For '64 Fall Semester the HOYA Has Recently Elected Its Editorial Board for Death Unexpectedly Ended Dr
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Vol. XLl~, No. ~ 15 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday, February 13, 1964 Dr. Ruby's Demise New Editors, Columns From Heart Attack Luxury Halls Slated Ends Long Service Vivify Expanded HOYA On February 1, sudden For '64 Fall Semester The HOYA has recently elected its editorial board for death unexpectedly ended Dr. the 175th Anniversary Year, 1964. The announcement of James S. Ruby's 26 years of ! the new board is made in conjunction with the expansion service to Georgetown. The of The HOYA to the status of an all-undergraduate news Executive Secretary of the paper. In the future, beginning with this issue, The HOYA Alumni Association suc will be distributed to and written by the undergraduate cumbed in his home, 4461 Green I wich Parkway, at the age of 58. students - College, Foreign Born in Helena, Montana, Ruby I Curley Science Series Service, Institute of Lan earned his Bachelor of Arts, Mas guages & Linguistics, Busi ters, and Doctoral degrees at Features MIT General Georgetown. During his tenure as ness Administration, and chairman of the GU English De I! On Science Socialism Nursing - of Georgetown partment he edited a collection of ! University. verse with Philip Kane, George i by Dick Conroy town Anthology. The fifth lecture of the At the outbreak of World War I New Columns II, Ruby was a lieutenant colonel I James Curley Science Series in the United States Army. He will be delivered in Gaston The 1964 editorial board includes was promoted to chief of the liaison NO MORE RUBBISH .•. will be filed behind New North when Hall next Tuesday by General one senior, nine juniors, five soph branch of the War Department. the new men's dormitory is completed next year. The architect's omores, and one freshman. The After the war, he returned to sketch indicates there will be eight stories in the proposed living James McCormack, USAF office of Research & Exchange Ed Georgetown as Alumni Secretary. quarters. (ret.). General McCormack is itor has been added to the pre'vious In 1954, the Alumni Association presently the Vice President for fifteen editorial positions. The new cited Ruby for distinguished serv by Larry Keeshan Sponsored Research at the Massa HOYA, edited by Ken Atchity, is ice to school and country. Seven Ground having been broken last- October, the new chusetts Institute of Technology. completely renovated - editorial years later, he returned to the lit Georgetown men's and women's residences are well under policy, office efficiency, writing erary field with a history of style-and the emphasis is on in Georgetown men in the Civil War, way. The new dorms, to be built at a cost of over 5.6 mil creased contact between the stu The Blue and the Gray. lion dollars, are scheduled for completion in time for the dents, faculty, and administration He was a member of Our Lady fall semester. They will offer the finest in living accommo and on the true reflection of stu of Victory Holy Name Society, the dent opinion at Georgetown. Serv (Continued on Page 12) dations, including many distinctive features. ing these ends, several new columns The men's dorm is being are being initiated and an old one dropped. "Council Capers" will no constructed on the edge of longer appear. "Capitol Crossfire," GU Publications Attend the athletic field, just below written alternately by a Repub New North. Its architecture lican and Democrat, is being re instated, as is the old column Foreign Affairs Soiree will be contemporary, and it "Quad-angles." "Contact," an aca will have capacity for 447 demic service of The HOYA will Some 400 American college newspapermen attended the students in 8 living stories. The appear regularly from the Office Washington segment of the Sixth Annual Student Editor's floor plan will employ the "clus of Special Programs. "Roundup" Conference on International Affairs at the U.S. Depart ter" system, whereby each floor will take on the nature of a news is divided into six sections, each summary for items of information ment of State and the White House Monday, February 3 .. made up of five rooms sharing the which regular news coverage could Fred Snyder and Bob Peraino of The HOYA and Kevin same lavatory facilities. The typ not handle. Quinn of The COURIER composed the Georgetown jour ical room will be approximately 16' x 12', and will feature built-in nalists' delegation to the State lighted the afternoon edition of Opinion furniture. There will also be a Department's briefing on for- the briefing. Amon~ ~he speak~rs typing and study lounge on every .• were G. Mennen WIllIams, ASSISt- other floor. "The HOYA asks for student elgn relatIOns and a tea and ant Secretary of State for African opinion on every aspect of our pub Among the distinctive features lication," says Editor Atchity, "and cookies reception in the Green Affairs and Ben Stephansky, Dep JAMES McCORMACK will be a lounge system on the first we hope that the political columns Room with Mrs. Lyndon John- uty A:ssistant ~ecretary for Inter Amerlcan AffaIrs. floor which will contain three sep In his lecture, "The Socialization will be answered in the weekly son. arate lounges, each with its own of S · "G I M C k 'Letters to the Editor,' which will Latin America function: a more formal lounge, Clence, enera cormac The morning session of the Stephansky, the primary after WI·ll s t ress the t remend· ous Imp or- be expanded-our mail box in Cop- Washington convention consisted similar to Copley; a study lounge; tance of science in the twentieth ley basement is open to suggestions of addresses by Secretary of State noon speaker, delineated the diffi and a large recreational lounge. cent Th G I f I th t th and opinions." culties his department encounters The basement will contain a laun ury. e enera ee s a e Dean Rusk, Under Secretary of in handling Latin American rela past few years have demonstrated State for Political Affairs W. Aver- dromat, and there will be a special . .. t d d b The position of Office Manager, tions. He said that the South Amer an mcreasmg In er- epen ence e- ell Harriman, and Frank M. Coffin outdoor terrace or patio which, tween the physical and the social which will be filled by sophomore of the Agency for International ican governments are particularly during the warmer months, will . Robert Nocera, has been initiated sensitive to outbreaks like the re SCIences. Development. The government offi- serve as a fourth lounge. to increase efficiency and to estab- cent Panama crisis, which they feel The women's dorm, also of con M.I.T. lish regular and business-like office cials spoke on the complexities of endangers their defense against temporary architecture, will be lo Born at Chathan, Louisiana, Mc- hours. formulating international policy. Communist sympathizers in their Cormack graduated from the Lectures on the role of the free cated adjacent to St. Mary's Hall, respective countries. The Deputy and will house 336 stud::mts in 6 United States Military Academy at (Continued on Page 8) press in underdeveloped areas high- Assistant added, however, that the West Point in 1932. He holds a ------------------------------- living stories. It will also employ United States has made much prog the cluster system, with the typ Master of Arts degree from Ox ress in aiding the development of ford University in England where ical room measuring 17' x 11'. the educational, economic and cul Among the special features will he was a Rhodes scholar, graduat tural climate of the southern ll!l. ing in 1935. As a United States be a "pajama" lounge located in tions. the center of each floor. The first Army Corps of Engineers officer, The college editors later ad General McCormack was selected floor will be devoted to two lounges, journed to the White House, where one formal and the other recrea for graduate study at M.LT. and the President's wife had arranged received his Master of Science de tional. The basement will contain for Hal Holbrook to entertain the both a laundromat, and a special gree from the Institute in 1937. visitors with his impersonation of room equipped with hair dryers. I Advisor Mark Twain. President Johnson Also to be built in this dorm is a I He joined M.LT. as Special Ad himself dropped by to encourage residence cafeteria as well as a i visor to Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., the student editors in their main non-resident cafeteria. <:hairman of the M.I. T. Corpora- tenance of an unadulterated press. A miniature replica of one of tIon and then Institute President. Mrs. Johnson, her daughter Lyn these "cluster" arrangements is be General McCormack was made Vice da Bird and friend Warrie Lynn ing constructed near McNeir Hall President of the Institute in 1957, Smith shook hands with the dele under the direction of the Physical SUcceeding the last Vice Admiral NEW HOYA BOARD .•• includes Joe Nugent, .Tim Mata, Lee gates to conclude the convention's Plant Office of the University. The Edward L. Cochrane. Since that Nugent, Rory Quirk, Fred Snyder, Bob Peraino, Phil Vasta, and activities. Both Lynda and Warrie replica will include fragmentary time he has continued his close as- Ken Atchity. Back row: Todd Tobin, Ken McBride, Jim Giammo are currently attending George models of men's living quarters, (Continued on Page 16) and Pete Lichtenberger. Washington University. lounges, and custodian's facilities. Page Two rHE HOYA Thursday, February 13, 1964 sary Year, of the great areas of Editorial: Alumni interdependence and the many To the Editor: bonds of community action which I wish to express my sincerest underlie and deeply unite the Uni The HOYA, 1964 thanks and the gratitude of the versity.