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Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1977 The ommeC nt, October 20, 1977 Bridgewater State College Volume 50 Number 16 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1977). The Comment, October 20, 1977. 50(16). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/408 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Girl Crazy .Announcements p. 12 tEbt Comment p.4 Vol.L No. 16 Bridgewater State College October 20, 1977 Spring Registration Memoriam November 9 (Wednesday): 9:00-11:00- *Students in the Class of 1980 and the Class of 1981 In Class of 1978 and Graduate Students have been assigned a registration group by means of a lottery system. Lists indicating the student's November 10 (Thursday): 9:00-11:00- ·group will be posted throughout the campus prior Class of 1979 to registration. You may register only with that group or a later one. EACH STUDENT IS Junior and Senior Elementary and Special RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURING THE GROUP Education majors scheduled to student teach DO NUMBER ASSIGNED. NOT register at this time~ You will be registered by your department according to your teaching November 16 (Wednesday): Late Registration-- assignment. 1:00-3:00, Student Union November 14 (Monday); Class of 1980* SPECIAL STUDENTS may register only on 9:00-10:30--Group I November 16 from 1:00-3:00. 10:30-12:00--Group II 1:00-2:30--Group In Students who are unable to register with their 2:30-4:00--Group IV assigned group may register with any scheduled LATER group. A late fee will only be charged for the November 15 (Tuesday): Class of 1981* scheduled late registration. 9:00-10:30--Group l 10:30-12:00--Group II HANDICAPPED STUDENTS--Arrangements for 1:00-2:30--Group III registration should be made with the Registrar's 2:30-4:00--Group IV Office before Nov~mber 8. The campus and all who knew him lost a good friend and excellent professor last Thursday with the passing of Professor Lester Houston. P?ofessor Houston was and shall be remembered as a dynamic, a We Need Teachers!! strong, and above all, a genuine individual. )y Jean St. Andre of Dr .. Deitz, a leave of abscence by need of 12 teachers to fully His contributions to the students who knew him personally,as well as 'Tm sorry, all sections of CA 200 Dr. Skalny, and Sabbatical leaves by accomodate the needs. Presently, the contributions he has made to the Bridgewater Campus, shall deeply \Oral Communications), are Professeur Dunne and Dr. Levine. the department has ·178 majors, effect the outcome of many. closed." Heard that before? Unless According to Dr. Richard J. numerous minors, and only 6 full On a personal level, he was above·board, candld, and straightforward. you're one of the lucky few, you've W?\rye, acting chairperson of the time teachers. He was not afraid to express his opinions and feelings and he encouraged probably heard that several times at department. communi<:atiof]s is a Currently, eight visiting lecturers students to do the same. several registrations. growing field,but the teacher supply are teaching Some of the In the classroom he was motivating and challenging .. Prof. Houston' The Communications Arts and is lessening instead of becoming communication· classes. "They are encouraged his students to strive for academic excellence, to be the best Sciences Department has a very greater. Warye recollected that all highly qualified", Warye added. they could be. severe teacher shortage. This when the department was in its These visiting lecturers are teaching Perhaps his major contribution to the Bridgewater campus was the problem is partially due to the beginning stages, they projected 85· such courses· as Oral Communica- initiation. this year of the Social Work Major within the Sociology retirement of Dr. Pitts,_ the transfer 90 majors in communications with a cont. p. 4 Department. Prof. Houston was responsible for the entire program which makes Bridgewater one of the two state colleges that have fully accredited Social Work Majors. The background of Prof. Houston is impressive and inspiring ...upon Cardinal to VisitBSC gradl:lating from Newton Public Schools, he attended Howard University and received an degree. He went on to receive his Master of Social The Most Rev. Humberto Bishops who held the most promise churches' stance on abortion with A.B. Cardinal Medeiros, the Archbishop for the future of the Church in the his "In Defense of Unborn Human Work from Boston University. Prof. Houston had also done graduate work at the Florence Heller School of Brandeis University. His work of Boston, will be celebrating Mass United States. Life" where he spoke against the When Pope Paul VI announced growing laxity of birth control and · experience includes being a lecturer at MIT, Simmons College, School of at the Catholic Center on October Social Work at the University of North Carolina at -Chapel Hill. He had ·30 at the. 10:45 celebration. Cardinal acceptance. of the resignation of abortion laws. Medeiros is a 61-year-old native of Cardinal Cushing, he simultaneous Throughout the years, there were served as the director of the Roxbury Comprehensive Community the Portuguese Azores who ly announced that-the Car-dinal's -regular meetings of the Archbishop Health Center, and served as the Director of the Summer Training Program for the Commonwealth Service Corp. of Boston .. On the replaced the late Richard Cardinal successor would be the Bishop of of Boston with dignitaries of every Cushing in 1970. Brownsville. Thus Bishop Medeiros level ~with thePople himself in the campus itself he worked with students establishing social work Cardinal Medeiros migrated to became Archbishop-Designate of Fall of both 1971 and 1972, with ex internships. , . Prof. Houston was an admirable individual to be remembered am the United States in 1931 and was the Archdiocese of Boston .. President Nixon at the White House naturalized 9 years Jater • in 1940. Archbishop Medeiros was officially on Nov. 14, 1971, with Mass. revered. Meanwhile, he attended· school in installed in Holy Cross Cathedral on Governor Francis W. Sargent at the Fall River, Mass., the Bristol County October 7, 1970. Within a month, latter's inauguration on Jan. 7. 1971, community to which he had come Cardinal Cushing of Boston had and with many, many more. I . I The .. Archbishop regularly visits --~------ .. -- .. -.. --- .. --------- from the Azores. I I The future Archbishop of Boston parishes throughout the 2500 I and Prince of the Church studied for square-miles of his See. He has kept • Election Results I the priesthood at the Catholic· up the practice established by his •I I University of AmericCl, Washington, predecessor of sharing Thanks I D.C., and was ordained in St. giving Dinner with the lonely and • Class· of 1980 homeless. I I Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, for the I I' , Diocese of Fall River on June 15, On Friday. February 2, 1973, the I . President: Jeff Hawkins news all New England had been I 1946. AtC.U., he earned the Master I I of Arts degree (M.A., '42), the expecting for so long was I Licentiate in 'Sacred Theology announced: Archbishop Medeiros S.G.A. Assistant Treasurer: I (S.T.L., '46), and the Doctorate in had been named by Pope Paul VI to I Cheryl Lightfoot Sacred Theology (S.T.D., '52). the Sacred College of Cardinals. I I• I In the years 1949~1950, he was The letter. from Pope Paul· to the I engaged in research at C.U. and at Archbishop of Boston . was dated I I the Gregorian Univeristy in Rome. January 18,)973, but was held in the I Class of 1981 I Upon his return to Massachusetts, strictest _ confidence until the I I he· was named· associate pastor in •. announcement from Rome. President: Peggy Doherty I new visited. all· At a press confernce in his home •I I . Holy Name parish, Fall River (1950- Vice~President: to be ejected 51) .. Duringthe next three years he· areas of the Archdiocese to meet that morning, just three hours after I on I served in the diocesan Chancery in priests~ reljgious; and people the news had been made public, the I Monday, October. 24, 1977 I F all River as an assistantch~mcEdlor, persona!Iy .. a practice he continues Cardinal·Designate insisted that the I., Secretary: Donna Corio I- as chaplain at Sacred Hearts to this day. He offered special new honor. was not his, but I I Academy, and as Vicar for Religious Masses for and with his Boston's. Tre-asurer: Roberta Hayes I in the Diocese. ~'exceptjonal childrer/' the aged, . It is with this background of His •I Social Director: .Tammy Alandel I He was ordained tothe episcopcy infirm, and imprisoned. He presided Emminence that the entire I I at hospital, school,arid youth Bridgewater commuhityawaits his Senators: Nancy Paglione on June 9, 1966, and named second I I Bishop of the Diocese of functions. His care,fot the poor and arrival. We are especially privileged Pauline Dumaise for other victims of modern society, that the Cardinal chose BSe to I Brownsville, Texas. While still •I Robert DeYeso, Jr. I serving in .Brownsville, he was for example, was and reamins incJudein his busy schedule. Our unwavering. warmest wishes, and welcome to I Russell ":LaPlume I named by CRITIC magaizine of I .Chicago. as .one of the 12 leading He violently defended th~ ,th~.9Ndjn~I." .... _ ....... ____ -·IIiIIIIi!III-"" ___ ........ __ .... -'_""!III'• _ • • • ~ - • 01" r 1., I :11 f ...