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Hunter Guthrie, S.J ....................... .. 3 REv. GERARD F. YATES, S.J.-Faculty World Peace lAMES S. RUBY, '27, Exec11tive Secretary ]. H. Doolittle 5 JOHN ]. O'CONNOR, '26, Editor The Library and the Alwnni Phillips Temple ............................ :................... 6 Distinguished Alumni 7 • CONTRIBUTORS Let's Split the Profits To THIS ISSUE Julian ]. Reiss, '16 .......................................... 10 VERy REv. HUNTER GUTHRIE, S.J., is President Class Notes .............................................................. 12 ~· .. of the University. Sport News ..J /- '~ '. ' J. H. DOOLITTLE, famed air leader, is Vice-Presi William T. Rach, '46 dent of the Shell Union Oil Corporation. ........................." ·........... 17 PHILLIPS TEMPLE is the University Librarian. The Cover Picture: A recent ,Ph~tograph of th~ ,P-~;~sidenr of the · JULIAN ]. REISS, '16, is President of Northland University. '- . · , · · · 1 · ~ · · · · Motors, Saranac Lake, N. Y. WILLIAM T. RACH, '46, is Director of Publicity for the Department of Athletics. Copyright 1949 Georgetown University Alttmni Magazine. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE: Pttblished q11arterly by the Georgetown U11iversity Alttmni Associatio~, Inc., l17ashington 7, D. C. • Smtaining Membership 25.00 per year, Regttlar Met;bership $5.00 per year, of which $3.00 is for subscription to the Alttmni Magazine • Entered at the Post Office at lJ7 ashington, D. C., as Second Class matter Febmary 24, 1948 under the act of March 3, 1879 • Pttblication Office: Darby Printing Company, 24th & D ottglas, N.E., lJ7ashingtot~ 18, D. C. • Editorial and Exectttive Offices: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, lJ7ashingto.n 7, D. C. Editorial Letters The Inauguration of the Very Reverend Hunter Guthrie, Dear Sir: S. as the Thirty-fifth President of our Alma Mater was J., Just a line to tell you that we have had a new addition to the by far the most colorful event at Georgetown since well family-a 7\12-pound baby girl. She was born November 7 in before the late war. More than the color of the academic the Andian Hospital here in Cartagena. This is our fifth child. costume and the pageantry of the academic procession, Certainly enjoyed reading the news about Georgetown in the however, made the inauguration notable. quarterly magazine. Father Guthrie is nor unknown ro Georgetown Alumni Expecti ng co return to the Scates in June and I am anticipating . circles. Despite the taxing labor of his Deanship in the stopping by and making a visit co the Hilltop during the summer. Graduate School at the University, be has found occasion, Please give my regards to any of my classmates chat you might run across. from rime to time, to get to know the Alumni, particularly Cartagena, Colombia DICK WILSON rho~e in New England and in New York, where he greatly assisted our efforts to promote the McDonough Memorial Dear Sir: Gymnasium Campaign. It was for that reason that our Asso ciation was happy ro welcome him to office at an Alumni It is always a pleasure to receive your copy of the magazine. Dinner in the best Georgetown tradition and to demon Let me compliment you especially upon the latest issue. I deeply strate that the presence of so many Georgetown graduates regret that the great distance involved prevents me from par from our Alumni Clubs throughout the country indicates ticipating more fully in your Alumni activity. We now have a young son attending Gonzaga University, an abiding interest in the University on the part of her High School Division. We hope that at some future dare he may sons everywhere. be enrolled at Georgetown. In the actual formal inauguration which closed the In Deer Lodge, Montana SYLVAN]. PAULY, '22 augural week-end, the representatives of the Alumni Asso ciation, for the first time in our memories, had a specific Dear Sir: place in the Academic procession headed by the N ational As an item of interest ·for the Alumni news, last November Alumni President who was attended by official delegates I was elected as District Attorney for the Western District of of thirty- ~even regional Georgetown groups. That feature, MassachusettS. You will recall this is the district in which fellow we feel, is a further indication of the desire of the University Alumnus, Tom Moriarty, served for twelve years, from 1930 to Administration to recognize our Association as having 1942, and prior to his service, another Georgetown Law School come of age. The fact that so many came from so far also graduate, Charles R. Clason, served as District Attorney for four demonstrates the determination of our members to do as years. During the lase six years, the District did allow a Harvard Law School graduate to function as District Attorney, but now much as we can to further the University's interests. th ey have returned to the "Georgetown habit." In 1950 the Alumni Association will reach the seventy· Springfield, Massachusetts STEVE MOYNAHAN, '28 fifth anniversary of its foundation. Through much of that period it existed on paper only. Actually its history, in its Dear Sir: present organization, dates back only eleven years. If we, in a little over a decade and despite the interference of a For your records, you may note that Lt. Frank Cleary '43 was buried recently at Beverly National Cemetery, on the Delaware major war, have managed to bring such recognition to actu River, N. ]., just south of Burlington. It is a very attractive loca ality, it should serve as a challenge to us to continue our tion which was set apart by the Army as a National Cemetery efforts without slackening so that Georgetown will rely following World War I. This was the wish of Judge and Mrs. upon us into the far future, to give her the best we have Cleary and will be easily accessible to them since they live at in advice, support, encouragement and material assistance. Somerville. The years directly ahead may be difficult ones for privately I was interested in young Frank during his college years. supported educational institutions. We are encouraged by I was also interested in another Georgetown boy, Dr. William the realization that those years can be made less difficult G. Kuhn '42, who has established a reputation for himself in by confident cooperation between our Association and the Lahey Clinic in Boston as an orthopedic doctor. He also estab University's new President. AD MULTOS ANNOS. lished quite a record in the Army and was written up in the Satttrtlay Evening Post for his work at the England General Hos pital in Atlantic City and the Cushing General Hospital in Boston Ser'Jiice to the Undergraduate in connection with paraplegics. He is now married and lives in Belmont, Mass. On May 5, 1949, the Georgetown University Alumni New Brunswick, N. J. JAMES A. O'CONNELL Association conducted a Career Guidance Conference for the benefit of the undergraduates of the College and the Dear Sir: Foreign Service School to assist them in finding employ We had a party in November in honor of Dr. Sherman Wil ment in the fields most suited to their education and talents. liams. Those present were: Edward R. Moylan; Bernard Malloy; Mr. Leo V. Klauberg, '16, of the Occupational Research James A. Ingraham; William N. Finnerty; Edmund L. Mullen; Foundation of New York, spoke to six hundred students Edward A. Hanifen; Charles Lane; Judge Joseph ]. Walsh; Dr. on "Techniques in Job Finding" and was followed, in Raymond J. Savage; and the undersigned. smaller group conferences by six experts in various Jines. Dr. Sherman Williams graduated from Georgetown Medical John A. Reilly, '24, President of the Second National Bank School in 1898. He opened his office in Denver on July 8, 1898. of Washington, spoke on Banking; Walter B. Connolly, He is one of our leading pioneer physicians and surgeons. He was '38, Personnel Director of Briggs Manufacturing Co., of De the leading bacteriologist of D enver; was one of the heads of che Gross Medical School; President of the Board of Health of troit, Industrial Relations; Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J., the State of Colorado for ten years. He was a pioneer in the Regional Director of the Jesuit Educational Association, sanitation of restaurants. He served as a coroner in Denver, and Education; John T. Casey, '30, of the firm of Ivy Lee and was also one of the pioneers in the study of the history of flies T. J. Ross, Public Relations; E. Austin Byrne, '31, Presi as carriers of diseases. dent, Byrne, Harrington and Robers, Advertising; Frederick You might add in the magazine that we had a banquet in J. Lawton, '2 0, Assistant Director of the Bureau of the March with forty Alumni in attendance. Budget, Government Service. J. S. R. Denver, Colorado PETE ]. LITTLE, '31 2 lnauguration Address of The Very Reverend Hunter Guthrie, S.J. Thirty-fifth President of Georgetown University AS we approach the half-way mark of the twentieth and impose a mechanized social structure from above century, it is becoming fashionable for institutions of or from the underground, depending on whether the State learning ro issue a report on their raw material: man.