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VOL. 4, N0.4 LOYOLA COLLEGE, MONT REAL DECEMBER 1960 Sod Turned for Loyola College Science Block • • CHRISTMAS MESSAGE EDUCATION MUST BE FROM RECTOR , 'VIT•AL ACTIVITY, NOT INERT IDEAS', Shepherds are too cold to delight in the DEAN McDONNELL SAYS wtntery landscape and too preoccupied with what the angels had said. Silently they press across th,e snow-blanketed fields and trudge up the The official sod-turning ceremonies for Loyola's new $1,500- sleeping hills that fade into starry heavens, 000 science block took place on October 26, creep cautiously to a cave dug out of the hillside Most Rev. Lawrence P. Whelan, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of and follow the dim light that shows from the Montreal, blessed the ground, and James C. Wilson, President of cave's open mouth. The wi nd is not as cutting the Loyola Alumni Association, turned the sod. They were assist now, but the dampness, dripping from the stones, ed by Loyola's Rector, Very Rev. Patrick G. Malone, S.J., Ver bites into their marrow. This cave, as their dun's Mayor George O'Reilly, MPP, and Quebec Legislative nostrils tell them, is none too pleasant or clean. Councillor, the Hon. Francis L. Connors. But then it is a stable. The sod-turning ceremony for the science block, scheduled to In the path of their inquiring gaze sits a be completed for the 1961-62 academic year, was the first and youn g and radiant girl, lifts to them a tender most intimate of three events planned in connection with the new welcoming smile, and with some motionless ges buildings. The next official ceremony will be the corner-stone ture bids them come further to behold the Infant laying, and the third and biggest one, planned for next fall, will Child laid in a manger. be the official dedication and opening of the completed science You all know who He is, this Infant. It is in block. Hjs honour that we celebrate from generation to The ceremony was attended by the representatives of the generation the feast of Christmas. He had been Provincial, Montreal and surrounding municipalities' governments, promised for many centuries by the prophets: church and alumni leaders as well as students and friends of "the light shall shine today upon us; for the Loyola College. A brief address of welcome was delivered by the Lprd is born to us: and he will be called Admir Rector, Very Rev. Patrick G. Malone, S.J. a~le, God, Prince of Peace, Father of the World Official speaker at the ceremony was Rev. W, John McDonnell, t~ Come; and His sway shall be without end." S.J,, Dean of Studies at Loyola, who told the audience of several This is the extraordinary Child to whom scripture hundred persons that "Education must be a vital activity not says: Yours are the heavens and the earth; for merely the transmission of inert ideas that corrupt youth. The You have built the uni verse and all that it holds.'' Jesuits, if they are to be in the tradition which Ignatius has given But our eyes, less sharp than those of simple them, must realize, they must stimulate our youth to activity of shepherds or of faithful Magi, see none of this thought." grandeur. All His majesty, all His glory is hidden. Father McDonnell pointed out that, in 1943, due to the energy The God of Gods has cloaked His Divinity in the and thought of men like Brown, MacPhee and O'Connor, Loyola flesh of the poor swaddled· Infant, lying in a began its Science faculty and today we might say that this faculty manger. "God so loved the world that He gave is coming of age for now the men who have been. recruited from His only Son that whosoever believes may not McGill, Toronto, Leeds and Harvard are seeing the dream which perish but have Eternal Life." has been theirs actually become a reality. They now see the pos- (cont'd. on page 2) ( cont'd. on page 2) CHRISTMAS MESSAGE (cont'd. from page 1) Yet I hope that amid trials and temptations all of us in the Loyola family will steep our minds, our very being in the Christmas mystery. If we do, then the joy of Christmas will be ours. It will enrich our lives and unfold the secret of i1nparting it to others, even as the Christ Child has done. I am grateful in Loyola's name for the loyal support which so many of you have given to our university petition now before the Quebec House. Keep up the good work, and continue to enlist the help of our countless friends. Meanwhile I shall particularly remember you and yours in my SOD-TURNING CEREMONY AT LOYOLA Christmas masses. May you have a Joyous, Holy From left to right: Hon. Francis L. Connors, Quebec Legislative Councillor; Most Rev. Lawrence P. Whelan, Christmas and a Happy New Year. D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Montreal; Mr. James C. Wilson, Very Rev. Patrick G. Malone, S.J. • •?resident of the Loyola Alumni Association; Mr.George O'Reilly, MPP, Mayor of Verdun; and Very Rev. Patrick Rector G, Molone, S.J., Rector of Loyola College • • SOD TURNED FOR LOYOLA (cont'd. from page 1) LOYOLA ALUMNI OYSTER PARTY sibility of facilities to really develop Loyola in the fields of More than two hundred people, alumni and Physics, Chemistry, Geology and Biology. friends, joined in the revelry of our annual Oyster "Loyola in the tradition of Jesuit education does not see this Party on Friday, November 18th. development in the sense of some departmentalized institution," Everyone enjoyed the oysters and the ac he emphasized. "We have never meant that our students in the companying beverages. It was a pleasure to see science faculty should be merely well informed men and hence alumni both young and old(?) joining in the spirit become the biggest bores on God's earth. Our aim has been to of the night and making it a big success. produce well informed men who will also possess culture and Ross Hutchings and his committee of Val hence will be truly citizens in our contemporary world." Chartier, Dan Porteous, Cliff Malone, Bob The Dean went on to say that the fact that Loyola has deve Brodrick and Jack Gelineau are to be congratu loped a Science faculty does not mean that she has neglected the lated for their work in organizing the event and fields of traditional Jesuit education. Under the leadership of a carrying it through to its successful conclusion. Lahey, Loyola's faculty of Arts was given a new life so that Jack Gelineau was a very surprised man when today we can foresee our first Honours Arts graduates for 1961. he was interrupted in his work to be told that he was the lucky winner of a week-end for two at Father McDonnell pointed out further that Loyola is proud of the Alpine Inn. We hope you enjoyed the week the calibre of its staff and rightly so. They come not only from end Jack. our Canadian universities such as Montreal, McG ill, Toronto and McMaster, but from Harvard, Columbia, New York University, University of Michigan, London, Oxford and the National Univer sity of Ireland. At Loyola you will find a Fullbright scholar from LOYOLA ALUMNI CLOSED RETREAT a National Humanities Research Council Fellow, and author of a Father Ray Oliver, S.J ., Superior of the House best selling novel. You will find research being done through a of Studies, Bellarmine Hall, Toronto, was the National Research grant, and through a grant from the Defence Retreat Master at the Loyola Alumni Closed Research Board. Retreat at Manresa this year. Yet, he continued, Loyola knows that this is only the begin Eighteen men took advantage of the oppor ning of her development, she knows that with the increased faci tunity to relax and contemplate amidst the friend lities she must also add more distinguished members to her staff. ly hospitality of Manresa. Loyola knows that just as she is adding laboratories for science Gerry McGee and his committee of Frank she must also in the very near future obtain the means to increase McN ally, Ted McNicholl and Dick Pare, would her library facilities. Just as she is about to graduate her first have liked to have had more of their fellow alumni Honours Arts students she must, and is, considering the develop join them for the Retreat, but were rewarded for ment and improvement of her Commerce faculty and her Engineer their efforts by the refreshed spirits evident in ing facilities. the men as they left for home on Sunday. "Loyola is at a very exciting period in her life. Loyola is The Executive and Directors thank these men extremely vital and her staff is completely alive to the situation sincerely for organizing and managing this event. which it faces," Father McDonnell concluded. Page 2 Loyola's New Science Block under Construction The construction of Loyola College's new science facing Sherbrooke St. and adjoining the college's ad block has been s tarted at the end of October, and is now ministration building, will contain classrooms and a well under way. large demonstration room on the first floor. A 350-seat J. G. Fitzpatrick, Ltd., of Montreal, contractors for science auditorium on the second floor will be used for the new buildings, plan to have the structures ready for lectures and various college and public events. the opening of the 1961-62 academic year. The cost of The library wing, a circular, and also two-storey the new buildings will be in excess of $1,500,000.