THE JOHN CARROLL DINNER FOR 1953 :Jo Cefetrate the !64th Annivet•:Jar'l o/ the 5-ounJing. o/ the 1Jniverdit';f t'l _A.,.chti:Jhop Carroll anJ to JJ.ono1• Some o/ the Out:JtanJing. Sond o/ (}eorgetown OUR OWN MAKE APRIL 18 .. 1953 OXFORD SHIRTS HOTEL MAYFLOWER RECEPTION, 6:30 P.M. Washington, D. C. DINNER, 7:30 P.M. Fine Oxford fabric of choice combed $8:50 per plate Black Tie cotton in blue or white. Center back pleat Ladies are included Tables for ten for added comfort. Unlined collar and cuffs. The round collar shirt with French cuff and the button down with barrel cuff. The Chairman: GEORGE MORRIS FAY, '31 When ordering, please specify color, The Speaker: DR. CARLOS P. ROMULO collar size and sleeve length. White Ambassador of the Philippines $4.50; Blue $4.95: Add 25¢ for postage. Mail orders to: ADDRESS RESERVATIONS TO Georgetown Shop ALUMNI HOUSE 3604 0 St., N.W. 1248 36th Street .. N. W. Washington 7, D. C. Washi.ngton 7 .. D. C. Draw checks to BRUCE BAIRD, Treasurer Steve Barabas, Class of 1930 EORtlETOWD UDIUERSITq LUmDI mR.(jAZIOE Member of the American Alumni Council e EDITORIAL BOARD MARCH 1953 V 0 L. 5 NO. 6 OF ALUMNI MAGAZINE JOHN C. BRUNINI, '19 DONALD F. FLAVIN, '28 CONTENTS JOHN T. FLYNN, '02 The Library and the Alumni . ........ ... ... 2 MARTIN S. QUIGLEY, '39 Georgetown Track History .. ....... .. .. .. 3 DR. TIBER KEREKES-Faculty A Century of Conflict . 6 REv. GERARD F. YATES, S.J.- Faculty Spring Sports Schedules ... .... ........ ... 7 JAMES S. RUBY, '27, Executive 'See1·e ta1·y and Edito1· Athletics ... .. .... .... ... .. ...... ... · 11 • Class Notes .. .. ... .. ... .. 12 e CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Note on the Cover Picture The members of the One Mile JAMES S. RUBY, '27, is Executive Secretary Relay team of 1925 pictured of the Georgetown University. Alumni on the front cover are all Association. present and accounted for. George Kinnaly '25 is in the PHILLIPS TEMPLE is University Libra1·ian. _ retail business in Boston · Jimmy Burgess, '27 is with General Motors Overseas Op­ Ron THOMAS is a sports writer for the erations in New York; Paul Washington Star. tiii Herlihy, '27, is in the Insur­ (111.1 ance business in Hartford REv. GERARD F. YATES, S.J., is Dean of the J and Vernon Ascher, '25 is a I · .f j} jewelry Graduate School. __ manufacturer in In­ '~· ~, ...:;,....,~ :_;~ -~" dianapolis. CHARLIE STEELE, '52, former Sports Editor of the Hoya is a student at the Law ' School. Cop?Jright 1959 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE: Published each two months by the Georgetown University Alumni Ass9ciation If!-c., Washing~on. 7, D. C. • Sus~aining ¥ embership $25.00 per year, Regular Memb ership $5.00 per year, of whtch $3 .00 ts fo1· subscrtpttan to the Alumm Magaztne. • Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as Second Class matte?· February 24, 1948 unde1· the act of Ma1·ch 9, 1879. • Editorial and Executive offices: GEORGE­ TOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Alumni House, 9604 0 Street, N.W., Washington 7, D.C. RIGGS LIBRARY THE LIBRARY AND THE ALUMNI By PHILLIPS TEMPLE, Librarian The photograph of the South Pavilion of the Healy Building on this page will recall Hilltop memories to any Georgetown man. It may even lead him to reflect that things here are pretty much the same as when he used to be a student here. It is true that the Potomac bluestone that makes up the building shown ·in the picture is a fabu­ lously durable kind of granite and will probably be here a long while; even the gargoyles and pro­ jections that adorn the towers, the corbel table that enhances the facade, the oval tracery of the of Libraries and now recently returned to our staff windows remain unchipped and intact, as in the as Consultant in Rare Books, culled many of the 'SO's when they were put there. But just the same antiquated and curious old imprints that went there have been some exciting changes inside ·the into his now famous Ea'rly Catholic Ame1icana walls you see here. (Macmillan, 1939), the standard bibliography in The first floor of this section of Healy Building its field. From the attic came also some of our houses the School of Foreign Service Library, and present collection of 65 incunabula. And from it the remaining area to the roof houses the main come a good many of the books that we are cur­ stack, processing and service areas of the Riggs rently cataloging in order to convert them from Memorial Library, which is the main Library of the their attic state of lonely disuse to active service University. Incidentally, all of the books currently on the Library's shelves. purchased by the School of Foreign Service Library We mentioned dust. That is where Father are listed in the catalog of the main (Riggs) Li­ Powers comes into the picture, for it was he who brary, and students of the different schools may planned and executed "Operation Dustproof" and use both libraries interchangeably, for either ref­ thereby transformed the attic from a bibliographi­ erence or borrowing purposes. cal Siberia to an ext'ension of the regular stacks. Perhaps the most radical physical change inside In older days, no one would think of trying to use these walls in recent years has been the renovation the attic without wearing a smock and preparing last year, under the supervision of the Reverend for a bath afterwards. Moreover, in winter an Edward Powers, S.J., Physical Plant Administrator, overcoat was de rigueur, while in summer it was a of the loft, or attic which extends from the south contest between the demands of modesty and phys­ end of the building to the bell tower on the right ical survival. Now all that is changed. The en­ of the picture, and way beyond it. The attic has tire attic is· dustless and, better yet (for we have formed an increasingly integral part of the Library made it dustless before) dustproof; the Johns­ as the years have sharpened the space crisis; Manville insulation has enabled us to work there thousands of volumes of books, periodicals, govern­ in comfort during the winter by retaining the ment and municipal documents, pamphlets and interior heat and will, we are told, do the same other materials have found their way there. Like thing for us in summer by repelling the exterior all attics, this one was dusty; things got put there heat. By working on the attic throughout the gradually because there was no place else to put coming summer, and by installing steel shelf units them, or because they were not urgently needed to replace the temporary wooden shelves now there at the time. It was from this "omnium gatherum" we hope by this time next year to effect a complet~ that Father Wilfrid Parsons, S.J., formerly Director (Continued on Page !,) 2 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE IC-4A Grand Slam for Hoya Runners By ROD THOMAS Reprinted by JJermission of the Washington Sta,. Here's a bit of news for Charley Capozzoli! significantly, "When I ran 9.6 it was after a false When the great little Georgetown runner won the start. At the end of 60 yards I was third." intercollegiate 2-mile championship last year he Hagerty's plan calls for a comprehensive history completed a slam for the Hoyas in the flat-race titles of Georgetown track, with the compilation to be of the IC-4A, extending from the 100 yard dash to supervised by Frank Sevigne, now winning prestige 2 miles. as Hoyas' coach. That history could be salted with · It was a fact not known even to the Georgetown anecdotes, what with such colorful figures as coaching staff until a check was begun recently on Wefers and Duffey: AI Blozis, the great shotputter past 'performances of the university's track stars. and discus thrower; Bob LeGendre, an Olympic Naturally, the check was made as a result of the star; Jim Connolly, champion miler; Hugh Short, Hoyas' success in track this winter. a fast man in the 600, and Tony Plansky, a national The Blue and Gray was 56 years in completing decathlon champion ( 1924) and star football the slam while at the same time winning many other player. intercollegiate outdoor and indoor track titles. Blozis never was defeated in the shotput in in­ Twenty-one such titles were revealed in the early tercollegiate competition. In his first 19 meets with stages of a compilation of Georgetown track the Hoyas, he hung up meet records, sometimes achievements ordered by Athletic Director Jat;k breaking his own. In his first two years he com­ Hagerty following the recent performances of peted in 28 meets and set 25 records. He was the Capozzoli, Carl Joyce and Joe LaPierre. The Hoyas world's best until Jim Fuchs of Yale came along are back in the national headlines in track competi­ to break most of his marks. Blozis, later a stand­ tion, a distinction they've enjoyed periodically for out tackle with the New York Giants, died in action more than half a century. in France in 1945. The parade of Georgetown champions started LeGendre was a star in the 1924 Olympics after auspiciously in 1896 when Bernie Wefers of Law­ failing to make the United States team in his rence, Mass., tied the world record for the 100-y::n:il specialty, the running broad jump. He was carried dash at 9.8 seconds, then broke the world mark for along for the pentathlon, an event he'd won three the 220 in 21.8 seconds.