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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Alumni Association Explorer News University Publications 11-1973 Explorer News: November 1973 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/explorer_news Recommended Citation La Salle University, "Explorer News: November 1973" (1973). La Salle Alumni Association Explorer News. 37. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/explorer_news/37 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 Alumni Association Explorer News by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Alumni Association SIGNUM FIDEI MEDALIST: MSGR. PHILIP DOWLING Monsignor Philip J. Dowling, former Ordained in 1956, Monsignor Despite occasional emotional con Executive Director o f the Cardinal’s Dowling studied at the Pontifical frontations, he has worked quietly Commission on Human Relations in Gregorian University in Rome where but effectively to carry out the the Philadelphia archdiocese, will be he was awarded the S.T.L. degree goals o f the Commission. awarded the Alumni Association’s in 1957. He received his M.A. from Also, at the Awards dinner member Signum Fidei medal at the annual Villanova University in 1959 and ship in the Alpha Epsilon Alumni Awards dinner November 30 in the has taught at St. Charles Borromeo Honor Society will be conferred on College Union Ballroom. Seminary and Chestnut Hill College. selected members o f the Class of While heading the Human Relations 1974. Commission he became involved in numerous community organizations Awards Committee Chairman James and continues to serve as board I. Gillespie, ’55, has announced that member in such professional associ tickets for the Awards dinner in the ations as the Philadelphia Fellow College Union Ballroom on Friday, ship Commission and the Urban November 30, 1973 (at 7 p.m.) are Coalition. $7.00 per person and may be purch ased at the Alumni Office. Mail re He is credited with helping to get a quests (accompanied by check pay fair housing bill passed in Philadelphia able: La Salle College) should be and for working to obtain public received by the Alumni Office be housing in all sections o f the city. fore November 24. Awarded annually since 1942, the DOWNTOWN CLUB TO HEAR VETERAN NEWSMAN medal derives its name from the motto o f the Brothers of the Christian Schools - “ sign o f faith.” It is given to recognize personal achievements in harmony with the established aims o f La Salle College The Downtown Club’s featured and is conferred each year on a speaker this month will be Lawrence person who has made “ most note M. O’Rourke, Chief o f the Phila worthy contributions to the ad delphia Bulletin’s Washington vancement o f Christian principles.” Bureau, it was announced by Club Chairman Magnus J. Schaebler. Monsignor Dowling, who is present ly serving as pastor of St. Elizabeth’s O’Rourke will speak at the Poor parish in North Philadelphia, was Richard Club, 1319 Locust Street, the first executive secretary o f the on Tuesday, November 20 following Human Relations Commission serv the 12:30 luncheon. His topic will ing from its founding in 1964 until be: “ Nixon: Has Watergate Changed dential party to the Soviet Union 1970, then as Executive Director The Man?” and China. until 1973. The commission is charged with the responsibility of A native Philadelphian (St. Thomas Tickets for the luncheon are $4.50 fostering ecumenical developments More High School and Villanova and may be purchased at the Alumni and promoting better interracial University, ’59), O'Rourke is an Office or by sending a check payable relations in the Archdiocese of accredited White House correspond to the La Salle College c/o the Alumni Philadelphia. ent and has travelled with the Presi Office, Phila., Pa. 19141. RECRUITERS NEEDED Hall and fans w ill have an opportuni is staffed by professional personnel The Carnegie Commission on Higher ty to witness an intrasquad game. and volunteer aids. As an independent There will be a swimming demon Education and the federal government service oriented project, the center foresee fewer high school students stration by Jack Lumsden’s varsity will welcome parent participation. in Kirk pool and one o f the dorm going on to college. With high school Located in the educational wing o f complexes will be open with tours graduation rates leveling o ff and the the Church of the Redeemer, 723 offered by residents. birth rate declining, colleges like La East Wister Street, the center is two Salle ate concerned about attracting In the evening the Masque will blocks from campus. Children from a sufficient number of qualified stu present its production of School eighteen months to six years are eli dents for the future. For Scandal in the College Union gible for admission. The fee is $1.25 Theatre. Our alumni are needed, perhaps as per hour for alumni. There is also a never before, to become an integral Alumni and their families are in minimal additional fee for a hot lunch. part o f our admissions program. A vited and encouraged to attend all In order to insure competence in prospective student can only be im the activities o f the day. supervision and programming, a child pressed to know that our alumni care must enroll for a minimum o f three enough about the institution to take BUILDING BLOCKS. hours on any one day. Building Blocks an active part in student recruitment. will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER An alumnus can play an important p.m., Monday through Friday, and part in the admissions effort. In Members o f the La Salle Community will follow the school calendar. formally, an encouraging word at the are pleased to announce the establish Admission to the center is on a first right time to an applicant may help, ment of Building Blocks: A Child come—first served basis. But there is or just advising the Admissions Office Development Center, an independent still some space available for children. about an interested senior or junior organization, located adjacent to the For more information or application could result in his or her matricula campus. The day care facility, which forms write to Mrs. Diane Kramer, tion. opened October 8 under the direct Building Blocks, c/o Church o f the orship o f Mrs. Diane Kramer, is avail More formally, an alumnus may Redeemer, 723 East Wister Street, able to children o f La Salle faculty, wish to participate in the work of Phila., Pa. 19141, or call VI 8-8300, staff, and students o n a part-time or ext. 515 or 516. the Alumni Admissions Committee. full-time basis. It is also open to La This is a group of alumni who have Salle alumni. Structured in accordance volunteered one or two evenings of COLLEGE UNION TRIPS with the regulations o f the Pennsyl their time to contact prospective The College Union has space avail vania Bureau o f Child Welfare, the students and answer their questions able for its trips to London (Dec. 26- center’s program is geared toward the about La Salle. Being a graduate of Jan. 2) and to Europe (Jan. 5-12). development o f the whole child and La Salle is the only qualification for For further information call the membership on this committee. College Union Office, 848-8300, Those alumni (or alumnae) who have VARSITY SCHEDULE ext. 281 friends or relatives o f high school age DECEMBER, 1973 and would like the Admissions Office Sat. 1 Lehigh PALESTRA to contact them should notify Steve Wed. 5 USMA Away BASKETBALL CLUB LAUNCHES McGonigle in the Day Admissions Sat. 8 Hofstra Away 5TH SEASON Office or John King in the Evening Wed. 12 Syracuse PALESTRA Division. If anyone is interested in Sat. 15 Holy Cross Away The Alumni Basketball Club, under “ spreading the good word” about Wed. 19 Univ. of Penn PALESTRA the chairmanship o f James J. Kenyon, La Salle by helping with the Alumni Fri.-Sat. 21-22 Big Sun Invitational Florida ’63, has planned a full schedule of Admissions Committee, he or she Wed.-Sat 26-29 E.C.A.C. Holiday Fest. N.Y.C. activities for the 1973-74 season in should contact Jim McDonald in the JANUARY, 1974 cluding a four day trip to Florida in Alumni Office. conjunction with our varsity’s appear Sat. 5 Niagara PALESTRA Wed. 9 Western Kentucky Away ance in the first annual Big Sun In OPEN HOUSE -T.O .R . Fri. 11 Syracuse PALESTRA vitational tournament. The tour is Wed. 16 Drexel PALESTRA presently SOLD OUT and comes on NOVEMBER 11 Sat. 19 Lafayette PALESTRA the heels o f the highly successful Open House, featuring exhibits and Wed. 23 Biscayne Away journey to the West Coast last year Sat. displays by campus clubs and organ 26 Canisius Away for the Cable Car Classic. Wed. 30 St. Joseph's izations, and the annual Tap O ff PALESTRA Rally, heralding the coming basketball FEBRUARY, 1974 Events closer to home include the annual “ Meet the Team” day in Hay- season, will be held this year on Sun Sun. 3 Temple PALESTRA man Hall on Sunday, November 11 day, November 11 on campus. The Wed. 6 Notre Dame PALESTRA following the tap-off rally game at day’s activities will be sponsored by Sat. 9 American PALESTRA the Student Government Association Wed. 13 West Chester State Away Open House.