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A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE

The Presidential Inauguration Robert S. Lyons, Jr., ’61, Editor W. Lawrence Eldridge, Jr., Assistant Editor Volume 21 Spring, 1977 Number 2 James J. McDonald, ’58, Alumni News

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Joseph M. Gindhart, Esq., ’58, President Richard H. Becker, ’50, Executive Vice President William J. Leimkuhler, ’65, Vice President A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Thomas A. Sabol, Esq., ’71, Secretary John P. Gallagher, ’62, Treasurer Contents

1 LA SALLES 26TH PRESIDENT John Cardinal Krol delivered the homily and helped the college celebrate a very special “Charter Day” as Brother Patrick Ellis officially assumed the Presi­ dency.

6 PORTRAIT OF A PRESIDENT John Keenan discovers that there is certainly no energy shortage with Brother Patrick Ellis. 10 REMINISCENCES: 1240 AND ALL THAT Dr. Roland Holroyd, our beloved emeritus professor lnauguration,Page 1 of biology discusses the days before the college moved to 20th and Olney. 14 SHAKESPEARE REVISITED Two distinguished members of the college’s English Department visited London within a few months of each other and came away with some different impressions.

19 BASKETBALL ROUNDUP Larry Eldridge analyzes the men’s and women’s basketball picture and sees high hopes for the Ex­ plorers’ future.

22 AROUND CAMPUS Some La Salle students got a picture of poverty and loneliness while serving as volunteers in two separate areas of Appalachia. Shakespeare Reviewed,Page 14 25 ALUMNI NEWS A chronicle of some significant events in the lives of college’s alumni and alumnae plus profiles of an in­ ventor, a financier, and a high school principal who has become an Archdiocesan milestone.

CREDITS—Front and back cover, Lewis Tanner; in­ side back cover, Mark B. Jacobson; page 1-5, Lawrence V. Kanevsky; 9, Davor Photo; 10, Fabian Bachrach; 14, Omnigraphic Design; all others by Tanner. Basketball Wrapup,Page 19

La Salle Magazine is published quarterly by La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141, for the alumni, students, faculty and friends of the college. Editorial and business offices located at the New Bureau, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Front Cover: La Salle’s new president Brother Patrick Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Penna. Changes of address should be sent Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D. (left), with John Cardinal Krol, at least 30 days prior to publication of the issue with which it is to take effect, to the D.D., J.C.D. (center), Archbishop of Philadelphia, and Alumni Office, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Member of the Council Brother A. Philip Nelan, F.S.C., Ph.D., chairman of the for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). college’s Board of Trustees. The Inauguration

Cardinal Krol offers the closing prayer after the inauguration of Brother Patrick Ellis. La Salle, Spring 1977 1 B ro th e r Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D., was inaugurated as “A College Founded on La Salle’s 26th president on March 20 and called for a renewal of the courage, faith and values practiced by St. Human and Spiritual Values” John Baptiste de La Salle, the founder of the Christian Brothers, the teaching order that received its charter to conduct the college on that date, 114 years ago. Speaking to some 700 guests —including John Cardi­ nal Krol, D.D., J.C.D., Archbishop of Philadelphia — Brother Ellis explained how de La Salle worked with the early Brothers in France to collate a set of techniques that still work at all levels of education. This “centrality of excellent teaching” is the hallmark of all La Sallian schools today, he said. “We certainly have some of the same communications La Salle had,” added Brother Ellis, “the needs of the church,” of society, especially of the city, and most especially of the immediate community around us. While he perceived that the children of the poor and of workers were left unschooled entirely, do not we perceive that many young people are, no matter how superior some of their schooling, are left without faith, without mental order­ ing of their separate acquirements, and largely without purpose? “ Don’t these signs of the times lead us, on one hand, to a great openness in terms of all the means, all the instru­ mentalities of timetable and format, but also to a great insistence upon a deep, calm core in a college education Brother Patrick’s mother, Mrs. Harry J. Ellis, enjoys the ceremonies. that gives purpose, unity, and meaning to it all?”

In addition to the formalizing of The Inaugural Address: the transition, La Salle observes today the 114th anniversary of its A Call for a Renewal Charter. Having recently had ample op­ of Courage and Faith portunities to think aloud in the presence of colleagues and students on a variety of topics, and feeling less than ready to broach the cosmic in present company, I shall put before the meeting a few reflections on the College’s name. To delve into our two great historical confusions —the misnamed Ex­ plorers and the place on La Salle Street in Chicago —would take more time than we have, so, on to the topic! La Salle proudly bears the name of the Founder of the Christian Brothers, Saint Jean Baptiste de La Salle. As his congregation ap­ proaches its tricentennial in 1980, long years of dedicated research about him are coming to fruition; and the results are being closely

2 Cardinal Krol offered the homily at a Eucharistic Liturgy institution must carry out faithfully which chooses to call in the College Hall Chapel prior to the inauguration, and itself Catholic.” also offered the closing prayer after the inauguration, “The last century,” the Cardinal said, “ has surely seen which was held in the College Union Ballroom. many false gods placed before Yahweh. And when those In his homily, Cardinal Krol stressed the need for a secular gods have failed mankind, we have seen de­ Catholic college to remain faithful in its religious commit­ humanization follow step-by-step after the loss of the ment. He explained that the values that caused La Salle sense of the sacred. One of the harshest indictments of College to be founded are human and spiritual values of the academic community I have read is that which which history constantly says, “ If you have these values, suggests that the responsibility for the gas ovens rested you will have life; if you lack them, you are doomed to ultimately not in the Berlin office of a Nazi thug but at the search for them in suffering and loss until you once again desks and in the lecture halls of those teachers who regain them.” denied any objective truth and morality.” “Whether you accept that indictment as wholly just or Praising the past achievements of La Salle College, not,” Cardinal Krol continued, “surely one may look at the Cardinal Krol warned: “This college would become worth­ dreadful experience of Watergate, of warped consciences less, a waste of your time, your efforts and your sacrifices, and distorted notions of the common good, and ask if its ideals and values do not convey a deep sense of the whether the colleges and universities which educated dignity of the human person, do not make your faith more those involved may briskly absolve themselves of any alive in the destiny of the human race, your quest for responsibility for the oral development of those who were justice and truth more total, your belief in the inherent once in their care.” nobility of every person and his or her lofty destiny more firm.” “ One wonders at times,” Cardinal Krol asked, “whether W ith in our own believing community,” the Cardinal some Catholic colleges and universities have defined concluded, “ I earnestly remind you that, in teaching, in starkly enough their religious commitment. There are publications, in all forms of academic life, provision must some prices too high to pay for peace or financial aid.” be made for complete orthodoxy, obedience to the teach­ “We wonder as well,” Cardinal Krol continued, ing authority of the Church, and for fidelity to the bishops “whether a legitimate commitment to freedom can too and to our Holy Father.” easily absolve from those responsibilities which any “ How tragic it would be,” the Cardinal said, “for anyone

and lovingly examined by those less to found a religious institute. cernment of the many ways we are who claim sonship. A serious effort But in the circumstances of life he meant to go, as delivered by is being made to bring his essential saw the will of God, as simply as messengers that can seem unlikely insights to life in our communities that. And these divine interventions at the time. We certainly have some and apostolic works today. took forms that might well have of the same communications La I speak of essentials because eluded a less open, perceptive Salle had: the needs of the Church, there has certainly had to be man. This young but already of society, especially of the city, change. Flexible and available as established cathedral canon let his and most especially of the im­ we shall see he was, Saint La Salle entire life be changed by a dying mediate community around us. if he returned today would be in for fellow priest, by a fidgety, charis­ While he perceived that the chil­ one big shock, for 17th century matic layman who could found dren of the poor and of workers France had no Title IX. Indeed anything and maintain nothing, and were left unschooled entirely, do co-education was quite unknown — by a group of very young teachers not we perceive that many young so that this marvelous evolution who gave him a never-to-be-re- people are, no matter how superior would be outside his cultural frame versed initiation into downward some of their schooling, are left of reference, though not, to be sure, social mobility. Yet he pressed on without faith, without mental order­ against his deepest principles. in faith. ing of their separate acquirements, What, then, can the name of La The relevance of this trait to us and largely without purpose. Don’t Salle College mean to all of us who today? We look into decades in these signs of the times lead us, on work under it? What has his life to which the whole concept of going the one hand, to a great openness say to us? What message might he to college may well stand for a in terms of all the means, all the also have that could reach beyond much broader range of activities, instrumentalities of timetable and our modest campus? to which we must be open but format, but also to a great insistence Saint Jean Baptiste tells us to be which we must keep serious. While upon a deep, calm core in a college open to the Spirit. He did not plan I’m not recommending downward education that gives purpose, unity to get into schoolwork at all, much social mobility, I do suggest dis­ and meaning to it all. Continued —

La Salle, Spring 1977 3 Inauguration — continued B ro th e r Ellis became the college’s 26th president on January 1 after having served as its director of develop­ ment and vice president of the corporation since June, 1969. A 48-year-old native of Baltimore, he succeeded We must remain faithful Brother Daniel Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D., who served as the president of the college for the previous seven and one- to our religious commitment half years. Brother Ellis, a member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools since 1946, joined the La Salle staff in 1960 as an assistant professor of English. He has been at the college since then except for a term as principal of La Salle High School, in Miami, Fla., from 1962 to 1964. Brother Ellis returned to La Salle in 1964 and served as director of the college’s Honors Program until 1969 when he was named director of development and vice president to assume any license for doctrinal relativism or moral of the Corporation. Brother Ellis was awarded a Lindback permissiveness not compatible with a college or university Foundation Award for distinguished teaching in 1965 and which calls itself Catholic.” currently holds the academic rank of professor of English. Brother A. Philip Nelan, F.S.C., Ph.D., chairman of La He served as director of the Christian Brothers Com­ Salle College’s Board of Trustees, officiated at the in­ munity at LaSalle, from 1973 until February, 1977. auguration ceremonies. “Greetings to the President” were Brother Ellis, a 1946 graduate of Baltimore’s Calvert delivered by Zebulon Casey, representing the students; Hall College High School, received an A.B. degree in Joseph F. Flubacher, Ed.D., ’35, professor of economics English from the Catholic University of America, Washing­ representing the faculty; Joseph M. Gindhart, Esq., ’58, ton, D.C., in 1951. He earned a master’s degree and president of the college’s Alumni-Association, and Broth­ doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania. er Colman Coogan, F.S.C., provincial of the Baltimore He has also studied at Barry College and the Institut District of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Catholique, in Paris.

Address — continued

De La Salle gave us a profound good for his own good points up sense of the sacredness of educa­ another trait, his courage. Vested tion, not only as an adjunct to interests of all sorts, especially religion, but in its every aspect. proprietors of paid schools, “The centrality of He repeatedly stressed that parents managed quite literally to throw the should not have to trade off any furniture into the streets from time excellent teaching educational value in order to assure to time. Misrepresentation to the religious education of their ecclesiastical authorities brought is a hallmark of children. With him it was never him full-scale suspension though — either-or. Both was his only toler­ in the wellworn phrase —history La Sallian Schools” able answer to the false dilemma. has been kind to him. Just imagine the qualities in him We had better take his example which had to sustain his sense of here too. As we look at today’s the sacred, among hundreds of demographics (the shrinking pool boys in off the streets of teeming of young people) and today’s cities, one hundred to a class, economy, we could well find our­ under the guidance of Brothers selves in need of de La Salle’s scarcely out of their teens and very sense of values and of his courage. uncertain of their vocation. Yet his What price, for example, will be every dictum, worked out with his exacted in the future for various early Brothers, stressed respect for kinds of aid? Not only in govern­ the student and for the seriousness, ment but in the private sector, there yes, sacred ness of what they were are people who see life through about. other eyes who want the wrong That La Salle’s schools were too strings attached to every aid dollar.

4 Participating in Inaugural Day ceremonies were (clockwise from top left): John Cardinal Krol, Brother Colman Coogan and Roland Holroyd, Joseph M. Gindhart, Brother Emery Mollenhauer, Zebulon Casey, and Joseph Flubacher.

So far so good, in Pennsylvania professors he has right now. (The offset ever more urgent distractions higher education; but one has only world will little note nor at all by any kind of structure or man­ to survey other states, and other remember what administrators say date. Only the quality of each class levels of education, to see that the here; the students will never forget or laboratory experience can ever future is now for many of our col­ what their teachers did here). In hope to bring that deep, calm leagues in religious education. his or her recollections, the best center into an education today, with Strange as it may seem to us, de of the fifteen or twenty professors all that traffic, those necessary jobs. La Salle’s circumstances led him to will be the basis of loyalty, and Those formative activities, and — be a pioneer in method. Ecclectic, gratitude, and will have everything as everyone knows —that double harried and overscheduled, he to do with the alumnus or alumna’s daily challenge of finding a parking nevertheless worked with the early sense of purpose in life, ability to space to begin with, and getting Brothers to collate a set of tech­ give meaning to passing events, out of it when you must. niques that still work at all levels of and will to let faith animate each To be sure, the same La Sallian education if tried and if adjusted to day. More and more, class must be concept that mandates fine teach­ the age of students. A rich and an event every time, eagerly ing carries into all professional in­ often humorous oral tradition has awaited, alertly shared, systemati­ volvement with students: interviews, passed down more of this than have cally retained and applied. As the coaching of all sorts, facilitating of the many printed editions. But even old four-year full time structure resident life. Everything about the where the Brothers are a minority becomes less the norm, and we enterprise is sacred, because per­ of the staff, the centrality of excel­ encounter stop-outs, stretch-outs, sons are. And if La Salle could see lent teaching is a hallmark of La returns and transfers, the excellent that in the streets of Paris, can we Sallian schools. class event becomes more central. not try to do the same in the City of How much more important than Clearly we cannot cope with ex­ brotherly love? ever is this reality today. For a panding knowledge in a quantified I think La Salle is a great name for student, La Salle College is the five way, by adding on. Nor can we a college.

5 La Salle, Spring 1977 6 PORTRAIT OF A PRESIDENT: NO ENERGY SHORTAGE HERE By John J. Keenan

If President Carter could find a way to harness the technique as “ellising,” citing as example the following energy generated by President Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., it sentence: “ He was ellising along in such a fashion that I could easily be the answer to this nation’s energy crisis. did not notice he had picked my pocket.” The allusion is Tempting as the cliche might be, it would not be quite to Brother Ellis’s former position as Director of Develop­ accurate to describe Brother Patrick as a dynamo: a ment and in no way can be found applicable to the dynamo, as Henry Adams pointed out, is capable only of activities of a college president. At least that is the con­ generating energy, not of channeling that energy into tention of college president Dennis O’Brien. productive ends. In Brother Patrick’s case, his motion is The phenomenon known today as Brother Patrick always channeled and usually productive. Ellis came into being in Baltimore in 1928. Known in those A busy life has been good preparation for the presi­ days as Harry James Ellis, he was educated at St. Thomas dency. He has long been accustomed to parceling out Aquinas School and at Calvert Hall, the high school the day in tiny time capsules, and he seldom falls behind operated by the Christian Brothers. While in high school the schedule he sets for himself. He has only two speeds he held a number of jobs appropriate to one whose later — fast and full. If he finds himself getting behind, he interests were to be found in literature. He worked at the simply talks faster and moves faster. Efficiency is a habit Pratt Library and at the Baltimore Sun. His memories of with him. For years he has had a pattern of answering a those days on the Sun are brightened by the recollection letter the day he receives it, thereby disqualifying himself that he was once commended by Baltimore’s most for membership in the Procrastinator’s Club. famous son, H. L. Mencken. It seems that Mencken called Brother Patrick’s manner of speaking may be the best the paper in search of some detail connected with his index to his personality. He talks quickly, sentences pour­ research. The next day he called the editor to commend ing out in breath-defying length. Each sentence is a the intelligence and diligence of the office boy named rhetorical work of art, filled with balanced phrases, witty Ellis who had answered the phone and searched out the qualifiers, and allusions drawn from an encyclopedic information. memory. A rhetorical analysis of one of Brother’s off-the- When he was graduated from high school, young Jim cuff speeches is enough to keep a composition class could have had a full time job on the newspaper, but he going for a semester. The students may be directed to find also had won a full scholarship to Loyola College. He took examples of metaphor, simile, personification, metonymy, neither. Instead he joined his former teachers, becoming hyperbole, and litotes. They’re all there, and, most im­ a Christian Brother in 1946 at the age of 17. pressive, they are seldom the result of labored writing. He talks best from a few scribbled notes, relying on his H e had not yet made up his mind what subject he quick mind to supply the best figures of speech. Some­ wanted to teach. He had won the medal for physics in times the result is enough to set the mind reeling. He once high school, and he had also been class valedictorian told a friend he might “slip over to Africa to see my sister,” and an active debater. Physics was ruled out when he an example of understatment exceeded only by the chose to take Latin instead of science as a college fresh­ assumption of mobility behind it. man. When he entered Catholic University, his interest The slow-witted listener may find himself dawdling over in philosophy was kindled by an excellent course in meta­ a puzzling parenthetical while the main idea is being physics under Charles Hart, but English became his first driven home. La Salle Board member and Bucknell love and his primary field of study. president Dennis O’Brien has a humorous hobby of The Brothers’ community at De La Salle College of making verbs out of proper names. He describes this Catholic University had compiled a distinguished

La Salle, Spring 1977 7 Portrait — continued

His devotion to the Christian Brothers is not flambuoyant, it is simply

academic record, a Brother having been named Summa the new setting. Besides teaching English, he taught a Cum Laude for four years running. Brother Patrick made course in relgion, moderated the Collegian, and eventual­ it five in a row, and joined eight other student Brothers in ly moved into the residence halls as a counselor. In the being elected to Phi Beta Kappa that year. Not surprising­ summer, he “vacationed” by serving as acting director at ly, he remembers his days at Catholic University as “a St. Gabriel’s Hall, the protectory at Phoenixville. great experience.” Once upon a time, there was a moo-cow coming down the road . . .” Thus begins Joyce’s Portrait of the A fte r a summer practicum at the Protectory in Phoenix- Artist as a Young Man. No account of Brother Patrick’s ville, Brother Patrick began his career as an English life at La Salle would be complete without mention of the teacher at West Catholic in 1951. night he saw the moo-cow—not coming down the road, In what is usually a painful learning experience —the but coming down the second floor corridor of his resi­ first year of high school teaching — Brother Patrick quickly dence hall. gained a reputation as a “comer.” A “comer,” as the It is the stuff dormitory legends are made of. There was Brothers defined it, was someone good enough to handle the cow —a very frightened, nervous cow. And there was a few extra jobs. In addition to teaching senior English and Brother Patrick Ellis, not yet quite awake, but seemingly religion and pursuing work on his Ph.D. at Penn, Brother speechless, if only for a moment. Summoning the author­ Patrick was therefore allowed to branch out. He prepared ity gained in years of teaching, Brother Patrick said the assemblies, led the singing at Mass, and moderated the only thing possible: “Get that cow out of here.” yearbook. The students showed that he had truly earned Some students with more imagination than prudence a place in their hearts by bestowing on him the nickname, had borrowed the cow from the Blaine farm across the “the owl.” No high school teacher’s position is secure until street and brought her home with them. It somehow had his students have given him his name. In this instance, seemed like a good idea at the time. Understandably, the the name might be a tribute to Brother Patrick’s wisdom; Blaines failed to see the humor of it. Brother had it is probably coincidental that his round face was framed neglected to tell the students how to get the cow out of by horn-rimmed glasses. there, but somehow the cow was somehow got down the In 1956 he became chairman of the English depart­ stairs without breaking a leg and returned, sadder but ment. He ran a relentless mimeograph machine, pub­ wiser, to the barn. lishing a regular department bulletin to keep the large The incident makes a good story—now. At the time, department abreast of one another’s ideas and activities. there could have been cruel consequences to the frigh­ “ It was an effective device for stimulating teachers’ interest tened cow and the loss of friendship with valued and building a sense of community in the department,” neighbors. Fortunately, the patron saint of husbandry was says one La Salle teacher who was part of that depart­ good to Brother Pat and La Salle’s “agricultural” students. ment. The chairmanship did not lessen his activities in other areas, but the hectic life seemed to be a tonic to B ro th e r Patrick seemed thoroughly settled into a Brother Patrick. He has often commented on the fact that career at La Salle when his provincial asked him to do a his high school teaching kept him in touch with reality very difficult thing: he asked the young Ph.D. in English while he was in graduate school and taught him that to leave college teaching and return to high school. The there was a difference between teaching and lecturing. Brothers had just accepted responsibility for a school in Meanwhile, there were some far-sighted administrators Miami. Cuban refugees from Castro were coming in large at La Salle College who could hardly wait for Brother numbers, the school had some difficult administrative and Patrick to finish his doctorate, so anxious were they to financial problems, and there was a need for a dynamic provide new channels for his energy. principal to get the enterprise started. He joined the English department at La Salle in 1960, Brother Patrick’s willingness to give up something he but his habit of getting involved in things did not change in had been preparing for in years of graduate study illumi-

8 there, like the tap root of a healthy tree

nates a fundamental commitment which must be under­ knowing that a good prospector finds gold in unlikely stood if you hope to understand him. He is, first and fore­ places: the important thing is that he never gave up look­ most, a Christian Brother. His devotion to his order is not ing. flambuoyant; it is simply there, like the tap root of a healthy tree. His vows are important to him, and he does what he can for the welfare of the order. This time he went to In March 20, 1977 the 114th birthday of La Salle Florida, and it was no vacation. College, Brother Patrick Ellis became its 26th president. When he returned to La Salle in 1964, he became the An inauguration is an official beginning, and naturally it first director of the honors program, helping to recruit is accompanied by speculation as to what kind of presi­ talented students and formulate the program which con­ dent the newcomer will be. Brother Patrick’s previous tributed to the growing number of national prestige awards career at La Salle makes it easy to predict that his future being won by La Salle students. actions will be marked by the same qualities that have distinguished his past activities: boundless energy, buoyant humor, inextinguishable optimism, quick The unsettling Sixties provided disappointments as well intelligence, and a Christian sense of compassion. as rewards to any adult dealing with bright young people. Brother Patrick’s years of visibility on this campus, his Like other teachers and parents, Brother Patrick was voluble opinion, his stands on past issues —all appear to faced during those years with some painful adjustments render him as easy to read as an advertiser’s headline. to rapid changes in students’ manners and mores. A man But there is more to a story than just the headlines. who had enjoyed excellent rapport with students over the Reminiscing with an old friend shortly after assuming years suddenly found himself faced with the politics of his new post, Brother Pat mused on the ironic contrast confrontation. Looking back from the viewpoint of the between the way a person would like to see himself and present, he now sees those years as a valuable part of his the way he is actually perceived by others. He spoke of education, a time of learning the difficult balance between some other old friends as illustrations, and then he spoke the voice of authority and the voice of flexibility. of himself: “ In my life the irony is that I have always been When Brother Daniel Burke became President in 1969, valued for the facility of my intelligence when I had rather he asked Brother Patrick to serve in the role of Director of been valued for its depth.” Development; at the same time he became Vice President Aside from the fact that only a man of depth would have of the Corporation. It was a complete change of pace from recognized the irony, it is also true that others value his his work as Honors Director, and it might have taken him depth more than they permit themselves to show. away from students entirely had he not chosen to continue Brother Patrick’s musing on life’s irony is echoed in the teaching one course in the English department. The words of J. M. Barrie: choice is indicative of the importance of teaching in his The life of every man is a diary in which life, and he expects to continue teaching during his he means to write one story, and writes another. . . presidential tenure. It is interesting that these words serve as the epigraph for Brother Pat’s extroverted personality proved ideally J. F. Powers’ novel, Morte D’Urban. You may remember suited to many of the duties of the Development Office. that that is a novel about a priest whom everyone looks He enjoys meeting new people, makes a strong first to as the sophisticated answer to his order’s wordly needs; impression, and usually is able to build good will for La he turns out instead to be the one to return the order to its Salle in subsequent meetings. He is also indefatigable spiritual purposes. It gives one pause. and endlessly resilient in the face of disappointment, two qualities essential in a Development Director. In the past seven years, he has drawn up innumerable proposals for grants from the government or from foundations, knowing Mr. Keenan is an associate professor of English at the college. His full well the slimness of the odds for success, yet also articles have appeared frequently in this and other publications.

La Salle, Spring 1977 9 Reminiscence

1240 AND ALL THAT By Roland Holroyd, Ph.D. As Told To Larry Eldridge

The Old Bouvier Mansion at Broad and Stiles Sts. was once La Salle’s campus. 10 It was one September Saturday in to be taught. Brother Lucian was a brothers, and all the priests and I 1920; I think it was noon. Professor biologist himself but he hesitated with decided to purchase an old University Steckbeck, who was Penn’s social the plant end of it so it relieved matters of Pennsylvania Bachelor’s gown. I professor of the science of botany, greatly for him when I agreed to pre­ started to wear it to lectures and there came over to me and said, “ By the pare the botany lectures and prepare was never any question about my way, would you be interested in some two two-hour laboratory periods. It being taken seriously. outside work?” was also of course quite a nice thing Maybe I’m funny that way, but I I was teaching botany at Penn and for me. think a person should look like what pursuing my doctorate at the time and We had two hour lectures on he is while he is performing his special I was being paid $1000 a year plus Mondays and Fridays. The lecture duties, constantly reminding people my tuition. I thought that a little extra room was quite small and had two of what he is and what the relationship money for jam would be quite wel­ modest blackboards, a glass- they may have with him is all about. come so he said to come along and enclosed cabinet in the center of the I always kept to the old fashioned meet Brother Galbert Lucian at room and a table. It was customary in procedures, like calling roll. I know La Salle College. physics and chemistry, and to a cer­ that many professors today don’t Now as I remember what happened, tain degree, biology, to have demon­ bother but students sometimes get the it was customary for the Provincial at strations on the table during lec­ notion that you don’t care if they’re in that time (Brother Abdan Philip) to tures. It usually required that the your class or not if you don’t call the make teaching appointments during lecture room be vacant at least an roll. I’ve heard students say, “oh, I’m the latter part of August or early hour before class so that the proper not going to class this morning. He September. Many fine teachers from materials could be set up and also an really doesn’t know if we’re there or parochial schools like St. Peter’s, hour after class so that the materials not.” I never wanted students in my St. Stephen’s, and St. Agatha’s had could be removed. As classroom classes to think that way so in the just been pulled out to provide a new space became more and more in de­ early classes, which were usually high school, West Catholic, with a mand, that practice stopped very larger, I always had my students faculty. The Provincial had made quickly. alphabetically arranged. And we some appointments to the old La I think we started out with fourteen always started class with a prayer. Salle, which was located at the students that first year; seven finished That would bring the class to order Bouvier mansion on 1240 Broad the course. Brother Lucian sat in the immediately and the students would Street, but there had been nobody front row of the lectures for the first stop thinking about the affair they selected to teach biology. eight or nine weeks. I suspected that just had with their girl friend, about the During that time medical students he was a bit fearful that the students party that night, and would con­ used to receive two years of biology might get the better of me. I had been centrate instead on the business at and chemistry before entering medical a sergeant in the army and I didn’t hand. school. Dentists proceded directly altogether share his fear. Even after Soon June came and with it, final from high school to dental school, but Brother Lucian stopped coming to examinations. Of course we had no there was an obvious need for a the class, I had no trouble at all. mimeographs back then. One of the Biology instructor. worst things that happened to the Old 1240, itself, was a fair-sized O n c e in a while students—and this college was the invention of the building with four stories plus the is true even today —will push a teacher mimeograph. There are two kinds of basement on the corner of Broad and to see how far they can go. The exams: subjective and objectionable Stiles. The Josephine Widener answer to that challenge has always — I mean objective. The mimeograph Memorial Library, which serviced both been just to let them know who’s in opened the door to objective exams. the high school and the college, was charge, and there are plenty of Before that there were no “multiple right next door on Broad and Girard. methods available. choice” or “fill in the blank” tests. The Now in those days you must remem­ Nobody in those days would have student had to answer questions by ber that if someone mentioned La thought about conducting a class using English sentences. That would Salle College, you immediately without wearing a coat and tie. I see be a terrible hardship now; some thought of the high school. The college some of the faculty today going professors are absolutely addicted to proper was a mere appendage to the around in blue denims with open one numbered answer tests. high school. In fact, I believe that shirts and no coat at all. It just takes when Brother Lucian first came to La my breath away. I think about how W e had to give subjective tests Salle there were only seven students different things used to be. There was because they had to be written on the at the college. a great dignity attached to those who blackboard. We had questions like: Anyway, the college found itself were teaching, although occasionally tell all you know about malaria; com­ with a biology course and no one to there was a problem with freshmen pare in parallel columns respiration teach it. Botany and zoology were who didn’t take a secular teacher and photosynthesis; define the follow­ offered in alternating terms, and this seriously. One day I thought about all ing terms and include in the definition particular term botany was the course the sisters wearing their habits, all the a form of the verb to be. In other

La Salle, Spring 1977 11 1240 —continued over the summer. We used to use three cats per semester to study the various functions and occasionally there would be catting parties. Of course it was a hazardous thing to run into an alley and lay your hands on somebody’s pet cat, even though it was going to be used for a very glorious purpose. My rolls of 1924 show names of students who were marked either PM or PD, which meant that the dental schools had decided something that they had hesitated about doing for years, and that was to require one year pre-dental courses. So it used to be said that there were three kinds of students: good, bad, and pre-dental. As student numbers began to ex­ pand we had to give more courses. I The late Brother Florus Aloysius Pearce conducts a chemistry class. recall one time that Brother Emilian, who later became president of the college in 1941, was assigned to words, standards were pretty high. A general zoology and that I would find instruct a course in economics. He professor couldn’t have his sister or someone else to teach mammalian had never even taken any economics cousin come over some night with anatomy on the other afternoon. courses himself, but Brother Alfred, some beer and pretzels, hand them a Brother Lucian said, “ What? You who was president at the time, told key sheet and some exams, say, mean disect dead cats?” I felt like him that there were good books in “ please mark off all the answers saying you can’t very well disect live English on the subject, and so Brother whose numbers don’t coincide,” and ones, but we finally agreed on that Emillian taught economics, always grade eighty examinations in one arrangement and a young chap named keeping one chapter ahead of his night. And it was no use pleading that Frank Conde Baxter, who later ran the students. You couldn’t do that in the we had large classes, which we began Telephone Hour on television for sciences, though. to have. You just had to read all of the many years but who at the time was a examinations yourself. It took hours struggling young graduate student at and it took days. But you got ideas Penn, initiated the first course in A t one point I had to fill out a form from students and you learned mammalian anatomy at La Salle. for the American Association of Uni­ whether or not they could write Eng­ In 1922 Brother Lucian succeeded versity Professors, which I was urged lish. a Brother Richard as president. The to join while I was still teaching at When that first year ended, though, first thing he wanted to do was to have Penn. I filled in my capacity at Penn I had no idea if I would be returning to a special place for the college, and he (which was instructor in botany) and La Salle the next Fall. I thought per­ was successful. He got three rooms on I asked Brother Lucian just what I haps the Provincial would select a the fourth floor of the Bouvier mansion should put down for my work at La­ Brother to teach zoology, which was and two of the rooms, which had been Salle. I wasn’t sure if I was an in­ the next course of the biology se­ bedrooms, were combined to make a structor, an assistant professor, or quence. But Brother Lucian called me fair sized classroom. New cabinets, what. Brother Lucian, big generous in September and asked me if I could platforms, and lockers were all built Irishman that he was, said, “You are get somebody to teach zoology. and the place shaped up quite nicely. the professor of biology and head of At this time I was pretty heavily I must admit that even in those days I the department of biology.” involved with my doctoral work at had to stop halfway up the stairs to So I have had the great privilege of Penn and I was working every night catch my breath, but at last we were being the only member of the faculty until at least ten o’clock. I felt it might independent from the high school that was never promoted. I started at just be too much for me to do alone. (although physics and chemistry the top. The only trouble was, there But Brother Lucian pleaded with me people still used the high school facil­ was no department to head at all. to help them out somehow and since ities). In 1925 a momentous thing oc- I thought that the Brothers had been At the beginning of the next term cured. We had a change of presidents uniformly kind to me that perhaps I Brother Lucian confessed that he had (Brother Dorotheus Lewis took office) could spare at least one afternoon a forgotten to remove some of the dead and we had our first dean —Brother week. So I told him that I could give cats which were left from the previous Firmus Edward. Our number was him one afternoon a week to teach term and they had ripened up a bit constantly going up because of all the

12 pre-dentals and we began giving Charles, who taught chemistry, A new building had been in the botany and zoology at the same time. seldom appeared. He always pleaded offing for a while and even back in We also began to get quite a few that he had to see his doctor on those Brother Lucian’s time he had an­ men who had already graduated with nights. But generally they were rather nounced at one of the commence­ degrees in pharmacy. It was fashion­ jovial affairs. Cigars and cigarettes ments that the following year’s ex­ able at the time for some pharmacists were provided and there was always a ercises would be held at the new La to go into medicine with the hope of bottle of something. Sometimes, the Salle College on the Boulevard. All becoming a physician on the second dean wasn’t even in any kind of con­ the commencements prior to 1926 floor of a building and a pharmacist on dition to adjourn the meeting. had been held in conjunction with the the ground floor, so that they could Finally, as all new administrations high school because there simply write out a prescription, run down the do, they decided that we must have a weren’t enough students to make a stairs before their patients, and fill new catalog. Everyone was possessed separate ceremony worthwhile and out the prescription they had written with a Martin Luther complex; we had several attempts to hold separate out just several minutes earlier, there­ to reform the curriculum and reform commencements after that weren’t by getting a double fee in the process. the catalog. At that time there was no overly successful. yearly catalog. There was a base But finally in 1930, we had our first supply of about a thousand and up­ commencement at the new La Salle This was during the period of pro­ dated leaflets were inseted from year College on 20th Street and Olney hibition when it was fashionable to to year. Avenue, because on February 4, 1930 drink things stronger than lemon Brother Firm us and I were the com­ the college had moved to its new phosphates and moxie. In certain mittee appointed by Brother Lewis to location, and began a new era. But parts of Philadelphia there was write a new catalog. We had meetings that’s another story! made what was known as tiger sweat, every Saturday to work on the catalog, or bathtub gin, and other potent but before we would work on those Dr. Holroyd, known as “ The Good drinks that were calculated to make important matters, Brother Firmus Doctor,” was the founder of the col­ you tell more than your real name and I would always go to the Liberty lege’s biology department and a after three drinks, if it didn’t kill you Theatre on Susquehanna Avenue to "living legend” to thousands of La outright. It was the thing to do —to watch the current cinema. We would Salle students during his 53 year drink. The height of hospitality was to invariably stop at the post office on the teaching career which ended upon ask somebody to come over for a way back for some stamps—they cost his retirement in 1973 when he be­ drink and you were suspicious of peo­ two cents for a letter, a penny a post came the college’s first "emeritus" ple who didn’t drink. card in those days. Then we would rofessor. A native of Manchester, One of the deans had his own come back to the deanery, get into England, and a vestryman in the supply of ethyl alcohol and it was our comfortable rocking chairs, and Anglican Church, he is one of the customary before you went to class to work until 8:00 or so, when Brother few non-Roman Catholics in the stop in his office, hang your coat and had to finish for his night prayers. world who has received the distinction hat and have a little nip. You could That was the beginning of annual of becoming affiliated with the Chris­ have it two ways. Either he would catalogs. tian Brothers. pour orange syrup in it and call it benedictine, or he would pour some green syrup in it and call it creme de Dr. Holroyd, the author, always conducted class in his academic robe. menthe. Either way it was horrible, but it often produced rather interesting effects. I remember one story about one of our professors who made several visits around the building before one of his classes. He stopped in to see the president, and had some altar wine. He dropped in on the chemistry pro­ fessor, who had his own still. Finally he went into the deanery and received the dean’s hospitality. As you can well imagine, he was more loquacious in class that day than he had ever been. Perhaps not too surprisingly we began to have faculty meetings around this time. They weren’t uni­ versally popular. I recall that Brother

La Salle, Spring 1977 13 SHAKESPEARE REVISITED Two distinguished members of the college s English Department visited London within a few months of each other and came away with different impressions.

The Globe Playhouse in London. They were Consistently Good but Seldom Spectacular

By Brother Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D. Without explicitly announcing itself as such, London seven, hardly anyone enjoyed a costume change, is a summer Shakespeare festival, yet most of the except for Othello’s move from one tent-like mu-mu productions are staged far from the West End district to another. From the first act on, what you saw the that considers itself—perhaps rightly—the capital of first time was what you would see all evening, give or the English language theatrical world. take a prop or two. Whenever a play is mounted at a place distant from The sets did little for any of the productions, except restaurants, the management takes on the function of the just-right outdoor one for Love’s Labours Lost. In providing a cold buffet; and there is often incidental all other instances, audiences saw adaptable and non- entertainment at the periphery, like a street band out­ commital structures of arches, stairs and platforms, side, or a concert nearby in the park. Thus, the Shake­ with standard lighting of which it could be said that speare piece can form the heart of a complete and none of it got in the way. Only Hamlet labored with a rather comfortable outing, with minimal impact on the modified proscenium arch, being housed temporarily budget. in a theater not meant for Shakespeare. For the other In the summer of '76, the plays on view in London six, the stages projected into the house in one fashion were Troilus and Cressida, in a steamy warehouse or another, with lively effects on the direction of the minimally converted to the “ Young Vic.’’ Othello and plays, and heavy demands on the actors’ vocal Love’s Labours Lost outdoors in Regent’s Park, powers. Richard III, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet in Only one production, Richard III, was vocally lack­ repertory at St. George's, a last venture of Sr. Tyrone ing, perhaps because—Guthrie or no Guthrie —the Guthrie in north London, and Hamlet at the new accoustics in the converted church of St. George are national theater complex on the south bank. poor, or because in that one play the repertory com­ One common element in all seven was the highly pany went outside its ranks for a star, Alan Badel, who traditional character of the productions, especially the did not exert himself to the same degree as the rest. visual dimension. The substance of the play never had Every word of the same company’s Romeo and Juliet to contend with jarring distractions, as did the jazzed and Twelfth Night came across; but the only fair way to up Troilus at Lincoln Center a few years ago. (Partici­ judge this factor would have been to sit in the same pants in that production, had they been Elizabethans, section of the house for each play. would hardly have made it to the final curtain ahead of In the same connection, it was a joy to see the energy pneumonia or the constable). Still, a sameness settles and care expended by the company in Regent’s Park in, with the lurking note of budgetary constraint. In all to carve every word and reach the farthest bleachers

The Thought Struck Me, “I Have Seen What Acting Is” By Robert T. Fallon, Ph.D.

The first day in London I opened the ence. Here they are, virtually as I superiority to all at Elsinore, though Times to discover that there were three scrawled them in my notebook at mid­ Claudius appears as an able king. Shakespearean plays being offered at night — eratic, uneven, highly Hamlet scorns and mocks everyone; the same time. Three at once\ What impressionable, “an ill-favor’d thing, he is almost psychopathic, on an richesl It’s as if Shakespeare was on sir, but mine own.” emotional binge. Once he draws his stage at the Walnut, the Forrest, and Hamlet sword to kill the praying Claudis he the Playhouse-in-the-Park, and you Albert Finney as Hamlet with Susan never seems to put it away; he bran­ had to choose. So I saw Shakespeare Fleetwood as Ophelia, directed by dishes it at Gertrude, kills Polonius, on the first three nights of my stay. Peter Hall. First visit to the National challenges courtiers, until he finally I was there for a month on a research Theater, and a memorable one. The has to be brought in with bound wrists. grant from La Salle to study John complete Hamlet, the Second Quarto No Melancholy Dane this! He recites Milton and discovered that I could see (1604) plus lines from the First Folio. the soliloquies as if he wants to have two more performances of the Bard Decided to go after awaking from a done with them and get on with the before I left and could have taken in nap (shaking off jet lag), arrived at action. This creates problems: after Richard III if I had stayed one more 6:30 for a 7:00 curtain. Sold out. the emotional high of the graveyard day. Six in one month, all within twenty Nothing to lose, so I stood in line scene the shift to the composed nar­ minutes of my hotel—a feast\ After awaiting cancellations. At 6:50 a party rative of his pirate adventures is each performance I jotted down cancelled ten tickets, I got the last one. terribly abrupt; it is as if he has quite immediate impressions, for no good Finney is all energy, he is all over forgotten about Ophelia. Is he mad? reason except that it seemed the stage. What comes across is No, but he is unhinged. He is so easily important to record such an experi­ Hamlet’s wit, his intelligence, his distracted, toying with Ophelia,

La Salle, Spring 1977 15 Ellis —continued

(without, I am glad to say, any detectable amplifica­ rare chance to compare treatments with recent state­ tion). I say “see” advisedly, because George Stephens side productions, (Troilus and Cressida and Richard as Othello vaporized every plosive in the moist, cool III), or for a revisit with an old friend. While profiting night air, almost but not quite to the point of comedy. from the presence of the buffet, the audience mills In this company, the visiting stars had caught the spirit. around the lobby for an hour beforehand under Edward Fox, who could hardly need the work with the pleasant conditions. (Even the Royal Opera House in Jackal still stalking De Gaulle on screens the world Covent Garden, where I encountered the only dressy over, portrayed a lago who—if not overly nuanced — gatherings during the great heat wave, offers a cold was clear, consistent, and unsparingly sustained eight buffet.) There is usually only one intermission, also times a week. devoted to some form of refreshment, especially a One can forgive so much else, especially when the gentle white wine, again with minimal damage to the words are Shakespeare’s, when the whole company is budget. And getting there is no chore. The under­ vocally generous towards the audience. Would that this ground is close, with a goodly walk, either through a example were more contagious. This professionalism park, or across a footbridge over the Thames, or seemed shared by all ages, from the apparently limit­ through a dowdy multinational neighborhood that is less pool of middle-aged courtiers, to the youngest and trying to renew itself by homesteading. The Shake­ even the very old. The companies I saw, then, have speare plays, performed well, are somehow right in purged themselves of the slapdash execution so widely this total context, perhaps more so than beneath the lamented in the Peter Brooke Midsummer Night's lights —and at the prices— in the Strand, where so often Dream, of which it was said that never before have so the star is the thing. many people been so young and so unattractive, not to London in the summer of ’76 was a feast for the mention unintelligible. comparative approach. The Prokoffief Romeo and I have left undeveloped that concept of a comfort­ Juliet by the Royal Ballet offered an obvious chance able outing as a key to Shakespeare’s appeal in these to see that plot mimed as well as dramatized. Haydn’s seven instances. One began in each case with the The Creation was performed in English by Haydn- anticipation of seeing a good play, perhaps for the only size forces in a marvelous new hall in the national time in one’s life (Love's Labours Lost), or for a very complex, and in German by the more traditional im-

Fallon —continued Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guilden- expect? Hamlet finds out about her slow start. Aguecheek is a proper stern, besting them all in verbal en­ part in the spying not by overhearing mindless fob, but engaging. counter, all to no purpose! Here he is the plot (Dover-Wilson) but by asking St. George’s Theater is wonderful. not so much paralyzed by melancholy her abruptly, “Where is your father?” It is an old Byzantine style church, as he is defeated by the scattering of Her innocence gives her away when octagonal in shape, done over into a his effort, by his inability to keep his she has to deal with Hamlet’s quick theater with pews (quite comfortable), mind on anything for any length of intelligence. Very good, perhaps bet­ a proscenium jutting into the audience time, too easily diverted by whoever ter. as in the Globe or the Swan, a balcony enters next—all energy, willy-nilly. The final scene is striking. All atten­ where the musicians play their re­ Finney’s voice is not the best, none tion is rivetted on Hamlet as he dies corders (and where Juliet will call for of Olivier’s or Burton’s resonance, and then the eye sweeps a stage Romeo next week), a curtain, and an but it is perfect for the interpretation littered with corpses —all his doing! inner stage—in all an ingenious he gives the part—no solemn intro­ If he had killed Claudius when he had adaptation. Acoustics are a bit bad spection, no drawn-out chords, all the chance, none of this would have from the sides. A young crowd most­ rasping anger and bridled, frustrated happened! The ending is Oliver’s, ly. George Murcell is the genius. force. He is the rebel, bristling with four captains bearing the corpse, its anti-social resentment; but he can’t head hanging limp, ordnance, drums. Othello finish anything he starts, unless he is The same chills I felt 25 years ago. Regent’s Park Open Air Theater. compelled to. Twelfth Night The less said about this the better, The uncut version emphasizes St. George’s Theater, with Eric lago is a posturing, swaggering Polonius’ humor and Hamlet’s wit. Porter (Soames from The Forsyte villain, not the dark, scheming, Horatio is played by a man in his 40’s, Saga) as Malvolio. He is splendid. I demonic force of my imagination. rather distracting. Is this a student? know why Malvolio appeals to actors. Othello is much too stolid, only once Ophelia is superb; she is really mad, He is able to elicite so many varied or twice giving a hint of the power muscle-twitching mad, no sad-sweet emotions from the audience. We beneath, lago bounces about a great songs here. She has been wrenched despise him, laugh at him, pity him, deal while Othello tries to give an out of her mind, there are no flowers and finally sympathize with him; and if impression of force and command by in her hair. Indeed, she has little hair there is any thing an actor likes to do, hardly moving at all. In fact he does at all —has she torn it all out? Her it is to get a rise out of an audience. the temptation scene sitting down, lover kills her father, what do you Sir Toby warmed to the part after a cross-legged like some solemn

16 mense gathering at the Albert Hall. Webster’s The delivery gave us a Hamlet quite different from the more White Devil bowed at the Old Vic — now a private enter­ lyrical versions that came in the wake of Olivier, but at prise-with the benefit of Glenda Jackson’s electrify­ no sacrifice of clarity. ing presence, and with a chancy up-dating of Speaking of wakes, the Romeo and Juliet at St. costumes and decor, so that the dominant residual George’s, Peter McEnery and Sarah Badel, had to image is of attache-cases all over the glossy, bare seem a bit mature after the teens in Zeffirelli’s film, but stage. It was just the kind of venture which was tried in their competence and care more than offset the initial none of the Shakespeare. Miss Jackson wasn’t limitations. A durable television actor, Joseph O’Conor, enough. was a religious Friar Lawrence, making him seem less The Shakespeare productions had their individual dotty than has become customary. merits, to be sure, which should be noted in this Also at St. George’s, Twelfth Night benefited most account. Hamlet had Albert Finney, and a company from a musical ensemble using ancient instruments, that was rock solid down through Rosencrantz and interspersing authentic melodies throughout the play, Guildenstern, and even including young Fortinbras, adding ample concerts beforehand and at intermis­ played by a red-headed Welshman who, inexplicably, sion. Only the Richard III there seemed ill-suited to the also held down the role of Patroclus in Troilus half a resources of the company. mile away. (Circumstances make the investigation of Troilus and Cressida, which even upon a reading this little mystery impractical.) While the Hamlet was seems unplayable, proved in fact to be uneven. One visually confined to a limited pallet of blacks, browns inventive way of conveying the passage of time in the and greys, the lighting was starkly effective, the siege of Troy was to make the Greek commanders physical stage business excellent including the duel, practically octogenarian, with ragged equipage of all and the energy so well sustained that the full four-hour sorts. Philip Locke’s Ulysses was an exception, but text was without dead stretches. (I have the notion that even he was clearly of late middle years and unre­ so literal a rendering is beyond the call of duty, since constructed thinning hair. Several of the greatest it is at least arguable that Shakespeare’s own company moments of the evening were furnished by his skilled would have cut here and there as thought fit; but the delivery of those long challenging speeches to an national company brought it off.) Finney’s throaty audience on three sides of the sawdust pit that served

Buddha. This pivotal scene is com­ Troilus and Cressida certainly more appropriate. Curious pletely unconvincing, his jealousy At the Young Vic. Better than I had casting, but then I imagine there are aroused, it would appear, only by the anticipated. Interesting makeshift very few in the company that can story of the handkerchief. This revela­ theater with the audience in a semi­ project convincingly the image of a tion should cap the swelling suspic­ circle rising on tiers about a pit where robust Greek warrior— all old men and ions, the accumulating flow of mis­ most of the action takes place, though slim youths. Ulysses is not a warrior interpreted actions, so that when lago there is a stage behind. I was in the but a crafty manipulator, very well springs it, Othello is already in such front row with only a flimsy, waist-high done (Philip Locke). The most a distracted state of mind that he barrier between myself and the pit so engaging is Pandarus (Robert Eddi- believes it. None of this slow building that I could have reached out and son) with a marvelous voice. occurs here; Othello seems to be touched the actors on occasion . The play is filled with long speeches joking with lago during the early lines, Shakespeare is philosophizing on that seldom seem to bear on the his “ Oh misery” is a comment on a war, honor (ironically), love (ironically action, what there is of it; they are hypothetical cockold with no hint of again), heroes (all ironic, as a matter largely set-pieces, philosophical his own inner identification with the of fact). He plays with the myth, turning ramblings that create no dramatic thought. He just throws it out—off it to his purpose. He has Hector best conflict and pose no problems. The hand. Achilles in single combat, whereupon emotions are all proposed —love, Desdemona is exquisite, small, Achilles returns to his camp, gathers hate, revenge —but seldom realized. fine-boned, delicate, beautiful, blond, his Myrmidons (all in black, wearing Hector is conceived as a human in perfect counterpoint to Othello, old style football helmets, a gang of being, as in Homer, but the reception but I was concerned about her catch­ thugs) and watches them slaughter of the Trojans in the Greek camp is ing a chill in the open air, so little was Hector. Ajax is a posturing ass. The as ludicrously anti-epic as can be I captured by the action. Emilia was Greek leaders are played by dodder­ imagined. Here is a mock-chivalric good, too. I grasped the interplay in ing old men with Agamemnon and camaradarie among deadly enemies the Venetian scenes better, especially Menelaus as contemporaries of who are taking time out from battle to at the Doge’s court. In brief, however, Nestor. Roland Culver (Agamemnon) pat each other on the back and raise a superficial reading, with Othello too played Polonius to Albert Finney’s a glass or two before they return to stolid in the early scenes, giving no Hamlet, and here he is little changed. the necessary business of slaughter­ hint of the banked passions which Menelaus is ancient, certainly no ing one another. erupt in the end. proper partner for Helen; Paris seems Thersites is the chorus, casting

La Salle, Spring 1977 17 Ellis —continued as a stage. Paradoxically, those passages, which ought but it was my impression that these gatherings included to have made the play bog down, were the ones that a good mix of locals as well, especially by comparison saved it. The low-budget costuming was sadly in with the houses at the London company of Irene, at evidence, however, so that the initial visual under­ Otherwise Engaged (a Bates vehicle now without scoring of the characters of Ajax, Achilles and Bates), and at Banana Ridge (to see Robert Morley, Patroclus (padded, bare chested and dandified, and worth it). In any case, most of the Shakespeares respectively) was allowed to lose its point through were scheduled to run beyond the tourist peak, so that continuous presence. one did not feel that there had been any cynical pack­ Perhaps the happiest surprise was the out-door aging of these productions just for us outlanders. On Love's Labours Lost. Early curiosity that the plot is, it the contrary, one could have felt that way about some nevertheless worked on a sunny afternoon. The pre­ of the companies sent across to the States in recent dominantly young cast combined boundless energy years, counting on the school-group trade. and an unerring sense of tone, and all the separate These seven plays of Shakespeare, then, were the ingredients —courtly romance, rustic farce, bombast- heart of a month spent joyously at the center of the blended as they do in A Midsummer Night’s Dream English-speaking theater world. They were remarkably when all goes well. Never again can I go along with a of a piece, consistently good but seldom spectacular, condescending view of the work, though still sharing traditional but never stodgy, testifying to the still astonishment that so early a work could be so rich. mysterious but almost tangible vitality of the texts them­ Moreover, in Regent’s Park, the role of Sr. Nathaniel selves. the curate was played definitively by an old, old Perhaps more importantly, these productions attest comedian named Richard Goolden. His games of to the familiar regard which the British have for their bowls with the dim Holofernes were unalloyed delights, treasures and their author, as distinct from a merely somehow never offending in their cosmic treatment academic and scholarly kind of reverence. of the dimness of one or the senility of the other. And even this ancient person took care to be heard. I could not be sure what proportion of the audiences Brother Patrick Ellis, who is profiled elsewhere in this magazine, is at these seven Shakespeare plays was “the tourists,” the president of the college.

Fallon —continued derision on all and sundry from his how much happier future generations movement sure, each speech thor­ safe haven in the audience. Whenever will be because of their own sufferings, oughly comprehended and articu­ there is even the possibility of dramatic a comic cosmic view. But at the same lated, so skillful that one is not aware intensity, he is always there to under­ time in their posturing, their pro­ of it as artifice until later. As I left the cut it, whether it arises from love fligacy, their painful loving, their theater the thought struck me, “ I have (which he calls lechery throughout), submission to fate, their petty inward­ seen what acting is.” honor, courage, or pride. Is he Shake­ ness and sudden sweeping generos­ Romeo and Juliet speare? I’m sure many modern inter­ ity, they are Everyman, though here At St. George’s. I did not make any preters would have him so, but I’m the provincial, bourgeois Everyman, immediate notes on this play, and it is afraid the Bard had too much scope discontent with his life because he strange that I cannot recall any image for such a bound vision. has had a glimpse of a larger, ill- from it. I can remember so much: A good play actually, one that has defined dream. That is his plague, Albert Finney’s kinetic Hamlet, wild suffered from a bad press. that dream, the Worm in his rustic Ophelia, stolid Othello planted like a Three Sisters Garden, the aspiration that breeds tree on the stage, delicate Desdemona Chekhov, with Janet Suzman. This discontent. That dream takes on many singing “Willow” , marvelous Malvolio, is a play which succeeds despite its forms in the play; Chekhov lists them the canny Ulysses, supremely com­ plot, which is practically non-existent, all—Love, Marriage, Position, and petent Janet Suzman, but nothing of a simple moving from hope to despair “ Moscow” —each a promise of release Romeo or his Juliet remains, except over a stretch of years, ending with from boredom. The Baron is the only perhaps for Mercutio’s bawdy puns a resolution to live, to survive. It is a one who is happy with his lot through­ (It is a love story after all, and Shake­ story of the ennui of life. The lines, out, and he throws it all away with speare, as always, gives us love in all “ I’m tired” and “ I’m bored” abound, some misguided gesture of honor, of its dimensions). Can it be that relieved by only an occasional “ I’m an impulse that sits upon him like an Zefferelli has robbed us of this play happy” from those who seem to have ill-fitting and inappropriate garment. with his beautiful film? Impossible! the least to be happy about. Chek­ The performance is a marvelous Shakespeare has met so many chal­ hov’s figures have little in common example of consummate acting, lenges, he will surely survive the magic with modern Western man, on the sur­ particularly on the part of Janet Suz­ lantern. I shall have to see it again. face at least; they are distinctly man. One feels as if in the presence Dr. Fallon, a graduate of the U.S. Military Russian, they weep freely and then of actors and actresses, at all levels, Academy and former professor of military suddenly laugh. In their despair they who are in complete control of their science at La Salle, is an associate professor are given to grand statements about medium, each gesture to effect, each of English at the college.

18 BASKETBALL ROUNDUP:

’76-77 EXPLORERS CREATE HIGH HOPES FOR FUTURE

By Larry Eldridge

In about ten years or so, when Philadelphia college The next stop on the holiday tour was San Diego for the basketball fans are recalling some of the great periods of first ever Cabrillo Classic, hosted by San Diego State. The basketball that every Big Five School has experienced, Explorers again drew the host team, but this time the out­ the era that began in 1976-77 for the La Salle Explorers come was different as Brooks and 7’0” senior captain may rank high on the list. Donn Wilber combined for 48 points to lead the Explorers The 76-77 Explorers didn’t win any championships, to an 88-84 victory over San Diego State. The champion­ didn’t participate in any national post season tourna­ ship game against PAC-8 power Washington was never ments, and suffered a painful losing streak at the end of close, however, as the Huskies ran away with a 114-94 the regular season. But they built a concrete foundation decision and the title. for the next three seasons and beginning next year, La Continued Salle will be a strong contender for every championship it is eligible to win. The Explorers, composed of six freshmen, two sopho­ mores, three juniors, and only one senior, came close to some prestigious team titles this year, but always fell just a little short, and had to settle instead for some impressive individual honors. La Salle, operating for the seventh year under head coach Paul Westhead and assistants Joe O’Connor and Lefty Ervin, opened the year with two quick victories over Widener and Vermont and then gave Alabama (ranked 6th nationally at the time) a race to the wire before dropping a five point decision to the eventual NIT semi­ finalists. Three more impressive victories over Delaware, Bis- cayne, and the University of Maine improved the Explorers’ record to 5-1 just prior to their appearance in the Volunteer Classic, in Knoxville, Tennessee. La Salle was seeded an inglorious fourth in the tourna­ ment, which meant that the Explorers were immediately paired with host Tennessee, the eventual SEC Champion. The host team of a holiday tournament rarely loses its first round game (bad for the next night’s attendance, you know), but the tournament directors forgot to inform the La Salle players. Michael Brooks, the Explorer’s pre­ cocious 6’7” freshman forward, exploded for 35 points, and outplayed Tennessee All Americans Bernard King and Ernie Grunfeld as the Explorer’s narrowly missed up­ setting the Vols, eventually falling 92-85. Brooks, who was named All Tournament and set five tournament records including most points (71), scored his career high 36 points the following night in the consolation game against SMU as La Salle edged the Mustangs 95-86 for Captain Donn Wilber (30) and freshman Michael Brooks (32) were third place. named co-winners of the Explorers’ Most Valuable Player award.

19 Basketball — continued

The final stop on the six game road swing was Pro­ Delaware was the first draw for La Salle and in a game vidence, for a date with Jack Kraft’s fine Rhode Island played at Newark, Wilber, Brooks, and 6-2 freshman squad on January 3. Michael Brooks won his own per­ guard Kurt Kanaskie keyed an 84-77 win to advance the sonal shootout with highly touted freshman star Sly team into the semifinal round against Lafayette at Easton, Williams by outscoring the URI forward 31-9, but La Salle Pa. came out on the short end of a 70-61 score. Kanaskie played the game of his career and pumped Despite the poor start at Rhode Island January proved in 21 points to lead four other Explorers in double figures to be a good month for the Explorers as they captured six as La Salle edged the scrappy Lafayette quintet 86-80 to of the seven remaining games in the month, including place the team in the ECC championship game against important ECC wins over Drexel and archrival St. defending champion Hofstra. Joseph’s. Other victories came against Canisius, West The La Salle bubble burst in that final game as Hofstra Chester, Western Kentucky, and Dickinson, while the lone parlayed its overwhelming edge in experience and the loss came at the hands of eventual ECBL champion superb 34 point effort of Rich Laurel, into a 92-81 victory, Duquesne by 2 points. the ECC crown, and the automatic qualifying berth in the NCAA playoffs. The Explorers opened February with another pair of Nevertheless, it was a very satisfying year for the Ex­ important victories over Villanova and American Uni­ plorers in many respects. Westhead improved his record versity, to make their record 15-5, with 2-0 records in at La Salle to 109-80 and signed a new four year contract. both Big Five and ECC competition. Brooks and Wilber dominated the scoring and rebound­ Then the bottom fell out. Beginning with a 93-89 loss at ing figures all season, and set several new records and the Palestra to Hofstra, La Salle lost its next six games in accrued a number of honors during and after the season. succession including defeats to Temple, Niagara, Provi­ Brooks scored 579 points in his initial season at La dence, Penn, and Notre Dame. The Explorers closed the Salle, the highest point total ever recorded by a first year regular season with a 15-11 record and finished tied for player at La Salle. He finished second in the Big Five third place in the Big Five with a 2-2 record. They scoring race with a 19.9 average and led the Big Five in qualified for the ECC playoffs with a 3-2 conference rebounding with 10.7 caroms per game. He was selected record. to the All Tournament teams at the Volunteer Classic and the Cabrillo Classic, was named the ECC Rookie of the Year, was a member of the first team All ECC squad, was a member of Basketball Weekly’s first team freshman All America squad, and was an All Big Five pick. Wilber, who probably improved more from his first season through his last than any other player in La Salle history, finished his career with a total of 1127 points, placing him 15th on the all time La Salle scoring list. He was also named to the Cabrillo Classic All Tournament team, was a second team All ECC selection, and was selected with Brooks as The Team’s MVP. Nearly every other player on the squad had hands in important wins during the season and had moments in the spotlight.

Junior Jim Wolkiewicz, the only player to start every game this year, and the team’s best defensive forward, Freshman guard Kurt Kanaskie (above) showed great potential as a saved his best performances for the ECC playoffs. West- late-season starter. Coach Paul Westhead (below) picked up his head cited Wolkiewicz as the hero of the Explorers’ ECC 100th career victory during season. quarterfinal victory over Delaware for his defensive job against Delaware scoring ace Tom Carluccio. Then in the semi-final against Lafayette Wolkiewicz shot 4-4 from the floor, scored 10 points and grabbed 7 rebounds to aid the victory. Finally, in his best offensive game as an Explorer, Jim scored 19 points and pulled down 10 rebounds in the losing cause against Hofstra in the season finale. Junior guards Tony Di Leo and Joe Mihalich played major roles for the first time at La Salle. Di Leo, who transferred from Tennessee Tech, was a starter for most of the year and led the team in free throw shooting with an .893 mark. He also led the squad with 105 assists and scored a season high 19 points twice in wins over Maine and American. of the year, started the team’s final five games and played Mihalich, a deep reserve on the La Salle bench in his like a seasoned veteran. He ended the season with an first two seasons with the Explorers, started twelve games 8.2 ppg. average and totalled 104 assists, second best this year, and quarterbacked the club during one stretch on the team. when the Explorers won eight of nine games. He was the Kanaskie provided a deft shooting touch off the bench hero of La Salle’s thrilling 88-84 win over San Diego State for most of the season and when he was called upon to when he sank two crucial free throws in the waning start the last five games of the year he responded with seconds of the game and also played an important part in intelligent, impressive all-around play and evinced signs La Salle’s victory over St. Joseph’s. of great potential. Sophomore Tony Plakis, who started the first eleven 6’7” Mark Spain displayed great poise and court aware­ games of the year in the backcourt and was a sub for the ness and demonstrated he can play wherever he is remainder of the year contributed tough, hard-nosed needed —in the frontcourt or in the backcourt. A broken defense whenever he was in a game, as did classmate hand early in the season retarded his natural maturation Robert Harvey, who was a frontcourt sub and pitched in process, but he certainly has a bright future ahead of him. with contagious hustle and dogged defense. 6’7” Mo Connolly, although he was victimized some­ Which leaves the five freshmen, who along with Brooks, what by the excess of talent in the Explorer frontcourt this appear to be the solid foundation which can catapault year, nevertheless is an important part of the foundation La Salle basketball back into national prominence. and his great shooting ability should help make him more 6’5” Reggie Miller was a virtual scoring machine in his visible in the next three years. role as an “ instant offense” sub this year, and in terms And no team is complete without a crack managerial of productivity per minutes played, he might have been staff and Bob Idacavage, Tom Hoban, and Bob Fischer the team’s leading performer in the scoring and rebound­ did an outstanding job with the organizational “ nuts and ing columns. He finished as the team’s third leading bolts” for the Explorers this year. scorer and averaged 8.6 ppg. 1976-77 was the beginning. The next three seasons 6’ 1 ” Darryl Gladden, who was the third guard for much should bear very sweet fruits.

EXPLORERETTES FINISH 15-10

La Salle’s women’s basketball team concluded its everyone on the squad as the team compiled the second successful season under coach Angie Scaren- largest win total in its brief five year history. gelli with a fine 15-10 record and a fourth place finish Senior tri-captains Joanne Pendergast (17.9 ppg.) in the EAIAW Small College Invitational Tournament. and Debbie Bodnar (13.7 ppg.) joined junior transfer The Explorerettes, who finished second to St. Maria Gross (12.9 ppg.) and Kathy McGovern (7.6 Joseph’s in competition among Big Five schools with a ppg.) to lead a balanced La Salle attack, which was 3-1 record, received valuable contributions from nearly also aided by tri-captain Nora Kramer (5.5 ppg.), and freshmen Diane Moyer (4.9 ppg.) and Cindy Romanelli (4.0 ppg.). The Explorerettes, after finishing the regular season with a 14-8 record, were invited for the second con­ secutive year to compete in the EAIAW Small College tourney. After a first round victory over Lafayette, the Explorerettes dropped a heartbreaking decision to host Salisbury State. A protest lodged by La Salle that the game clock was run ineffectively at the game’s con­ clusion was disallowed by tournament officials. La Salle subsequently dropped the third place consolation game to Seton Hall. “ All in all I think we had a very fine year,” said Scarengelli after the season. “We’re going to lose three quality people —Joanne Pendergast, Debbie Bodnar, and Nora Kramer—through graduation this year, but I’m excited about our future. I think that with our return­ ing nucleus, if we can recruit one or two quality people Cindy Romanelli, a 5-11 La Salle freshman, prepares to shoot to help our frontcourt, we will have an outstanding team over 6-4 Immaculata star Sandy Miller in first meeting ever between the colleges. for the next several years.”

La Salle, Spring 1977 21 Around Campus

The feelings of raw poverty, utter ty that we’ve been exposed to. At least loneliness, and complete helplessness urban poverty has running water.” made an indelible impression on eleven “The absolute helplessness of the La Salle students who spent their mid­ situation seemed to hurt most,” said semester break doing volunteer work in Eileen Mingen, a senior from Phila­ two separate areas of Appalachia, in delphia. “ Kentucky ranks low in the Kentucky. availability of social services, anyway, Appalachia. Six of the students spent the week of but the cost of living is extraordinarily February 26—March 4 in Tram, a high in the poverty areas. Regular milk “ holler” (a valley nestled near a creek is something like $2.19 a gallon. People A Taste of Poverty or hollow in the mountains) of about get bread that’s two days old and it 600 people in the southeastern part of costs 50-60 cents a loaf.” and Loneliness the state near the Virginia border. The “The people there seem to be utterly other five students lived for a week in powerless,” said Lynn Gavin, a sopho­ Beattyville, a town of about 900 located more from Upper Darby. “They have about 75 miles southeast of Lexington. absolutely no control over the situation. La Salle’s Appalachian volunteer There’s a tremendous amount of project was coordinated by the Rev. apathy, like the people have given up. James W. McGrane, O.S.A., director You can sense a feeling of ‘Well of the college’s campus ministry. nobody really cares about us.’ ” “ I felt that it would be a good oppor­ “The feeling of loneliness is so over­ tunity for the students to experience powering,” said Rosemary Martino, a something different,” said Father freshman from Philadelphia. “ The McGrane. “ The opportunity to obtain a people were so happy just to have different vision of church rather than a someone to talk to. We would spend geographically-restricted vision. And, two and three hours talking and they of course, the opportunity to experience just wouldn’t want us to leave." raw poverty." Normal services like police and fire The students experienced the most protection are virtually non-existent bitter poverty in Tram, a predominately in many of these areas. Students black village where most of the people watched a house trailor burn for a half- are either retired or disabled or who live hour before firemen arrived to extin­ off the land by farming, gardening, or guish the ashes. They were told that cattle raising. ambulance service to the nearest “The strange part about it,” said hospital located about ten miles away is Paula Krebs, a freshmen from Penn- available only to people with cash-in- sauken, N.J., “was that you could drive hand. Then there was an immediate right through all the main roads in $30 hospital charge- a $15 emergency Kentucky and never see the horrible fee and $ 15 for treatment. poverty because all of these ‘hollers’ “We were told that it normally takes are located off side roads in the back two or three hours for the police to woods completely out of sight." come,” said Margarita Mendoza, a “ It was also depressing to see lavish sophomore from Philadelphia. “As a $100,000 homes owned by mine result, people usually take justice into owners, doctors, or industrialists their own hands.” located right next to the poverty-ridden The students were astonished to shacks. And these people have abso­ learn that almost everyone has a gun Rev. James V. McGrane, O.S.A., (standing, lutely no regard for their neighbors.” and carries it at all times either in their left foreground) director of the campus The shacks that serve as homes in car or on their person. Street signs are ministry, chats with some of the students who villages like Tram have electricity but no riddled with bullet holes, the result of spent semester break doing volunteer work in central heating, running water, or in­ “ anything from target practice to the door toilet facilities. Portable gas solution of a feud of some sort,” Appalachia. Top row (from left): Gary heaters are used indoors but since according to Hartman. “ It seems that Chilutti, Russell Hartman, and Lynn Gavin; there are no exhaust facilities, ceilings, they settle most of their arguments that middle row: Eileen Mingen, Teri Brown, and walls, and furniture are covered with way.” Margarita Mendoza; front: Frank Dodano and soot. Trash or garbage that can’t be Although the poverty is not as severe Paula Krebs. used for compost is thrown into nearby in Beattyville, there is still virtually no creeks, contributing to an immense industry in the town nor is there any pollution problem. Roads, naturally, appreciable population of people are unpaved. between the ages of 18 and 35. Most “ That was the most shocking of the people in the four county area aspect,” said Russell Hartman, a wear second-hand clothes, most of it sophomore from Butler, Pa. “The donated by Catholic families living in realization of the raw poverty that exists parishes in the Midwest. (To develop there. A poverty unlike the urban pover­ an appreciation, however, the clothing

22 is “sold” for such nominal fees as 5C John, Joseph, and Timothy; a daugh­ a shirt, etc.) ter, Mrs. Mary Claire McLaughlin, and Education is not encouraged. If her mother, Mrs. Clara Sladek. someone wants to quit school at the age of 12, it’s acceptable. One probation case worker estimated that only six of his 60 clients had finished high school. Best finish in 11 years Many of the people feel that the young­ sters can be more valuable at home, for Explorer swimmers especially since there are no jobs available for the educated. Because of the treacherous conditions of the roads, The 1976-77 La Salle swimming school bus service is halted as soon as team enjoyed its finest season in eleven there is a quarter-of-an-inch of snow. years as first year coach Tom Grail As a result, schools in rural areas of guided the Explorer mermen to a 10-1 Kentucky have been closed for 35 days regular season record and a strong since Christmas. second place finish in the ECC cham­ “You experience quite a bit of frustra­ pionship meet held at La Salle’s Kirk tion because most of the people there Memorial Pool. really don’t want to change their lives,” La Salle lost only to Johns Hopkins said Hartman. “ Pulling them out and during the regular season, and num­ tearing them from their homes is not bered Penn, Bucknell, and Villanova the answer. Improving health care ser­ among its victims, breaking long losing vices and highways, educating them, streaks to each of those schools in the and stopping corruption is the answer, was named to that post in October, process. Other victories were recorded however.” 1972. During her tenure she con­ against East Stroudsburg, American, Religion seems to pose quite a con­ structed a very successful athletic West Chester, Lehigh, Temple, and tradiction in areas like Tram and program for women and earned the Drexel. Beattyville. Asked what they do with nickname of ‘mother of women’s At the three day ECC title meet, La their time, most people reply, “We sit athletics at La Salle.’ Salle and Bucknell, which had won the here and watch television and go to “ She rendered a most unique service conference title for six consecutive church.” Pictures of Christ and John to La Salle,” commented Dr. Thomas years, staged a two team battle. The F. Kennedy are visible in almost every McCarthy, vice president for student Explorers captured seven first place home. However, students were told that affairs. “ She insisted that we have a medals in the eighteen event meet, and 90 per cent of the people living in these quality program and had the good Bucknell managed only two, but the counties had no religion. Two Roman sense to insist on no more from the Bisons incredible depth proved to be Catholic priests were responsible for students and the school than each was an insurmountable advantage and 1,500 square miles covering five able to give, yet all the while laying the Bucknell edged La Salle for the team counties. foundation for the solid program which title 392-375. “You have to give a tremendous soon emerged. La Salle junior Tom McKeon won amount of credit to the mission people “ Enormous reserve, integrity, and three events, was a member of two serving down there,” said Bob vision, along with extraordinary energy, victorious relays, and shared the Most McBride, a freshman from Philadel­ the gift of time to the tasks at hand, a Valuable Swimmer Award with Drexel’s phia. “They are working to improve sense of humor, and above all the Jamie Hemmerle, who also won three conditions from within by showing insistence on quality characterized her events. people how to appreciate a need for leadership. Her loss is a tremendous Other winning LaSalle performances one another and not for the luxuries of loss to the entire campus community.” were turned in by junior diver Ron life. Their purpose is not to convert, Before assuming her duties at La Murphy, who won the 3 meter spring­ but only to serve and do social work.” Salle Mrs. O’Connor was a nationally board championship and finished rated basketball official from 1962-72. second in the 1 meter competition; She served as the chairperson of the sophomore Dan Lavery, who won the College Mourns Death greater Philadelphia examining board 50 yard freestyle and finished third in for women’s basketball officials for five the 100 yard freestyle; and the victori­ of Mary O’Connor years and was a member of the execu­ ous 400 yard and 800 yard freestyle tive board for all sports for four years. teams, comprised of McKeon, Lavery, A 1940 graduate of Hallahan Catholic junior Rob Ehinger, and junior Lee Mass of Christian Burial for Mary S. High School, Mrs. O’Connor took col­ Cummins. O’Connor was celebrated on March 21 lege courses at La Salle, Temple, St. Cummins (second in both the 50 and at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in Joseph’s, and Villanova. She also 100 yard freestyle), freshman Paul Norristown. Mrs. O’Connor, who was successfully coached field hockey and Riebold (third in the 1 meter diving), 54, died on March 18 in Bryn Mawr basketball on the elementary and senior Ralph Ehinger (fourth in the 100 Hospital after a twenty-month struggle secondary levels in Ohio and Penn­ and 200 yard breaststroke), senior Bill with leukemia. sylvania. Flooks (fifth in the 200 yard backstroke Mrs. O’Connor was La Salle’s first She is survived by her husband, and sixth in the 100 yard backstroke), coordinator of women’s athletics and Charles O’Connor; four sons, Charles, freshman Edwin Borja (second in the

La Salle, Spring 1977 23 degree in business administration at 6 per cent tuition increase, Brother Drexel University in 1972. He served in Ellis said that the college has been un­ the U.S. Air Force from 1955 to 1959. able to avoid escalating costs, especial­ Fleming, 39, is a member of the ly in such areas as food, fuel, and board of directors of Manor Junior utilities, in its continuing effort to main­ College and the Valley Christian tain quality in all academic programs School. He is a member of the National and students services. College and University Business Officers Association and the College Business advisory group and University Personnel Association. Fleming is also an instructor of an Adds six new members information systems course at La Salle. He lives in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., with his wife, Barbara Ann, and daugh­ Six new members have been ap­ ter, Jennifer Ames. pointed to La Salle’s Business Advisory Council, it was announced by Dr. Bruce V. MacLeod, dean of the college’s school of business administration. The new members, who bring the The East Coast Conference 400 yard free total complement of the advisory coun­ style relay champions (from left): Tom cil to 21, are: McKeon, Dan Lavery, Rob Ehinger, head David Brenner, managing partner, coach Tom Grail, and Lee Cummins. Arthur Young & Company, Philadel­ phia; William D. Carr, plant manager, Rohm and Haas Company, Bristol; Dr. Allen Gart, vice president and 200 yard butterfly), junior Rob Ehinger economist, Girard Bank, Philadelphia; (fifth in the 100 yard freestyle and sixth Nicholas A. Giordano, ’65, senior vice in the 200 yard freestyle), and sopho­ president, Philadelphia-Baltimore- more Dennis Wallrath (sixth in the 100 Washington Stock Exchange; Joseph yard breaststroke) were other Explorer McEwen, president, Modern Handling swimmers who scored in the meet. Equipment Company, Philadelphia, Borja, a freshman from the Phillipines and David N. Ness, special assistant who competed in both the 1972 and to the dean, The Wharton School, 1976 Summer Olympics, had an out­ University of Pennsylvania. standing regular season for the Ex­ La Salle’s Business Advisory plorers. He displayed tremendous Council, now in its fourth year, provides versatility and appears to have an out­ advice to the dean, graduate school standing future ahead of him. director, and department chairpeople McKeon, who holds the La Salle of the school of business administration records for the 100, 200, and 500 yard regarding programs and the best freestyle events, won the 200 yard College raises tuition methods to serve the needs of the freestyle at the Eastern Seaboard Philadelphia Business community. Swimming and Diving championships for next academ ic year held at West Point. He was also a mem­ ber of the 400 yard freestyle relay quartet which participated in the NCAA La Salle will increase its Day School RCA lectureship to championship meet in Cleveland, Ohio. tuition for the next academic year La Salle will return most of its key (1977-78) by $150 and its Evening college MBA program swimmers and divers next year and if Division tuition by $3.00 per credit Grail can land one or two freshman hour, it was announced by Brother An “ RCA Lectureship in Manage­ who can help immediately, the Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D., president. ment Information Systems” has been Explorers will be tough to beat in 1977- Tuition will be increased from $2,400 established within La Salle’s master of 78. to $2,550 for liberal arts and business business administration program, it was administration majors and from $2,500 announced by Dr. Joseph A. Kane, '56, to $2,650 for science majors. Tuition director of the college’s M BA program. Fleming named for the college’s Evening Division and The lectureship, the result of a three Summer Sessions will go from its year, renewable grant given to the present $54 to $57 per credit hour, and college by RCA, began with the spring vice president for the college’s M.B.A. Program from semester. It is intended to support the $80 to $85 per credit hour. educational efforts of the college in up­ David C. Fleming, Jr., ’67, has been Room and board (double occupan­ grading the competencies of practicing named vice president of business cy) will increase from $1,450 to $1,600 managers and professionals who are affairs at the college. He had been for students using “seven day” meal students in the MBA program. serving as acting vice president since tickets and $1,266 to $1,400 for under­ “The grant is particularly encourag­ the retirement of Dr. Joseph J. Sprissler graduates using “five day” meal tickets. ing,” says Kane, “ because it recognizes last July 1. Part-time tuition in the college’s day the cooperative interaction which La Fleming has been with La Salle’s school (for those taking less than 12 Salle has enjoyed with the business business office since February, 1963, credit hours) will be increased from $75 community and helps us to compare and had been the college’s comptroller to $80. our educational services for students since 1970. He earned a master’s In a letter to students announcing the in the management professions.”

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Leonard J. Bonner was named legal counsel Bank and Trust Co. Richard T. Mooney has to the Prince George’s County delegation to been promoted to manager of accounting at the Maryland House of Delegates. Lt. Cmdr. Suburban Propane’s corporate headquarters Louis J. LeHane Robert F. Cairo has been awarded the Purple in Whippany, N.J. Thomas F. Pyle has been Heart for wounds received in action during a named president of the American Dixie Sales 1969 assignment in Vietnam. Denis Co., a division of American Can Co. McCormick has been elected treasurer of the Dolbey Scientific firm. Charles F. Scott, Jr., Louis J. LeHane has been named vice presi­ has been elected president of Insurance Data ’63 dent of human resources with Austin Indus­ Processing, Inc. tries, Inc., Dallas, Texas. William Pietrangelo, Esq., passed the C.P.A. examinations recently. BIRTH: To Ralph ’61 Dages, and wife, Barbara, twins, Michael and ’55 Joseph P. Egan was elected president of the Heather. BIRTH: To Charles A. Coyle, Ed.D., and wife, Eastern Chapter of the Pennsylvania Asso­ Suzanne, a son, Timothy Brian. ciation of Personnel Services for 1977. ’64 Robert L. Macaulay was appointed to Phila­ delphia’s Overall Economic Development ’56 Program Committee by Mayor Frank Rizzo. Richard S. Shimmin, a Bell Telephone Co. Charles Scully was elected 1977 president of senior engineer, marked his 30th year with the Northeast Board of Realtors and North­ the company in November, 1976. east Chapter chairman to the Phila. Realty ’57 Board. William T. Lee has been appointed 1977 ’62 sustaining membership enrollment chairman for the Conemach District, Penn’s Woods Council, Boy Scouts of America. Gene C. Joseph A. Darcy Thomas F. Rossiter Taylor, of San Mateo, has been elected chair­ man of the California Medical Executives Conference. Joseph A. Darcy has been named sales manager for the General Tire & Rubber Company’s line of Gen-Tac adhesives. ’58 James R. Doherty has been promoted to John F. Magosin, Jr., has been elected vice supervising engineer by the Bell Telephone president of marketing by Automated Finan­ Co. H. Lawrence Keller has been appointed Thomas J. Lynch cial Systems, Inc., King of Prussia, Pa. Norman F. Forand as investment analyst and tax consultant in the commercial and investment division of Slaugh-Fagan and Associates. Thomas F. ’59 Rossiter has joined Sharp Electronics Corporation as manager, National Service Administration, Paramus, N.J. Maj. John D. Snyder is the director of human resources for the 15th AF, March Air Force Base, Ca. ’65 Albert R. Pezzillo Richard T. Mooney Thomas F. Pyle Robert J. Byrne, CPCU, has been named Norman F. Forand has been elected a vice district manager in the casulty-property president of Martin Processing, Inc. He commercial lines department at the New Albert R. Pezzillo has been appointed presi­ continues as general manager of Martin’s York City office of The Travelers Insurance dent of the consumer products group for the film division. Vincent L. Leonetti has been Co. Joseph T. Cunnane, C.P.A., is now Warner-Lambert Co. appointed director of placement and career associated with Elko, Fischer, McCabe, and planning of Atlantic Community College. Rudman certified public accountants. Joseph Thomas J. Lynch has been elected vice G. Gindhart, Esq., has joined the firm of ’60 president of the Board of Trustees of Manor McGann and Friss. Charles Kane, C.P.A., Ltc. Robert B. Adair recently took command Junior College. He has also been named a has recently been made a partner in the firm of Fort Sill’s 1st Bn., 18th Field Artillery. senior vice president of the Industrial Valley of Elko, Fischer, McCabe and Rudman.

La Salle, Spring 1977 25 — SKB Alumni Reorganize

A meeting of Sigma Beta Kappa Fraternity Alumni was held in the Fall at the- College Union Building. In attendance were representatives from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Elected to serve as committee spokesmen were: Robert Base- lice, ’67, chairman; William Regan, 73, vice chairman; Michael McGarvey, ’62, trea­ surer, and Steve Hurley, 71, secretary. The purpose of the committee is to rejuvenate alumni interest towards the undergraduate chapter and to maintain contact with Alumni of any function held by the Alumni Association or Former Explorer backcourt star Hubie Marshall, ’67, was inducted into the Big Five Hall of Fame undergraduates. by KYW-TV sports director Al Meltzer between games of a Palestra doubleheader on Feb. 5. All SBK Alumni are asked to contact Rob Baselice, 236 counting office, Moffitt, Taulane, and Co., Windermere Ave., Lansdowne, to Haddonfield, N.J. BIRTH: To Joseph E. ’71 Pa. 19050(215-284-1870). Connery, Jr., C.P.A., and wife, Theresa, a daughter, Susan Marie. To Edward J. Tau­ BIRTH: To Philip E. Hughes, Jr., and wife, lane, Jr., and wife, Kathy, a daughter, Tara Rita, a daughter, Christina Marie. Michele. ’66 ’73 James P. Bergin has been named a technical buyer with Burroughs Corporation’s small systems group, in Michigan. Larry Cardonick is co-ordinator of the program for the physically handicapped/mentally retarded of George Longshore Philadelphia’s Area Manpower Planning Council. David Fortunato has been appointed Thomas J. Flood manager at the Plymouth Meeting office of PSFS. Robert A. Reinfried has been named business manager of the Aluminum Associa­ ’69 tion, in New York City. Robert H. Roth is the PhHip J. Byrne has been appointed adminis­ new accounts receivable administrator at trator at Grand View Hospital, Sellersville, Fred Hamer, an agent with the Prudential Commonwealth National Bank, Harrisburg, Pa. Thomas J. Flood has been elected presi­ Insurance Company’s Pottsville District, Pa. dent and chief executive officer of Arcs sold more than $2 million insurance in 1976. Mortgage Corporation in Miami, Fla. Charles Joseph B. Werner has been appointed con­ J. Frisino has been appointed credit manager troller for Southern Chester County Medical ’74 for Marine Midland’s Panama branch. Center, Jennersville, Pa. Jack Schneider has been named sales and administration correspondent for the Garrett ’67 ’70 Company’s U.S. East Coast operations. Terrence M. Canning was appointed manager George A. Bennett, Jr., received a master’s ’75 of field accounting of Sperry Univac, Blue degree from the University of Akron. Diego Bell, Pa. A. Chila was named controller of Citizens Claudio E. Carmona is an account executive Bancorp and Citizens United Bank, Vineland, at Badillo/Compton, Inc., in Puerto Rico. N.J. Joseph P. Kloch, Jr., Esq., has become Ray Duffy has been promoted to a Federal ’68 a member of Steel Hector & Davis, Miami, Savings & Loan examiner in Seattle, Wash. Fla. Edward O’Donnell, Jr., has been ap­ Pentamation Enterprises has appointed Charles J. Bonner has recently joined the firm pointed commercial officer at the Philadel­ Stephen Wiley to represent the firm in of Bell-Lewis Associates as controller- phia National Bank. Gerald F. White has Reading, Pa., and surrounding markets. treasurer. George Longshore has been ap­ joined the residential sales staff of Stahl MARRIAGES: Nellie Brumbaugh to William pointed director of employee relations by Realty Co., Southampton, Pa. R. Kelley. Claudio E. Carmona to Arlene R and H Medical Services, Phila. Edward J. BIRTH: To Edwin S. Coyle, and wife, Mau­ Robert. David J. Trumbore to Kathryn Taulane, Jr., has recently located his ac­ reen, a daughter, Kathleen Mary. Ritvalsky.

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is working on another book con­ cerning the recognition of treat­ ment of reading disabilities. The importance of reading cannot be under-estimated, he says, and the key to successful reading is still comprehension —especially in high school; speed becomes more necessary in college. “ Despite McLuhan’s philoso­ phy about the electronic media, the printed word will still be the basic tool of education,” he says. “ People will still express themselves in writing. You can­ not isolate reading from other segments of education. Despite what you may hear, books will not be out of style in the future.” Brother Quaintance became interested in the study of reading A Matter of Timing comprehension during his days as a Student Brother at Ammen- dale, Md., when he picked up a Inspired by a textbook pub­ class holding up time cards 1908 “ Reader” for fifth graders. lished in 1908 to pursue a career every 15 seconds made it “ People were just getting off the devoted to improving student impossible to do anything else. boat and they could handle 464 reading comprehension —and For example, I wasn’t able to pages of material like Chaucer, frustrated by the archaic observe mistakes in reading Shelly, Shakespeare, and Milton methods used to measure that techniques and make the at that age,” he recalls. “ They comprhension, Brother William necessary corrections. I thought, didn’t have audio visual aids in Quaintance, ’54, F.S.C., Ed.D., ‘there must be a better way.’ ” those days, either.” decided to take matters into his The new machine, which will Because of deficiencies in own hands and become an in­ be distributed nationally at a cost reading speed and comprehen­ ventor. of approximately $200, elimi­ sion, Brother Quaintance feels nates the traditional method of that teachers today don’t always The result of Brother William’s timing reading speed —dividing get the full potential out of their creative efforts goes on the the length of the reading selec­ students. “ It’s a case of either market in a few months. It’s a tion by the elapsed time in bringing a student up to his transistorized, printed circuit seconds and multiplying the potential or bringing the material device that measures reading result by 60 seconds. The new down,” he says. speed electronically and flashes device guarantees greater ac­ Brother Quaintance majored rates of words read-per-minute curacy (rates can be measured in education and social sciences on bright two-inch-high num­ within a tolerance of 1 1/2 at La Salle and earned a bers. Reading selections of up seconds) and frees the instructor master’s degree in theology from to 10,000 words in length (equi­ to observe reading techniques. the college in 1955. He received valent to a 20 page term paper) Brother Quaintance also con­ master’s and doctorate degrees can be measured. ducts a seminar on reading for in reading psychology from “ It was a frustrating situation,” education majors at the College Temple University. He will be said Brother William, a reading where he will be returning to returning to the college for the specialist who conducts courses teach full time in September. He third time, having previously in study techniques at La Salle recently completed a textbook served as director of reading High School. “ I got tired of for teachers and students, development and office manager figuring out all that other busi­ “ Learning to Learn,” a program of the Urban Studies and Com­ ness. Standing in front of the in the techniques of study, and munity Services Center.

La Salle, Spring 1977 27 SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES

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Thomas P. Callan

Thomas P. Callan, recently accepted an Award of Appreciation as the retiring chair­ man of Committee E-15 of the American Society of Testing and Materials. He has been promoted to a new position of manager of health protection, Rohm and Haas Co. ’42

Dr. Samuel Shore

Some 40 members of the college’s Alumnae returned to campus for their second annual reception and luncheon on Feb. 12. Dr. Samuel Shore, who holds the distinction of being both a successful trial lawyer and a respected medical doctor, has been elected ’52 ’55 president of Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association for 1977. Olvin S. Rouse has joined Cooper Medical Joseph H. Rodriguez, Esq., has been elected Center as grants manager under the office to Temple University’s Board of Trustees, of Planning and Development. ’48 James B. Hattman has been named execu­ ’53 tive vice president of the Davison Chemical ’57 division of W. R. Grace and Co., Baltimore. Thomas Collins, associate professor of English at Montgomery County (Pa.) Com­ munity College, was the featured speaker at Harry B. Davis, D.O., was appointed chair­ ’50 the Industrial Management Council on Feb. man of the department of gynecology and 17. obstetrics at the Memorial Osteopathic John J. Nathans, director of Bryant Teachers Hospital in York, Pa. Bureau, Philadelphia, has been elected presi­ dent of the National Association of Teachers’ ’54 Agencies. ’58 ’51 Thomas J. Garberina has been awarded a doctor of education degree by Nova Uni­ Joe Earley recently appeared on Steve Allen’s versity. Meeting of the Minds show as “ Teddy BIRTH: To Kenneth Hager, and wife, Jean, a son, Kenneth Glenn, II. Roosevelt.” James W. Finegan contributed George L. Mason, III an article "Emerald Golf,” describing Ireland’s finer courses, in Golf Journal (January/February, 1977), the official pub- ’60 cation of the United States Golf Association. O. Francis Biondi was one of Delaware’s Frank P. Pettinelli, D. O., was appointed to three electors when the Electoral College met Harry C. J. Himes has opened a law firm for the medical staff of John F. Kennedy in the state capital on December 13, casting the general practice of law in Philadelphia. Memorial Hospital, Straford, N.J. Richard his vote for President Jimmy Carter. George Robert J. Peculski has joined Guarantee J. Stout will head a general crimes unit for L. Mason, III, has joined New England Mutual Bank in Atlantic City as an assistant vice U.S. Attorney David W. Marston, Philadel­ Life Insurance Co., Boston, as second vice president and director of marketing and phia. president of marketing services. public relations.

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Keeping the Exchange Competitive

As executive vice president of Exchange,” says Giordano. because of the competition the Philadelphia Stock Ex­ “ But with the industry moving provided, but also because the change, Inc., Nicholas A. Gior­ toward additional investment smaller exchanges often intro­ dano, ’65, has been responsible vehicles, we wanted to give our duce modern innovations (such for a number of innovations that members another product to sell as automated execution sys­ have helped keep the nation’s and give our exchange a little tems) that are often copied by oldest stock exchange in the more viability.” the larger exchanges. forefront of the financial com­ Giordano says that innova­ After graduating from La Salle, munity. tions such as the Options pro­ Giordano worked with Price “ I guess that you could say gram have helped increase the Waterhouse and Company until that my primary responsibility attractiveness of the PHLX, December, 1968. For the next is to keep the exchange func­ especially among brokers who three years, he worked for tioning and to make sure that we may not be able to afford a various brokerage firms, serving get our share of volume,” says higher-priced seat on an ex­ for a while as a consultant in the Giordano, who assumed his change like the New York Stock liquidation of a New York Stock present position in April, 1976. Exchange. A typical broker can Exchange brokerage firm. He One of the most successful now execute a good 80 per cent joined what was then called the additions to the services of the of his or her orders in Philadel­ Philadelphia - Baltimore - Wash­ PHLX, according to Giordano, phia. ington Stock Exchange, Inc., has been the Options trading Giordano, who has been a in 1971; was promoted to vice floor, which was introduced in certified public accountant since president of operations in 1972, July, 1975. More than two dozen 1969, has been helping to pro­ and became a senior vice options are now offered in Phila­ mote a National Market System, president in January, 1975. delphia, making it one of the a plan initiated by the federal Giordano is a member of La fastest-growing programs of its government to systemize stock Salle’s Business Advisory kind (currently third) in the exchanges and help keep all Council. He and his wife, Jo­ nation. exchanges competitive, regard­ anne, are the parents of triplets “We’ve always been an less of their sizes. Giordano named Jeannine, Colette, and equities stock exchange dealing says that the continued success Nicholas, and live in Blue Bell. in primary and dual stocks of regional exchanges is abso­ traded on the American Stock lutely necessary, not only

La Salle, Spring 1977 29 Esq., has joined the firm of Eagan & Bowen. ’64 MARRIAGE: John A. Ciarletto to Eileen ^Basketball Camps Kestenbaum. Wallace L. Cannon, senior assistant Slated for Summer administrator, was appointed executive vice ’69 president of St. Francis Hospital, Del. John Drew Coates was sworn in as a member of Paul Westhead, head coach F. McKeogh has joined Rohm and Haas as director of communications. E. Drew Sikorski the Pennsylvania Bar in November. Robert of the Explorers, will conduct has been promoted to assistant vice presi­ W. Cote, presently serving as mainstreaming his fifth annual Basketball Day dent with Home Federal Savings and Loan. coordinator at Olney High School, was Camp at Hayman Hall from BIRTH: To James Ambrosius, and wife, Pat, appointed to a three year term on the Special a son, Glen Colin. Education Curriculum Committee of the August 1 to 5 for boys and girls School District of Philadelphia. Leonard J. between the ages of nine and ’65 Keating, Jr., was elected assistant vice sixteen who are interested in president of the American Bank and Trust Co. Dr. Bernard G. Krimm was appointed improving their basketball skills. assistant professor of English at the Penn­ Assistant Coach Dave “ Lefty” sylvania State University. Ervin will hold an overnight camp BIRTH: To Robert W. Cote, and wife, Lorna, a daughter, Allison Jenna. in Avalon, N.J., June 27-July 1; a boys camp at Hayman Hall July Terrence E. Good ’70 11-15; a girls camp (with Angie Scarangelli) at Hayman Hall, Thomas M. Butler, Ph.D., is assistant pro­ July 18-22; and one at Arch­ fessor of physiology in Jefferson Medical School. James Ugo Donini contributed an John W. Becher, Jr., D.O., has been ap­ bishop Ryan High School, article and photographs to National Geo­ pointed chairman and assistant professor of August 1-5. graphic Magazine (December, 1976) de­ the newly established department of emer­ scribing how he and two colleagues became For information on any of gency medicine at Philadelphia College of the first to climb the 9,800 foot Torre Egger Osteopathic Medicine. Terrence E. Good these basketball camps contact summit in the Andes Mountains on the has been promoted to corporate services the Athletic Office, (215) 848- border of Argentina and Chile. Barry Hun- officer at Hartford (Conn.) National Bank. sicker has been elected chairman of the 8300, ext. 251. Joseph Karlesky, Ph.D., assistant professor Council of Bucks Chambers of Commerce. of government, has been granted tenure at Peter Terpeluk, administrative assistant and the Franklin and Marshall College. Dr. health officer at Springfield Township, has Stanley H. Sweda has been graduated from been named manager of Lower Moreland the National College of Chiropractic with the Township. degrees of bachelor of science in human BIRTH: To William W. Zelinsky, and wife, ’61 biology and the doctor of chiropractic. MARRIAGE: Joseph M. Borzilleri to Cindy Mary, a daughter, Megan Marie. Charles R. Dees, Jr., has been appointed Bishop. assistant to the president for enrollment planning and institutional research at Wheel­ ’71 ing College, W. Va. Dr. James R. Melinson ’66 has been named chief negotiator of the Phila­ Michael J. Franczak, Jr., received a doctor delphia School District. Michael F. Cotter recently formed a partner­ of philosophy degree from St. Louis Univer­ ship for the general practice of law in Phila­ sity. James L. Gibson, Sr., has been ap­ ’62 delphia and Montgomery County under the pointed assistant manager-administration firm name of Schafle & Cotter. and compensation of Amtrak-Northeast Corridor. Dennis P. Green, Esq., is an assis­ E. Lawrence Harasym, Jr., M.D., chief of tant attorney general in the Pennsylvania surgery at the Bloomsburg (Pa.) Hospital, ’67 Department of Justice. Leonard M. Horvath, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Esq., has joined the firm of David A. Golad, College of Surgeons in October, 1976. Lt. Stephen P. O’Driscoll, Jr., has been promoted P.C., Manchester, Conn. Jack Jones has Cdr. George P. Vercessi has been assigned to director of staff services, policy holder’s joined KYW-TV’s Eyewitness News Team. to the English Department at the U.S. Naval service administration for Colonial Penn Academy. He teaches “ Introduction to Mass Group Data Corp. Joseph J. Talarico has Communications” and coordinates the been appointed assistant vice president of ’72 “ Public Communications” course for the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. entire second class. John C. Fenningham has become an associ­ ’68 ate of the Connolly, McAndrews, Kihm & ’63 Stevens firm in the general practice of law, Bucks County, Pa. Shawn M. Glynn is a Patrick Cronin made recent guest television James F. Collins has received a master of lecturer in education at the Pennsylvania appearances on AII-in-the-Family, Alice, arts degree in political science from Rutgers State University. John Maroccia has been and Big John/Little John. He also played the University and is presently completing his graduated from Capitol University in Ohio; lead role in a new comedy, BRRRRRrrrrrrrrr! third year of studies at Vermont Law School. he passed the New Jersey Bar and is now an in Santa Monica, Ca. Albert J. Garofolo, Edward J. Flanagan spent the summer of attorney with Bennie & Portner Associates, Esq., has joined the firm of Milstead, Ridge­ 1976 touring the U.S. as a guitarist for Al Cherry Hill. Peter A. Parrott received a way, and Shapiro, Vineland, N.J. George Martino. John E. Jelen was graduated cum master’s degree in urban affairs from St. J. Walters has been promoted to field (sales) laude from the University of Baltimore School Louis University. Edward J. White has been communications manager for Liggett and of Law in May, 1976, and was admitted to the elected to the council of the Third Order of Myers Tobacco Co., Durham, N.C. He has Maryland State Bar in December, 1976. St. Dominic —Our Lady of Provide Chapter, also been appointed associate editor of their James R. Wall, M.D., has announced his Elkins Park. quarterly sales magazine Selling Dimen­ association with Allentown dermatologist BIRTH: To Arthur J. Martin, Jr., and wife, sions. Dr. Luscian DiLeo. John G. Younglove, Helen, a daughter, Erin.

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An Archdiocesan Milestone

When John Cardinal Krol known as St. Agnes High introduced a popular work study appointed Ronald J. Valenti, School. program for seniors who will ’65, principal of West Chester’s “ My first year was one of not be attending college, and Bishop Shanahan High School observation and evaluation,” obtained a $24,000 grant from in May, 1975, he became not says Valenti who spent very little the Chester County Mental only the youngest principal in time in his office and made it a Health and Retardation Center the Philadelphia archdiocese, point to have lunch with the for peer leadership evaluation but the first lay person in the students at least once or twice a and preventive education in the history of the system to head a week. “ I wanted them to realize use of drugs and alcohol. Catholic high school. that there was someone around Valenti says that teachers and “ I was shocked to say the to listen —who cared —if they administrators sometimes lose least,” recalls the former La Salle had a problem.” sight of the fact that they are philosophy major who had Valenti could sense the stu­ constantly educating themselves expected to be named vice dents gradually feeling more at as well as their students. He principal at St. Hubert’s Girls ease as his first school year adds that he is “very conscious” High, in Philadelphia. “ I was one progressed. “ With a lay princi­ of his own responsibility as an of the people who didn’t really pal, they could identify more with educational and spiritual leader think it would happen here, at their public school friends and of his many constituents. “ I just least in my lifetime.” feel less inhibited when they can’t sit back on my laurels and Valenti had been a teacher, met me, say, in a shopping think, ‘gee, I’m the first and the then dean of studies at St. center. On Sundays, I would be youngest.’ I must do the job for Thomas More High School for right there in the pew with them, the complete satisfaction of the five years before the southwest not up on the altar.” students, parents, faculty and Philadelphia institution closed at One of Valenti’s top priorities community.” the end of the 1974-75 aca­ has been to increase Bishop Valenti lives with his wife, demic year. He wasted no time Shanahan’s visibility in the West Mary, and two children, Monica, acclimating himself to the co­ Chester community. He in­ 5, and Matthew, 3, in West educational environment of 650 augurated an art program with Goshen. students at the school formerly the Chester County Art Center,

La Salle, Spring 1977 31 BIRTHS: To Joseph G. Gallagher and wife, 73 Joan, (Thomas, ’74), a son, Thomas Patrick; 76 To Joseph Sette and wife, Liz, a daughter, Suzanne Elizabeth. Michael L. Camma has been appointed deputy sheriff of Delaware County. Sally Fisher was appointed district supervisor of 74 the Northwest Philadelphia office of the Victim Counseling Service. Michael Jaster and Michael Woloszczuk are teaching at Robert Vaux Junior High School. Christopher J. Morell is with Pfizer Inc. as a sales representative. Colleen Ruane is working at Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry, Fort Washington, Pa., as a psychiatric aide. David R. Barndt has been promoted to claims Congregation Or Ami, Lafayette Hills, Pa., supervisor in the Philadelphia office of announced the appointment of Richard Harleysville Insurance Companies. Christina Swerdlik as cantorial soloist on a full-time T. Curran is studying theatre arts at the basis. University in Cardiff, Wales, under a Rotary MARRIAGES: Kathleen M. Shaw to Austin International Foundation grant. Albert J. Bruce E. Beans won a first place Keystone J. Mathis. Mary Theresa Them to William D’Alonzo has entered the college of medicine Press Award as a co-writer of a nine part Benson. and dentistry of New Jersey Graduate School feature series in the Doylestown Intelligencer of Biomedical Sciences, Newark. Joseph tracing the development of Warminster Raymond D’Annunzio received a juris doctor Heights, a housing development in Bucks NECROLOGY degree from St. Louis University. Dennis County. Beans is now sports editor of the Fiore has been appointed acting-chairman Intelligencer. Michael W. Boyce has been ’18 of the department of economics at the Allen­ honored for his performance in the South­ town College of St. Francis de Sales. Bill western Company’s nationally-known Anthony P. Murray, Sr., M.D. Fox coached Father Judge High School to summer marketing program. Raymond John the Philadelphia Catholic League basketball Montoni received an advanced degree from ’20 championship in 1976-77. Kevin M. Kiernan Shippenburg State College in counseling. has been promoted to Marine 1st Lt. while Gary D. Smoller has received a master of Louis J. Roderer, M.D. serving at the Marine Corps Air Station New science degree in computer science from River, Jacksonville, N.C. Marie Konzik Par­ UCLA. He is employed by Hughes Aircraft, ’28 rott was graduated from St. Louis University space and communications group. Law School. Thomas D. Scott, II, has been MARRIAGES: Patricia McKinly to 1st Lt. Francis J. Weber, M.D. working as program consultant in emergency W. M. Kennedy, Jr., USMC. Patrice Helene medical services, office of planning and Saggiomo to Clifford C. Werner, Jr. William ’36 research, department of health and social Michael Stewart to Linda Carol Ferguson. services, State of Alaska. The office of Michael H. Van Buskirk, Esq., was approved Thomas F. Costello by the Philadelphia Bar Association for 75 participation in the Neighborhood Law Office ’38 Program. Rudolph H. Weber, vice president Abe Abramovich has joined the scientific of personnel administration with First Penn­ staff of RCA Laboratories, Princeton, N.J. Dr. Cornelius J. Regan sylvania Bank, has been elected president of Lawrence T. Bowman has been named editor the American Society for Personnel of the Bill of Particulars at the Dickinson ’40 Administration (ASPA). School of Law. MARRIAGE: John Edward Tomaszewski, MARRIAGE: Kathryn Ritvalsky to David J. Charles L. Guerin, Esq. M.D., to Jane Marie Borschel, ’75. Trumbore. ’41

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