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President Eugene L. Stewart, '48 Vice-Presidents College Anthony F. Essaye, '55 Graduate School Col. Louis G. Mendez, Jr., '56 School of Medicine Dr. Thomas F. Keliher, '34 School of Law John E. Nolan Esq., '55 School of Dentistry Dr. John S. Clemence, '38 School of Nursing Mrs. Mary Korfonta Fleming, '43 School of Foreign Service Mitchell Stanley, '51 contents School of Business Administration Richard P. Houlihan, Jr., '54 Institute of Languages and Linguistics Elsa J. Corridon, '60 Recording Secretary Miss Rosalia Louise Dumm, '48 A Dynamic Program: Treasurer Sports on the Hilltop Louis B. Fine, '25 Page 1 The Faculty Representative to the Alumni Association Reverend Anthony J. Zeits, S.J., '43 Marriage and the The Vice-President of the University for Alumni Affairs and Family: Executive Secretary of the Association Bernard A. Carter, '49 Family Life and Editor the Need for Love Denis L. Nichelson, '57, '61 Page 10 Editorial Consultant The Prepsychological Dr. Riley Hughes Dynamics of Designer Married Life Robert L. Kocher, Sr. Page 12 Photography Peter Carter, '65 Cherry-stones Page 14 Robert Lovelace Well Worth Repeating: Georgetown Family Gathers to Honor the Founder Page 16 THE COVER:

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Book Review Page 28 I by Robert L. Hoggson, S.J.

A DYNAM IC PROGRAM: SPORTS ON THE HILLTOP

Athletic activity at Georgetown constitutes an in­ ~ tegral part of the total Georgetown venture. Together with. the other aspects of the University's life, it be­ --- ~ - ~ longs within the perspective of excellence toward which we all must strive. The mounting accelera­ tion of change ·which characterizes our dynamic world demands a search for fresh ways and means of coping with the changes so rapidly occurring. Surely our alumni and alumnae would be the first to agree that whatever sports program there is at Georgetown, it should be designed to meet the needs of the present-day student, to extend serv­ ices to the maximum number of students in an optimum fashion. This should be the emphasis, guiding us in the formulation of objectives and the policies drawn up to further us towards the achievement of such objectives. Academic accreditation agencies are apt to ask of their member institutions: What are your ob­ jectives? In the light of these objectives, what is your program? Do you think that your program is designed to meet the professed objectives satis­ factorily? Do the outcomes of your program re­ veal to yo u evidence of achievement of the objec­ tives. These searching questions provide a frame­ work within which to evaluate athletics at George­ town today. In a generic sense there is really nothing unique about what Georgetown is striving for today through its sports and physical education opera­ tions. One can go back millennia to find recogni­ tion at the mens sana in co?·po?·e sa no. Nor is it merely a matter of invoking the distant past in support of the position. For example, it is easy to find such support in the statements of recent Popes. Pope John XXIII, for example, remarked in an address April 26, 1959 : "The great value of athletics lies in its particular efficacy for ;nterior perfection, consequent upon the exterior discipline with which you continually and seriously train your body." In the same address he earnestly ex­ horted: "We trust you will never forget, beloved sons, that your athletic efforts are not an end in themselves; remember that the body which you train, whose agili ty and grace refl ect a ray of the beauty and omnipotence of the Creator, is only an instrument which should become docile and ac­ cessible to the strong influence of the soul." As a nation we have for some time experienced a downward spiral of our physical fitness, a matter so grave that Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson have directed personal attention to it. The athletic enterprise, therefore, validly qualifies as an educational function, a contributor to char­ misg1vmgs and doubts. Of the latter, there are acter formation, and has Presidentially endorsed many whose misgiving and doubts quickly disap­ importance as a significant factor addressing itself pear when they discover how easy it is to learn. to the physical fitness feature of our country's There is sheer enjoyment in helping a young man well-being. "Never in history," President Kennedy or young woman gain competence in a sport and wrote, "has the United States been represented by so open a new path to wholesome recreation and a a more gifted group of athletes in national and valuable asset for leisure hours. international competition. Yet we must not allow At Georgetown we engage in the following our pride in these few men to obscure the fact intramural sports: baseball, basketball, bowling, that over the past decades the level of physical fit­ boxing, flag football, regulation football, squash ness of much of our citizenry has been far below racquets, tennis, and track. Further, a very suc­ any reasonable national standard.... All of us cessful wrestling tournament was held this year must consider our own responsibilities for the as an intramural event drawing over forty com­ physical vigor of our children and of the young petitors from the student body in this initial men and women of our community. We do not program. want our children to become a generation of spec­ Basketball is increasingly popular. A year ago, tators. Rather, we want each of them to be a par­ the area in front of McDonough Gym was black­ ticipant -in the vigorous life." President Johnson topped and two sets of basketball standards set has s hown equal concern. "Unfortunately," he up. These additional facilities are in use long be­ pointed out, "many of today's college students do fore the formal basketball season opens and long not measure up to their fitness capabilities. At after it closes. They have been in use in fair an Eastern university, the proportion of entering weather, in rain and in snow. They have been freshmen making satisfactory scores on a physical used in daylight and long after sunset. The gym achievement test declined from 51 percent in 1947 floor is equipped with three intramural basketball to 34 percent in 1960. At a large State university, courts. During the past season the intramural one-third of the freshmen failed to meet minimum league included sixty-six t eams and six hundred standards for strength, agility and flexibility. and sixty players. There were over three hundred Eighty-five percent did not make satisfactory and fifty games scheduled. On the evenings when scores on a health knowledge test. This is a seri­ the gym has been available, six games would be ous indictment of our way of life and a strong played. This still allowed a student to play only challenge to our college and universities. It should about once every five days, It is a heartening arouse concern in every institution of higher edu­ sight, however, to see McDonough Gym humming cation." with such activity. It is evidence of some prog­ Within this context of contemporary concern let ress towards the achievement of our goals. us consider athletics on campus. There are three "In many respects, Georgetown football today re­ headings under which matters athletic logically in­ sembles the game as it originated years ago on vite inspection. There is first, the area of physical college campuses. It is for the student and it is education. Second, and closely tied to the first, is for fun. This type of game is designed for the the intramural program. Third, there is the inter­ college man who wants his knocks and competition collegiate program. Let us consider each in turn. but who isn't primarily interested in headlines and Four semesters in physical education are re­ hoopala." This statement was made about George­ quired of students in the College of Arts and Sci­ town's regulation football shortly after George­ ences. Two semesters are required of women stu­ town retired from intercollegiate competition in dents in all undergraduate divisions of the Uni­ 1951. For the past fourteen years, about one hun­ versity. Five full-time faculty members teach in dred and fifty boys have reported for football these courses. Their classroom is McDonough practice annually (this year about 200 drew equip­ Gymnasium and the adjacent facilities on the ment). They received regulation equipment and lower and upper fields. This is an endeavor ap­ have had access to excellent training services and proached with no mock seriousness ; satisfying the facilities. They practice daily. It would appear course requirement is necessary for graduation. that Georgetown has been on the right track in The intramural program offers to so many stu­ trying to offer football to as many as it could rea­ dents the opportunity to engage in a sport pri­ sonably reach. Each undergraduate class has field­ marily for fun (the most favorable atmosphere ed a team during this period and in the interclass for the sport) but subtly extends them all those league, four or five games would be played each benefits to the whole man of which physical exer­ season. Over the fourteen year span, close to two cise is capable. These are not spectator sports pro­ thousand alumni have participated in the program, grams but programs which bring within the reach easily twice as many as would have played in an of every able-bodied young man and young woman intercollegiate program over the same period. at Georgetown the zestful experience of sports In the early fall of 1963, this news was released participation. It is the field where through expe­ to the press: "As a special feature of its intra­ rience many are won. over to the appreciative un­ mural football program, Georgetown University derstanding of the meaning of sports. To some, will play an intercollegiate game on Saturday, No­ sports come easy. Others approach sports with vember 23 with Frostburg." This game, as con- ceived and scheduled, was intended as an adjunct team with some experience in intercollegiate com­ to our intramural program as an incentive to pro­ petition but, to the great delight of an attendance mote the intramural activity. The principals in­ of over eight thousand on a clear but bitterly cold volved in gaining approval for the contest clearly windy day, the Hoyas came off victorious by a understood the intent of the game and that it defi­ score of 28-12. An undefeated season! nitely did not constitute the first step in phasing Students who had participated in the program out intramural football with its replacement by as designed last year were solicited for opinions another program. about it. Agreement seems quite widespread that The announcement received national publicity the intramural program does achieve its goal. The and quite commonly beneath a headline such as University intends, therefore, to sustain it since "Georgetown Revives Football." As shown above, it does enable so large a number to engage in the Georgetown had never retired football from its sport. Surely, it will deliberate carefully before sports program. It is still possible to play football retiring a program that brings participation foot­ apart from intercollegiate competition, and, ac­ ball annually to the largest number of students in cording to those who played it since 1951 at the history of the University. Georgetown, find enjoyment in doing so. The game To ensure one home game a year, however, with Frostburg State Teachers' College was can­ Georgetown will play N.Y.U. in New York in 1965 celled, owing to the tragedy of President Ken­ on November 13. Fordham visits Georgetown in nedy's assassination. a new rivalry at Kehoe Field on November 20. Last fall a game was arranged with New York While it is likely that all three should be playing University. Georgetown's team, composed of In­ the same caliber of football for a while, George­ tramural All-Stars, practiced conscientiously and town remains unique in that it will develop its enthusiastically for the contest. N.Y.U. brought a team from its intramural competition. At this writing, N.Y.U. and Fordham do not run like pro­ Our second motivation also derives from a cher­ grams. Still, football activity at Fordham, N.Y.U., ished memory. The fall football season of 1964 and Georgetown have much in common. One fea­ was early darkened by tragic news of the death of ture certainly is the factor of student support. William Ellis, Jr., killed in an automobile acci­ An objective comparison should, however, reveal dent. Bill Ellis was a member of the junior year's that at Georgetown only has there been a contin­ football squad. His classmates regarded him high­ uation of regulation football without interruption ly and touchingly honored him through his parents since all three discontinued intercollegiate sched­ at midfield a few minutes before the beginning of ules. the game, presenting to them a football containing To us in the Athletic Department there are two all his teammates' signatures. The souvenir pro­ sources of strong motivation for continuing, and gram of the day also was dedicated to Bill Ellis. striving to improve, our own type of football pro­ Bill Ellis trained all summer to realize his am­ gram at Georgetown. There is a trophy award for bition of making the Junior football squad. He the outstanding player in football presented for never realized the ambition but he made his par- the first time in the fall of 1964. This trophy helps keep alive the memory of Morgan "Pop"

Sweetman and, as a student-sponsored trophy, it is a small token of their fondness, gratitude, and esteem for "Pop," who before his sudden death on January 24, 1963, had been for eleven years asso­ ciated with the Athletic Department as a member of the Physical Education faculty, and in various coaching roles inclusive of basketball, baseball, and football. As a senior coach, "Pop" was asso­ ciated with the· greatest intramural football team ents, his relatives, and friends realize his great in Georgetown's history, the class of 1963. From love of sport. Bill Ellis was a classic example of freshman through senior year, they amassed nine­ the boys who during college would never have the teen victories, were tied once, and never defeated. opportunity to enjoy playing football were it not At a dinner after the season, "Pop" was given an for an intramural program. ovation only to protest that the achievement was His wholesome enthusiasm so moved those who entirely the team's. It is a matter of record that knew and loved him that the establishment of an "Pop" thoroughly supported the intramural pro­ annual award to the "Outstanding Player in Intra­ gram as the program best suited to achieve in mural Athletics" to be selected from junior year football the optimum benefit for the maximum was deemed a most fitting memorial. This should number of students. We respect his recommenda­ be a coveted award and it has been founded tion and keep it fresh in our memories. through many generous contributions. Under- standably, Georgetown's Athletic Department is in the Quaker City Tournament of 1963 were ab­ conscious of a special commitment here. sent from the team as the season opened: Jimmy Our intercollegiate program reflects equally with Christy, highest single game scorer of G. U.'s his­ our intramural program the spirit of fun and, in tory, Chuck Devlin, Joe Mazelin, Jim Brown and its original and proudest sense, of amateur en­ Owen Gillen. The first three had graduated, the deavor. Baseball at Georgetown today does not en­ last two incurred ineligibility for nine games ow­ joy the prestige which it once possessed, but there ing to participation in two non-sanctioned Boys' are encouraging signs of returning vitality. First, Club games after the close of last year's season. the baseball players, themselves, in increasing Here were six who were certainly in the first number, have heightened their enthusiasm for eight starters of the 1963-64 season. Add two play. The sport has been handicapped by the cal­ others of special category. Jim Barry returned endar. With a mid-May close of schedule, activity stops as favorable weather barely arrives. To overcome this weather handicap imposed by sched­ ule, Coach "Tommy" Nolan has been influential in inaugurating a fall schedule of baseball among local schools. The players like it, and the experi­ ment appears favorable to the game. The fall weather is ideal and the brand of baseball quite superior to that of the spring.

to the squad after delicate cartilage surgery side­ lined him for an entire year in 1963-64. Class with Barry, Frank Hollendoner, another cartilage sur­ gery case in 1963-64. Both started the 64-65 sea­ son as big "ifs," which those familiar with the basketball demands upon knees will best appre­ ciate. For Hollendoner, inactive for his entire 63- 64 freshman season, the immediate transition from prep school to the stiff intercollegiate competition and enforced year's idleness was a double handi­ cap. The season closed with a record of thirteen vic­ tories and ten losses. It closed with a regionally Despite mishaps, the basketball team had its televised victory over N.I.T. bound Manhattan fourth winning season in five years under Coach College. So far, Georgetown should look forward "Tommy" O'Keefe. When the season began, the to selection for ECAC televised games. They now Georgetown team took the floor with some serious have wins over Fordham, LaSalle, and Manhattan, handicaps. First, it was deprived of the services and no losses. The team won its last three games of Joe Franz, veteran senior. Teammates who had of the 64-65 season and looks forward to the open­ played with Joe judged he could have his greatest ing of the 65-66 season with, barring mishaps, a year in 1964-65. A badly twisted knee, suffered in fine roster of veterans. pre-season practice, deprived Georgetown of the And then there is crew. It is just about dawn play of a great basketball player for practically and the temperature is below freezing. From the the entire year. The team keenly suffered from river there rolls up the Hilltop clear and strong this loss. Five men who saw the most action when the rhythmic chant of a coxswain and his accom­ G. U. was the first to post a victory over the '63 panying beat of the stroke as a Georgetown crew national champions of Chicago's Loyola University rows against the Potomac's current at the peak l' I \ of a power generated by thawing snows or early schedule. They practice regularly no matter how spring rains. Neither rain nor snow halt the ac­ inconvenient the hour and it can be inconvenient tivity. Ice does, since it can easily crush the eight­ if you bear in mind that they have no pool on man shells, well-named. Since its renewal at Georgetown campus. Their perseverance in exact­ Georgetown, rowing has attracted many friends ing circumstances serves to keep a fine sport alive and foremost among them are the coaches who and to remind us of the need of a campus facility. have served voluntarily. In its club phase, the Soccer is becoming an increasingly popular crew had the valuable and generous assistance of American intercollegiate sport, and it is gratify­ Fred Maletz. His encouragement and expert row­ ing to report that our own soccer players are de­ ing knowledge saw the crew through difficult days. termined to build up their team. Manifest evi­ When his career took him from the Washington dence of this determination is their voluntary par­ area, he was succeeded by Don Cadle, who read of ticipation in spring practices and scrimmages the plight of the Georgetown oarsmen who had which should help quite a bit in building up a lost their coach, and offered to help. The years stronger team for fall competition. Local compe­ have seen Cadle succeeded by Sandy Sanborn, who, tition is strong, including teams such as the Uni­ in turn, was s ucceeded by the current coaches Bob versity of Maryland, national quarter finalist in Remuzzi and F rank Barrett. NCAA soccer championship in 1964. Golf has a g reat tradition at Georgetown; many Undoubtedly, the achievement of the 1964-65 alumni place it fi rst among their sports prefer­ season for our runners was the IC4A champion­ ences. Few would question its special continuing ship at cross-country at Van Cortlandt Park, New value for post-graduate days. None are more con­ York, last November 16. As Alumni News relates, scious than Georgetown's present team members Georgetown won the event with two record per­ of the need for fu rther development. Golf as a formances. "Joe" Lynch finished first in a course spring intercollegiate sport suffers with the other record time of 24 minutes 41.8 seconds. G. U.'s spring sports t he weather handicap. To come into team score was the lowest in the history of the the short season of the spring, however, more meet-fifty-two points. A most impressive first in ready for the quite impressive schedule of oppo­ Georgetown's cross-country history. nents, the G. U. golfers start the summer and fall There are some who hald that our ten tennis before, checking handicaps and engaging in fall courts are the most heavily patronized sports fa­ matches. Among the matches, the Washington cility that Georgetown possesses. This may very alumni supply formidable competition in assisting well be true, for tennis draws players from all the team with competitive experience of quality in parts of the University, faculty, students, alumni, both spring and fall matches. As a special incen­ and alumnae. Presently possessing a convenient tive to the participants in his competiion, a cup location, good attendance develops at our team in memory of Billy Dettweiler, class of '39, was matches, both freshman and varsity. As we go presented by the members of the 1964 golf squad to press, the varsity enjoys victories over Syracuse and some of the Washington golfing alumni of and M.I.T., while losing to Princeton and Univer­ their 1964 team. So far it is in the possession of sity of Pennsylvania. the alumni, who regularly bring a team of solid This year there are about eight hundred and talent to that fi rst tee. We appreciate this assist­ fifty women students attending Georgetown as full ance for its t angible contribution to the further time undergraduate students. There are living fa­ development of a great Hilltop sport. cilities for over five hundred of this number on Many visitors to the gymnasium do not see the campus, and it is highly likely that all these facili­ Boxing Room, s it uated in a remote northeast cor­ ties will be occupied come September. These sta­ ner of the gym. In t his room, for fifteen years or tistics have a certain impact on campus life in­ more, both boxing classes (three times a week, fall clusive of athletics. There are required courses in and spring) , and intramural boxing occur. Under physical education for women undergraduates the professional tutelage of Marty Gallagher, the offering opportunity for the development of physi­ program has regularly attracted forty to fifty boys cal fitness and the learning of certain sports such annually. Out of this work came Tom Quinn, class as swimming and tennis. In the fall the women's of '55, Eastern intercollegiate heavyweight cham­ field hockey team engages nearby women's colleges pion. More recently, Art Carter, class of '64, was in competition. During the winter season, the bas­ groomed to a middleweight Golden Glove cham­ ketball team moves into action and with no small pionship, novice class. Each May, as a mode of measure of achievement. At the end of the current graduation exercise, Marty conducts a six-bout season, the Hoyettes possessed a record of seven tournament which is regularly attended by the wins and one loss. A great win for them, too, was number of spectators the Boxing Room will hold. the greater Washington championship, twelve col­ This year it is hoped that it can be brought to the leges competing. main floor of the gymnasium for it is a popular To date perhaps the most advanced coeducation­ event, in keeping with the popularity of the total al endeavor in athletics at Georgetown is sailing. program. The Constitution of the Georgetown University About the swimming team, words of high com­ Sailing Association contains revisions that ex­ mendation are in order. Year after year our swim­ plicitly provide membership opportunity to quali­ mers compete on a full ten-match intercollegiate fied students regardless of sex. Further, though sailing as a sport under NCAA regulations is re­ The extent of these needs and their critical na­ stricted to men, the women students have devel­ ture may better appear through notation of some oped their own sailing teams for intercollegiate recent changes at Georgetown. It is a common­ competition. place to remark that a resident student population There is a significant student activity in sports has need of more campus facilities than students conducted on an informal basis. Sometimes re­ who reside at home. When the numbers in either ferred to as "club" sports, they are entirely stu­ category increase there is, understandably, a ne­ dent organized, sponsored, and financed. Sports cessity to cope with the inevitable demand for presently in this category are polo, lacrosse, wres­ additional services and facilities. At Georgetown tling, ice-hockey, and judo. Wrestling is the most both categories have greatly increased, by the recent arrival. Polo has the longest continuous thousands, in the last decade. Since 1959, however, existence. Polo, lacrosse, and ice-hockey arrange the student population in residence has soared regular schedules which m ay include "club" teams from less than a thousand to over two thousand. from other universities or simply a mateur clubs. This doubling of the number of students living The judo membership includes both faculty a nd on campus becomes an even more weighty statistic students, as many as thirty or more. Approxi­ when it is remembered that one quarter of this mately forty students participated in the wrestling number i s represented by the women students. tournament mentioned earlier in the article. La­ In the light of these facts, some of the following crosse and ice-hockey rosters are ample to field stated n eeds are less likely to be judged excessive. teams. The skaters may play as many as twelve Sympathetic to the perseverance of our swimming regular games of a season; the stickmen about ten. teams, we underline heavily the need of a swim­ Polo has both a fall and spring season. Individ­ ming pool. By no means do we think in terms of ually and collectively they enable a respectable the swimming team alone. It should be an all­ number of students to participate in sports they season pool designed to fit the needs of the sum­ prefer even though not among the University­ mer student and faculty members, all too familiar sponsored varsity sports. with Washington's temperatures at that time of

To this point there has been an attempt to lo­ year. Such programs as the Peace Corps and the cate sports and physical training within the total physical education courses would profit handsome­ educational enterprise of the University, to give ly from the addition of this facility. A proficiency emphasis to the increased seriousness of physical in swimming for a maximum number of students training and sports as a counteraction to the sub­ is a highly worthwhile goal, a goal we cannot even stantial reduction of physical activity by current contemplate without the facility. technological changes, and to survey the dimen­ The few years of programming physical educa­ sions of physical training and sports which pres­ tion and sports for the women students presently ently exist at Georgetown. The present state of enrolled in the undergraduate divisions of George­ affairs inspires little complacency. There are large town have been sufficient to reveal the inadequacy unsatisfied needs. of McDonough Gym to meet the needs of both the men and the women students. At the time of its building, it is highly unlikely that coeducational use preoccupied the designers. Certainly the fin­ ished product yields small opportunity for such adaptations. There should be a gymnasium for the women students. Women's colleges with five hun­ dred girls in residence more commonly possess such a facility for their students. There is a single squash court at Georgetown. One squash court is just enough to spread the con­ tagion of its popularity to a number of students and faculty completely incompatible with the ca­ pacity for service of a solitary unit. Six squash courts at Georgetown would be a modest but high­ ly desirable improvement of our indoor recrea­ tional facilities. They would allow, too, for the development of another great sport, handball, for which the courts easily adapt. It is difficult to tell how adequate the present space provided for fields is because they have never been fully developed into field space. Budget restrictions and unavoidable excavation necessities have delayed for years the realization of a con­ version of major sections of space to safe and rep­ resentative field areas. For over a year and a half major excavation work inactivated the whole area known as the "lower field ." This condition sharply curtailed the outdoor sports programs, particularly soccer, intramural baseball, and flag football. If you look down on Kehoe Field from one of the sundecks of the Hospital on a fall afternoon, you may grow in your appreciation of why we need playing field space. Below you, you are likely to witness the women's field hockey team in action, a fall baseball game in progress, about a hundred and twenty uniformed football players participat­ ing in the practices of the four regulation football class teams. The cross-country and track teams may be working out on the track on the cinder track or grass. All of which does not leave much room for a pickup game of touch football. While the space needs for additional buildings are far from filled, the Administration has demonstrated its concern about the prospective loss of fi eld areas. There is, nevertheless, a pressing and perplexing problem posed by the necessity of relocating the tennis courts. How can this be accomplished with­ out surrender of space already assigned to other sports? This points up how imperative it is to complete the development of present potential fi eld areas. · Much, it can be seen, has been accomplished in these years of expanded and widely shared athletic activity. Much, it is equally obvious, remains to be done. Most of the needs we have described are specifically itemized in our capital development Contributor's Note: campaign literature. It is clear that the Univer­ sity recognizes the continuing validity of athletics and physical education as relevant to its perspec­ The Rev. Robert L. Hoggson, S. J,, is Moderato!' tive of excellence. That they will continue to play of Athletics at Georgetown and Associate Pro­ their part in the unfolding pursuit of a greater fessor of Sociology. Georgetown is our common resolve. ARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

Family life and the need for love

on God; usually dependent on she was two years old, her life by John C. Knott his mother and father and all consisted of living in one foster those other near and distant home after another. At the time In addressing myself to the re latives and persons who touch I spoke with the girl she was triple subject "Family, Church, upon his life as he grows and already an alcoholic with a his­ and Commu nity" I am intrigued matures. Th ese persons whom tory of having "blacked out" because these represent the he touches and by whom he is three times, and in danger of . three societies that have as touched should answer his basi c t;lecoming a prostitute. While I their ultimate concern, human­ hunger and need, whi ch is the think that this is an extreme ly speak ing, the we lfare of the need to be loved. No matter how case, still I believe it is typical individual human being. It seems old he becomes, no matter how of the fact that so many peo pl e to me that when we lose sight honored by society or how suc­ grow up emotionally and spir­ of that ultimate purpose of cessful in life, he stilt remains itually crippled beca use they th ese three societies, then we a creature dependent on other have never had their basic run into difficulty, not on ly in people, always in his quest for hunger in life-the need to be the society itse lf, but also in love. On e of the great sadnesses loved-satisfied. Why this order the larger sense when the total of our times, I think, is that so of things should be so, I think, we lfare of the hu man being is many human beings have not flows from the nature of the concerned. For this reasOn I really been in contact with love. human being, who is crea ted by should like to offer my defini­ They grow up-or, rath er, they God as a creature always de­ tion of man in contrast to the are able to survive a loveless pendent on other people, at concept more prevalently held infancy-crippled both emotion­ least for the gift of I ife and today. As the director of the ally and spiritually. All this is a continuing maturation in life. Fam ily Life Burea u and as a result of other people not hav­ We give only a nodding assent bachelor, I think I can speak ing begun to answer adequately to this ba si cally important as­ with the authority of some expe­ or perhaps at all the individ­ pect of the human bei ng and rience as we ll as with objec­ ual crea ture's basic hunger or often fail to rea lize its tremen­ tivity. need to be loved . dous implications. If we have Using the trad itional scholas­ Apropos of this idea, let me this hunger and the need to be tic definition of man as a crea­ recall an incident from my loved, an d they are satisfied to ture composed of body and soul counseling experience in a home some extent, then we can de­ and made in the image and like­ for pre-delinquent gi rl s some velop within us a self-image of ness of God, we can isolate two years ago. By way of back­ being worth while, of having elements significant for our dis­ ground, let me say that these value in ourselves. This value cussion here. The first is that girls were probably more con­ permits us to hold a sense of every human being is a crea­ siderately trea ted in this home our own dignity because time ture. This mea ns, simply, that than if they had rema ined in and again parents, relatives, he is the product of the gifts the rather chaotic home situa­ friends, and other people have of the love of other parti es. Th e tions which produced them . One proved to us by their love that first party to give of His love in day one of the counselees, a we have been lovable. The expe­ th is regard is God, and the next tall, slender, seventeen-year-old rience of being lovable has to is the parental party, the co­ girl came in to see me. During be consciously felt, at least creators, mother and father. the course of our conversation once in a while, but so many Th ese three persons, one divine she uttered what I feel is the peo ple never have this aware­ and two human, offer their mu­ saddest statement I have ever ness. So much for one of the tual gifts of love whi ch give the heard. Sh e said that in all her basically important aspects of creature the first gi ft of love he seventeen years she had never our being and our individual needed to exist-the gift of life. known another human being worth. Had it not been for these three who loved her, who had any par­ Th e second aspect flows from he would not have been born. ticular concern for her. She had the other part of the definition He comes into life completely bee n fed and clothed and sent that every human being is not dependent on other persons. to school, but that was all. only a crea ture but that he is Truly, we hold, he is dependent Since her mother's death, when made in the image and likeness of God. But who is God? St. l an adult he knows the two bas~·c the problem of getting too John, the evangelist, says rather things about life: he knows much advice from well-meaning simply-although libraries have what it means to be loved, i.e., peopl e and thus becoming quite been written on the subject­ he has a good "self-image," an confused . I think if we can do that "God is Love." How often awareness of his own value­ nothing else through the family, do we see a neon sign on a perhaps exaggerated at times­ through the community, and church proclaiming that "God is but at least a basic one; and through the Church, we should Love," smile at it, and pass on he knows the basic rules for give back to the parents the unthi nkingly? Of course, it loving because he has projected essential role of two human be­ would be simple if that is all beyond his own needs to be ings in the relationship that is there is to it, and yet I think loved and has begun to develop, marriage and their likewise es­ that that is all there is to it: .even in infancy, the sense of sential role as parents dealing that "God is Love." Withi n this l the need of anot ~ son. Th~ with the children. This not only love there is the need to love and to give of ourselves. This need seeks good and happiness in the affection of someone else, even at the sacrifice of our own good and happiness. But this state of affairs gives rise to a tension which I think exists within all of us. This tension results from a fear that there is not enough love to go around because, despite our own need to be loved, we have not de­ veloped the facility of loving or giving of ourselves. Deve loping the willingness to give of our­ selves, to sacrifice for each other, is a mark of maturity. For whatever it is, maturity is cer­ tainly at least the act of an adult who is willin~ to pay the price and pick himself up to try to love the next day even though he has failed a few last realization allows him .to perm its them to answer their times the day before. bridge the gap between the g1ft. own need to be needed as par­ The meaning of fam ily life, rof love given him and another's ents, but also it allows the chil­ then, is to be fou nd in mutua l needs. But this is very often dren to grow up developing love and sacrifice, in the hus­ where I think the modern fam­ their own nee d to be needed. band and wife who answer the ily is failing so deeply. I speak Thus, I th ink that we might de­ needs of loving and being loved. now not only of Catholic fami­ velop more mature adults and For this reason, I think mar­ lies, with which I am most fa­ at the same time we might re­ riage is an institution for adu lts miliar, but I am talking about duce the mental and emotional and not for those "teenagers" American families in general. disturbances which are the re- who as yet do not know how to Instead of having their lives ult of the lack of observance love. These "hopefuls" do not as simplified, it would seem that f some of the basic principles yet know how to give: all they modern married couples have have tried to outline. want is to be loved. The essential role of the par­ u ent is to answer the infant's need for being loved and to en­ RIGHT REVEREND MONSIGNOR JOI·IN C. KNOTT is direc­ courage that infant in his whole tor of the Family Life Bureau of the National Catholic Welfare growth through childhood and Conference. He is a member of the executive committee of the adolescence. Very often this National Conference on Family Relations. He work directly with love is encouraged by the par­ a wide range of agencies concerned with family problems from ent simply by being there to re­ a sociological as well as a religious point of view. His article, ceive, by patting him on the "Family Life and the Need for Love," was presented at George­ back, by being willing to reward, town's 175th Anniversary lecture series, Family, Clmrch aml so that when the child becomes Community. MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

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The prepsychological dynamics of married life

tity in terms of what others, couples. Further, if he has any­ by E.J. Sponga, S.J. particularly the laymen, expect thing to do with training priests, of us. it aids him in guiding them to In an effort to put into effect a maturer view of their relation my desire to bring about a con­ to the laity. They will be shown frontation, as it were, of the how, as priests, they are truly priesthood and married life dy­ needed, but often not in the Until recently I have been the namics within my own con­ way they expected. They wi ll be rector, or superior, of a Jesuit sciousness, I turned to some needed more to guide, to en­ theological semina ry. In the opportunities of contact which courage, to reorient, not to dic­ process of trying to lead young were already structured toward tafe or to lay down the law. They Jesuits toward the priesthood the aims I wished to attain. I wi II conceive a greater respect and newly ordained Jesuits to a became associated with the for the true hoi i ness of many fuller consciousness of them­ Christian Family Movement and married couples and, hence, ap­ selves as priests, I conceived Cana. Both of these groups op­ proach their work as priests a very strong respect for the erate by means of small cells of with deeper humility. This will family's impact for good or bad. six or seven couples. Their reg­ in time have the effect of mak­ I saw this impact specifically ular meetings follow a fairly ing the priest much more truly from the point of view of its structured format of discussion, effective for good. marks on individual human be­ some prayers, a few summary In entering into this kind of ings who seek to become priests, comments from the priest-chap­ interplay of married-life dynam­ and hence who seek to pursue lain, and a closing, more in­ ics, one becomes aware of the a I ife of service to others. I be­ forma I, period of free conversa­ psychological forces at work. By came increasingly conscious tion over some coffee and cake. that I mea n the priest experi­ that to understand and, hopeful­ The formal discussions, in gen­ ences somewhat from within the ly, to do something about pre­ era l, involve an analysis by the emotiona l interchange in both venting problems of lack of ma­ coup les themselves of the deep­ its constructive and its negative turity and emotiona l insecurity, er meaning and practical ref­ effects. He sees how powerful I could do nothing better than erence of selected passages of human love is for happiness. He to turn my study to the inner Scripture and/or other religious also senses how delicately bal­ dynamics of family life. documents. The ideal outcome anced it is and how it needs Dynamics, of course, are never of each meeting is to agree on faithful, patient, humble nour­ comprehended by a merely con­ some explicitly chosen action, ishing from both sides of the re­ ceptual analysis. Hence, I interior and also usually ex­ lationship. But as a priest, of sought to get myself involved, terna l, calculated to translate course, I am not interested in a manner in which my situa­ the truths discussed into effec­ merely in the psychological. I tion would allow, at close range tive conjugal, familial, and so­ am interested in what I might with families that were trying to cial activity. call the prepsychological dy­ discover their own inner poten­ Such a procedure carried namics. By this I mean that tial. I saw as a further value of through regularly and faithfully deepest striving of the human this effort the possibility of im­ and with some previous prep­ sp irit for the core mean ing of pressing on married people the aration by the individual cou­ its personal being and the we ll­ important responsibil ity they ples and the priest has, over a springs of its power and need have to priests. I do not mean. period of time, a gradually for love and for human inti­ merely in the sense of having deepening effect. One begins to macy. Psychological dynamics a home environment in which find his or her values trans­ are merely the expression or ve­ priestly or rei igious vocations formed. The married couples hicle of this deeper force which are apt to grow, but, more broad­ come to experience the right is at the center of each indi­ ly, I mean in the way in which kind of need and expectation of vidual's "1," and, therefore, most married people deal with priests the priest and he, in turn, comes intimately involved in his relat­ and religious. For we, as priests, to conceive of his role in more ing of his "I" to a "Thou." This and to some degree all people realistic terms. This gives the is, of course, the spiritual or re­ whose I ives are largely con­ priest valid insights into how ligious dimension in all human cerned with the service of oth­ he should prepare himself to love, whether one consciously ers, find our own image or iden- be most helpful to the married ...._admits ______it or subconsciously _ re- jects it. Human love and fa mily independence and possessions. They find, often, that they start life are necessarily goi ng to be Such a person never rea lly un­ to communicate with each other much sha llower and more rigid derstands love and hence never on a level which they never wi thout a deliberate effort to rea lly is capable of this two-in· reached before. even though fathom the full dignity of the one interchange which fulfills they may have vaguely aspired other, which, of course, is root­ both and goes on to overflow, to it. They understand more ed in the Other, who is the as a II love does, into creating fully the necessary discipline divine source of love and union. other and new loves. over selfishness which their When married coup les beg in If one loses sight of this dy­ lives require of them. Under­ to compreh end this spiritual di­ namic behind the psychological, standing its meaning and its mension of their relationship, one will spend his time on great fruit they are led, if they they begin to guide, indirectly symptoms and with manipulat­ have any inner strength at all, but most effectively, their psy­ ing blind forces which can to make these offerings of self­ chological responses in such achieve, at best, no more than discipline more and more read ­ ily and fully, spontaneously and wise that they release in each a working relationship of rela­ tively calm neutrality. The re­ joyfully. When this state of af­ other, through human emotions semblance of this to love is fairs begins to develop, the mar­ and impulses, this divine force purely illusory. Two people can, riage blossoms into something which marriage and the family in some cases, live together of tremendous worth, not only are precisely intended to re­ with a working agreement to re­ for the two partners and their lease. In doing so they become spect each other's noncommit­ children, but also for all those progressively self- and other­ nient. I sometimes think we see who come into their. orbit of respectful , secure and crea tive this kind of thing symbolized in influence, including the priest in th eir dealings with each other some of our current dances, who was trying to help them. and with all others in varyi ng which can, perhaps, best be de­ degrees and ways. Unless they scribed as "let us dance sep­ become so conscious of this arately together." deeper divine force growing in In such situations for group Rerinted, with permission, from their mutual husband-wife, par­ dynamics as the Christian Fam­ Fcmrily, Church, arul Com.mu­ ent-child relation, they will Jack ily Movement and Cana supply, llity, edited by Angelo D'Ago­ adequate motivation for the married couples begin to grow stino, S.J., M.D., a volume in many demands of their lives. in the rea I ization that they have the WISDOM AND DISCOV­ Psycho logy has lent confirma­ a deeper relationship to one an­ ERY BOOKS series, published tion to what God has taught us other than they suspected, even by P. J, Kenedy & Sons, New in the depths of our being, that though they may have been mar­ York. Copyright 1965, George­ selfishness inevitably destroys ried happily for some years. town University. love, debases the other, and the se lf. The one who gives of his time, interest, and all his re­ sources will inevitably be able to do so only because he or she finds the reason for this tot a I gift of self to the other in God's first gift of Self to us. In this process of "losing self," one in­ evitably finds that he has dis­ covered much more than he has lost. But one must love enough to take the risk. In subjecting his individual "absolute" inde­ pendence in a concern for the other, he has, in fact, through union with the other, actua lly discovered and released his own true, unique identity. However, VERY REVEREND EDWARD J, SPONGA, S.J., is president without the sense of being first of the University of Scranton. He previously served the Univer· loved by God and therefore of sity as dean of the graduate school and is a former rector of being radically and tota lly a Woodstock College. In addition to university and religious ad· "receiver of gifts" oneself, one ministrativc duties, Father Sponga has engaged in pastoral work. would not dare to risk himself His article, "The Prepsychological Dynamics of Married Life," to the other, since one wou ld was presented at Georgetown's I 75th Anniversary lecture series feel that his only security lies Family, Church and Community. ' in a jeal ous guarding of his own God is like me, he makes from nothing, only I am caught with a sc~ipt. Pres~nce

water, the ciborium of my self, fire.

After A Wordsworth Seminar The boy said, ·.,:m proud to know Michael, but don't you tell my old father."

Blossom One more entrechat, fluff cherry, before you turn to flesh, skeleton.

A Double Brandy for Dr. Johnson, Please Sir, all's well. Cheers for the endearing elegance ' Samuel Johnson, who The Haiku said that Milton could carve a Colossus out of rock but couldn't carve heads Granule of being, , "upon cherrystones." Father Roseliep Fuji climb: shadow from shade, looks at the three-line haiku with its star capful, larkhold. seventeen syllables as a cherry-stone. /by Richard J. McCooey, C'5f2

WELL WORTH REPEATING:

The Georgetown Family Gathers To Honor the Founder

We were four hundred in New South dining hall, in Los Ange les, in Chicago, where Father Bunn was seated together after assisting at a memorial Mass in celebrant of the Mass and breakfast speaker. Dahlgren Chapel celebrated by the University's new Alumni , their wives, and their friends were gathered president, the Very Reverend Gerard J. Campbell, S.J. in many other cities and towns as well, commemorating Soon Father Campbell's voice was to go out, by means Founder's Day, and remembering Georgetown's devoted of a national tele phone hookup, to Georgetown's sons faculty, Jesuit and lay, and communing with her sons, and daughters in all parts of the country. And with absent and present. It was a moment of deep spiritual them to elaborate Father Campbell's message and to communion and unprecedented fellowship. em pha size it by their presence were Jes uits from the Th e sense of Geo rgetown's history, lying behind the campus. event, was expressed by Association President Eugene L. In San Francisco, at the same hour, a hundred alumni Stewa rt. In introducing Father Campbell, he said in part: were together in t he student cafeteria of the University "Georgetown men and women-including the Seniors of San Francisco. In New York City, following a Mass at the Hilltop- have joined in this First Nationwide in St. Patrick's Cathedral, celebrated by the dean of the Commemoration of Founder's Day. Separated by vast College of Arts an d Sciences, a similar gathering met distances, we have become one in this spiritual expres­ at a private resta urant. Similar, if smaller, groups of sion of our love for Alma Mater and the Jesuit Fathers alumni were together in Ind ia napol is, in Houston, in whose instrument of sanctification it is. Denver, in Portland, Oregon, in Wilmington, Delaware, "Georgetown's Founder, John Carroll was himself a Jesuit who became the Fi rst Bishop of the American "A great Georgetown alumnus, Chief Justice Edward Catholic Church. Cut from the same cloth as our Douglas White, captured the essence of the matter in nation's Founding Fathers, Jesuit ideals and American 1912, when at the unveiling of the classic statue of patriotism coa lesced in hi s blood. This fusion shaped John Carroll in front of Healy, he declared: Georgetown's un ique desti ny. 'The great conception which evidently lay in the "Father Durkin states it concisely in his book, George­ heart and intellect of the bishop when he builded town University-First in the Nation's Capital: this institution here, was that he was going to 'The United States and Georgetown College organize a g reat army of morality, which would were established in the same year, 1789, and were spread f?·om one end of our country to the other, based o n similar ideals. The one sought to pro­ and at all times and on all occasions be the main­ tect man's freedom under law · the other, to show stay and the prop of the institutions which the him how t o use his freedom ~s a son of God for fathers fo unded.' the highest individual and social ends.' your participa­ "It was Pope Paul the Third in 1540 who issued the "Gentlemen and ladies of Georgetown, ideals is a decree approving, confirmi ng, blessing and giving per­ tion in today's renewal of these spiritual petual force to the Society of Jesus. Noting that worthy tribute to John Carroll and to Georgetown." For Ignatius and hi s companions came to the University Then Mr. Stewart introduced Father Campbell. and for those as well of Paris from many different lands, where they com­ those who heard him on March 28 occasion only in pleted their education, and under the inspiration of who were able to participate on this here the full text the Holy Spirit achieved a common design for a holy spirit, I think it appropriate to give way of life devoted to apostolic labors, Paul Ill author­ of Father Campbell's speech: ized them to draw up a Co nstitution for the Society of "It is a great pleasure and a distinct privilege Jesus. The Rul e drawn up by St. Ignatius and his com­ for me to be able to speak to so many of our panions stressed t he fo undation of colleges as an Georgetown Alumni at this time. In this way, I object of the new order. hope to be able to compensate for my inability to

"Without Paul's protection the Society of Jesus might be with all of you in each of the twenty-six cities not have survived. Carro ll would not have become a in which Masses and breakfasts are being held Jesuit. Georgetown might never have been born. today. I hope, too, that this opportunity will serve "Four centuries after Pa ul Ill's action, another Paul­ as a substitute until we may meet either here at our present pontiff, Paul VI, opened the commemoration Georgetown or in your home cities. of the 175th Anniversary of Georgetown by blessing her, "When John Carroll conceived and founded his and the Jesuit Fathers whose work she is, via Telestar. small academy overlooking the Potomac, he could By his side was Ca rroll 's episcopal successor, the First hardly have foreseen the present stature and posi­ Archbishop of Washington, Patrick A. O'Boyle. Thus was tion of Georgetown University any more than he the rich fabric of Jesuit history completed. could have foreseen clearly the future of the infant "Just as Ignatius and his companions came from nation which was just coming into being. Never­ many lands to the Un iversity of Paris to find a new theless, if he returned today, I doubt that he design for living, so we, Georgetown's sons and daugh­ would be su~prised to find that his modest academy ters, came to her fro m ma ny lands, and the length and had grown mto a complex modern university with breadth of this vast nation. We too have found a new ten schools and almost 7,500 students. Although design for apostolic living-the formal educational heri­ he could not be expected to see the details of the tage of Ignatius and his long train of Jesuit Fathers future, he did see clearly the possibilities which who created Georgetown. were open to the enterprise he had launched. He America that one realizes how right John Carroll was when he placed the highest expectations on his modest academy. The administration and faculty, together with the Alumni and friends of the university, are devoting themselves earnestly to meeting the opportunities and challenges of today and tomorrow. "As we gather together for this day of spiritual dedication and thanksgiving, let us pray most earnestly for each other. As I said Mass today in McDonough Gymnasium, I was surrounded by several hundred members of Georgetown's family. It was a great thrill to know that Georgetown certainly knew that this new country was some­ men and women were gathering together from thing special, something different from the Europe coast to coast, united in bonds of prayer to God. in which he received much of his education. John My Mass was offered for you and all the alumni, Carroll saw with particular clarity the role that for the students, faculty, and administration of education would play in this new country. He the university, for all those, living and dead who pinned many of his hopes for the service of God studied, taught, and labored at the university for and country on the school he was founding. the past 176 years. As my thoughts dwelt on the "As we gather together today to celebrate past and looked to the future, it was not hard for Founder's Day, let us offer to God a fervent prayer me to thank God most profoundly for His many of thanksgiving for the wisdom and foresight He blessings in the past and to ask that His grace bestowed on Georgetown's founder. The essential and love may be with you always." spirit and direction of this university were de­ As chairman of the Founder's Day Commemoration termined by its founder and the many dedicated it has been my privilege to receive reports from the administrators and teachers, Jesuit and lay, who local chairmen and from the Jesuit speakers who par­ have labored earnestly and with notable success in ticipated. These reports are uniformly enthusiastic. the best traditions of John Carroll. To God we "Well worth repeating!" says one report, a judgment offer our profound gratitude for these dedicated echoed in similar words in many of the others. "The men and women. format was excellent," several report. "All seemed "Only recently have I been charged with the deeply impressed," reads one report, "by the Mass as responsibility of playing a significant part in something unifying, and by the communication from Georgetown's present and future. It is with a Georgetown-both speeches and the 'feel' of the Hill­ profound sense of unworthiness that I have as­ top." Yet the most encouraging aspect of these reports sumed this office. It is a very humbling expe­ is the thought their authors gave to ways of improving rience when one looks over 176 years of history and extending this impact of this occasion in future and then realizes that he is asked to take up the years. We received several suggestions, for example, torch and carry it. I can only pledge to you the of ways to further the contact of those who come out best of which I am capable. I think that anything from the campus, so that more and more alumni will be less than one's best, however poor that might be, personally reached. is unworthy of this university. Surely all who experienced this deeply moving occa­ "I hope that as the months and years pass, you sion felt a new relevance and meaning in the words and I will become better acquainted. I hope that of the Founder's Day prayer, "Let the light of Your divine all of you will take the opportunity to become wisdom direct the work of our University that in its more intimately acquainted with the Georgetown teachings it may tend to the preservation of peace and of today. to the increase of useful knowledge." We truly felt that "Your university, I am happy to say, is in very we were present at the birth of another great George­ sound condition. The faculty is highly trained town tradition .. and deeply loyal to the educational ideals for which we stand. The student body is intelligent and firmly dedicated to the service of God and their fellowmen. We are blessed with a loyal body of alumni who live in all parts of this country and in all parts of the world. It is a constant source of consolation to see them advance in their chosen professions and spread abroad the ideals of Georgetown. "This is not to say that your university does not have problems. The processes of growth and development always carry with them correspond­ ing challenges and responsibilities. Education is so central to the needs and concerns of modern An Eighteenth-cent ury Visit To the Federal City and Georgetown College

A Ma gn if ice n t For e st

resistance and surrendered ttJ Russia's conditions, by Roman Debicki Kosciuszko resigned from the army. He joined the patriotic movement of resistance and, a year later in 1794, took the lead of the armed uprising of the whole nation against the Russian invaders. The 175th anniversary of Georgetown University, Kosciuszko's armed insurrection rapidly spread in celebrated recently in a most solemn and brilliant all provinces of Poland, gaining the support of manner, reminds us of other historical events of the peasants and townsmen alike. Among those the years 1789-1790 of outstanding importance who joined its ranks was the future author of for the nation and its capital, among them the Travels Th?'oug h America, Julian Ursyn Niemce­ enactment of the United States constitutional wic ~ . Already well known as a political writer charter, the final incorporation of the township and member of the Polish parliament, Niemcewicz of Georgetown, and the passing by Congress of was, like Kosciuszko, a graduate of the Royal the Residence Act, establishing the seat of the Military School of Warsaw. ThiS" might have been United States Government "at some place on the the reason why Kosciuszko choose him as aide-de­ Potomac between the mouth of the Eastern Branch camp, a decision which had far-reaching conse­ and the Comogocheague." quences for Niemcewicz and influenced the whole The interest aroused by the grandiose plans for course of his future life. the construction of a Federal City and by the When the insurrection was crushed by the consecutive development of the nation's Capital joint forces of Russia and Prussia, Kosciuszko is well reflected i n the recently published Travels and Niemcewicz, both wounded in the last battle, Through America 1797-1 807, the diary of a fell into the hands of the Russians. Deported to Polish writer, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, who St. Petersburg, they were incarcerated in the spent several weeks in the city of Washington Petropavlovsky fortress, where they remained for in the spring of 1798. two years. Only when Empress Catherine died Although he might have been considered a polit­ in December 1796 and was succeeded by Tsar ical exile, his journey to, and his stay in the Paul were Kosciuszko and his comrades in arms United States were not due to the necessity of given their freedom and allowed to leave Russia. seeking asylum in a foreign country, but to his But Kusciuszko was not permitted to return to dedication to his friend and former military· chief, Poland. General Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Where should the still weak and ailing hero of Kosciuszko, who in t he y ears 1776-1784 took the Polish war of liberation seek refuge, peace, and part in the American Revolutionary Wars and, recovery if not in the United States, the land of in recognition of his "faithful and meritorious freedom, where he had ancient and faithful services," was granted by Congress the commission friends and comrades in arms? Unable to travel of brigadier general, had returned to Poland in al?ne, he. appealed to his former aide-de-camp; the fall of 1784. A soldier by profession, he soon N1emcew1cz was f:e.e to return to his family, but joined the Polish army with the rank of major moved by the cond1bon and the words of his chief general and took a prominent part in the campaign he agreed to accompany him overseas. ' of 1792 against Russia. But when the King and After a protracted and arduous journey by the the Parliament put a premature end to military way of Finland, Sweden, and England, they em- barked in Bristol for America and landed in Phila­ ments in Europe-in which he saw a ray of hope delphia on August 19, 1797. A measure of for the liberation of Poland and the possibility of Kosciuszko's popularity was the fact that, when an active role for himself-and may be also by he disembarked from the vessel, in which he had the growing tension between the United States spent nine weeks sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, and France; some sources indicate that he was the public in the port of Philadelphia harnessed entrusted by Thomas Jefferson, his closest friend themselves to his carriage and drove him to the in America, with an unofficial mission to their inn. mutual friends in France. Whatever the reason During the whole length of his stay in America he embarked in greatest secrecy in Newcastle. To Niemcewicz kept a journal, written partly in keep his journey secret as long as possible, the French and partly in Polish, in which he recorded news was spread that he had left for a health his doings, observations, and impressions. Un­ resort in the south; Niemcewicz was to tr~vel in fortunately some parts of these notes were lost, the same direction, ostensibly to rejoin him. a fact which he himself deplored when, many years Despite his resentment at being left ignorant later, he was writing his memoirs. The main of Kosciuszko's plans and the disappointment at part however, the diary of the journey from St. having to stay alone in America, where he had Petersburg to Stockholm, the record of Niemce­ come with the sole purpose of helping his ailing wicz' journeys to America in 1797-1799 and 1802- commander, Niemcewicz complied with the estab·­ 1807, and the description of an excursion to lished program and, a few days later, he was Niagara Falls in 1805, survived; its complete text already on his way south by stage coach. was published in Poland for the first time a few Baltimore impressed him unfavorably by the years ago under the title Podr6ze po Ameryce lack of pavement on the streets and the scattered 1797-1807-Travels TMough America 1797-1807. and poorly kept houses, of which only a few could be compared to those in Philadelphia. With his The writings of Niemcewicz contain an aston­ usual interest for new sites, Niemcewicz toured ishing amount of information about people, events, the city and visited the fortress and the port. On and places, as well as his own reflections. He was Sunday he went to Mass in the Catholic church, interested in every aspect of life in America; his which, according to him, "was not larger than an observations reveal a person of broad education ordinary meeting house." It obviously was the and considerable knowledge, particularly in hu­ old St. Peter's Church, which served as the Cathe­ manities and natural sciences. Sensitive to the dral of Bishop John Carroll. After Mass he was natural beauty of America, he also was not in­ introduced to the Bishop, whom he described in different to that of American ladies, of whom he his journal as a "learned and enlightened Prelate, writes: "Nowhere are so many beautiful women very highly respected and estimated in the whole found as in Philadelphia .. . they are real flowers co untry . .. [He] belongs to an old and wealthy . . . not as a poetical metaphor but in the true family, the Bishopric does not bring him a penny." sense of the word." No wonder that being a Next day Niemcewicz continued his journey; bachelor in his thirties, he eventually fell in love starting before dawn, he was at lunch time in with one of those attractive ladies and, in 1800, Bladensburg and, two hours later, the stage coach married Susan Livingston Kean, a young widow of reached "a huge building surrounded by a mag­ New Jersey. nificent forest. . . . I was informed that I am Soon after the arrival of the two Poles in Phila­ looking at the Capitol and that this is the Federal delphia, Kosciuszko received pressing invitations City, capital of the United States." from his close friends, General Anthony Walton It was for Niemcewicz a long awaited and most White and General Horatio Gates, to visit them in exciting moment. Having travelled widely in Brunswick and New York. Urged by his physi­ Europe and having visited cities of great renown cian, Dr. Benjamin Rush, to leave Philadelphia as and of centuries-old traditions, he was amazed soon as possible because of the epidemic of yellow and fascinated by the bold project of the American fever, he set out with Niemcewicz for Brunswick people to build their capital on a tract of virgin first, then for Rose Hill, the residence of General land. Gates in the vicinity of New York. After several The plan of this city was conceived and drawn weeks spent in the hospital homes of the two gen­ on a great and magnificent scale. The enthusiasm erals, Kosciuszko and his companion returned to and the pride of a nation that has just achieved Philadelphia and remained there through the its independence, the t1·emendous extension of its winter of 1797 and the spring 1798. lands from Nova Scotia to the Mississippi, the On May 5, at dawn, Kosciuszko left Philadel­ deep conviction of its future greatness, were its phia. Niemcewicz, notified about this decision inspiration. only a few hours in advance, was profoundly hurt The contrast between the huge building being and distressed, all the more since the general erected and the very few houses scattered around turned down his offer to go along with him and at a great distance from one another, brought to refused to disclose the purpose of the journey. Niemcewicz' mind· Virgil's description of Aeneas' Actually, Kosciuszko's departure and its circum­ arrival to the city of King Evander, the future stances were brought about by the new develop- Rome: Sol medium coeli conscendemt igneus orbem, cum who carz: rule willfully ove1· his sub.iects than foT muros arcemque pt·ocul et Ta1·a domorum tecta the 1·estdence of an official who gets f? ·om his vident ... fellow-citizens a modes t salanJ of 25.000 dol­ The fi ery sun had scaled the mid-aTch of heaven, lars . .. : The PTesident's mansion and pa1·t of when afar they see walls and a citadel, and scat­ the Capttol a1·e th e only public buildings to be tered houseroofs . . . seen ·... s.oo': fo undations will be laid foT offices , that ts btttldtngs fo1· the vaTious depat· tments. The traveller was so excited by what he saw that, instead of going directly to the house of W~lking along the unpaved streets and among Thomas Law, who had invited him as his guest, unfimshed houses of the Federal City, Niemcewicz he rushed to the Capitol, climbed to the top of the as was his habit, observed with a keen eye ever; scaffoldings a nd for a long while admired the aspect of the nascent capital's development and wide panorama, stretching from Alexandria to gathered all kinds of information. He le~rned Georgetown, with the maze of avenues cut out that the bricklayers and workers on the Capitol amidst the dense oak forest surrounding the hill. grounds were paid from one to two dollars a day, Of the building itself he wrote later: "Its archi­ he even entered a shack of one of them. "I found tecture seems to me too heavy and massive. Once there" he writes, "his wife, very neatly dressed the building is completed, it will make a great good kitchenware, and a tea set of Chinese porce~ impression, if only by its dimensions." lain." He also learned that the work was going Staying at t he Law residence, Niemcewicz had on from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M., with a break of one excellent opportunities for visiting the Federal hour for breakfast and another hour for luncheon but he observed that several time City and its surroundings. Thomas Law was a s a day th~ workers interrupted their work wealthy businessman married to Elisabeth Parke to go to the tavern for a cup of grog. Altogether four to five hours Custis, granddaughter of Mrs. Washington; he had were lost in this manner, which certainly ac­ come to America from India. At the time of Niem­ counted for the slow progress of the building. cewicz' visit the Laws were no longer living on N Not only the waste of time, but the amount of and Sixth streets, in the s o-called Honeymoon money spent on public buildings seemed excessive House which has been recently restored and is to Niemcewicz. His diary, moreover, shows criti­ today one of the eighteenth-century landmarks cism of the activities of the Commissioners, "who still standing in t hat part of the city. They had care more for their own projects and enterprises moved to one of their newly built houses on the than for the progress and the general develop­ we st side of New Jersey Avenue at C street, S.E., ment of the city .. .. All those gentlemen . . . where they entertained lavishly. Their all-embrac­ living in George Town consider it to be more ing hospitality extended not only to local friends indicated to settle in the neighborhood of the and acquaintances but also to many travellers of President's mansion," to the detriment of the mark who happened to come to Federal City. To a:ea around the ~apitol, situated at a greater Niemcewicz' great delight, General and Mrs. distance from their residences. Washington spent two days at the Law residence It is a mater of conjecture to what extent while he was staying t here. He had already been Niemcewicz' criticism was due to the influence of introduced to General Washington at the home of ~is host, Thomas Law, who had invested heavily Mrs. Thomas Peter, another granddaghter of Mrs. m real estate south of the Capitol and therefore Washington. Now he ha d the opportunity to resented the predominance of George Town citi­ spend many hou rs with th e General, whom he even zens in the agencies dealing with the building accompanied on a v isit to a sugar refinery plant activities in the capital. And yet-as we look at near the wharves. It wo uld seem that the great it today-it was quite natural that the newly American leader took a liking to the young Polish created Federal City should lean toward the officer since-as Niemcewicz wrote in his journal already existing, prosperous, and well organized -"he was all the time amiable, kind, even atten­ urban community of George Town. tive." The Washingtons left after two days early F?r Niemcewicz the most interesting in the morning because the General "was very thing to se.e m George Town was the College much in a hurry to see last rain's effect oh his . Its founder, fields. Both he and Mrs. Washington cordially ~1shop ~arroll, had undoubtedly advised him dur­ invited me to visit them." It was for Niemcewicz mg. their. conversation in Baltimore, to visit it. an opportunity not to be missed and, consequently, Besides, m the stage coach from Philadelphia he a week later h e went to Mount Vernon with Mr. had made the acquaintance of a young boy g~ing Law. to Geor~e Town College, a circumstance which Meanwhile most of his time was spent in sight­ further mcreased his interest in this institution. seeing. His diary co ntains many interesting com­ T~e ~etailed ~escription of the College, its or­ mentaries and observations on everything he saw. g~m~a~wn, curnculum, and the like, in Niemce­ Thus describing t he President's mansion he WJ~z JOurnal proves that he spent quite a long writes: whii.e on . the campus. Since it is one of the earliest-If not the first-account of a visit to The building, a lmost completed is vast and im­ the. College, written by a foreigner, it is worth pressive; it would be more suitdble fo1' a monarch while to quote the main parts of it. The new College, already inhabited, is not yet completely finished. The old [building ] serves as a residence for the faculty. Both [buildings] are situated in a healthy location, on a high banlc, from which a beautiful view extends. At its bottom one can see the whole course of the Po­ tomac and Mas on's Island, separated only by an arm of the river. It is a floating garden ... What a delightful refuge for a sage [it would be]. T here are seventy students in the College, among them only six Protestants, who live in a separate house. The Catholics reside in the new building. Almost half of these youngsters are Frenchmen from the colonies; imbued from their youth with principles of freedom and independ­ ence, they will in the future, b1·ing them baclc home and will greatly contribute to the emancipa­ excursion to Great Falls, to see another sector tion of these colonies. of the same canal still under construction. He also That such an opinion on the influence of the Col­ went to Alexandria-by boat, since the distance by lege in the formation of the minds and principles the waterway was only four miles, while by land of its students should be expressed by a man who, it was ten to twelve. It still took him over two like Niemcewicz, had fought for the liberty of his hours to get there; he was impressed by the view country and was inspired by the ideals of human of some fifty vessels in the port of Alexandria and rights and freedom, is a great tribute, indeed, to by the big warehouses. "The streets I are/ . . . the educational role played by George Town as wide as those of Philadelphia, some of them College. very well paved with excellent sidewalks. Four to At the time of Niemcewicz' visit the College was five hundred houses ... generally well built ... a run by the president, Father William DuBourg, a small market place, several churches and a theater French Sulpician priest, and five directors. Father ... such is modern Alexandria." DuBourg was, according to the journal "a polite Niemcewicz spent well over two weeks in the man, well educated and full of enthusiasm" for his Federal City, from May 14 to June 20. Toward work. Niemcewicz found him in company of other the end of his stay, having seen everything of members of the faculty in the dining room-a interest in the city and its surroundings, he be­ good time for a carefree conversation. "These came restless and impatient for an opportunity to gentlemen told us marvels about the progress of take advantage of General Washington's invita­ their pupils; one should have to get better ac­ tion. Finally, on June 2, "after many obstacles quainted with them to learn the truth." The pro­ and delays, around eleven A.M." he left for Mount gram of studies at the College included "first of all Vernon. The description of his twelve-day visit languages, i.e., English, F rench, Spanish, Latin, with the General and Mrs. Washington is the only and Greek, moreover Arithmetic, Geography, Ge­ part of Niemcewicz' diary which has been pub­ ometry, etc. Lessons of music, drawing, dance and lished in the United States : in the Century Maga­ fencing are paid additionally . .. The boys have zine in 1902 and rece_ntly, in the F ebruary 1965 nine hours of classes daily with intervals for rest issue of American Heritag e. and instructions." Father DuBourg evidently The Tmvels Through America are a rich source showed the guest around the buildings, because of information about people whom the author met, Niemcewicz mentions that all the students "sleep places he visited, everyday life he observed, even in a large dormitory, the beds are separated by crops and plants. Although often criticizing cer­ low partitions and above each of them I saw a tain aspects of American politics and social condi­ crucifix and holy pictures." Before leaving, he was tions-such as the treatment of slaves-on the presented with the prospectus of the College for whole Niemcewicz looked with greatest sympathy the year 1798. and even admiration upon the dynamic growth of Taking advantage of the beautiful spring the Nation, and he rightly foresaw the expansion weather, Niemcewicz, always eager to see new and future greatness of the United States. sights and to learn more about the country, took several trips into Maryland and Virginia; in some of them he was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. ROMAN DEBICKI, a member of the George­ Law; on some other occasions he joined two town University faculty since 1949, is profes­ Frenchmen from the island of Reunion, who also sor emeritus of gover·nment. He served for were travelling in America. Thus he went along thirty years in the Polish diplomatic service. the eastern bank of the Potomac up to Little He was Ambassador of Poland to Cuba, the Falls, where he very much admired the new bridge Dominican Republic, and Haiti immediately and the already finished part of the canal. A few before coming to Georgetown. days later he had the opportunity, during a riding I PROFESSOR CAINO I A familiar and beloved figure on campus for three decades, Domingo Caine died of cancer at his family home in Puerto Rico on April 6. A full profes­ sor since 1963, he came to Georgetown in 1931 as an in­ structor in Spanis h. In 1938 he was made assistant professor of modern languages and asso­ ciate professor in 1944. He served as acting chairman of ttie modern language depart­ "My dear friends. We have ment from 1944 to 1950. been united in sorrow as we A native of Puerto Rico, he at­ have said farewell and tended the University of Puerto wished Godspeed to the Rico, from which he received a grand gentleman of God, certificate in architecture. He a nd a co-worker of ours for took his A.B. at Syracuse Uni­ many years' standing: Pro­ versity and held the Master of fessor Domingo Caino. Arts degree from both George­ "And I suppose that in the town University and the Cath­ ordinary, natural order of olic University of America. He things, we who, for so many received the University's Axa­ months, earnestly prayed for can Award and the 175th An­ a miracle, should now feel niversary Medal of Honor. He let down, disappointed that was a Chevalier of the Order apparently our prayers have of the Crown of Italy and not been a nswered. And Knight Commander of the Order such indeed would be the of Civil Merit of Spain. case if after a moment's Professor Caine, a bachelor, sober reflection we did not began his teaching in the Col­ recall that after all we are lege of Arts and Sciences and not pagans, that life on this then served on the East Cam­ earth at best is short and pus, teaching in the Institute certainly cannot be the end of Languages and Linguistics of a ll things in stor e for us. at the time of his death. He "In the midst of sadness, was noted for his ability in ours is Christian consolation simu ltaneous translations, and when we realize that after his brilliant exercise of this dif­ all resurrection and ultimate ficult' art on the occasion of imortality are just as much the visit to the campus of the destiny of all men as is Cardinal Silva, Archbishop of death itself; and that the Santiago de Chile, will long be full life must have its re­ remembered. wards. 'I have fo ught a A memorial Mass for Profes­ good fight, I have finished sor Caine was held in Dahlgren my cou1·se, I have kept the Chapel on April 28. The fol­ faith, and as fo1· the rest lowing eulogy was delivered by there is laid up f or me a Rev. Frank L. Fadner, S.J., Re­ c1·own of justice which the gent of the Institute of Lan­ Lord, the Just Judge will guages and Linguistics: 1·ender to me on that day, and not only to me, but to language of God and the self. But he finally decided all those who love his com­ l Angels, as he used to call that these stirrings within ing.' his native tongue in those him did not represent a true "What is the full life? I magnificently organized vocation when he realized say that a full life was courses in Pastoral Spanish with sadness that the Jesuit worked out and led here that he conducted here at vow of obedience might one among us by a true teacher: Georgetown's Institute down day remove him from his be­ Domingo Caino. A young through the years. loved Georgetown. man began his career with "And you know, ... Pro­ "And now all of this has the study of architecture, fessor Caino's services were come to an end, an era has and during those thirty-four rendered to our school in a drawn to a close. We have years, in the course of which true spirit of reverential loved Domingo Caino with he held forth in his beloved love; certainly in all that gratitude for his example in Georgetown classrooms, he time he grew aware of this life, and we are not go­ was a true architect of men. shortcomings, weaknesses ing to forget him in death. With the language and cul­ within his University, a His memory will linger ture of the Hispanic world human organization, after among us. That generous as his instrument, he formed all. But so great was this soul has marched on ahead the souls of gratified and gentleman's pride of family, of us, and stands and will admiring students, he en­ that never once did he des­ stand forever in the pres­ dowed them with the same cend to point out these spots ence of the father of us all spirit of humanism which for the outside world in gen­ as a staunch, ever faithful moved and animated him. eral to see. Rather, we re­ intercessor and powerful ad­ "Many hard hitting cham­ member with gratitude how vocate. May his soul rest pions of the playing field, he sought to remedy defects in peace. In the name of where their prowess natur­ by quietly working the the Father, and of the Son, ally far exceeded their per­ harder in his own particular and of the Holy Ghost. formance in the classroom, division of the big vineyard. Amen." were nevertheless stirred to Cheap ambition and vulgar enthusiasm by their profes­ display were alien to this 91st MERRICK DEBATE sor's lectures on art appre­ teacher's ch aracter; he HELD IN 1903 DECOR ciation; with his sprightly never sought the headlines cheer and great generosity as a controversial figure, or On April 8, the 91st Merrick he turned them into Chris­ a bone of contention. Debate Contest was held in tian gentlemen, and he made "You can't get away from Gaston Hall. The topic debated them devoted citizens of a it: among moral qualities, this year ·was: "Resolved, That vaster world. there is no substitute for the Supreme Court has Unduly "Think of the hundreds of quiet loyalty, quiet loyalty Restricted Law Enforcement in English-speaking priests, with which this lay teacher the United States." Arguing for who at this very moment are served the religious body, the affirmative were John F. preaching and hearing con­ the Society of Jesus which Crosby, Ill, and Gerard Mitchell; fessions in Spanish through­ he loved so cordially. You for the negative, Robert Shrum out the Americas. Why? know, .. . he once told me and Robert Mannix. Shrum was Because Domingo Caino that he toyed with the idea ttie recipient of the Merrick taught them to speak in the of becoming a Jesuit him- Prize Medal. The judges were Rep resentative Richard H. human relations sponsored by Alumni Association, completed lchord, (D., Mo.); Mr. L. Brent Dr. Rocco E. Porreco, dean of the afternoon portion of the pro­ Bozell, Attorney, author and the Summer School, and given gram . journalist; Dr. George Henigan, under the direction of Dr. The evening part of the pro­ professor of speech, George George M. McManmon, chair­ gram, consisting of a cocktail Washington University; Dean man of the department of man­ party and banquet were held in Richard A. Gordon, Assoc iate agement. New South Dining Hal l. The Dean, Georgetown University The student contributors drew main speaker at this affair was Law Center and former Merrick their material for original Very Rev. Gerard J. Campbell, Award Win ner; Mr. Lawrence papers on the manager and S.J., President of Georgetown. Spei se r, District Director, Amer­ management from extensive In addition to awards to the ican Ci vi l Liberties Union; readings and from seminar lec­ Silver Ann iversary class, all of Rufus S. Lusk, Sr., Publisher tures by Professor Fred Joiner the five year reunion classes and former Merrick Award Win­ and Colonel Samuel Pierce, Jr. were recognized. A special ner; and the Rev. Dexter L. Han­ The central theme of the com­ award was presented to George­ ley, S.J., professor of labor law, pilation derives from the axiom town 's Chancellor and former Georgetown U n ive rs i ty Law that the role of management Regent of the Dental School, Center and former Merrick is to accomplish things through Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Award Winner. others. The book, a business­ The contest was presented in man's reference guide, dis­ a 1903 atmosphere; Gaston Hall cusses such topics as the X was decorated with bunting, and Y theories, the managerial METROPOLITAN D.C. CLUB HOLDS potted plar.~t s and flowers. The grid; motivation studies, and participants, appearing in white group dynamics. AWARD LUNCHEON tie and tai Is, entered to the The Georgetown University strains of the 1854 Philodemic DENTAL REUNIONS Alumni Club of Metropolitan Grand March , played by the HELD ON CAMPUS Washington held its fifteenth G.U . Brass Ensemble. A recep­ Annual Awards Luncheon on St. tion in honor of the participants On Saturday, March 13, the Patrick's Day at the National followed the debate. School of Dentistry held its an­ nual Dental Alumni Reunion on Press Club. Awards for distin­ guished professional careers MANAGEMENT the campus. program, under were presented to the fo llowing PUBLICATIO N This year's the chairmanship of Dr. Joseph alumni : The Georgetown Un iversity R. Salcetti, was opened by Dr. Wilfred Dudley, D.D.S., Dental chapter of the Society for the John A. O'Keefe, D'33, who pre­ '49, President, Dental Society of Advancem ent of Management sented an all-morning clinic en­ the District of Columbia has published ($3.50, 113 pp.) a titled, "The Wonderful World of Edmund D. Dwyer, Esq ., Law compilation of papers, ed ited by Dentistry/ 1965." At noon the re­ '40, General Services Adminis­ Carling Dinkier Ill, under the turning alumni were guests of tra_tion, U. S. Government title Essays on Human Rela­ the school for a buffet lunch­ Thomas N. Exarhakis, Foreign tions, and written by th irtee n eon. This was followed by pro­ Service '48, Past President, undergraduates in the School jected clinics by the graduates Georgetown Alumni Club of of Business Adm inistration. The and senior dental students. A Metropolitan Washington book grew out of a seminar on cocktail party, sponsored by the John W. Stadtler, Foreign Service '39, President, National C '52, L '56 of the law firm o ~ The Un iversity's facility will Permanent Savings and Loan Coles, O'Co nnell & Dolan i~ I include such services as com­ Association, President, u. S. Bridgeport. Mr. Dolan is past plete diagnostic evaluation, Savings and Loan League president of the Georgetown Imanagement and rehabilitation Paul R. Wilner, M.D., Medical Alumni Club of Conn ecticut and of the mentally retarded and '36, President, Medical Society presently a mem ber of the specialized tra ining of medical, of the District of Columbia Board of Governors of the paramedical and non-medical Rev. William H. Sch weder, Georgetown University Alumni person nel. S.J., G '37, Chaplain of the Club, Assoc iation. It is the first such facility gave the Invocation and Very to come under the aeg is of the Rev. Gerard J. Campbe ll, S.J., Washington Consortium, the re­ President of Georgetown, gave RETARDATION CENTER cent amalgamation at post-grad­ the Benediction. The Toast­ PLANNED FOR CAMPUS: uate level of Georgetown, George master was the Hon. John D. One of Twelve in U.S. Washington, Howa rd, Am erican Dinge ll, L '52, member of Con­ Awarded Kennedy Grants and Catholic Universities and gress from Michiga n. Gallaudet College. The Con­ Geo rgetown University will sortium is a formal organization get $1.5 million in Federal con­ to encourage pooling of talents JOHN CARROLL struction funds to build a spe­ and resources of the collegiate DINNER SCHEDULED cia l center to help mentally re­ facu lties. Th e Fourteenth Annual John tarded children, it has been an­ Georgetown University has Carroll Awards Dinner will be nounced. also been chosen as one of held on Saturday, October 16, The proposed four-story struc­ twelve universities throughout 1965, at the Stratfield Motor Inn, ture, with 24 beds for inpatient the nation to receive $20,000 Bridgeport, Connecticut. care, wi II be erected adjacent grants from the Kennedy Foun­ This year the National Alumni to the Un iversity Hosp ital on dation to help finance mental Association and the Georgetown Reservoir Road, according to retardation centers at the Alumni Club of Connecticut will Dr. Philip Calcagno, professor of schools. sponsor the dinner to single out pediatrics at Georgetown Uni­ The grants will be used to for special honor certain sons versity Medical Center. finance the salary and expenses and daughters of Geo rgetown Dr. Calcagno said architec­ for one year of a senior faculty University who have distin­ tura l plans have not yet been member to work full-time on guished themselves in their pro­ drawn, and that it may be an­ planning the application for fessions, in se rvice to th e Na­ other six months before ground such a center, or for developing t io n or their communities, and wi II be broken for the new its program, following approval to Alma Mater. These alumni faci I ity. of the application by the Public must have exemplified, through The Georgetown grant was Health Service. their lives, the abid ing prin­ one of two un iversity-affiliated The centers, according to R. ciples to which Georgetown and fac ilities approved for funding Sargent Shriver, executive di­ all Georgetow n men and women by the D epartment of Health, rector of the Kennedy Founda­ are dedicated under the con­ Education and Welfare under tion, will provide, in effect, tinuing theme of "Wisd om and the Mental Retardation Facil­ "one-stop shopping centers" for Di scovery for A Dynamic World ." ities and Community Mental parents looking for help for The general chairman of the Health Centers Construction their mentally retarded chil- LDinner is Thomas J. Do lan, Act of 1963. Ldren. NEW LIBRARY TO RISE ON CAMPUS Plans for a new library for the University made a significant step toward completion last month when. on April 9, the Federal government granted $1.2 miilion toward the planned $6 million structure. The grant, an­ nounced by the U. S. Office of Education, was one of the first in the Nation made under Title II of the college aid bill. Construction of the new library, which will house more than a million volumes and serve all the schools of the Uni­ versity except for medicine and law, is scheduled to begin in June, 1966. The building will be completed in two years. It will be built on the site of the present tennis courts, fronting on the campus, facing White-Gravenor.

Alumni Annual Fund Report The current Alumni Annual•Fund, being conducted by the Georgetown University Alumni Association, has re­ ceived, as of April 15, the sum of $423,937.75 in contribu­ tions and pledges from 4,596 donors, the Rev. Anthony J. Zeits, S.J., National Vice-Chairman, announced on that date. This total is an increase of $71,242.19 over that for the same date last year. On April 1, the local Georgetown Alumni Clubs through­ out the country began an intensive campaign of personal solicitation of those alumni who have not yet contributed to the fund. This phase of the campaign should be com­ pleted on May 15. A new feature of the fund this year is the establishment of a Reunion Gift Program for the Silver Anniversary Classes. Each of these classes is being asked to present a special gift to the University at its 25th year celebration on June 12. The following alumni are chairman of the STUDENTS MARCH individual Silver Anniversary Classes. FOR CIVIL RI GHTS College 1940-Dr. Basi I Harris The campus extended to Selma, Graduate 1940-Dr. Powrie V. Doctor Alabama, and the White House Law 1940-Joseph D. Di Sesa in recent student activities. Foreign Service 1940-Meyer Ge lfand Th irteen students, excused from tests, drove to Alabama to me­ Medical 1940-0. Benwood Hunter, M.D. and morial exercises for the Rev. Francis A. Dobrzynski , M.D. James Reeb. Back home, sev­ Dental 1940-Frank Feldman, D.D.S. eral hundred Georgetown stu­ Nursing 1940--Mrs. Ferdinand J. Hruby dents marched from the cam­ pus to the White House, to In addition, the Law Center Class of 1925, under the present a l etter supporting chairmanship of J. Harry LaBrum, plans to present a President Johnson's actions and similar reunion gift to Georgetown in June. the new civil rights bill. book review The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre

If all of us had kept up with our philosophy, Professor Desan's scholarly and provocative study of the r elationship between the philosophy of the French existentialist J ean Paul Satre with the theory of marxism would undoubtedly be a best seller. For his work is a study of the thought of a man who is regarded widely as being a leading thinker of our day, and Professor Desan is able to illustrate some of the inconsistencies in Sar­ tre's thought and the actual consistency of orthodox theoretical marxism. This caveat is very necessary, for the average reader who is only superficiall y acquainted with Sartre's thought and is un­ acquainted with Sartre's C?·itique de la Raison Dialec tique will find himself at a di sadvantage in attempting to follow some of the rather complex text of this work. Professor Desan assumes that the reader is sufficiently acquainted with the Critique that he incorporates r eferences to it in his text only when and where needed to illustrate his points. What makes this book particularly interesting even to one whose interest in Sartre is newly found is the apparent paradox which so characterizes his philosophy and his own life: his non­ involvement in things which intensely arouse his intellectual interest. For example, Sartre himself is not a card-carrying Communist and reserves for himself the rlght not to be. At the same time, he requires the worker to belong to t'he party. As P1·ofessor Desan writes: "Why, then, is he less tolerant for the French worker, whom he obliges to carry a card membership and thereby deprives of the freedom he so generously offers to himself. Is communism, perhaps, the sort of organization that one admires, envies, looks at, but doesn't ever join? This attitude might be defensible when one confronts some other world vision, but can it be upheld by a Marxist, who so radically rejects all idealism to preach action and total engagement?" Even taking this as a theme of the work, one can readily see flaws in Satre's doctrine of non-involvement; for is he not intel­ lectually involved in his ideas? Is he not emotionally involved with others? And while Sartre rejects idealism, do e_s not hi s negation of the infinite strike one as the non-material lament of someone whose ideal is to believe but can not or does not choose to? As even the most inexperienced non-philosopher can see, there is much in this book which can .challenge him. My advice to him in reading this book is to read carefully the Foreword, the first chapter, the last chapter, and then r ead each chapter beginning Maurice Adelman, Jr., graduated again from the first. In the last chapter, the author sums up the from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1958 and has had whole work, placing it particularly in a perspective with Car­ a long career in free-lance writ­ tesian philosophy. However hazy the last chapter may seem on in g in many national and loca l first reading, it will give assistance as a guide to the points and publications. stresses which Professor Desan makes throughout the book. To the person whose interest in philosophy is both r eal and current, The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sat?·e will provide much op­ The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre portunity for thought and discussion. I don't imagine the subject would agree with all (or most) of the evaluations, but perhaps By Wilfrid Desan Professor Desan thought this book can elucidate Sarte's thought to Sarte as well as he has for others! (Doubleday, 320 p. $4.95) MAURICE ADELMAN, JR., L '58 WISDOM AND DISCOVERY BOOKS Georgetown University's l75th Anniversary Volumes Published by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, New York General Editor: Riley Hughes

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