautz had the reputation of being one professor of biology in 1943, was ap­ of America, in Washington, D.C. of the most enthusiastic, provocative, pointed dean of the college in 1951. One and knowledgeable teachers in this de­ of his many responsibilities then was A member of numerous scientific, partment of 45 teachers.” administering all admissions academic, and professional societies, For two decades Richard was advisor Brother Christopher was former presi­ responsibilities, a position that he as­ to the undergraduate literary magazine, sumed full-time four years later. dent of the National Association of Col­ Grimoire. For almost as long, he served During Brother Christopher’s career lege Admissions Counselors, an as poetry editor of Four Quarters, one at La Salle, he watched the college grow emeritus member of the Pennsylvania of the nation’s oldest small press maga­ from a small struggling institution of Association of College Admissions zines. A fixture at poetry readings in some 90 students who attended classes Counselors, and a co-founder of the Philadelphia and New York, Richard in two buildings during the closing days Catholic College Coordinating Council. maintained correspondence and friend­ of World War II to a dynamic institution He was also a member of the Ameri­ ship with many contemporary poets. of almost 7,000 men and women attend­ can Association of Collegiate Registrars Last year Richard donated to La Salle ing day and evening classes at three and Admissions Officers, A.E.D. Inter­ his several hundred volume collection separate campus locations. national Pre-Medical Honor Society, of contemporary American poetry— K.M.E. National Mathematics Honor “Not only was Christopher the re­ nearly all first editions and many in­ vered ‘dean’ of admissions directors in Society, and Pi Delta Phi National French Honor Society, among others. scribed to Richard—to form the Lautz the region, he had a profound influence Special Collection. on generations of students and high He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Agnes M. Schirf, of Baltimore. Richard’s dedicated following of stu­ school guidance counselors,” recalled dents was especially evident in La La Salle’s Brother President Patrick A Mass of Christian Burial was cel­ Salle’s Honors Program, where he Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D. “Often forgotten be­ ebrated on April 3 at the La Salle Uni­ taught a course in the Freshman Inter­ cause of his prominence in admissions versity Chapel on campus. Burial was disciplinary Program and an immensely work was the fact that he was an excel­ on the following day at the Christian popular upper-level seminar in The lent biology teacher. Legions of area Brothers Cemetery, in Ammandale, City in Literature. Throughout his ca­ physicians attribute their careers to his Md. reer at La Salle, Richard gloried in in-

24 Retired Athletic Director, and Two Faculty Members

legiate Athletic Conference. La Salle troducing students to the cultural prominence during his 35 year tenure treasures of the city of Philadelphia. as athletic director. awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1955. Besides his general interests in art, in In addition to seeing La Salle become Henry is survived by his wife, Julia; Victorian Literature, and in Contem­ one of the few schools in the nation to a daughter, Julie Marie Borger, a son, porary Poetry, Richard was particularly win both major basketball cham­ interested in the Beat Poets; a highlight Joseph, 17 grandchildren and seven pionships—the National Invitational great-grandchildren. of his special topics course in this sub­ Tournament (1952) and NCAA (1954), ject was the appearance in the course A Mass of Christian Burial was sung Henry founded the first Catholic Col­ on Dec. 22 at Maris Stella Church, in of poet Allen Ginsberg. During the last lege Crew program at La Salle and two decades, Richard brought many, Avalon. Burial was in Holy Sepulchre watched the oarsmen capture six Dad Cemetery. many writers of note to La Salle. Vail national titles during one seven When Richard was asked to revise his year stretch. biographical statement in La Salle’s La Salle also achieved national Guide for English Majors, he—charac­ prominence in swimming and track teristically—decided to use the space to during Henry’s term as athletic director write about his former students: “One with Joe Verdeur winning a gold medal of the few pleasures of middle age,” he with a record-smashing performance in began his statement, “is discovering the 200 meter butterfly in the 1948 that so many of your former students Olympics in London and Ira Davis and have become such accomplished and, Al Cantello representing the Explorers frequently, published writers.” Richard in the triple jump and javelin, respec­ did not say why so many of his students tively, in later Olympic games. became successful, but anyone who Henry was one of the founding ath­ knew Richard and his superlative letic directors of the unique Big Five in teaching knew the reason. 1955 which saw La Salle, St. Joseph’s, Contributions in Richard’s memory Villanova, Temple, and Penn flourish may be made to the English Department as one of nation’s most successful intra­ at La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA city major college basketball leagues 19141), which has set up a fund in his for more than 35 years. honor. “Jim Henry was a rock of integrity,” —James A. Butler, Ph.D., ’67 recalled Brother President Patrick Ellis, Walter J. Kaiser F.S.C., Ph.D., recently. “The man estab­ lished a tradition here that is still main­ Walter J. Kaiser, ’47, a member of La tained today.” Salle’s Accounting Department faculty Henry made All America honorable for 42 years before his retirement in mention as an end at Villanova. After 1989, died on Jan. 24 in Abington Mem­ graduation, he joined La Salle’s staff as orial Hospital. an assistant football coach in 1930 and Kaiser, an associate professor of ac­ was named head football and basket­ counting at La Salle, was also a certified ball coach the following year, guiding public accountant and had his own firm the Explorers to a 15-4 record in their in Philadelphia, and more recently, in first official year on the intercollegiate Huntingdon Valley. hardwood. He was promoted to athletic He was an Army veteran of World director in 1934 and presided over the War II and attended North Texas State Explorers football program during its Teacher College in 1943-44 as an engi­ ten year existence as an intercollegiate neering major as part of the U.S. sport at La Salle. Army’s Specialized Training Program. Football, indeed, was one of his A resident of Southampton, Pa., for major loves. In addition to serving as many years before moving to nearby one of the nation’s top football of­ Horsham, Kaiser was an active member James J. Henry ficials—working such classics as Army- of the Lions Club. Navy and the Sugar Bowl, Henry was He is survived by one daughter, James J. Henry, the long-time athletic chairman of the board of the prestigious Bernadette Kaiser-Bonal, four sons, director at La Salle University, the Ex­ Maxwell Football Club, in Philadel­ Gerard, Joseph, Christopher, and plorers first varsity basketball coach, phia. In 1984, the club established the Thomas, and four grandchildren. and one of the founders of Philadel­ Jim Henry Award given annually to an A Mass of Christian Burial was sung phia’s Big Five, died on Dec. 19 after outstanding area high school football on Jan. 26 at Our Lady of Good Counsel suffering a heart attack at Burdette player who also excels in the classroom Church, in Southampton. Burial was in Tomlin Hospital, in Cape May and community. Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Courthouse, N.J. He was 84 and had The past president of the Eastern In­ Donations in Mr. Kaiser’s memory lived in nearby Avalon since retiring tercollegiate Football Officials Associa­ may be made either to the Livengrin from La Salle in 1969. tion, he was also a long-time member of Foundation, 4833 Hulmville Road, Henry, who also taught finance at La the executive committes of the former Bensalem, PA 19020, or to the Domini­ Salle, helped to develop the Explorers’ Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference can Retreat House, Ashbourne and athletic program into one of national (ECAC) and Middle Atlantic States Col­ Juniper Aves., Elkins Park, PA 19117.

La Salle, Spring 1991 25 —1990-91 Basketball Roundup—

It was a Season of Highs and Lows for the Men and Women There were highs (133 points at Loyola Marymount on New Year’s Eve) and lows (50 points against St. Peter’s in the MAAC semifinals). There were ups (a 102-94 victory at Villanova’s duPont Pavilion) and downs (an 84-68 blowout at Notre Dame, among others). But that’s the way it was for the 1990-91 version of La Salle Univer­ sity’s men’s basketball, just one season removed from the giddy heights of a 30-2 Lionel Simmons- powered steamroller. The Explorers did retain a share of the Metro At­ lantic Athletic Conference, finishing in a tie with Siena when both teams wound up with 12-4 regular-season records. A 19-9 overall record re­ ceived one more mark on the loss side, a 93-90 National Invitation Tournament loss at the University of La Salle’s Academic All America Mary Greybush hugs her mother, Theresa, after scoring Massachusetts. her 1,000th career point against Temple at Hayman Hall on Dec. 11. Greybush, who has Meanwhile, on the women’s side, a 3.32 GPA as a Biology/English major, finished sixth on La Salle’s all-time scoring list with 1,404 points. one of the season highs came in the same game as one of its lows. On January 6, La Salle’s senior and Jack Hurd, vaulted to a 16-4 re­ the reward was that trip to UMass. Academic All-American, Mary cord. Then two ominous events With the score 93-90 against the Ex­ Greybush, scored 36 points against cropped up. plorers, and time running out, the the University of Michigan at the In a struggle of strong defenses, La ball got to Overton, who took a long Wolverines’ Crisler Arena, one of Salle led St. Peter’s, 57-55. shot, aiming for the tying three- the greatest performances at that With only eight seconds remain­ pointer. It hit the rim, bounced away, storied court which has housed many ing, the Peacocks’ Jasper Walker hit and with it, took the last vestige of greats. a three-pointer, and La Salle had lost hope for Overton and his mates. But it ended in a heartbreaking a key battle on its Philadelphia Civic Overton had come back, indeed. 67-65 loss, a game of mixed emotions Center home court. He played the entire 40 minutes, had that typified the season. A 10-7 In practice the next day, Overton 19 points, 10 assists, six rebounds and MAAC campaign was followed by a suffered a sprained left ankle that not a turnover. It wasn’t enough. first-round loss in the conference would sideline him for the Big 5 When he missed that final fling, he tournament that brought the year to showdown against St. Joseph’s and and fellow guard Woods met and em­ a close with a 16-12 mark. three more games, and obviously braced near midcourt, realizing it Despite the disappointments, hamper his efforts when he did re­ was the curtain-dropper for this many of which were brought on by turn. great backcourt duo. illness and injuries to key players, Overton, a superior guard with Maybe, along about now, it will coach John Miller saw some bright All-America and NBA credentials, have hit Doug Overton, future NBA spots. tried to return against St. Peter’s at guard, that his La Salle playing days “This team did not win 20 games Jersey City, played a half and ob­ are over. And when commencement nor participate in the NCAA Tour­ viously was not ready. In the MAAC time came, he was there to receive nament as our fans have become ac­ Tournament opener in Albany his degree in Elementary/Special customed to,’’ Miller said, “but those against Loyola (Md.), Overton began Education. close to the team realize how hard- to show some semblance of his old “I might be in my room or home fought and satisfying that 16-12 re­ self, and even more in another loss with my mom,” he said, “when I will cord was." to St. Peter’s, this one in the MAAC realize that this La Salle experience Although the ending was almost semifinals. is over and what it has done for me. similar for the men of coach Speedy That setback removed the Ex­ I might even miss hurrying to those Morris, it didn’t head down that road plorers from the NCAA Tournament 3:30 practices because then I’ll re­ until late in the season. The Ex­ picture and ended that three-year alize I won’t be putting on the Blue plorers, led by senior captain Doug streak. A bid to the National Invita­ and Gold anymore.” Overton and juniors Randy Woods tion Tournament came fourth and —By Bob Vetrone

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Joseph H. Foster, a senior partner in the Trial Department of White and Williams, in Philadelphia, received the first “Defense Lawyer of the Year” award from the Penn­ sylvania Defense Institute.

’51______Leon E. Ellerson, ’56 (center) was honored with the Warren E. Smith, M.D., Award during Philip J. Lucia has retired as vice president the second annual African-American Alumni reception on Feb. 1. The award was presented and manager of Nationwide Insurance Com­ by Stephen McGonigle, ’72, president of the university’s Alumni Association, and Mary pany, in Harrisburg, Pa. Thomas, ’91, president of La Salle’s African-American Student League. Ellerson, president of Keystone Computer Associates, in Fort Washington, Pa., was honored for his commitment ’55______to La Sallian values and his contributions to the community. The late Dr. Smith, ’54, served for many years as a psychiatrist in the university’s Counseling Center. Joseph Paul Kelly has retired from Lancaster Newspapers Inc., where he was an ex­ ecutive. He is now affiliated with the Penn­ of Directors of the Locust Lake Village Prop­ sylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bu­ erty Owners Association, in Pocono Lake, Pa. reau, in Lancaster, Pa. George C. Stewart is the president of Hanson Scale Division, Sunbeam/Oster Companies, in Chicago, Ill. ’56______Burt A. LaQuaglia received a certificate of service award for 25 years of service to the ’67______McAleer State of Delaware. He is employed as an Daniel Burns was appointed manager of auditor in the Office of Auditor of Accounts. management services of the Franciscan Health System, in Aston, Pa. Bridgeton, N.J. James F. Boerckel is vice ’56______president of fiscal services at Community Morton W. Rimerman was elected treasurer ' 68______Health Affiliates, in Ardmore, Pa. Kevin W. of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia McAleer joined Rexene Corporation in Dal­ Lawrence G. Lupus is the secretary of the las, Texas, as executive vice president and Electric Company. He also serves as vice general staff, North Carolina National president of finance. chief financial officer. Richard F. Stephan is Guard. regional claim director for Provident Life '61______and Accident, in Birmingham, Alabama. Robert N. Masucci recently announced the ' 69______MARRIAGE: Kevin W. McAleer to Alice formation of Montgomery Capital Advisors, Leo F. Craig, Jr., was appointed president of Holt. Inc., specializing in merchant banking, in­ Sharplan Lasers Inc., in Allendale, N.J. stitutional private placements, and merger '74______and acquisitions advisory services in Bala ’71______James F. Anthony, III, has been named Cynwyd, Pa. “Young Agent of the Year for 1990” by the James M. Mack was named executive vice Independent Insurance Agents of New Jer­ ' 63______president of corporate banking at Constella­ sey for his contributions to the insurance tion Bancorp, in Milburn, N.J. Michael Park was appointed senior lending industry and for his extensive civic ac­ officer of Fidelity Savings, of Bucks County, tivities. Philip E. Cassidy, Jr., is a mortgage Pa. ’72______loan officer at Eastern Mortgage Services. Thomas J. Ardecki, CPA, is associated with ’65______William Thos. Athey and Company, a ’75______Robert E. Gaffney was elected to the Board certified public accounting firm in Richard Murphy is manager of application

La Salle, Spring 1991 27 support at the American Automobile As­ sociation, in Heathrow, Fla. Stephen M. Si- meoni received the FOCUS customer service award at Prudential Reinsurance, a subsidiary of The Prudential Insurance Company of America, in Newark, N.J. He is a manager in the claim division.

Alumni To Sponsor Caribbean Cruise La Salle in Florida, an organiza­ tion of La Salle University and La Salle College High School alumni, is sponsoring a seven-day Carib­ bean cruise in January, 1992. By booking as a group, friends of La Salle can enjoy a substantial discount on a luxury superliner while helping raise funds for the club’s scholarship fund. Ed Wilson, a 1952 La Salle High graduate, is president of Royal In­ ternational Tours in Pompano Beach, Florida, specializing in Brother President Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D., chats with Martin F. Malarkey, ’39 (left), and group cruises. (retired) Col. John P. Leonard, Jr., USMC, ’38, during a meeting of the Washington, D.C. Wilson said the new Carnival chapter of the Alumni Association on Feb. 22 at USA TODAY, in Arlington, Va. The reception Cruise Lines ship, the Ecstasy, has was hosted by Thomas Curley, ’70, president of USA TODAY. been selected for the inaugural cruise of what is planned as an annual event. “It’s the finest ship available in 76 ______Florida,” Wilson said. “It is the John JD, Connors, JD, CPA, LL.M., is director sister ship of the Fantasy and will of tax research and coordinator of tax pro­ enter service this summer. It will grams at Bryant College, in Smithfield, R.I. sail from Miami for the Eastern Caribbean with stops at Nassau, San Juan and St. Thomas. It will 77 ______be a gala affair, on ship and off, Sean T. O’Meara is a shareholder in the law with special events for the La firm of Archer and Greiner P.C., in Haddon- field, N.J. Robert D. Scott is vice president president and relationship manager at the Salle group.” of finance for Atlantic-Pacific Air and Trans­ The ship will leave January 26, Moorestown (N.J.) regional office of the port, Inc., in Lester, Pa. Larry S. Tuliszewski Princeton Bank and Trust Company. Michael Wilson said. Packages are avail­ was promoted to Philadelphia County H. Schmitt was promoted to the rank of able with or without air fare and branch manager at Commonwealth Land major in the U.S. Marine Corps. James J. hotel accommodations before and Title Insurance Company, in Philadelphia. Smart, CPA, founded the firm of Smart, after the cruise. BIRTH: to Rick Wroblewski and his wife, Smith and Associates, Certified Public Ac­ La Salle in Florida is a char­ Donna, their third child, a son, Richard, Jr. countants, in Wayne, Pa. Walter R. Wo- tered chapter of the La Salle Uni­ jciechowski was named vice president/chief versity Alumni Association. The financial officer at the Arkhon Corporation. non-profit corporation was for­ 78 ______Edward A. Wilusz, ASA, CFA, is a vice presi­ med to develop camaraderie Michael Bohrer was named partner in the dent at Financial Research, Inc., a corporate certified public accounting firm of Sander J. valuation and financial consulting firm in among more than 600 university Greenberg and Company, in Marmora, N.J. and high school alumni in Florida Ardmore, Pa. William Wallace has opened Heavenly Ham, BIRTH: to Gregory Farrell and his wife, and to support both schools. a gourmet store, in Marlton, N.J. An endowment to provide Sheila, their second daughter, Kathleen BIRTHS: to Robert Dondero and his wife, Anne. scholarships to the university for Ellen, their first child, a daughter; to Jeffrey Florida students is being estab­ W. Fox and his wife, Janet, their second lished. The cruise concept will be child, a son, Edward Richard Fox, II. '80______the major annual fund raising ef­ BIRTHS: to Mary Mullin McNamara and her fort and will also provide funds husband, Robert M. McNamara, M.D. ’78, for the high school’s development 79 ______their third child, a daughter, Colleen Mary; program. David J. Bryant is a controller at Richard I. to Joseph J. Sobotka and his wife, Sylvia R. For additional cruise infor­ Rubin Co. Inc., in Philadelphia. Gregory Far­ Pokorani-Sobotka, '82, a daughter, Erica rell has been promoted to sergeant in the Nicole. mation and reservations, call Philadelphia Police Department. He is as­ 1-800-637-9222 or, in Florida, (305J signed to the 15th Police District. James L. 946-7412, or write La Salle in Gertie earned the Chartered Financial '81______Florida, attention Bernard Analyst (CFA) designation. M. Lynn Mandia Frank Agrusa, CPA, opened his own McCormick, 111 SE 17th Ave., Ft. opened Valley Forge Marketing Consultants, certified public accounting firm in Philadel­ Lauderdale, FL. 33301. a firm serving the U.S. pharmaceutical in­ phia. John R. Fenton, Jr., was named director dustry. Richard F. Mauro was appointed vice of marketing of the Philadelphia Airport

28 ’83

Regan Fenton

president of First American Savings. Susan Marriott. Joseph V. Hosack, Jr., earned the Gregory J. Cowhey is a senior business Reifsteck Gaudio has been appointed health Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) desig­ analyst at Financial Research, Inc., a corpor­ care products sales representative with re­ nation. ate valuation and financial consulting firm sponsibility including all of Long Island and BIRTH: to Frank Agrusa and his wife, in Ardmore, Pa. Queens for Picker Internationa}, a leading Carolyn, a son, Michael. radiology manufacturer. She is married to ' 84______Dr. Joseph Gaudio (BA ’85). Timothy R. Michael J. Spadaro was promoted to product Regan has been named assistant alumni di­ ’82______manager of Terumo Corporation, an inter­ rector at LaSalle University. Colleen Price is a senior accountant at Jack national manufacturer of disposable medi­ and Jill Ice Cream, in Philadelphia. William cal products, in Somerset, N.J. Hank Straub D. Shields was promoted to director of sales was named an audit senior manager at ’88______and engineering for three divisions of the KPMG Peat Marwick, in Harrisburg, Pa. Sally Ann Cogan is a P.C. specialist at Balis Furon Company, a processor of engineered and Company. Mary E. Martin is a staff ac­ plastic materials. Thomas M. Ullmer is a risk ’85______countant at AIM Telephones, Inc. management administrator at Atlantic Eugene J. Dragnosky was promoted to assis­ Financial. tant vice president in the commercial de­ ' 90______MARRIAGE: William D. Shields to Patricia partment of Hamilton Bank, in York, Pa. Heidi Joe Faller is enrolled in the Master of Ven Douern. David R. Forlini was promoted to assistant International Management Program at Thun- BIRTHS: to Carol Lentini Helinek and her vice president in the installment loan ac­ derbird, The American Graduate School of husband, Tom Helinek, M.D., Ph.D. 77, their counting department at Continental Bank, in International Management, in Glendale, Ari­ second child, a son, Thomas Kevin; to Fran­ Philadelphia. Daniel J. McCloskey received zona. Juan A. Lopez, Jr., is a staff auditor in cis Molettieri and his wife, Audrey, a daugh­ his MBA degree from Temple University. the internal audit department of Philadel­ ter, Krista Marie; to Sylvia R. Pokorni- phia National Bank. Sobotka and her husband, Joseph J. Sobotka, ’86______MARRIAGE: Juan A. Lopez, Jr., to Heather '80, a daughter Erica Nicole. John M. Douglass was elected regional vice T. Wells.

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES t39______of Philadelphia Public School Retired Em­ G. Harold Metz’s book Sources of Four Plays ployees Association. James A. Nolan is a con­ Ascribed to Shakespeare: The Reign of King sultant to pro-life political candidates. The Edward III, Sir Thomas More, The History University of Pennsylvania Press published of Cardenio, The Two Noble Kinsmen was Joseph F. O’Callaghan’s book, The Cortes of published by the University of Missouri Castile—Leon 1188-1350. A Spanish edition Press. He also contributed an essay on the was also published. play Sir Thomas More that was published in McDevitt Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More: Essays on the Play and its Shakespearian Interest, ' 54______a symposium in print, edited by Trevor H. John P. Davis was appointed managing agent Howard-Hill and published by Cambridge of Resolution Trust Corporation. John J. University Press. Fossett is the corporate safety and health manager, a certified industrial hygienist and Charles A. Hepford, DPM, was elected presi­ a certified safety professional for Sandoz dent of the American Academy of Podiatric Crop Protection Corporation, in Chicago. Administration. He also had an article on '43______Bernard L. Skwirut has received his regis­ podiatric medicine published in the Journal James G. Bridgeman was appointed coordi- tration as a professional engineer in Ten­ of Spanish Podiatry. nator/support leader for Parents of Gay/Les- nessee and Kentucky. bian Persons in the Camden (N.J.) Diocese. ^60______'57______John E. Margraff was re-elected to the Board ' 49______Charles R. Kindregan is the associate dean/ of Directors of Holy Redeemer Hospital and Robert F. McMackin retired from Com­ academic affairs of Suffolk University Law Medical Center, in Meadowbrook, Pa., for monwealth Land Title Insurance Company School, in Boston, Mass. He is also the co­ the Uth year. Dr. Jim Richard, a professor as senior vice president and regional man­ author of a four-volume treatise on family of psychology at Bucks County Community ager. law that was published in 1990. Jack College, recently co-authored a book with McDevitt’s short story, “To Hell with the Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster Chris Stars,” was published in Christmas on Wheeler entitled Not Too High, Not Too '50______Ganymede and Other Stories, edited by Low: Stress Management Strategies for Pro­ Frank W. Hauser, Jr., retired from the Phila­ Martin Greenberg and published by Avon fessional Baseball Players and Their Fans. It delphia School District. He is the president Books in 1990. is published by Kendall/Hunt.

La Salle, Spring 1991 29 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEW S

Florida Chapter Formally Recognized as First Regional Alumni Club The FLORIDA Chapter of the State-wide in ambition, the new WASHINGTON, D.C. ALUMNI Alumni Association was formally chapter recently added Clearwater CLUB reception at USA TODAY to recognized by the Alumni Board of resident CHUCK KILBRIDE, ’57, to hear Brother Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Directors at its March 13 meeting. It its Board. Chuck will continue to Ph.D., President of the University. thus became the first regional lead the Tampa Bay division. TOM CURLEY, ’70, President of USA TODAY graciously provided alumni club to be given this status Secretary BERNIE under the recently revised By-laws the unique setting: a spectacular McCORMICK, '58, has announced of the Association. view of the nation’s capital from the plans for endowing a scholarship 17th floor of the paper’s head­ program by sponsoring a cruise in quarters in Arlington, Va. Centered primarily in the Fort January, 1992. They look forward to Lauderdale area, this group, which welcoming fellow Explorers from calls itself “La Salle in Florida,’’ northern climes for this event. [See University Vice-President of En­ has been meeting regularly for the details elsewhere in the Alumni rollment Services, Raymond A. past two years under President JOE Notes section). Ricci, was the principal guest at a DUNLEAVY, ’55, who now becom­ social meeting of LOWER BUCKS es a member of the Alumni Associa­ More than 100 alumni and guests COUNTY [Pa.] alumni on April 10 tion Board of Directors. gathered on February 22 at a at Northampton Country Club.

'65______Richard P. Hamilton was appointed studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania Raymond F. Shea, Jr., received the 1990 Hu­ director at Archbishop Kennedy High School of Medicine, in Philadelphia. He re­ manitarian of the Year award from Kimball School, in Conshohocken, Pa. John P. ceived the Basil O'Connor Award of the Medical Center, in Lakewood, N.J. McLaughlin, D.O., was inducted as a fellow March of Dimes, a research grant to study in the American College of pregnancy diseases and their effects on fetal Gastroenterology. growth. Ralph A. Magnatta, CPM, was ' 67______named president of the Delaware Valley Frank J. Batavick was named director of Chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Man­ product development for the Agency for In­ '72______agement, a division of the National Associa­ structional Technology, in Bloomington, In­ David Haasis received the Department of tion of Realtors. He is also the president of diana, which produces and distributes in­ the Navy meritorious civilian medal in the Brite Realty Services Inc., in Exton, Pa. structional television programs to PBS sta­ capacity of head, Air Warefare Division, BIRTHS: to Francis Day and his wife, Rose tions and schools. Joseph A. Nickels is the Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Train­ Guerin Day, '77, a daughter, Roseann; to president of the Nickels Agency, Inc. in ing Systems Center, in Orlando, Fla. Tom Helinek, M.D., Ph.D., and his wife, Mays Landing, N.J. BIRTH: to Michael J. Bachman and his wife, Carol Lentini Helinek, '82, their second Joan, a daughter, Lora Michelle. child, a son, Thomas Kevin.

’68______74 ______78 ______Stephen J. Malpezzi joined the faculty of the Daniel A. Domanico was promoted to con­ School of Business at the University of Wis­ troller of Ridgaway Philips Company. Mary consin, in Madison. He was an economist for Ann Welz Schmitt is a psychology instructor the World Bank, in Washington, D.C. for nine at Coastal Carolina Community College. years. John H. McCleary, Ph.D., edited The BIRTH: to Robert M. McNamara, M.D. and History of Modern Mathematics with David his wife, Mary Mullin McNamara, ’78, their Rowe. The book was published by Academic third child, a daughter, Colleen Mary. Press in 1989. MARRIAGE: Jon F. Tucker to Evelyn Ante- 79 ______lman. Susan C. Lowery, M.D., completed her fam­ Michael Lee is human resources manager at ily practice residency and received board Packaging Corporation of America-Ecko 75 ______certification in family practice. She has Products, in Clayton, N.J. Robert T. Moran BIRTHS: to Dr. William K. Istone and his joined the King of Prussia Family Practice, recently addressed the Research and De­ wife, Lynn, a daughter, Emily Ann; to Kevin King of Prussia, Pa. velopment and Drug Discovery sections of D. Kelly and his wife, Deborah, a son, Dillon the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associa­ William. ' 80______tion. He is a vice president and partner with A.T. Kearney and specializes in executive Marlyn Alkins earned a master of arts in search in the health care industry. Robert P. 76 ______education degree from Beaver College. She O’Halloran retired from the U.S. Army as a Susan Coia Gailey, Ph.D., has joined the was appointed an assistant professor at lieutenant colonel after 20 years of service. Center for Continuing Education at Johnson Manor Junior College, in Jenkintown, Pa. and Wales University, in Providence, R.I., as Mary Montrella Waybill, M.D., was a training coordinator. promoted to assistant professor of medicine, ' 69______Division of Nephrology, at Hershey Medical Thomas E. Furlong, Jr., Ph.D., is the vice Center, Pennsylvania State University. president for educational services at Tal­ 77 ______BIRTH: to Mary Montrella Waybill and her lahassee Community College, in Florida. Ronald Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D., is an assistant husband, a daughter, Kathleen Marie.

30 The Explorer Network—An Opportunity To Enrich The La Salle Community By Sharing Your Career Experiences. by Lou Lamorte & Gen Carlton

When asked by interviewers why Planning is creating a formalized • Discuss your career/job with they chose to come to La Salle, stu­ Alumni Career Development students, individually at your dents frequently cite the strong Network—“The Explorer Network”. work site or in groups on cam­ sense of community that exists here, The Network will give you the op­ pus; a bond they believe extends not only portunity to offer much needed ad­ • Represent your company at job to faculty and administrators but in­ vice and assistance to students and and/or career fairs held at La corporates La Salle alumni as well. young alumni. Salle; It may be due to this sense of com­ The Explorer Network is an ex­ • Refer job leads for permanent, munity that many of the students pansion of the existing World of co-op, summer, and part-time who utilize Career Planning’s ser­ Work program which has been active openings within your organiza­ vices not only participate in on-cam- for over a decade. This program tion; pus recruiting and explore the vari­ matches students and young alumni • Promote La Salle students and ous options we have for locating full­ with established La Salle alumni em­ programs within your geo­ time employment, they also request ployed in a career area of interest to graphic region; alumni contacts and ask about op­ the graduate or student. Recent • Sponsor La Salle graduates for portunities to meet with La Salle graduates report that the program employment opportunities of­ graduates employed in their area of was one of the most beneficial fered by your company interest. La Salle students sometimes aspects of their career decision mak­ • Participate in our renowned On- cite programs that they have heard ing process. Christina Mazza, a Campus Recruitment Program about from other schools, especially senior English major and Dean’s List for graduating seniors and MBA Ivy League Schools, where there is a student since Freshman year, found candidates; long tradition of “networking” be­ that the program was an excellent • List available job openings tween students and alumni. way to help define a focus for her job through the CPPB's job posting In addition to the undergraduates, search. She commented “I came system including the Telephone there has been a tremendous in­ away from this placement feeling JobLine. crease in the number of alumni who confident that there are op­ are using our services. They too fre­ portunities for me in insurance and quently request the names and ad­ that they appeal to me. The infor­ Please assist us in helping La Salle dresses of La Salle graduates so that mation I got was much more valu­ students and young alumni as many they can seek information and ad­ able than anything I would have ob­ other graduates have done. Com­ vice. In addition, they express tained from books.” plete the information in the box interest in companies who have As Christina’s comment illustrates, below and return it to the Career hired a number of La Salle graduates you can make a very valuable con­ Planning and Placement Bureau, La and want to be informed when fel­ tribution to the La Salle community Salle University, 20th and Olney Av­ low alumni are giving on-campus by participating in the Explorer enue, 4th Floor Administration presentations. Network. By joining, you can assist Center, Philadelphia, PA 19141. We Because our students and recent our students, enhance their educa­ will be contacting you with further graduates have expressed such a tional experience and enrich their details. If you have any questions on high degree of interest in making lives and careers. There are many this program do not hesitate to call contact with La Salle Alums, Career ways to participate: Lou Lamorte at (215) 951-1075.

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La Salle, Spring 1991 31 Ttt______general practice from the American College '85______Joseph Izes, M.D., is a urology resident at of General Practitioners. Betsy Stein Izes, Alice Premaza-Mueller, D.O., is completing Lahey Clinic, in Burlington, Mass. M.D., is a radiology resident at Lahey Clinic, medical residency at Delaware Valley Medi­ in Burlington, Mass. Karen Spielberger, cal Center, in Langhorne, Pa. M.D., completed her medical training at ^82______Lankenau Hospital. She has entered private ' 86 Vernita Hall was promoted to supervisor, practice in internal medicine in Chestnut ______operating systems at Philadelphia Gas Hill, Pa. Maria Jane Arenas is an orthopaedic phys­ ician assistant at Bridgeport Hospital, in Works. Drew Murdock established Arcadia MARRIAGE: James V. Templeton, Jr., to Landscape Design, in Berwyn, Pa. Connecticut. Anne L. Galasso, ’83. BIRTH: to Stephen D. Wiener, D.O. and his BIRTH: to Regina Moore Plummer and her wife, Ellen, their first child, a daughter, Re­ ' 83______husband, Samuel Plummer, ’80, their first becca Faith. Dr. Anthony E. DiMarco is board certified in son, Samuel Joseph. '8 7______Rebecca Efroymson received a master of sci­ ence degree in environmental toxicology from Cornell University. Michael B. Lougherty was named public information of­ ficer for the Delaware Department of Labor. Christopher S. Peszka received a master’s degree in social service from Bryn Mawr College. He is a case manager/therapist who works with foster children for Wordsworth Human Services, in Elkins Park, Pa.

' 88______Tracy Collins, who was the evening disc jockey/talk show host on New Jersey WKXW-FM (101.5) in Trenton, has joined Dennis Malloy on the morning drive-time show on Philadelphia’s WKSZ-FM (100.3).

' 89______James K. Gulick, Jr. is the assistant track and field coach and a physical education instruc­ tor at the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Md.

NECROLOGY '42______Louis J. Bonder

Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc., has awarded a $20,000 graduate study grant to La Salle University in honor of Lionel Simmons, the 1989-90 U.S. Basketball Writers '50 ______Association Player of the Year. Simmons, who now starts for Sacramento in the National Clarence J. Harris Basketball Association, was on hand for the presentation of the first $10,000 installment Walter J. Toth, Jr. when the Kings faced the Philadelphia 76ers at the Spectrum on Nov.21. Leo Levine (left) made the presentation as Brother President Patrick Ellis and basketball coach Speedy Morris (right) watched. '51 ______Michael J. Neafcy

'52______MOVING? Charles L. Durham, Esq.

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32 Annual Fund LAST CALL

Alumni Goal: $1.4 Million To date: $808,000 (58%) Reunions Goal: $245,000 To date: $162,000 (66%) Parents Goal: $60,000 To date: $36,000 (61%)

FISCAL YEAR ENDS JUNE 30,1991

Tom Curley ’70 President, USA Today Chair, Annual Fund

La Salle, Spring 1991 La Salle’s Provost Reflects on Educational Priorities

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