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Georgetown tn Your Home Your Alumni Association Is Headquarters For Georgetown Merchandise There's a book we'd like to send you to keep you interested in modern-day Georgetown. It's the 1951 Georgetown' University Engagement Calendar. It's yours for 100 pennies, ten dimes or a plain old dirty dollar hill, and it's chock full of scenes of the Georgetown campus. You can use it to mark down the important days in your life this coming year as well as the big dates now being planned at Georgetown in the near future. This is a limited offer-good for the next 365 days. Let's face it-the book is obsolete after that. Price includes postage. Send orders and checks to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON 7, D. C. €0R(iET~Wn UUilJERSIT~ LUmnl mA(jAZIIlE • EDITORIAL BOARD AUTUMN 1950 VOL. 3, NO.3 OF ALUMNI MAGAZINE INI, '19 JoHN C. Bn UN CONTENTS DONALD F. FLAVIN, '28 Alumni Get-Togethers 2 JOH N T. FLY N, '02 MARTIN s. QUIGLEY, '39 Letters .... 2 Dn. TmoR KEnEKES- Faculty Convocation Address 3 REv. GERARD F. YATES, S.J.- Faculty Cornerstone Weekend 4 lAMES S. RuBY, '27, Executive Secretury GERARD S. RYA ', '50, Editor This Was Georgetown . 6 Campus Clippings 7 Basketball Perspective 8 • CONTRIBUTORS Dental School Grows Up . .... .. .......... ..... 9 TO THIS ISSUE Library and Alumni. 10 REv. GEilARD F. YATt:s, S.J., is Dea n of the Graduate School. 1950 Class Gift . ..... .. .... 11 e· REv. R!CIIAilll C. LAw, S.J., is Faculty Repr Class Notes . 12 sentative to the Alumni. PHILLIPS TEMPLE is the University Ubrarian. The Cover Picture: Some returning Al umni at Cornerstone Laying. Dn. CHAilLES MunTo, Dent. '32, is Publicity Director for the Medical School. GERARD S. RYA N, '50, i Director of th e Alumni Magazine McDonough Memorial Gymnasium Fund. Copyright 1950 Georgetown University GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE: Published quarterly by the Georgetown University Alumni. Assocu;tion, Inc., T/7 ashington 7, D. C. • Sustuining Membership $25.00 per year, Regular Membership $5.00 per year, of which $3.00 is for subscription to the Alumni Magazine • Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as Second Class ~atter February 24, 1948 under the act of March 3, 1879 • Publication Office: Graphic Arts Press, Inc., 914 20th Street, N. W., Washmgton 6, D. C. • Editorial and Executive Offices: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Washington 7, D. C. 1951 - FOOTBALL SCHEDULE - 1951 letters My Dear Father Rector: 1950 Pursuant to your request, we have conducted an investigation Date Opponent Score Location to determine whether or not the so ng "Georgetown's Blue and Gray" by R. C. Lennon and F. J. Corcoran can be again used by Sept. 29 Lafayette Away the University. The song was registered October 1, 1921 under copyright E·21544. The copyright lasted for 28 years and expirerl Oct. 6 Wake Forest Away October 1, 1949. The authors failed to have the copyright renewed within the prescribed time. They had from October 1, 1948 to Oct. 13 Bucknell Home October 1, 1949 to renew the copyright. Con equently, th e song Oct. 19 Boston College 20·10 Away is now in the public domain and the authors no longer have any rights to it and can in no way preclude the use of it. Oct. 27 Rutgers Away I am delighted to advise you that the University band can im mediately begin to play the song once again and that the authors Nov. 3 Ri chmond (Pending) Home are unable in any way to restrain its use. I have enclosed a copy Nov. 10 Fordham 13·14 Away of this letter to Father Daniel Power, S.J. and Father Brian McGrath, S.J., ina much as they have evinced an interest in this Nov. 17 Holy Cross 21-14 Away question. Respectfully yo urs, Nov. 24 George Washington 6-7 Away EDWARD BENNETT WILLIAMS, '44 Dec. 1 Maryland 14-25 Away DI, AR Sm: I am enclosing a check for my alumni clues for th e current year. My apologies for not seeing to this matter soo ner but I GEORGETOWN MUSICAL CLUB returned from Europe only 10 days ago where I have been since Composed of the Glee Club, an Orchestra and June. I certainly had a wonderful trip and saw and did almost the Barbershop everything but I am very happy to be home once more. In the Tunesters "The Chimes" will jour course o.f my travels, I was very pleasantly surprised to enco unter ney to New York sometime between March 30th a great many wandering Hoyas. and May 4th and introduce their new Director As of last week, I am now a working man. I am employed Paul Chandler Hume. Boxes in the hall will be in the foreign sales department of the Great Lakes Carbon Corp. reserved for the Clas es of last 10 years so that re here in Niagara Falls and am very pl eased with the job. unions may easily be held and prevent milling Georgetown alumni and friends of Georgetown were sa ddened about to meet old classmates. About 25 of G.U. today to learn of the untimely death of Dr. Francis Talbot here in iagara Falls. Dr. Talbot was a Hoya all the way- the Faculty will attend. Prep., College, and Medical School. I believe that he was u vice president of the Prep's Alumni Association. Best wi hes to you and to all on The Hilltop. incerely yours, MICHAEL A. WROTNIAK, F.S. '48 The American Bar Association Convention was held in Washington, D. C., during the week of September 18, 1950. On Wednesday of that week Temple, Texas the Georgetown Law School October 26, 1950 Alumni Club of the Gentlemen: District of Columbia gave a bufiet luncheon at the school. Rev. Francis E. Lucey, S.J., Regent of the Enclosed find $5.00 (Bill) for regular membership in the Law School, Georgetown Alumni Association. And please accept my apologies who invited th e club to hold the that I can do no more than pray for yo ur good efforts. luncheon at the school, was of the opinion that it Having no children, I volunteered in the Navy Medical Corps would afford the alumni an opportunity to meet the day after Pearl Harbor. old friends and classmates in the place of their The enclosed reprint from the Boston Globe covers my humble law effort during th e first part of the war. school days and permit them to see the many In 1944, I was sent out to th e Pacific as Division P sychiatrist physical changes which have taken place s ince their for the 4·th Marine Division and go t all shot to hell on lwo Jima. graduation. Some of those present had not been Since then I have spent 27 months in Navy and Vet. Ho pitals. in the school for over twenty years and all were Thank God, I can at last see His s mile in the s un-rise. Whatever I may have accompli heel has been for the honor and enthusiasti c that the luncheon was held in the glory of Georgetown. school rather than in a hotel. The meal was served Please give my mo st cordial regards to all who might be in the John Carroll Auditorium and Halls 2 and 3 interested. were used for the overflow. Sincerely, Rev. Hunter Guthrie, S.J., President of the Dr. T. H. Pargen T. H. PARGEN, ·M.D. (sig.) 108 North 4th Street 1ed. '25 University, and the Regents and the Deans of the Temple, Texas various Departments attended the luncheon. · Over five hundred graduates of the Law School attended and included m the group were many D EA il J ERilY: distinguished alumni from the bench and bar of this city, as well as from other jurisdictions. Just got Alumni M-ag with complete resume on the Fiftyites. The Committee which promoted this affair was Made me feel a s if I had not lo t touch with the world, in the med ieval (1070 A.D.) castle in which I'm studying. Hope corner· numerous and cooperated well and effectively. A stone laying went off successfully this morning. My be t to all fine spirit was displayed and everyone apparently the Hoyas. enjoyed himself thoroughly. PAUL SIGMUND '50 Durham Castle Durham, England 2 Graduate School Convocation Address by Rev. Gerard F. Yates, S.J., Dean of the Graduate School. Very Reverend President, Members of the Corporation and even more ominously, the mysterious fortress cities and Faculty, Distinguished Guests, and Fellow Students: of Hanford and Oak Ridge. American know-how means, Considering the past, one realizes that there are cer in short, the highest material standard of living in the tain years of highly unstable equilibrium, when the fate world, the most stupendous technological virtuosity. of institutions or whole nations swings uneasily in the I wish that I could report commensurate accomplish cosmic balance. Often enough, contemporaries may not ments in the realms of "know-what" and "know-why". fully comprehend the force of events that are being Let me give some examples of our failure in these areas played out around th em. The reader of history has an from th e history of the last decade. We were told, in advantage over the man who is making it- like a playgoer awe ome tones: "who rules the Heartland, commands the World Island· who rules th e World Island, commands the who already knows the denouement of the drama.