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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications 1-1959 La Salle College Magazine January 1959 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle College Magazine January 1959" (1959). La Salle Magazine. 197. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/197 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. iO^Mtm LA SALLE /OL III, NO. 2 COT T r^nv' IiA^HJAR^ 1959 La Salle College Board of Managers Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasalle171973unse '54 Robert J. Schaefer, B.S. Editor l^^ALLE John L. McCloskey, M.B.A. '48 La Director of Alumni VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2 L. Thomas Reifsteck, M.B.A. '51 Director of Placement Jht TkijJf^Jae Brother Gavin Paul, F.S.C., Ph.D. PAGE Alumni Advisor President's Page 3 -\/\^ / / X" Campus Events 4 A Bell for La Salle 6 ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS President, John A. Guischard, Ph.D. '38 Alumni President's Message 7 Vice President, Robert E. Lodes '50 Patter Treasurer, Frank T. Hart '51 Personal 8 Sports 12 COVER La Salle College Board of Managers: Annual Giving Program Report 15 Joseph Sprlssler, D.C.S., Business Manager ot the College and Consultant to the Board. Brother D. John. F.S.C.. Ph.D., Vice-President and Dean of the College and Vice-President of the Board. Ca/eh^iat John McShain, President, John McShain Inc., Builders. Brother Felix Francis, F.S.C.. Director, La Salle Community and Treasurer of the Board. February 3 New York Chap-j-er Dinner-Meefing Monsignor Thomas F. McNally, Vicar General, Archdioceses of Philadelphia. Brother E. James. Balti- F.S.C., LL.D.. Provincial February 7 Blue and Gold Dance more Province, Chairman of the Board. Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., Ph.D., President of the College President of the Board. and February I I Washington Area Game and Meeting Brother Edwin Anselm, President Emeritus and Treasurer of Baltimore Province. February 21 Home-Conning Game Joseph Schmitz, President, Universal Dye Works. William F. Kelly, President, First Pennsylvania Maicher Banking and Trust Company. Photographs by Mike Brother E. John, F.S.C., D.C.S., Bursar of the College, Secretary of the Board. Cover Photo by Mike Maicher Not Shov^n The La Salle Magazine is published four times yearly by Lc Saile College for John F. Connelly, Chairman of the Board. Alumni, faculty, students and friends of La Saile College. Editorial and Business offices Crown Cork & Seal, President, Connelly Con- tainer Corp. at Department of Public Information, La Salle College, Philadelphia 41, Pa. Member of American Alumni Council. Printed by Clark Printing House, Inc., 1228 Cherry Brother E. Francis, F.S.C., Principal of the High Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. Engravings by Basil Smith System, 1016 Cherry Street, School and newly elected member of the Board. Philadelphia 7, Pa. Second class mail privileges authorized at Philadelphia, Pa. THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE The launching of Sputnik I into outer a greater appeal of the sensate over the Brothers of the staff and their devotion space has for the past year provided al- intellectual, the material over the spir- to the ideals of the College, are matched ' most every writer with a dramatic itual, or the temporal over the eternal by the truly outstanding devotion of the against to evaluate than there is ? It is precisely in other of the faculty, both , background which now members 'American education. Personally, I have priests and laymen. This is indeed one of been startled by the conclusions drawn the ever fruitful resources available to 'against this background. To relate this respond to the demands made upon us (gain to Russia's whole educational sys- for knowledge, instruction, inspiration, tem, to point to it as the fruit of a way and guidance toward the better things of of life, and to make at the same time a the heart and mind. Add to this an ever vital ; disparaging and negative comparison increasing loyal alumni, so to a Iwith American education and the Ameri- growing institution. The faculty — can way of life is to indulge in histri- priests, brothers and laymen — and the onics. Such conclusions can never be Alumni, in their functions within the accepted in any sober, searching, and College community, are like that life- serious evaluation of something as im- giving stream spoken of in the first of portant as education and a way of life. the Psalms, making fruitful all trees planted by its running waters. In our search for answers there is a danger. The danger is not that we would But unlike the plane tree of the desert ifail to do something, it is rather that oasis, La Salle College needs more than we would do the wrong thing or do what sunshine and running water if it is to '.we do without fully realizing what it is carry out its function. We are blessed we ought to be doing. More particularly, in possessing the potential for these additional facilities we require, and in t La Salle College could so disrupt her college program in a frantic effort to fact we are particularly favoi'ed in our location, as we will see by directing our 1 stress what the world is stressing — science, federal aid, and graduate re- Brother Daniel Bernlan, F.S.C., Ph.D. attention to recent developments on the I ' Catholic search—that it would take her a genera- high school level. Five new high I these realms of the intellectual, the schools have recently been established in i tion to set her house in order again. I spiritual and the eternal that La Salle our area of influence in northeastern I We know that it is a difficult task for College has its mission. La Salle is Philadelphia. Some of these schools are {a Catholic college to rise independently dedicated, to the degree that it is hu- already contributing to the number of ' above the dead level of national striving. manly possible, "to develop the super- our applicants, and soon all will be con- i In our society conformity of thought, natural man who thinks, judges and acts tributing their hundreds of graduates to ! behavior, and attitude thrives today. If constantly and consistently in accord- the number seeking admission to our i I may dare to draw some conclusions ance with right reason illumined by the College. jfrom the line of reasoning I have been supernatural light of the example and Apart from our long-range plans for ! pursuing, I would like to propose that teaching of Christ: in other words . four-fold effort we ask ourselves a question and then development, there is a I the true and finished man of character." under way at the present moment to try to answer it. What is the role of How many times have you heard the the demands that will be made La Salle College in higher education in meet question, "When will La Salle College us in the immediate future. These Philadelphia now and in the years im- upon become a University" ? Let me assure four projects are the further delineation mediately ahead ? To ask this question you, this is not the "ideal" of title, of the administrative organization of the is to lay down the plan to meet the worth, or service. Some educational ven- completion of the Student [problem; what are the needs of the College, the tures -may be worthy and feasible, such Building, the construction of the (young people in the realm of higher Union as the introduction of wholly new fields Building, and the transfer of the 'education; and the consequent corollary Science of study, engineering, for example, or department from the Col- question, what are the resources that High School ) extending our level of instruction to jean be contributed by the College toward lege campus. other than undergraduate instruction. meeting these needs. It has troubled me to watch the grow- These may be legitimate objectives in ing tendency which makes of the college This tradition of meeting the "crucial" the distant future, but are not the course I president a fund raiser and an off- I needs of the times is a heritage of the of action demanded by present actuali- campus influence instead of what he Christian Brothers. The Founder of the ties. Now, we must exert all our efforts should be — the first officer and influ- Brothers, Saint John Baptist de La Salle, to provide the best possible under- ence on campus. It has become more and , did not set out as a great organizer to graduate education in the Arts, Sciences, more apparent that this pattern is [fabricate educational experiments. He in and Business Administration to the neither for the general good of the col- jno sense was a forerunner of the Ford many who look to us for this service. lege nor for the better moral of the iFounilation Fund for the Advancement With what resources do face the we president. A move must be made to rise I of Education, but rather one who future? The stability of the Congrega- above this trend. was sensitive to "pressing needs" of tion of the Brothers of the Christian apparent that a the times sorely crying for practical It has become quite Schools, guarantees to the College the solutions.