VOLU IE 1 Georgetown in Your Home Your Alumni Association Is Headquarters For Georgetown Merchandise C ) , . ~' r.~ I Georgetown Georgetown Beer Mug Old Fashioned Glasses $1.90 ea. Georgetown $5.00 doz. Highball Glasses 9% oz. $4.50 doz. 12 oz. $5.50 doz. 14 oz. $5.50 doz. Georgetown Playing Cards 2 decks, ,boxed $2.7 5 per set Georgetown COASTER ASHTRAYS, set of 4 $1.00 Georgetown 3% oz. COCKTAIL GLASSES, doz. $4.50 Georgetown 40 oz. COCKTAIL SHAKER, each $5.00 All prices include postage. Send orders and checks to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON 7, D. C. GEORGETOWN University Alumni Magazine - Volume I Number 3 - EDITORIAL BOARD OF ALUMNI MAGAZINE Contents j OHN G. BRUNINI, ' 19 D ONALD F. FLAVIN, '28 Editorial 2 j OHN T. FLYNN, '02 REv. HuNTER GuTHRIE, S.J.- Letters . 2 Faculty DR. TIBOR KEREKES- Faculty Cohonguroton Inn MARTIN s. QUIGLEY, '39 William A. Behan, '49 3 DR. jOHN WALDRON-Faculty REv. GERARD F. YATES, S.J.- Vocational Guidance Faculty L. C. McHugh, S.J. ]AM ES S. R usY, '27 5 Executive Secretary "The Envoy" j OHN J. O'CON NOR, '26 John A. Brogan III, '48 7 Editor PublisJ:ed quarterly by the Georgetown Liberal Education Umverszty Alumni Association, Inc., John E. Wise, S.]., '26 8 Washington 7, D. C. Sustaining Membership 825.00 per year, The Library and the Alumni Regular M•mbership 85.00 per )'tar, Phdlips T emple 10 of which 83.00 is for subscription / to the Alumni Maga<,ine. Distinguished Alumni . 12 ll Entered at the Post Office at Washington, . ' D.C., as Second Class maller February Athletics 24, r_q48 under the act of March 3, William T. Rach, '46 • 13 I879· Application for additional entry pending at Ithaca, N. r. Class Notes. 14 Publication Office: THE CAYUGA PRESS Who Are They? I I 3 East Green St. Ithaca, N. Y. 18 Editorial and Exectives Offices: Treasure House GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI John J. O'Connor, '26. ASSOCIATION 19 Washington 7, D.C. Campus News . 21 The Cover* Picture This Spring issue of the * Georgetown University Alumni Contributors to This Issue Magazine carries on its cover WILLIAM A. BEHAN, '49, is an undergraduate interested in pro­ an original drawing, Lazy Days, moting a great idea. by C. P. Osterman, a student REV. L. C. MCHUGH, S.J., is Director of the Georgetown in the School of Foreign Ser­ Guidance Center. vice. JOH A. BROGAN III, '48, is one of the editors of The Env~y . REV. JOHN E. WISE, S.J., is Director' of the Evening Sch0ol, Copyright 1948 Loyola College, Baltimore, Md. Georgetown University Alumni PHILLIPS TEMPLE is the University Librarian. Magazine WILLIAM T. RACH, '46, is Director of Publicity for the Depart­ ment of Athetics. JOHN J. O 'CONNOR, '26, is Editor of the Alumni Maga,zinc. Editorial Letters HIS spring issue of the Alumni Magazine Dear Sir: Just the briefest of notes to tell you that, since last writing to T brings to an end the most active year you, my post as U . S. Naval Attache in Wellington, New Zealand, our Alumni Association has ever enjoyed. In was closed because of budgetary restrictions in the Navy Depart­ July of 1947 the Association produced the ment, and I was sent here to Shanghai on the same kind of job. This is not the Shanghai of pre-war days but it is, nonetheless, Alumni Directory, listing over 32,000 George­ a very exciting, continually busy, usually interesting and thoroughly town men from William Gaston through 1946; stimulating place. Between office routine, meeting Very Impor­ September saw the publication of the Report to tant People, and carrying out protocol, I find it rather an exhaust­ ing kind ofjob and one that precludes any personal correspondence. the Alumni for 1947 listing those who had made Good luck in everything. possible the activities of the previous year and Shanghai MORGAN SLAYTON, '34. blueprinting those things which were planned for the present. In November the first issue of our new Alumni Magazine was born, the publi­ cation of which we feel has been responsible for the greatest membership year we have ever had. In February the McDonough Memorial Dear Sir: Gymnasium Campaign Committee stated its We are a few Georgetown men united in a far-off corner of the world (see class notes for foto-Ed.). The U. S. S. Valley Forge operations resulting in renewed activity in the (Aircraft Carrier CV-45) with Task Force !;38 is en route on a Georgetown clubs from coast to coast. cruise to Australia, China and Japan. Aboard are two Hoya men: Throughout the year our Association has Comdr. John R. Mcintyre, USN, Senior Dental Officer aboard, Dent.'28; and the undersigned, Lt. Richard E. McVoy, SC, USN, been instrumental in securing good Georgetown Assistant Supply Officer, College 1941. contacts for more than two hundred alumni At Sydney, Australia, we met Ray Higgins, College 1940. He seeking positions in business and in industry. was visiting his father-in-Jaw, U.S. Ambassador Butler. George­ town men continue to cover the world. Thought this would be of We have carried seven young men on alumni interest to you. · scholarships, giving them the opportunity to By way of postscript, now that we are in port, I might add that attend Georgetown which they would not Gene McCahill, College '21, is aboard in a reserve capacity, as an observer, and we are delighted to have him with us. Best r egards otherwise have had. By offering student em­ from all of us to all our friends at the university. ployment to as many as possible in the detailed Hong Kong DICK MCVOY, '41. work of our daily operations, we have assisted fifteen others to receive a Georgetown education. During the past year the Association has also made it possible for members of the faculty to visit thirty-six Georgetown centers to talk with the alumni concerning the problems of the Uni­ Dear Sir: versity. This activity has brought the alumni Georgetown men will be interested in a notice I have just body into much closer contact with the received. Uni­ The First Inter-American Congress of the J esuits' Old Boys versity at a time when their intimate knowledge Association will be held in S. Paulo, Brazil, from August 31 to of Georgetown's problems has been particu­ September 5, 1948. This will be an assembly of Jesuit alumni from all Latin America, and from the United States and Canada as larly important. well. All of these things have been made possible According to the announcement, "in this important moment in by the loyal support of the active members of history where there is such a conflict of ideals in the social and poli­ our Association tical fields, and such a perturbation of spirit, the American Jesuit who in the year now closing re­ alumni unite to express their sincere and fraternal viewpoints on sponded in numbers much greater than in any these great and important problems of humanity." previous year. The officers of our Association Significant, eh? All correspondence should be addressed to and the members of the Board of Governors Federacao Brasileira das Associacoes · dos Antigos Alunos dos J esuitas, Colegio S. Luis, Avenida Paulista 2324, Sao. Paulo, take great encouragement from this increase in Brazil. membership, reflecting as it does an obvious in­ Baltimore STEPHEN F. MCNAMEE, S.J. terest in the work of the Association and ap­ probation of its accomplishments. It is our hope that the year ahead of us will see an even greater number of members and a resulting increase in our activities and in our power fox: good. The completion of the fund for the McDonough Dear Sir: Gymnasium, which we hope will not be long Considerable interest has been evidenced in the past as to how much or how little publicity the Georgetown Athletic teams are delayed, will be the final and convincing proof getting. of the power of an organized continuing A detailed account of Hoya athletic publicity during the past Alumni Association. eight months will be sent to any alumnus who requests it. Washington, D . C. BILL RACH J.S.R. Director of Athletic Publicity 2 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine Cohonguroton Inn· Whiffenpoof Sons of Georgetown in Search of an Eating Club WILLIAM A. BEHAN '49 IS the JT. considered opm10n of Georgetown Univer­ remodel it as an Inn. ~ut more specifically, they are . slty that a Whiffenpoof of Distinction would politely looking for a home that bears a natural air of welcome in 1gno.re the unpolished restaurants of the neighborhood. its appearance, where, in their remodelling, they could Dutifully he would pass them by. Pressed, he might blend a taste of the antique with a necessary flavor of the ob~erve them, but invariably with severe disapproval. convenient, and be assured of happiest results. Accord­ Mistaken, he might enter them, but in haste and con­ ingly, on a tour of the vicinage, they usually linger longest fusion he would withdraw. From all lasting alliances in front of two-or-three-story brick residences which h ' oweve.r, some better angel of social grace would pre- seem to have existed here quietly and unobstrusively, for serve h.m~; the little black sheep never would go astray. the past hundred years or so, hidden by towering elms. For .1t IS certain that the nearby lunch roo~s can lay So much the better if, on inspection, the front steps seem ~o cla1m to the Whiffenpoof trade. Unfortunately there well worn, if a cheerful light plays dancing shadows IS no place adjoining the campus which remotely re­ across the portal, if the glistening brass door-knocker sembles the world-famous Mary's of Yale, or the Nassau seems to signal an eagerly awaited arrival rather than to Tavern of Princeton.