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e EDITORIAL BOARD MARCH 1957 • VOLUME 9, NUMBER 6 OF ALUMNI MAGAZINE

WILLIAM s. ABELL, '36 CONTENTS R oBERT J. A n:n v, '32 Georgetown in the Foreign Service ------2

LEO A. Cooo, '22 Georgetown Beginnings ______:______4

REv. DANIEL E. PowEn, SJ. Lieut. Dennis P. Dowd Memorial Concert ------5

Dn. JAMES S. Runv, '27, Editor Review of Recent Faculty Book ------6 Twenty-five Years Ago ------6 EuGENE L. STEWART, '48 Letters to the Editor 7 Dn. JonN WALDRON, '30 The Second Sherman 8 Alumni Clubs Directory ------..,------10 R u TH K. SMITH, Managing Editor Hungarian Haven ------ll RUTH KETTERMAN, Advertising Manager Class Notes ------12 A Tribute to Father Heyden ------13

Contributors to tbis issue:

EI>WIN w. BEITZELL Recording Secretary, Alumni Association, Washington, D. C. REv. JosEI'II T. DunKIN, S.J. Professor of History, Georgetown College, The Alumni Magazine this month Graduate School and School of Foreign Service, honors all Georgetown graduates Washington, D. C. who have distinguished themselves On. J. W. BRAilNErt- MITH Former Professor of Law in th e fi eld of international relations. and contributor to the Georgetown Law Journal. See picture story on pages 2 and 3.

Copyright 19.57 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine Return Postage Guaranteed GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE: published each two months by the Georgetown University Alumni Association Inc., Washington 7, D. C. • Sustaining Membership $25.00 per year,' R egular Membership $5.00 per year, of which $8.00 is for subscription to the Alumni Magazine. • Entered at the Post Office at Was~ington, D. C., as Second Class matter February 24, 1948 under the act of March 8, 1879. • Editorial and Executive offices: GEORGE­ TOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Alumni House, 3604 0 Street, N .W., W ashington 7, D.C. U. Alexis Johnson, '32, James Riddleberger, '26, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslat;i.a Georgetown in the

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Ricardo M. Arias, '.35, John D. Jernegan, '34, Panamanian Ambassador to the United States Counselor; Minister, U.S. Embassy, Rome Jack K. McFall, '29, Dr. Benjamin Cohen, '27, U.S. Ambassador to Finland Under Secretary of the United Nations. Foreign Service

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Georgetown Beginnings

By Edwin W. Beitzell '28

In 1638, four years after the settlement of Maryland, pounds of Tobacco for some that could not discharge Father Ferdinand Poulton, S. J., the Superior at St. for their schooling." Crouch, in th e same letter, gave his Inigoes, in St. Mary's County, conceived the idea of estab­ co nsent to the continued use of the estate for the school. lishing a college in the colony and his plan was sub­ After Crouch's removal to Newtown, in the center of mitted to the General of the Society of Jesus, who wrote St. Mary's County, it is un certain for some years what in 1640 as follows: "The hope held out of a college I happened to the school in the southern part of the am happy to entertain, and when it shall have matured County. However, on March 27, 1697, Governor Francis I will not be backward in extending my approval." Prob­ Nicholson of Maryland wrote to the English Boara of ably due to the heavy demands on the few Jesuit mis­ Trade as follows: " ... few schools, and those but very sionaries and the invasion of Maryland by Richard Ingle mean ones ei ther for Master or House, but the Jesuits in 1645, the project was delayed for some years. and Priests had some, especially one brick one at St. A beginning was made on January 27, 1649, when Mary's." Henry Hooper, Surgeon, of St. Inigoes left an estate to There is sufficient evidence to conclude that a school Ralph Crouch, a layman closely associated with the was an integral part of each Jesuit Residence in the Jesuits, "to be imployed in such pious uses, as the said Colony; that a system of parochial schools was in exist­ Ralphe Crouch shall best thinke fitte." Crouch estab­ ence, probably by 1660, if not earlier. Governor Nichol­ lished a school with this fund but it is uncertain whether son speaks of "some" schools. It is known definitely that the school was located at St. Inigoes or at St. Mary's schools were in operation at the Jes uit Residences at St. City. Confirmation that this school was actually in exist­ Mary's City and Newtown at early dates and in later ence is contained in a letter dated August 20, 1650 to years mention is made of schools at St. Inigoes, St. Father Thomas Copley, S. J., from Father Piccolomini Thomas and Bohemia Manors. It would have been strange in which among other things he wrote: "I do not doubt if the Jesuits had not founded schools, for .the ed ucation of that the school opened by the Father, your companion, youth has always been one of their important functions. (Father Lawrence Starkey, S.J.) will be worth the pains." Although Ralph Crouch returned to England in 1659, In 1653, Edward Cotton of Newtown also left Crouch his letter of 1662 indicates that the school at Newtown an estate "wch was left eyther for the settling of a was still in operation at that time. In June 1667, Luke schoole or to bee employed uppon other pious uses." Gardiner filed an accounting of the estate of Robert Cole, Concerning this school, Crouch wrote from England in a carpenter, of Newtown containing an item, "To the 1662 to the Provincial Court as follows: "I aflirme boldly childrens schooling 2150 lbs. Tobacco." In the Annual allsoe that on my part I did (as appeared to all the Letter of the Jesuits for 1681, there is mention of a school neighbours) as much as lay in mee, fulfill the will of the for humanities at Newtown in 1677, co nducted by two of Deceased, in remoueing my teaching of schoole to the the Jesuit Fathers and "the youths born there, unusually New Towne : & there was ready some yeares to teach devoted to letters, are making good progress . . . the eyther Protestants or Catholikes, yet never had more out school has sent to St. Orner two students, who are sur­ of that Estate than to the value of six or seaven hundd passed in intelligence by few Europeans and strive for

4 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE the palm with the foremost of their class. Hence we infer Father Spalding has compiled a list from the registers that these lands, undeservedly called Barbarous, are most of the Jesuit Procurators in London, which reveals the prolific, not alone of gold and silver and other products names of many old Maryland families and includes of the earth, but also of men made for virtue and the Adams, Brent, Blake, Boarman, Boone, Brooke, Carroll, higher education. Two have been sent thither this year Cole, Darnall, Diggs, Doyne, Edelen, Falkner, Fenwick, to aid those who are laboring in that most ample vine­ Hogan, Hill, Hoskins, Howe, Gardiner, Jenkins, Lan­ yard of the Lord." caster, Matthews, Mattingly, Milbourn, Millard, Neal, According to Father Edward I. Devitt, S. J., the two Parkham, Pike, Pye, Queen, Semmes, Sewall, Spalding, Fathers who directed the school were Michael Foster and Thompson and Wharton. Francis Pennington and the "two of the Society sent out A few years after the Revolutionary War, with the this year" were Brother Gregory Turberville and Brother ratification of the Constitution of the United States, John Berboel. The two boys sent to St. Orner's were guaranteeing religious liberty, Archbishop John Carroll, Robert Brooke, who was the first native-born Marylander who had received his early education at Bohemia Manor, to become a Jesuit priest, and a son of Mr. Luke Gardi­ established Georgetown University in 1789. Various ner, probably Thomas Gardiner, who is mentioned in writers have held that Georgetown University was founded 1694 as being a Maryland-born Scholastic. Thomas Hoth­ at Bohemia Manor, or Newtown or St. Mary's City. From ersall, S. J., taught "humanities" and grammar at the the evidence, this would seem to be erroneous. It would school from 1683 to the time of his death in 1698. be more nearly correct to say that Georgetown could The Protestant Rebellion of 1689 in Maryland and the have had its beginnings at any of these Jesuit schools, establishment of the Church of England as the state had not other events intervened. church spelled the eventual doom of the Jesuit schools. The action of Seymour and the Assembly of 1704, in The "Act to Prevent Popery," which was signed by Gov­ closing the Jesuit schools cost the State of Maryland ernor John Seymour, closed all Catholic churches and heavily for there was nothing to take their place. One schools in Maryland on October 3, 1704, and none were needs only to look at the census records of a hundred permitted to exist again until a few years before the years ago and note the illiteracy, even among the large Revolutionary War. landholders, among whom will be found descendents of During the period 1704-1772, the Jesuits were able to the same men who closed the Jesuit schools, to learn carry on limited educational activities at intervals, for the answer. brief periods of time and by stealth. They were particu­ larly successful at Bohemia Manor, where a school was Lieut. Dennis P. Dowd, C '08, first American to be killed in World established in 1745 or 1746 and probably discontinued in War I, was honored at Georgetown with a special memorial concert by the United States Air Force Band, February 10, 1957. 1749. A St. Inigoes Manor rent book mentions Vitus Herbert as a school boy at St. Inigoes in 1735, during the time of Father Thomas Gerard, S.J. Vitus had been left a legacy of 250 pounds of tobacco per year for his education. Father George Hunter, S.J., established a school for girls at St. Thomas Manor in 1760. The school was taught by the Benoit Sisters, who were brought over from France, and conducted the school under the guise of a sewing and weaving circle until August 8, 1765. How­ ever, it was difficult and risky for Catholics to attempt to secure an education for their children during this period of proscription. The law provided severe penalties for a Catholic to keep or teach school and forced the more wealthy planters to send their children abroad for an education. On November 1, 1753, according to an article in the Maryland Gazette, Turner Wootton, High Sheriff of Prince George County, denied after being accused by a minister that Basil Waring had persuaded him to send his son to St. Orner's to be educated. He would have lost his position and suffered other penalties if the charge had been proven. St. Orner's was the college that most of the Maryland students preferred, as it was conducted by the .English Jesuits, who furnished also the missionaries for the colony.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 5 Review of Recent Faculty Book Speaking of Politics. By Franklin Cary Salisbury. appears to be a description of current events is actually New York: Vantage Press. $3.75. a prophecy. The breakdown of international "Soviet­ communism" into competitive Communist systems vy ing Since the time of Marx, Communists, especiall y Soviet for wo rld monopoly of the Marxist-Leninism school was Communists, have appreciated the political power in the predicted, and we can see it today before our eyes in such selec tion of words to impose ideas. Language has been centers of apparently opposing international Communist prostituted, systematicall y and successfully, to deceive. groups as Moscow, Peiping and Tel-Aviv. Marx said that ideas do not exist apart from language To the intellectual, Salisbury's work is thought-provok· and Stalin seized upon that thought t o make language an ing; to the student, educational; and to the general reader instrument of the "Class struggle"- a weapon which the interesting in the ideas and illustrations contained in each western nati ons are onl y beginning to comprehend. In this of the s hort essays on political terms. For example, the country, Stuart Chase, Harold Lasswell, and a few others author observes that Dialectical Materialism is s imply have publicized the intimate relationships between words material dialectics. As another illustration, he s tates that and thoughts. Yet no substantial eff ort has been made to the failure to distinguish a "right"- a relationship which show how the good will of our citizenry a nd the aspira­ exists against the State, and a "privilege"-which may be ti ons o f peoples throughout the world are being exploited taken away by the State, as in the mislabled "Declaration by the purposeful misuse of words. of Human Rights," "is hazardous to the maintenance of Ignorance can be the o nl y excuse for the continued our freedom." translation by the conscientious translators of the Soviet Those lawyers who are familiar with Hohfeld in Law "Demokratiya" into the English "democracy." The author School are thoroughly aware of the great difference be­ of "Speaking of Politics" notes in his introducti on that tween rights and privileges, but this startling conclusion words, which were developed during the centuries of of the author, without explanation will appear as a naive human history to communicate thought, are now being assumption to most readers. A just criticism of this work used on a g rand scale in a planned effort t o s ubvert com­ is that the author cannot attempt to explain all his con· municati on of th ought. "Speaking of Politics" is a de­ elusions in one book. Nevertheless, its publication is justi­ fense against this ideological war of aggression, and fi ed if for no other reason than its existence, which indi­ forms a co nstructi ve foundation f or aggressive action by cates that we are, at long last, becoming aware of the the political leaders of the West. nature o f the political environment in which this nation "Speaking of Politics" is all the more interesting when exists. As this awareness develops Salisbury's efforts in it is realized that the fundamental system of the book was "Speaking of Politics" will be handsomely rewarded. conceived while Mr. Salisbury was a g raduate s tudent at Georgetown University Law School. What in many cases - DR. J. w. BRABNER-SM ITH 25 Years Ago at Georgetown Note: The following excerpts are taken from the Hoya CUBAN TREMOR for December 1931 and January 1932. FELT AT G.U. OBSERVATORY RAY HUDSON The major shock of an earthquake which caused loss of CAPTAIN OF 7932 TEAM life and considerable damage in the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba was first r eported on the Georgetown University At the annual meeting of the lettermen, held yesterday, seismograph on last February 3 at 1 :20 a.m. The Hilltop the Georgetown f ootball team selected for its 1932 captain observa tory s ubmitted the first report of the disaster, none other than Ray Hudson, an almost unanimous choice received by Science Service in Washington. The disturb­ on every All-District eleven selected by local sports writers ance was determined t o have been centered in the ocean this year, and a man who has been a scintillating end for about 30 miles from the c ity o n the northern edge of the the past two years. He has been outstanding as one of famous Bartlett deep. the best defensive linemen of a line noted for its stalwart defense, and as one of the fastest ends in the country. His election yesterday was an alm ost foregone conclusion, "MAURY" HALPIN, '32, SAYS inasmuch as Ray was one of the most popular men among They are having a big sale down at Grosner's, 1325 his team mates as well as with the fans, and because his F Street. He says they have some fin e suits and overcoats leadership ability was known by all to be brilliant. for as low as $24.75 and $29.75.

6 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE January 28, 1957 cfetlerd lo fhe {;Jilor Dr. James S. Ruby Executive Secretary January 22, 1957 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine Dear Mr. Ruby: 3604 0 Street N. W. Washington, D. C. The January issue of the Georgetown University Alumni Dear Dr. Ruby: Magazine recalled to me fond memories. It brought back as a living reality the time-nearly two decades ago­ I have received the January 1957 issue of the George­ when I sought and found at Georgetown knowledge which town University Alumni Magazine. As always, I have has proved so strengthening. enjoyed reading the same. Georgetown is truly a university of proud distinction. The purpose of this letter is to express my appreciation Over the years, it has been the springboard which has of the page therein entitled, "Georgetown in Congress." launched many great Americans to a career of public I am very pleased to find myself as one of ten members service. of the House and four members of the Senate who at­ My associations with the university were of tremendous tended Georgetown University. I doubt if any other Uni­ importance to me and it will always have my warmest versity could equal or exceed that number. and most enduring esteem. I hope that those of us who had the privileg,e of Sincerely, attending Georgetown and now members of the National Congress will prove ourselves worthy representatives of LYNDON B. JoHNSON that Institution. Mr. James S. Ruby, Executive Secretary Sincerely yours. Georgetown University Alumni Association 3604 0 Street, Northwest PAUL J. KILDAY, M. c. Washington 7, D. C. January 24, 1957 January 24, 1957 Dr. James S. Ruby Executive Secretary Dr. James S. Ruby, Executive Secretary Association Georgetown University Alumni Association Georgetown University Alumni 3604 0 Street, N. W. 3604 0 Street, N. W. Washington 7, D. C. Washington 7, D. C. Dear Dr. Ruby: Dear Jim: Alumni Magazine I was very pleased to see the article in the Alumni I receive my Georgetown University and I am very much im­ Magazine about Georgetown's sons who have served their regularly as a part of my dues country in Congress. pressed by the outstanding January issue on the cover of which appear the seal of our government and the seal of For a long time I have heard comments about how Georgetown which are very much alike. . many Georgetown men have served in Congress and in various government positions. This article has done much The old Georgetown Tower and the Capitol dome on to set the record straight and show just how our Alma which are superimposed the great seal that goes with Mater has contributed to the government of these United each-the one, symbolizing freedom of education; the States. It was also a very pleasant surprise to me to know other, the preservation of that freedom-are particularly just how many of my good friends and colleagues in the appropriate at this time of the Inaugural ceremonies. present Eighty-fifth Congress and in the Eighty-fourth I was very pleasantly surprised to find such fine pic­ Congress just passed were Georgetown men. I think that tures of Georgetown alumni, my colleagues in the Con­ I learned as much from the article, or perhaps more, gress, in what appears to be a special Congressional issue. than did most of the alumni. It likely will be news to many of our fellow alumni to I will certainly be following the Alumni Magazine with know that these present Members of Congress are. also the same interest in the future. devoted sons and they might more readily recognize them having seen their pictures. With congratulations to you on a job well done and kindest personal regards. My congratulations on a job well done. Sincerely, Very sincerely yours,

JoHN D. DINGELL ANTONI N. SADLAK Member of Congress Congressman-at-Large

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 7 Father Sherman as a young man ... as an Army Chaplain ... in later years

The Second SherDian

By Rev. Joseph T. Drtrkin, S.].

It will possibly be a surprise to some that the second Afterwards he had grown accustomed to seeing two son of General William Tecumseh Sherman of Civil War Presidents, numerous Civil War Generals and other promi­ fame became a Jesuit priest and for many years was one nent figures come as familiar guests to the Sherman home. of the leading pulpit orators and lecturers of the United During his schooldays at Georgetown he had gone every States. Our almuni may pride themselves also on the fact few weeks with the rest of the family to dine informally that the future Father Thomas Ewing Sherman graduated at the White House with the Grants. with honors from the College in 1874, with his father He continued his secondary studies at Yale's Sheffield sitting complacently in one of the front rows of Mulledy School of Engineering, while at the same time following Auditorium. the university's law course. One of his classmates at New The Jesuit-to-be had had a boyhood marked by not a Haven was William Howard Taft, whose proclivity for few thrills. As a lad of thirteen he had visited his father's hearty laughing won for himself and Tom a season's pass camp near Vicksburg, a few weeks after the city fell. from one of the local theatre managers who perceived (He even merited the General's reprimand for discussing that the future President's loud responsiveness to vaude­ military movements with a Confederate prisoner with ville sketches was an excellent advertisement for the trade. whom he had made friends.) At the Grand Review of the He was apparently not immune to a weakness charac­ triumphant Union troops in Washington in the spring teristic of college boys at least in the 1870's. "I am sorry of 1865 he had stood beside his mother in the Presidential to say I shall be unable to be economical," he writes to his box and watched his father ride down Pennsylvania Ave­ father; "I am living, as you know, with a dozen fellows nue at the head of the Army of Tennessee. who are pretty well off, dress well, and spend quite a

8 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE good deal. I will try not to be extravagant, but college Not Lhe least important of the Georgetown angles of is a poor place to learn economy." He was, however, a the Tom Sherman story is the one he himself pointed out: serious student, with a bias toward writing on such pro­ "I owe my priestly vocation to a retreat I made at George­ vocative topics as that of his senior thesis, "Arsenic and town in 1874." As a very old man he used to come to Its Relation to the Law." The General, always a discrimi­ Washington occasionally and walk nostalgically about nating man, thought that the theme was exotic. the campus. With a law degree and the brightest of worldly futures He died at New Orleans. By a strange coincidence his before him, Tom had thrown all this aside in 1878 to grave adjoins immediately that of his fellow-Jesuit, Father enter the Jesuit Novitiate. The move shocked and cha­ Joseph Salter, the grandnephew of Alexander Stephens, grined his father, who, as is well known, was not a Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy. Catholic. For two years the General refused to be recon­ The writer has just finished the biography of this im­ ciled to what he termed his son's "desertion" of his portant and challenging character. One of the subsidiary mother, brother, and sisters. It was only on Tom's return pleasures of the task has been the new light thrown by from the Novitiate in 1880 to pursue his studies in the fresh documents on the character and views of William Jesuit seminary at Woodstock, Maryland, that the pa­ Tecumseh Sherman himself. The leader of the March ternal ire was assuaged. through Georgia has never been popular in the South. This is indeed an After his long stretch of philosophical and theological understatement. It is therefore all the more surprising- and consoling-to studies, his years of teaching as a "Scholastic" and his find the hard-bitten General deploring in the ordination to the priesthood, he entered on the work that strongest terms the brutual Re­ construction regimes inflicted was to make him, in his day, famous. on the Southern States from 1865 to the early seventies. From 1892 to 1896 and during most of the first decade It was terribly unfair, he asserted, to deprive the South­ of the present century he was one of the most talked-of ern people of their right of self-government. That the preachers in the Nation. One of his special loves was the South itself appreciated Sherman's sympathy was shown giving of missions to Protestants. In this line was a pioneer dramatically in 1879 when the conqueror of Georgia was among American priests. Not infrequently at these ses­ received with cordiality and understanding as he revisited sions Protestant ministers would be among his most re­ the same battlegrounds he had marched over roughshod spectful listeners. iu 1864. It is difficult to say whether this was a greater His voice was also lifted repeatedly to oppose Socialism, tribute to the magnanimity of the great Southern people the social heresy which at the time was a threat to the than it was to the magnanimity of Sherman. American way of life. With prophetic insight he hit hard Another rewarding experience in the writing of the at Marxism, which, he claimed, was implied in the Social­ book has been the author's association with Miss Eleanor ist program. He may have erred in this interpretation, Sherman Fitch, of New York City, granddaughter of but what he said about the more dangerous doctrine could the General. To this gracious lady historical scholarship be used against the Communists today. owes a great debt. She has preserved and catalogued with If there was one passion that gripped him besides his meticulous and loving care a mass of unpublished letters, love of God and his near-worship of his father, it was his diaries, and other writings from the hand of William enthusiastic devotion to the American Union. He was Tecumseh Sherman himself. No definitive study of the a!!;~ressively, even pugnaciously, patriotic. Stemming from second greatest military leader of the North can be made this feeling for his country was his constant insistence without the use of these precious sources. on the value of political and religious freedom in the It is hoped that the biography of Father Thomas Sher­ American style. He served as a chaplain on the Puerto man will make at least some contribution to our knowl­ Rican front in the Spanish-American War. His official edge of the Civil War and to the changing and sometimes report to the War Department in 1898 is one of the startling re-evaluations that fresh information concerning shrewdest analyses of conditions in Puerto Rico that ever the struggle inevitably induces. It is a surprising fact issued from American sources. that now, on the eve of the centennial year of the conflict, He was one of the first of the clergy to realize the need there is still so much to be corrected, modified, and added for a vigorous Catholic press. For almost ten years he in the history of the crucial events of 1861-1865. directed the Catholic Truth Society of Chicago, which disseminated Catholic literature with the happiest effect. As has often occurred in the lives of great and good men, his last years were darkened by a deep tragedy. But George A. Coml~y Florists why, in such a brief sketch as this, should we give away 3209 l\1 Street, N.W. ADams 2-0149 the story? The real significance of his career lies, perhaps, in the way the tragedy ended shortly before his death in 1933.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 9 (}eorgefown Alumni Cfut Rojfer • Officers of local and regional Georgetown Alumni Clubs are listed here as a regular fea· lure of the Alumni Magazine. Club Secretaries are requested to notify the Executive Secretary of the Alumni Association of any changes as soon as they occur. Northern California Capitol District (Albany), N.Y. Pres.: Frederic Murphy, '32, 760 Market St., San Fran- Pres.: Dr. William 1'. Fitzgerald, '24, 437 Western Ave., cisco, Calif. GArfield 1-1453 Albany, N.Y. 2-6277 Southern California Secy.: William F. Conway, '36, 90 State St., Albany, N.Y. Pres.: James G. Butler, '48,.1111 East Compton Blvd., 62-5301 Compton, Calif. NEvada 6-3139 Binghamton, N. Y. Pres .: Joseph P. Hester, '23, 259 Main St., Johnson City, Denver, Colorado N.Y. 7-4944 Pres.: Mark Hogan, '52, Equitable #9, Denver, Colo. Secy.: William A. Behan, '49, 9 Giles St., Binghamton, TA 5-0226 N.Y. 7-6214 Colo. Secy.: Charles Gallagher, '49, Central Bank, Denver, Buffalo, N. Y. AC 2-0771 Pres.: John F. Moloney, '49, 20 Duane Terrace, Buffalo, Connecticut N.Y. South Pres.: Thomas ]. Wall, '33, 10 North Water St., Secy.: John H. Napier, '47, 235 Cleveland Drive, Ken­ Norwalk, Conn. VOlunteer 6-2504 more, N. Y. BEdford 1646 Delaware Metropolitan New York Pres.: Dr. Peter J. Olivere, '37, 613 Delaware Ave., Wil­ '42, Murray Manu­ mington, Del. OLympia 5-2703 Pres.: William S. Catherwood, III, facturing Co., 1250 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn 16, N. Y. Secy.: Charles F. Daley, Jr., '53, Odd Fellows Bldg., Wil­ mington, Del. OLympia 8-6501 STerling 3-7100 Secy.: Victor K. Scavullo, '34, 21-07 40th Ave., Long Washington, D. C. Island City 1, N. Y. STillwell 4-4930 . Pres.: Egbert R. Ferguson, '33, 913 Dupont Circle Bldg., Washington 6, D. C. ADams 4-1674 Rochester, N. Y. Secy.: Richard L. Walsh, '49, National Press Bldg., Wash­ Pres.: Alfred G. Boylan, '39, 3839 East Ave., Rochester, ington 4, D. C. District 7-0946 N.Y. Hillside 5-4500 Secy.: James J. Lane, '50, 150 Beresford Rd., Rochester, Chicago, Ill. N. Y. BUtler 8-1750 Pres.: Donald A. Carroll, '42, 627 Jackson Ave., River Forest, Ill. Cincinnati, Ohio Secy.: John A. Hafner, Jr., '51, 2858 North Lotus Ave., Pres.: Hon. Ralph B. Kohnen, '28, 4 Grandin Lane, Cin­ Chicago, Ill. cinnati 8, Ohio Florida Secy.: Richard F. Maloney, '50, 4439 Clifford Ave., Cin­ Pres.: Irving M. Wolff, '45, Biscayne Building, Miami, Fla. cinnati 36, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Indianapolis, Ind. Pres.: ]. ]. Sussen, '49, 1391 East 21st St., Cleveland Pres.: William A. Brennan, Jr., '39, 5732 No. Pennsyl­ Jr., vania St., Indianapolis, Ind. CLifford 1-3542 14, Ohio Secy.: William 0. Beck, '33, 4427 Park Ave., Indianapolis, Tulsa, Okla. Ind. AT 3-5676 Pres.: John E. Rooney, '48, Midstates Bldg., Tulsa, Okla. Baltimore, Md. CHerry 2-6274 ·-- Pres.: Hugh J. Monaghan II, '46, Mercantile Trust Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Baltimore, Md. LExington 9-2233 Pres.: John D. Farrell, '51, 6449 Market St., Upper Darby, Pa. SH 8-3348 Boston, Mass. Secy.: John C. Gilhooley, '29, 1518 Walnut St., Phila­ Pres.: Dr. William H. McKenna, '52, 80 Boylston St., delphia, Pa. PE 5-6157 Boston, Mass. HA 6-3131 Secy.: Francis L. Swift, '46, 11 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Pittsburgh, Pa. CA 7-7500 Pres.: Joseph G. Smith, '33, Grant Bldg., P.O. Box 118, Detroit, Mich. Pittsburgh 30, Pa. GRant 1-3600 Pres.: E. Victor Chilson, '43, 1772 Prestwick Rd., Grosse Secy.: Paul R. Obert, '50, 3220 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh Pointe Woods 36, Mich. TUxedo 1-6129 19, Pa. ATlantic 1-4713 Kansas City, Mo. Rhode Island Pres.: Thomas A. Sweeney, '52, 1122 Rialto Bldg., Kansas Pres.: John E. O'Rourke, '34, 1502 Industrial Bank Bldg., City, Mo. VI 2-2575 Providence, R. I. GA 1-3783 Secy.: R Eugene McGannon, '51, 1009 Commerce Bldg., Secy.: James E. McGwin, '53, 147 Wentworth Ave., Crans­ Kansas City, Mo. BA 1-2416 ton, R. I. ST 1-5676 St. Louis, Mo. Richmond; V a. Pres.: Robert E. Leonard, 4080 Toenges, St. Louis 16, Pres.: F. B. Sitterding, Jr., '12, P.O. Box 418, Richmond, Mo. FL 2-2164 Va. 5-7697 Secy.: Henry A. Griesdieck, 1920 Shenandoah, St. Louis, Puerto Rico Mo. PR 1-3900 Pres.: Jose G. Gonzalez, '27, Chase Bank Bldg., San Juan, Trenton, N. J, Puerto Rico. 3-2090 Pres.: John Waldron, ':58, 28 West State St., Trenton, Secy.: Dr. Roberto Francisco, '39, San Juan Diagnostic N. J. EXport 3-4302 Clinic, Santurce, P. R. 2-5980 Refugees lend a helping hand themselves in burning leaves and clearing Above, sightseeing in Washington, D. · C. Below, finishing St. Mary's church yard. dishes after supper served in the parish hall of St. Mary's.

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Rev. Robert S. O'Kane, '33, started a local Hungarian relief drive on a personal scale when he collected refugees /rom Camp Kilmer, N. ]., and brought them back to his own parish of St. Mary's, Fair/ax, Va. The pictures on this page tell the story of that effort far more eloquently than words. (Photos by George Havens).

A St. Mary's parishioner initiates Hungarians into the Father O'Kane helps to smooth the way /or his refugees via phone. mysteries of an American supermarket. EDWAHD L. MUELLER, LL.B. '14, M.P.L. '14, and Trademark Lawyers, The Denrike in New York City, N. Y. Building, 1010 Vermont Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., in partnership with his CLASS NOTES JoHN ]. ORLOSKY, L '24, in Washington, D. C. son, George A. Garvey, L '55. ALBERT H. OsTERMAN, LL.B. '06, in Swarth· 1923 more, Pa. DR. JoHN W. GAHAN, C '23, of Win­ NECROLOGY ALBI:RT H. PIKE, LL.B. '07, LL.M. '08, in chester, Mass., was recently made at Knight Katonah, N. Y. of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sep­ The deaths of the following Alumni ulchre by His Holiness, Pope Pius XH. have been reported to Alumni House since MYLES H. QUAIL, LL.B. '21, LL.M. '22, the last issue of the Alumni Magazine went M.P.L. '22, in Washington, D. C. 1924 to press. The 10:00 A.M. Mass in Dahlgren RONALD A. RuEL, B.S.S.S. '55, in Brid~­ Chapel each Sunday is offered for the DR. WtLLIAM J. FITZGERALD, M '24, Presi­ port, Conn. souls of the deceased Alumni. dent of the Georgetown Club of Albany, ELWOOD H. SEAL, LL.B. '22, in Washington, New York, announces his exhibit on Meth­ ARTURO 1:. ALEIIS, L '55, in Mayaguez, D. C. ergine in Obstetrics has been accepted for Puerto Rico. scientific exhibit at the New York State MARTIN J. SuENNERS, LL.B. '03, in Mil­ FnEDERICK C. AYER, M.S. '05, in Austin, Medical Society Meeting, Hotel Statler, waukee, Wis. Texas. ew Yo·k C:ty, for the period of February NoRMAN S. BowLES, LL.B. '09, in Wash· ARTURO TosCANINl, Honors of the Fran­ 18th through the 21st, 1957. He extends a ington, D. C. cisco de Vico Academy, '30, in New York welcome invitation to all Georgetown City, N.Y. alumni to visit this exhibit. FRANK H. BRYAN, LL.B. '24, in Pelham, N.Y. DR. J. RussELL VEHBRYCKE, M.D. '06, in Dr. Fitzgerald also reports that the efforts of his recruitment committee of the George­ JosEPH A. CAREY, LL.B. '15, LL.M. '16, in Washington, D. C. town Club of Albany, under the chairman­ Bethesda, Md. Dn. CLETUS B. WALKER, M.D. '28, in Duke ships of BILl. GLAVIN and JoE DELANEY Center, Pa. ]AY MASON Cox, F.S. '56, in Miami, Fla. have produced fourteen prospective George­ VI!ICEN r DAILEY, A.B. '12, in New York F. AusTIN WHALEN, LL.B. '41, in Rochester, town students during the past year. City, N. Y. N.Y. 1925 J. STANLEY DoNAHUE, LL.B. '17, in Cam· HENRY CLARK WooD, B.S. '25, in Beeville, bridge, Mass. Texas. RIGHT REVEREND MoNSIGNOR A. D. CAN· NON, L '25, was elevated to the rank of EDWARD J. DoNLON, F.S. '49, in Brooklyn, WILLIAM WooDBURN, LL.B. '03, in Reno, Domestic Prelate at the Corpus Christi N.Y. Nevada. Cathedral in Texas on December 13, 1956. JoHN J. FINN, L '25, in Holyoke, Mass. The Alumni Association wishes to extend Dn. Louis J. GARCIA, B.S.M. '29, M.D. '31, sincerest sympathies to EDWAilD M. BROOKS, in Tampa, FLa. C '25, G '29, on the death of his wife, RICHAIID W. Gmoux, LL.B. '51, in Kensing· Margaret. · ton, Md. 1927 Gt:ORGE H. HASSEL, LL.B. '15, in Washing· THOMAS ]. HILLERY, C '27, State Senator ton, D. C. of Morris County, New J ersey, has an· nounced that he will seek reelection for a EwART A. HESTER, B.F.S. '24, in Fairfax, second term in the New Jersey State Legis· Va. lature this spring. AusTIN !MIRIE, L '14, in Washington, D. C. DR. HENRY M. GAHAN, C '27, has been FREDERICK T. JoHNSON, LL.B. '23, in Chevy elected President of Staff at the Lawrence Chase, Md. Memorial Hospital in Medford, Mass. JosEPH T. KEATING, LL.B. '20, LL.M. '22, in Bethesda, Md. 1928 E. RusSEl. KELLY, LL.B. '22, in Washing· THOMAS O'D. MuRRAY, C '28, has been ton, D. C. elected a vice-president of The First Boston Corporation. In addition to his position NoRMAN J. KorMEIER, LL.B. '05, in Mil· "·ith The First Boston Corporation, Mr. waukee, Wis. Murray is a member of the boards of direc· DR. RoscoE G. LAMB, D.D.S. '24, in Wash· tors of South Penn Oil Company and the ington, D. C. Vanderfgift Savings and· Trust Company, PAUL R. LAMlELL, LL.B. '26, in Canton, Pittsburgh, Pa. Ohio. 1906 1929 ALOYSIUS F. LANAHAN, A.B. '31, in Wash· G. BowDOIN CnAIGHILL, L '06, announces W. MARCUS CnAHAN, L '29, was elected ington, D. C. his law firm of Flannery, Craighill & Aiello vice-chairman of the Board of Regents of GEORGE S. LEONARD, LL.B. '15, in Wash­ ha ; been changed to Craighill, Aiello & LeMoyne College at its January 1957 meet· ington, D. C. Preston, 725 Fifteenth Street, N. W., Wash­ in g. ington, D. C. 1930 WERNER LoEBL, F.S. '57, in Elmhurst, N. Y. 1909 Ln. FilANC.s S. MACHEN, M.D. '01, in Wash· DR. G. CHARLES MoRRONE, M '30, has DR. BERNARD GLUECK, SR., M '09, has re· ington, D. C. been elected president of the executive cently joined the Faculty of the Psychiatric committee and chief of the medical staff of RoBERT F . McGRAW, B.S. '28, in Rochester, Department of the School of Medicine, Uni· Yonkers Professional Hospital, Yonkers, N.Y. versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. New York. Dr. Morrone is surgeon of the THEODORE A. MILLER, LL.B. '27, in Wash­ Yonkers Fire Department, a fellow of the ington, D. C. 1916 International College of Surgeons, and a DANIEL W. MoLLOY, B.S. in F.S. '46, in BERNARD F. GARVEY, L '16, announces the past president of the Yonkers Academy of White Plains, N. Y. formation of Garvey and Garvey, Patent Medicine.

12 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE A Tribute To Father Heyden An unexpected tribute to a well-known George­ tion in the western sky and then the dome itself was town figure appeared in the July 6, 1956 edition of moved to suit. After considerable adjustment, he the Washington Evening Star. Writing a letter to said to Prince Ali, 'Now, look.' the editor, Mr. Stanwood Cobb, Director of the "Prince Ali climbed the big stepladder until he Chevy Chase Country Day School, told the follow­ could look through the small lens that reflected the ing story: moon to his eye. The position of the moon was just "Little 8-year-old Prince Ali al-Sabah of the rul­ right for a vivid glimpse of its huge craters filled ing family of oil-rich Kuwait wanted to look at the with shadows, one edge catching the blazing light moon through a big telescope before he left Wash­ of the sun. That part of the moon not visible to the ington. During his year in this city, he had fished eye was in the moon's night, Father Heyden ex­ and ridden horseback in nearby Virginia, had plained. And the craters so brightly lit up were now skated (or tried to skate) on the ice-bound Reflect­ in the moon's dawn. ing Pool, had climbed the Washington Monument, "For about an hour, Father Heyden answered as visited the Capitol, looked at pictures in the Na­ best he could the boy's eager and naive questions. tional Museum, and had seen the world's first air­ Then he turned the telescope to Jupiter, the sun's plane at the Smithsonian. In addition, he had at­ largest planet, and Ali saw strung along side the tended regular mosque service and the Islamic great globe of light which was Jupiter, a series of Sunday school in the beautiful mosque on Massa­ three small lights on one side, and one light on the chusetts avenue, toward the building of which his other-four of the seven moons of Jupiter as then father had contributed. In addition, of. course, he were visible. had learned to read and to deal successfully with "Father Heyden explained that Jupiter was the those magic Arabic numerals which his brilliant largest planet in the solar system-large enough to race had originated. hold all the other planets inside it. This and much "Still, before he returned to his native land, he more astronomical lore-put in as simple terms as longed to see the mountains on the moon and those possible-the kindly astronomer poured into Ali's sun-drenched plateaus where space-ships might land. eager ears. Being too young to visit the United States Observa­ "As Ali turned at last to go, he thanked his kind tory, we telephoned kind-hearted Father Francis host and added with deep sincerity, 'I shall never Heyden, director of Georgetown University Observ· forget tonight!' atory, and explained our case to him. He invited us "Mrs. Cobb and I shall never forget it either. It to come down the following Thursday night, saying was actually an impressive occasion-for it was a that was the best time to see the mountains on the remarkable expression-on the part of a great moon, as it was beginning its first quarter. astronomer-of that international good will which "Father Heyden greeted as cordially as any old eventually will bring all the world together, living friend this little prince from Kuwait. With a gentle as that one great family which in reality is-the kindness he concentrated the whole machinery of human race." the observatory upon his little visitor. Slowly, the Stanwood Cobb, great telescope was shifted toward the moon's posi- Director, Chevy Chase Country Day SchooL

1931 cal staff of Alexian Brothers Hospital, JosEPH G. SMITH, C '33, a member of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Dr. Lepree was also the new management team at Pittsburgh J. CoNNOLLY, C '31, L '35, has RoBERT named to the executive and joint confer­ Steel Company, has been named vice­ accounting firm of Frank J. joined the ence committee of Al exian Brothers for a president in charge of purchases and raw Ewart and Co., 206 Horner Avenue, Toms one year period. materials. River, New Jersey. Mr. Connolly is a mem­ A. HARRIS, C '32, of the New ber of the New Jersey Society of Certified MtCHAEL was promoted to cap­ 1935 Public Accountants. Jersey State Police, tain and named commandant of the State DR. WILLIAM E. DoHERTY, C '35, has BucK GREENE, D '31, is now engaged in Police Academy in West Trenton and the heen renamed to the Linden, New Jersey, private investigations for Self-Officiate Academy in Sea Girt, N. J. Board of Education, for· a period of five Track Meets at Madison Square Garden, He is chairman of the Athletic Com­ 1933 years. New York City. He recently retired, after mittee of the School Board. twenty- five years, Government service, as The Alumni Association wishes to extend Chief of Criminal Identification for the sy mpathy to WILLIAM E. DILLMEIER, C '33, U. S. Trea~ury. on the recent death of his father. 1937 1932 JosEPH C. BRENNAN, C '33, has recently GERALD W. SINGLETON, C '37, has been DR. JOSEPH A. LEPREE, M '32, has been been promoted to the position of President appointed assistant manager of the Manu­ reappointed to a second two-year term as of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank of facturers Life Insurance Company, Colum­ president and medical director of the medi- New York City. bus, Ohio.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13 1938 1946 NICHOLAS JoosT, C '38, has been named DR. JOHN CHARLES ADAM, M '46, an­ research consultant to the Worcester Art nounces the birth of his e ighth child, The­ Museum for the year 1957. resa Marie. Dr. Adam is a recent diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and 1939 Neurology in Psychiatry. HARRY J. SOUTHWELL, JR., C '39, has be· come a member of the firm of Hardy, Peal, 1947 Barker & Rawlings, 30 Church Street, New FRANK B. GERMON, JR., F.S. '47, has been York, N.Y. appointed as division sales manager of The 1940 Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation for the DR. JoHN J. CARUSO, D '40, announces Maryland a~ea surrounding Washington. the opening of his new office at 240 Otis 1948 Avenue, New Dorp-6, Staten Island, New FRANCIS R. WALSH, L '48, has received York, for the practice of general dentistry. the appointment of Dean of the University 1941 of San Francisco Law School, effective WILLIAM F. BECKER, C '41, L '48, for­ February 1, 1957. Mr. Walsh served as pro­ merly Assistant United States Attorney for fessor of law at Georgetown prior to join­ the District of Columbia, is now associated ing the USF faculty. with the firm of Hill & Burroughs, Tower EuGENE L. STEWART, C '48, L '51, became Building, 1401 K Street, N. W., Washing­ !I partner in the law firm of Steptoe & ton, D. C. Johnson on January 1, 1957. ]AMES W. McLAUCHLIN, C '41, has been JoHN J. MYERS, JR., L '48, announces the appointed manager, Film and Sheeting Di­ removal of his law offices to 639 Woodward vision of Bakelite Company, a Division of Building, 15th and H Streets, N. W., Wash­ Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, 1943 ington, D. C. 260 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. ROBERT B. ZACHARY, C '43, former editor DR. JoHN PAUL FRAWLEY, C '48, G '48 1942 in charge of books in humanities for Ron­ and '50, has been designated to fill the DR. FRANK E. PICCIANO, D '42, an elected ald Press Co., New York City, has been newly created post of toxicologist in the official of the New Hyde Park School appointed an editor for the Louisiana State Medical Department of the Hercules Pow­ Board, New Hyde Park, Long Island, has University Press. Before serving as an edi­ der Company in Wilmington, Delaware. proposed a resolution requiring all public tor for Ronald Press Co., Mr. Zachary was Dr. Frawley has served for the past seven schools in that area to display a copy of the assistant professor of English at Loyola years with the U. S. Food and Drug Ad­ Ten Commandments in each class room. University in New Orleans. ministration.

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14 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 1949 T. FRANK LINNEN, ,FS '49, has been noti­ poll of all the New Jersey Allied Van Lines CHARLES J. APPLEBY, FS '49, recent re­ fied of his promotion to the rank of captain agents who make up the round table. in the Army Reserves. Mr. Linnen is as­ cipient of a promotion as district sales 1950 manager, The Reuben H. Donnelley Corpo­ signed to a Civil Affairs-Military Govern­ ration, Chesapeake & Potomac Region, an­ ment Reserve unit in Washington, D. C. ALFRED HAMMON, FS '50, and the for­ mer Joanne Chapman were married De­ nounces the birth of his first son, James JoHN J. RECAN, FS '49, president of cember 29, 1956 at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Sheridan. Mr. Appleby and his wife, Ann, Mullen Storage Warehouses in Montclair, are the parents of two daughters as well. New Jersey, has been elected Chairman of A. STUARD YouNc, JR., L '50, has re­ GEORCE A. GARVEY, C '49, L '55, has en­ the New Jersey Allied Round Table for the cently become a member of the law firm of tered into partnership with his father, Ber­ year 1957. The election was the result of a Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, 1222 nard F. Garvey, L '16, under the firm name Western Saving Fund Building, Philadel­ of Garvey and Garvey, Patent and Trade­ phia, Pa. mark Lawyers, The Denrike Building, 1010 FRANCIS ]. HAILEY, M '50, has opened an Vermont Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. office in the town of Tonawanda, New York, FRANCIS J . McNAMARA, C '49, L '51, has for the practice of genito-urinary surgery. entered private law practice with the Stam­ FRANK OAKLEY, FS '50, was elected Pres­ ford, Connecticut, firm of Cummings and ident of the Kings Point Club of Washing­ Lockwood. Mr. McNamara recently re­ ton, D. C., on January 10, 1957. He has signed as Assistant U. S. Attorney of Nor­ also been appointed as a member of the walk. Advisory Council on Naval Affairs by the JOHN C. WHITAKER, C '49, has been made commandant of the Potomac River Naval Eastern Representative for Hycon Aerial Command. Surveys, Inc., with offices in New York City. 1951 PATRICK F. HooKs, L '51, has been made PETER T. COJ.:EMAN, C '49, who was re­ Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in cently appointed Governor of American the House of Representatives in Montana. Samoa, was entertained at an informal Representative Hooks is serving his second dinner on January 28, 1957, at the Naval consecutive term in the Montana Legisla­ Gun Factory. Other members of the Col­ ture. lege class of 1949 in attendance were: Con­ gressman JoHN D. DINCELL, JosEPH GART· THOMAS R. KINGSLEY, FS '51, L "55, was LAN, THOMAS FLYNN, JosFPH McSwEENEY, elected assistant general manager of the THOMAS O'MALLEY and J AMES H. BucH­ Household Goods Carriers' Bureau. Mr. HOLZ. Guests included· Fathers DANIEL Kingsley has been director of research and McFADDEN, S.J., and EucENE GALLACHER, legal adviser to the Movers' Conference of S.J. America since October 1949.

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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 15 CHARLES T. DIXON, J R., FS '51, has been birth of a son, Peter Gerard, born June 2, appointed Southeastern news bureau chief 1956. Mr. Johnston is now in his third year for McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., with of medical school at Wayne State Uni­ headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. versity. WILLIAM WALSH, C '51, has received the JoHN M. MEICHAN, JR., C '53, has been appointment of special assistant attorney graduated from Officer Candidate School general for the duration of the 1957 Mary· at Newport, R. I. land General Assembly. Since September, 1954 1955, Mr. Walsh has been in private prac· tice with his fa ther, former Maryland At· JoHN A. JACKSON, FS '54, has been reap· torney General William C. Walsh. pointed as assistant to Senator Saltonstall. Mr. Jackson was on the senator's staff dur­ JoHN WILLIAM Ross, FS '51, was gradu· ing the 84·th Congress. tute for For· ated from the American Insti FIRST LIEUT. RoNALD T. CATLIN, C '54, eign Trade at Thunderbird Field, Phoenix, has just returned from a twenty month Arizona, on January 25, 1957. Mr. Ross has tour of duty in Japan with the U. S. Air Paint Company begun work with Glidden Force. He plans to enter Georgetown Law training for a position in the company's School in September 1957. overseas operations. GERALD P. MuLLINS, C'54, an employee 1952 of the American Gas Association, was re· cently appointed assistant to the manager accepted a posi· PHIL GEYER, C '52, has of the Promotion, Advertising and Research tion with the New York Central Railroad Program. as Assistant Insurance Manager. He was 1955 formerly with Indemnity Insurance Com· pany of North America as Special Risk DR. RonEnT J. GJLSTON, G '55, has been Underwriter. elected a Director of the Montgomery 1953 County Trust Company in Amsterdam, New RoBERT E. FuRLONC, M '52, was marrierl LIEUT. JosEPH L. STALLINCS, C '53, re· York. to the former Eileen Marie Hogan on June ports that he has solved part of the origin 1956 23, 1956, in Ascension Church, at Elmhurst, of the call sign "Hoya-Saxa." While on tour RoBEilT A. ENCLAND, FS '56, was married Long Island. of duty with the U.S. Army in northwest· to the former Lynne Benton on December FEilDINAND A. BRUNO, L '52, by virtue of ern Germany, Lt. Stallings discovered the 29, 1956 at Holy Trinity Church, Washing· recent elections, has replaced the late Sena· town of Hoya, between Hanover and ton, D. C. Mr. England is presently as­ tor Edward L. Leahy, Georgetown Alum· Bremen. He is presently stationed with the signed as a Security Officer in the Foreign nus, as Judge of Probate for Bristol, Long 60th Infantry at Fort Carson, Colo. Service of the United States, in Saigon­ Island. J. PETER JoHNSTON, C '53, announces the Viet Nam, Indo China.

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