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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications 7-1959 La Salle College Magazine July 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 July 1959" (1959). La Salle Magazine. 196. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/196 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]. I A MAGAZINE FOR STUDENTS, ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF LA SALLE COLLEGE •OL III. NO. 4 JULY, 1959 96th Annual C ommencement Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasalle171973unse Joseph L. Hanley, B.A., *59 Editor and Director of Alumni John L. McCloskey, M.B.A., H8 La Salle Assistant to the President and VOLUME 3 NUMBER 4 Director of Development L. Thomas Rcifsteck, M.B.A., 'H Director of Placement Jht 7k/jJfjJue Robert J. Schacfer, B.S./54 Director of Public Information PAGE Ralph W. Howard, ^60 Student Assistant Editor President's Page 3 Brother Gavin Paul, F.S.C., Ph.D. Alumni Advisor Campus Events 4 ^/\/ / / X" Annual Giving 7 ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Historical Report 15 President, John A. Guischard. Ph.D., 38 Vke-Presfdent. Robert E. Lodes, 50 Personal Patter 16 Treasurer, Frank T. H^rt, '51 James J. McCarthy |4 Anthony J. Polcino •53 Candidates for Alumni Office 18 Ray A. O'Donnell 16 Thomas Ward •53 Joseph E. Gindhart '22 Alexander Avallon 54 Magnus Schaebler '22 Gerard T. Corlcery 54 Friends of La Salle 19 B. McLaughlin 23 Gerald W. Falss '54 •24 John J. FInley George Mason, III 54 Joseph W. Heyer 25 Francis R. O'Hara 54 Bernard H. Moss 26 Alfred J. Pierce 54 Joseph Flubacher 35 Robert J. Schaefer 54 Joseph F. Meehan 35 William J. Wingel '54 A. J. Crawford, Jr. 36 Earle J. Wood '54 John A. Guischard 38 William B. Fynes '54 John A. Clennent 39 Joseph Matthews •54 Cci^ef ^tcfif Cornelius Sullivan 39 Raymond T. Vasoli '54 T. F. Loughney '40 John F. Daly '55 41 Charles J. O'Keete James 1. Gillespie '55 Jules Blunn 42 Frank J. Noonan •55 His Eminence John Cardinal O'Hara, Archbishop of Philadelphia, Joseph F. Frazer 43 Harvey Portner '55 occupies the position of honor at the rear of academic procession at the John J. Rooney 44 Frank S. Blatcher '56 R. Winkelman, Jr. 44 James A. Browne 56 96th La Salle College commencement (See Campus Events), with Brother F.J. Bernhardt 48 Nicholas P, Dienna 56 '48 Harry J. Gibbons Francis Healy, Jr. 56 E. James, F.S.C., left. Provincial, and Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., right, T.B.Harper. Ill 48 John J. Lombard 56 Thomas J. Hicltey 48 Robert M. Rogers •56 president of the College. Preceding Cardinal O'Hara, left and right re- John L. McCloskey 48 Edward P. Larkin 56 Thomas W. Rogers 48 Joseph N. Malone 56 spectively, are: Msgr. Anthony L. Ostheimer, Ph.D., and Msgr. Casimir F. John Biehl 49 William P. Dierkes •57 George Boraske 49 Daniel McGonigle 57 Lawniczak; Mr. John McShain and Ambassador John J. Hearne; and the James W. Jones •49 Romeo Boyd. Jr. 58 Rev. Thurston N. Davis, S.J. Vincent J. Kelly •49 James E. Franz 58 John P. Ryan •49 John DIugosz 58 William A. Felte •50 Joseph Gallagher 58 Photographs by Mike Maicher Robert E. Lodes •50 James B. Garvin •58 Cletus J. McBride 50 Charles G.Keller 58 1 Robert J. ValentI 50 Joseph A. Kriz 58 Photographs on Pages 3 and 'i hy Fabian Bachrach Thomas M. Walker 50 Richard P. Peregoy •58 Joseph T. Waugh 50 James J. Quinn, Jr. •53 Cover Photo hy Mike Maicher Francis J. Hart 51 James J. Walsh '58 L. Thomas Rei-fsteck 51 Edward Dougherty 58 Joseph Spellman 51 H. Richards Yarp 58 Andrew D. Bertucci 52 Basil R. Battaglia •59 The La Salle Magazine is published four times yearly by La Salle College for Leo J. Dooley 52 D. M. Cunningham 59 Alumni, students friends Salle College. Editorial offices Edward V. Graham 52 Albert J. Dorley •59 faculty, and of La and Business Thomas McAneney 52 Joseph L. htanley 59 at Department of Public Information, La Salle College, Philadelphia 41. Pa. Member Richard O'Donnell 52 Benjamin Vassallo 59 of American Alumni Council. Printed by Clark Printing House, Inc., 1228 Cherry Edward J. Vasoli 52 John H.Veen '59 Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. Engravings by Basil Smith System, 1016 Cherry Street. Louis P. Masucci 53 William Hollister 59 Joseph P. Morrison 53 Joseph P. Roach 59 Philadelphia 7, Pa. Second class mail privileges authorised at Philadelphia. Pa. THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE In these hectic days of reorganization, is to pi-ovide students with a strong Student Personnel Affairs it may seem that the modern college curricular program. A program of student personnel serv- itself development president must keep rvmning faster and This area of academic affairs is under ices concerns with the faster, like the characters in Alice in the administration of the Dean of the of the total student. It implies that the Wonderland, in order to keep standing College with three competent Deans, the central effort of the College is of an aca- still. During the past decade there has Dean of Arts & Science, the Dean of demic nature, but it also recognizes the been increasing recognition that the col- Business Administration, and the Dean need for educational experiences that lege president needs help. At the Green- of the Evening School, who associate assist students in maturing physically, brier Conference in 1958, it was gener- emotionally, socially, and spiritually—as ally agreed by specialists in educational well as intellectually. In addition to sup- managment that the president needs help porting and supplementing the classroom not so much in making major decisions experience, the student personnel pro- as in seeing that they are carried out. He gram provides cei'tain out-of-classroom does need help, however, in decision-mak- experiences contributing to the full de- ing in specialized-operational areas. Also, velopment of the student. he needs help in gathering facts on which The administrator of this second edu- decision are based, in impressing internal cational estate at La Salle College is the communications, and in his over-all func- Dean of Students. This program of per- tion as first officer of the enterprise. sonnel services has as its guiding factor philosophy The function of all administration is the of the College. Guided by to maintain the college through coopera- this philosophy, the Dean of Students tive effort and distribution of the burden. determines procedures and is responsible This function has been described by for developing, supervising, and co- many as getting things done and facing ordinating the agencies which put the the issues of the moment through the College policies into effect. This educa- tional estate includes activities efforts of other people. Progress and effi- the of housing, ciency in college administration has as student extracurricular organ- the "heart of the matter" the "efforts of izations, athletics, the health program, other people" and the "distribution of student aid, scholarships, the loan pro- work." gram, religious activities, varied forms of counseling, and finally discipline. Each The Four Es+afes Brother Daniel Bernlan, F.S.C., Ph.D. of these areas has its director, who co- Victor Hugo once said, "There is noth- operates with the Dean of Students in ing more powerful than an idea whose with him as the first academic officers of the coordination of an area that has time has come." Since educational ob- the college. They share responsibility for been defined as the extension and deep- jectives, as well as their concomitant the "tone" of the college, measured by ening of an educational program for the problems, have extended beyond aca- such intelligent student qualities as cor- development of the whole man to live in demic affairs or training of the intellect, rect manners and dress, maturity and a democratic society. The Dean of Stu- and because of the tremendous growth in academic competence. The Dean of the dents is Brother Gavin Paul, F.S.C., numbers, it has become necessary to College is Brother D. John, F.S.C., Ph.D., Ph.D., former Director of Properties and adjust the administrative pattern of the Vice-President and associate professor of assistant professor of sociology. College. There now exists at La Salle physics. College what might be known as educa- He has as his first responsibility a Financial Affairs tion's Four Estates. Along with the area continual appraisal of the academic pro- In the early days of higher education of academic affairs, three other sets of gram, so that the objectives of the Col- in America, the president of a college activities clearly have emerged: the ac- lege are attained as fully as resources usually constituted the entire administra- tivities of the student personnel pro- permit. In accordance with these objec- tive staff of the institution. Since his giam; the task of handling enormous tives it is his duty, also, to study and appointment was usually based on his financial affairs and physical properties, plan the development of the faculty. The career as a scholar, his qualifications for and the many facets of public relations, College looks to his office for the super- administration of the business details alumni, and development.