Loyola-Alumnus-1961-Summer.Pdf

BRODRICK NEW ALUMNI PRESIDENT GRAD OF '43 LEADS A BUSY SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE Basildon Studio, Montreal Dr. Robert J. Brodrick, newly Following his graduation from elected president of the Loyola Loyola, Bob entered the Faculty Alumni Association, is one of of Medicine at McGill University, Loyola's "eight-year boys," having graduating in 1947 with a degree attended both the high school and of M.D., C.M: Next followed five the college here. years of post-graduate work in in ternal medicine, two of which he While in high school, Bob was took in London, England. the winner of the "Representative Bob's professional background Loyola Boy" medal, now kno\.\:n is most impressive: as the Alumni medal. He won a similar medal - then called the He is a certified specialist in Rector's medal - at the colleg~. internal medicine of both the Royal College of Physicians A graduate of the Class of '43 , (la52) and the College of Physi Bob was the president of his class cians and Surgeons of the P ro from the freshman to senior year, vince of Quebec. and also served as president of the Student Council as well as of In addition to conducting a Loyola College Athletic Associa private practice in Westmount, he tion. In addition, he was a mem is a member of the Department of ber of the school orchestra and Medicine at St. Mary's and Queen in 1942 coached the high school (Cont'd on page 25) senior foo tball team. LOYOLA ALUMNUS MEMBER OF THE SUMMER 1961 VOL. V, NO: 2 AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL LOYOLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ROBERT J. DR.ODRICK, lVL D., '43 CORTERTS President ERIC v, . KIERANS '35 1st lTice-President HENRY J. HEl\1E1 S, Q.C., '32 New Alumni President 2nd lTice-Prcsiclent Inside li'ront CoYer DONALD W. l\IcNAUGHTON, '49 3rd lT ice-Presiclent Father P. Malone 25 Y ears in TIMO'rHY P. SLATTERY, the Society of J esus .......... .. .. 2 Q.C., l\LB.E., ';-n Hono1trary Secretary Loyola L1lwnimt Jnst Back VAL J. CHA.R'l'IER, '45 from Africa ................ .......... 4 H 01w1trary Treasitrer KEN JETH F. CASSIDY, '56 Rev. Dyer, SJ, i'I ew Parish Director Priest ...................................... 6 RO HUTCHING , '45 D irector Dr. B roclrick's Acceptance GAR. ET A. PARR, '59 Speech ................................. ... Directo1· A. PATRICK WICKHAM, '49 Catholic Clmrch Accept.s ........ 10 Director VERY REV. PA TRICK G. Loyola's Peace Corps .............. 12 MALONE. S.J ., Rector Al'llni1t'i 'At Home' .................. 13 REV. THOM.AS M. MOYLAN, S.J., Moderator New Officers of the LAA .... .. .. 15 J AMES C. WILSON, '29 Past President Sched1tle and Chairmen of BRIEN NOBLE, '62 196"1-62 Events ...................... 19 SAO Representative JULIUS J. MIHALIK The Look01tt .................... ,v .. ., .., 24 Exec-utive Secretary 1R . DOROTHY McGEE, Secretary Cover: Very Reverend Patrick G. Malone, SJ, Rector of Loyola College, this summer celebrates the 25th anniversary of his entry into the Society of Jesus. See story on page 2. (Portrait by Nakash, Montreal) -1- Father Malone entered the So- 11 ciety at Guelph; Ont., on Sept. 7, 1936 and was ordained at Toron FATHER p~ -MALONE to's 'Jesuit Seminary i~ 1949 by His Emin~nce James Cardinal MacGuigan . 25 YEARS. I_N J.ME . Following his novitiate and two SOCIETY OF JESUS years · of classical studi-es at St. Ignatius College, Guelph, Father Malone completed three years of Very Rev: Patrick G. Malone, study lead1.ng to the Licentia.t~. in .. SJ, 13th rector of Loyola Col~~ge, P~losophy .in 1943. this summer celebrates the 25th anniversary 6f his entry i~to the He then eompleted· two years of SocietY. of Jesus. graduate work in economics at the University of Toronto, ob These 25 years span a remark taining a Master's "degree with able career .in· both cl~11ical aµd specialization in labour economics. secul~r activities and have estab His thesis dealt with labour or lished him as one of the leading ganizatlon 10 French Canada. English - speaking Jesuits· · in Canada as well as one of the In 1945 Loyola's future rector foremost economists,. educators came ·here as an instructor in and university adininistrato'rs. economics. The following year he began four years of study leading Prior to his ·appointment to fue to the Licentiate in Sacred Theo present post t~o y~ars:_ago, F,at~er logy at the Jesuit Seminary i;Il . Malone was president of Saint Toronto, . and in 1950 undertook : .. Mary's University in ~alifax. He a year of ascetical theology at was the youngest university head Namm'., Belgi4m. in Canada when named to the presidency in 1956 . · He later did further graduate · Born in 1918 in Belfast, Ndrth wo·rk in economics at Fordham ern Ireland, he received his early University in New York City. education in Toronto, where his parents, Mr. 1;1nd .. ¥rs1 -~~gh Father Malone held the post Qf Malone, now reside. · .,.. , 1,. •.' dean-of studies and professor of ··.. ···· ··.· -2- economics at Saint Mary's Uni higher 1.earning in this country. versity from 1951 to 1956, when He has some very definite ideas he was named president of that on Loyola's role in education. institution. While president of Saint Mary's, "It is not a matter of machinery he also served as chairman of the and buildings," he says, "but Board of Governors of the Atlan philosophy of education and staff tic Summer School of Business dedication that makes a college Administration, as a member of first rate." the Board of Governors of the He believes that Loyola must Nova Scotia Technical College, of always insist on quality and must the Board of Trustees of the Mari always strive for the best. time School of Social Work, of the Board of Governors of the Halifax "Education is a preparation for School of Journalism, and as a life," says Father Malone, "and a member of several other civic, well educated man should have a cultural and educational organi solid background in the arts and zations and learned societies. the sciences." In summer of 1959 he was the Under his rectorship Loyola Canadian co-director of the World keeps abreast of the latest scien University Service International tific developments, but without Seminar at the University College neglecting its traclitional strength of the West Indies, Jamaica. in the arts and humanities. Prior to that, Father Malone The rector has a most ambitious attended the Carnegie Founda plan for Loyola's future: tion's Institute for College Presi dents at Harvard University in During the ten-year develop Cambridge, Mass., where he was ment program begun in 1959, the only Canadian among presi some $12,000,000 will have been dents from 35 American univer spent on expansion. This will give sities. Loyola - in addition to the new As Loyola's rector, Father science block with amphitheatre Malone is the head of the numeri and science library, which are due cally largest and academically for completion this fall - new most versatile institution among engineering building, women's the many English and French college, library, chapel, gymna- Jesuit - operated institutions of Cont'd on page 16 -3 LOYOLA ALUMNUS JUST BACK FROM AFRICA SAYS SOVIET BLOC TECHNICl,ANS INFILTRATE GUINEA BUT FAl'l IN TAKING OVER THE NEW REPUBLIC Andre Gilbert, B.Sc. '52, who Defence Ministry with access to recently returned to Montreal its secrets. At the end of two from the Republic of Guinea, says months he was ordered out of the that Soviet bloc nations have pro country. vided as many as 2,000 technicians and advisors for the former The expulsion order was later French colony, but they have not rescinded and when his assign succeeded in taking over the ment was finished, Guinea re country. fused to permit him to leave unless his employers sent out ano ther French-speaking engineer. Andre, a specialist in highly He waited a month while a advanced communication systems, Belgian engineer willing to take his place was located. who studied electrical engineering at Loyola, spent five months as "After they decided I could sisting the Guinean Defence Min stay, there was no more suspicion istry establish a country-wide - they were very friendly and communications network. pleasant, almost too friendly," Andre said. He said that when he went to He believes that his presence the West African country, which in the country was unwelcome to is often considered the most com the East-bloc people working munist-oriented of the newly in there and that they may have dependent African states, he was pressed for his expulsion. regarded with great suspicion by The communist technicians and Guinean officials, partly because advisors in Guinea come from the he was white, partly because he Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, was from a Western nation and East Germany and Poland. There partly because he worked in the are also Chinese technicians. -4- "\Vhen the communists offer to "What they will need is a very build, say, a radio station or a well traine? technicia1;, not an printing plant, up to 200 techni .engineer," he observed. cia:1s may be sent out but they have no connection with any other Andre was picked for the job project. The Guineans do not partly because he is French easily accept advice .f.r:om. either speaking but also because after the East or t~e West. studying at Loyola -and McGill, he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. "The eastern bloc advisers do Most of the leaders of Guinea are not run Guinea - Guineans run also French - educated. Despite Guinea," he emphasized.

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