Loyola alumnus montreal fall 1968 vol. 12. no. 2 COMING ALUMNI EVENTS Monday, September 16th, 1968. 1 :15 p.m. at Royal Montreal Golf Club -lie Bizard Annual Golf Tournament Chairman - Brian Gallery Guest Speaker - "Jake" Dun lap Former Star Ottawa Rough Riders. Saturday, October 19th, 1968 10:15 a.m. Homecoming Mass in the College Chapel A Concelebrated Folk-Mass Families Most Welcome Chairman - Reverend J.G . Mathieu , S.J . Saturday, October 19th, 1968. 11 :30 a.m. Hall of Fame Reception and Luncheon Honouring Norm Smith '27, Ed Meagher '46, Connie Broden '52, Joe Poirier '57 Chairman -Dr. R.J . "Bob" Brodrick. Saturday, October 19th, 1968 8:30 p .m. Homecoming Dinner Dance Featuring Noel Talarico's Orchestra at the Chateau Champlain Place du Canada Chairman - Larry Doherty Tickets - Kev Reynolds and Brian O 'Neill. Monday, November 11th, 1968. 1 :00 p .m. Memorial Mass for Deceased Members of the Staff and Students in the College Chapel. Friday, December 6th, 1968 8:00 p.m. Oyster Party in Gymnasium of Athletic Complex Co-Chairmen - Joe O'Sullivan and Dick Vaillancourt. Loyola alumnus Member of the American Alumni Council. Features ... Canadian Politics THE ASSOCIATION and the 15th Prime Minister JOHN J . PEPPER, '49 President The Modern Student ARTHUR E. LAPRES, '42 The Evening Division 1st Vice-President Golf Tournament ROBERT G. BEAUREGARD, '60 2nd Vice-President Blue Bonnets BRIAN O'N. GALLERY, '57 3rd Vice-President Loyola Moves into Big Time in Athletics RONALD J. HORE, '61 Honorary Secretary ROSS N. BRADY, '64 Honorary Treasurer DR . JOHN F. McMULLAN, '53 Councillor Departments J. LAWRENCE DOHERTY, '48 Councillor The Copula EUGENE LEWIS, '59 Councillor Obituaries LINDA MaclNTYRE '68 Weddings, Births Councillor CHARLES A . PHELAN , '48 Past President TERENCE E. O'NEILL, '54 Toronto Chapter President Editorial Board ... VERY REV . PATRICK G. MALONE, S.J . Managing Editor Father President BERNARD H. McCALLUM '43 REV. J . GERALD MATHIEU, S.J ., '52 Father Moderator Art Director J. STIRLING DORRANCE TERRY TOMALTY Director of Development BERNARD H. McCALLUM, '43 Advertising Director Director of Alumni Affairs DUNCAN COWAN '65 Loyola Alumnus - Loyola College - Montreal 28, Canada Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Depart­ ment, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. POSTAGE PAID AT MONTREAL. 1 Civic Centre in Ottawa than the Canadian need to stage a performance that would surpass in every way thl;l Politics excitement and drama of the Con ­ servative convention at Maple Leaf and the 15th Gardens in Toronto the previous September. Go back to that September of Prime Minister last year and the Progressive Con­ servative Leadership Convention in by J . Stirling Dorrance B.A. M.A. Toronto. The transformation in po­ Director of Development pular interest produced by the sheer drama of the Diefenbaker­ Camp struggle ; by the emergence o1 a victorious and appealing Robert The disinterested and impartial Standfield; and an apparently re­ pursuit of /earning and knowledge juvenated Conservative party, has at Loyola does not mean that diver­ had few precedents in Canadian se political interests and beliefs political history. It was excellent can't be pursued with vigour. political theatre. Recent political activity in Cana­ There was no question that the dian Federal politics indicates liberal party doubted its ability broad and varied involvement by to continue in power if a general many who have been intimately election came quickly. The popular associated with Loyola at one time attention given Stanfield through or another. the concentrated media coverage The following list of candidates of an exciting convention was un­ with Loyola associations in all deniable. Mr. Pearson, Liberal party likelihood is not complete, but it leader since 1958, had stil I to does show clearly that Loyola a/u­ strike any spark of political en ­ ni, as well as present and former thusiasm among the Canadian elec­ faculty members are bent on in­ torate. Despite Centennial year fluencing the political climate of the achievements , the party he led in nation: Eric Kierans, Warren All­ government was far from the peak mand, Marc Gervais, Richard Cas­ of its popularity. hin, Peter Connolly, (Liberals); Mur­ Mr. Pearson 's decision to resign ray Ballantyne, Louis Balena, (Pro­ as Prime Minister and leader of his gressive Conservatives); Pierre Se­ party hardly improved matters for vigny, (Ind. P.C.); Geoff Adams, the Liberals. The traditional orga­ Phil Lanthier, Laurier Laf!_ierre, nization and operation of the Party (NOP); Lorne Reznowski, (Social did not seem to suggest a willing Credit). break with the past - in all likeli­ hood the new leader would be What centennial celebrations and drawn from among the senior mini­ Expo were to 1967 in Canada, the sters, and following the logic of the Federal elections and preceding laying on of hands, the choice political events that selected Pierre would probably be Paul Martin. Elliott Trudeau as Canada's 15th Mr. Martin had contested the Prime Minister were to 1968. leadership in 1958 aQainst Mr. Taken together, the two years Pearson, whose own selection stimulated more interest about seemed to re-inforce the tradition things Canadian inside and ouside of alternating English- and French­ Canada than any period since and speaking leaders of the Party. including Confederation itself. It This could make Martin a front­ will be surprising if an objective runner in 1968. There was no doubt view in better historical perspec­ that he personally felt himself the tive doesn't bear this out. logical successor as the only As far as the result of the general French-speaking minister openly election of June 25th is concerned interested in contesting the nomi­ - the return of Pierrre Trudeau lea­ nation. ding a majority government - the Other strong possibilities were leadership campaign that followed also " Old Guard" - Hellyer, Mac­ the resignation of Lester B. Pearson Eachen, Sharp, Winters - who , age is inextricably linked to it. Had the notwithstanding, were associated outcome of the April leadership some with the party of the last contest been different; had the years of the St. Laurent period, so­ Liberal convention ritual not trans­ me as well with the opposition years formed politically phlegmatic Ca­ of Mr. Pearson. These men were nadians momentarily into politically part of the core of the Liberal excitable animals - the election government from 1965. would in all likelihood have been The sixties, in Canada as else­ won by the Progressive Conserva­ where, was a decade in search of tives under Robert Stanfield . new faces. One newcomer was Nothing was more constant in spoken of with increasing frequen­ the minds of the Liberal Federa­ cy during 1966 and 67 - John Tur­ tion officials throughout the leader­ ner. Young, handsome, reputedly ship campaign and convention at rich , he typified for Canadians what has come to be known everywhere passing fad - like Twiggy. rived heavily from the unstructured as the " Kennedy image" . The facts - the election of Pierre character of organization and an There was a clue here to change. Trudeau to the Leadership of the almost cavalier imprecision in the Nevertheless, no one could have Liberal Party of Canada and the statement of leadership objecti­ guessed how much change was in election of a majority Liberal federal ves. Entirely typical of modes of ex~ store for Canadian politics. government - are history. pression and impression today, Tru­ Robert Stanfield came out of Rightly or wrongly, with delibera­ deau 's campaign approach was the Conservative Leadership Con­ te intention or as the result of a marked with its ability to absorb vention looking for all the world vast national whim, Canadians and transform almost everything it like the next Prime Minister of Ca­ seem to have agreed on an ap­ picked up along the way, gathering nada. The polls confirmed this. proach to political problems more weight and power in the way any Members of the Liberal Party even , daring than most other Western na­ avalanche grows. Social betterment in their more reflective moments, tions have felt or found possible. were not the only motives that at­ were able to rationalize a possible The chances, for example, of such tracted support of Trudeau . Some defeat and a few years in Opposi­ a change in Britain, the United Sta­ people like to pick winners. tion, believing that the government tes or France seem much more re­ When, for example, the smooth­ of the next few years was going mote. The choice of Trudeau ap­ functioning team of Mitchell Sharp to have rough sailing in badly pears to be the expression of a joined the Trudeau campaign on charted seas. The economy, na­ desire to make a new start on deep the opening day of the convention, tional unity and the constitutional human issues that confront the en­ the first shocked reaction was that problem , bi-lingualism and bi-cul­ tire world, issues that are heating they had merely joined chaos. Not turalism , the social pressures of towards the explosion point. so . What was involved in the Tru­ rising expectations among all Ca­ What will come of it all remains deau campaign was in fact a com­ nadians, the role of Canada in the to be seen. Canada may well suffer bination of widely disparate profes­ world , all these posed serious and the effects of a tragic misjudgement sional and amateur talents and not easily understood problems. by her people. The ultimate justifi­ techniques, greatly varied political With Diefenbaker apparently go­ cation for such a political choice outlooks and social convictions, ne.and the success of the image­ comes from the fact that there all working loosely but effectively makers in creating a new and vi­ may have been no real alternative towards a common objective -­ brant Conservative political impe­ ..