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FACULTY BULLETIN Volume 17 May 7, 1979 Number 2 GOVERNOR, TWO NEW CONGRESSMEN TO BE HONORED AT COMMENCEMENT Manhattan College President Also Slated for Honorary Degree Pennsylvania’s Governor, two U.S. Congress a member of the Pennsylvania Higher men, and the President of Manhattan College Education Assistance Agency. will be honored at La Salle College’s 116th Rev. Gray is a graduate of Franklin and commencement at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, May Marshall College, Drew Theological Seminary, 13, at Philadelphia’s Civic Center-Convention and Princeton Theological Seminary. On Hall. succeeding his late father as senior pastor of Receiving honorary doctorate of laws the 3,000 member Bright Hope Baptist Church degrees will be Pennsylvania Governor Dick in 1972, Gray became active in various civic Thornburgh, U.S. Representatives (from organizations, and sought to involve the Philadelphia) Charles F. Dougherty (Fourth Philadelphia establishment in solving the District) and Rev. William H. Gray, III (Second problems of the inner city. District), and Brother Stephen Sullivan, F.S.C., Bro. J. Stephen Sullivan Gov. Dick Thornburgh Gray was responsible for the Philadelphia S.T.D., president of Manhattan College. Mortgage Plan which has resulted in more than Governor Thornburgh will be sponsored for $27 million in residential mortgages for his degree by Mrs. Joan Rosenwald Scott, a previously redlined areas with no government member of the college’s Board of Trustees. funds being spent. He has formed a non-profit Dougherty’s sponsor will be John L. corporation which plans to build a $4 million McCloskey, the college’s vice president for senior citizens complex in the heart of North public affairs. Mrs. Patricia Johnson Clifford Philadelphia. He also took an active role in and Brother Gregory Nugent, F.S.C., Ph.D., helping solve the 1977 Philadelphia School who are also members of La Salle’s Board of Board Budget Crisis. He had previously gained Trustees, will sponsor Rev. Gray and Brother prominence as an influential civil rights leader Sullivan, respectively. during his eight year term as pastor of Union Brother President Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D. Baptist Church, in Montclair, N.J. will confer bachelor’s degrees on 973 men and Charles J. Dougherty Rev. William H. Gray, III Brother Sullivan, a native of Boston, has women including 204 Evening Division been president of Manhattan College since students. Approximately 40 men and women and subcommittees on Seapower and 1975. For five years prior to that he had served will receive master’s degrees in business Strategic Material and on Military as executive vice president and provost, and administration marking the first time that the Compensation. Gray, the secretary of the from 1963-1970 he had been academic vice college’s MBA Program has been included as Congressional Black Caucus, is a member of president and associate professor of theology part of the annual commencement. La Salle the Democratic Steering and Policy, Budget, at Manhattan. He earned a bachelor’s degree in held a special graduation ceremony for its first Foreign Affairs, and District of Columbia classics from The Catholic University of 11 MBA graduates last September. Another Committees. America; master’s degrees in classics and dozen students will receive master’s degrees in Dougherty, a graduate of St. Joseph’s philosophy from Manhattan and Boston religion. College with a bachelor’s degree in political Colleges, respectively, and licentiate and Governor Thornburgh, who was elected science, is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and a doctor’s degrees in sacred theology from The chief executive of the commonwealth last Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Reserves. He Catholic University November, is an attorney by profession has been an instructor at Philadelphia’s A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Brother although his bachelor’s degree from Yale Northeast Catholic High School, assistant Sullivan has published a number of texts on University was in engineering. He received his dean of students at Philadelphia Community theology. Before joining the Manhattan faculty law degree from the University of Pittsburgh in College, and principal and coordinator of in 1959, he taught at De La Salle College in 1957. federal programs at the Tekakwitha High Washington, D.C., St. Mary’s High School, in One of the leaders in the fight for home rule School, a residential school for emotionally Waltham, Mass., and St. Peter’s High School, and judicial reform, Thornburgh served as U.S. disturbed and socially maladjusted girls. on Staten Island. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania from 1969 From 1972 to his election to Congress in La Salle’s annual Baccalaureate Mass will be to 1975. During this time he successfully 1968, Dougherty was in the Pennsylvania State held at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday, May 12, at the prosecuted 50 persons for official corruption, Senate. He gained considerable experience Cathedral Basilica of S.S. Peter and Paul. over 300 organized crime and narcotics serving on committees with jurisdiction over Commissioning ceremonies for 20 men and violators, and some landmark pollution cases. public health and welfare, government women of La Salle’s U.S. Army Reserve From 1975-77 he was Assistant U.S. Attorney operations, minority business development, Officers Training Corps (ROTC) will be held at General during which time he was credited dependent and neglected children, nursing 10:30 A.M. on Saturday (May 12) in the College with reorganizing a major government division home practices, and mental health. He also was Union Ballroom on Campus at 20th St. and and reducing bureaucracy. ranking minority member of the committees on Olney Ave. Dougherty and Rev. Gray were both elected aging and youth, and urban affairs and The Faculty-Senior Reception will be held on to the 96th Congres last November. Dougherty housing. He made significant contributions as campus from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M. on Saturday, is a member of the Armed Services Committee Child Care Center May 12. Tickets are necessary for this event. Receives $5,000 Israel Trip Slated The Building Blocks Child Development Center, Inc., has received a $5,000 contribution SILVER ANNIVERSARIES A ten-day study mission to Israel has been from The Philadelphia Foundation to be scheduled for December 23-January 2 by the applied toward costs of a fence for the Celebrating 25 years of service to La Salle Jewish Campus Activities Board. The program children’s play area and enclosure of an College this spring are Elvira Beltramo, will accept twenty academicians and university interior staircase. cataloguer; Dr. Domenico A. DiMarco, administrators from the Philadelphia area. Located at 2103 Clarkson Ave., adjacent to associate professor of Italian and classics; Cost will be $775. Spouses are welcome to the La Salle College campus, Building Blocks Dr. Joseph P. Mooney, professor of provides child care and educational services to participate also for a slightly higher price. economics, and Dr. Mark Guttmann, the pre-school children of students, faculty, Information may be obtained by contacting associate professor of physics. the Jewish Campus Activities Board, 202 South staff, and alumni of La Salle College and to the 36th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104, 243-8265. staff of Germantown Hospital. Recent Faculty & Staff Activities, Appearances, & Publications Delinquency in New Communities: The Case of 1978, “ Ups and Downs in U.S. Citrus Industry” New Towns in Great Britain” at the Annual a reprint from Citrus Industry, March, 1978. His Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice “ Reply To The Citrus Marketing Board” Sciences in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 15, appeared in the October 1978 issue of Citrus 1979. Industry and “Monthly Distribution of Citrus Export from Mediterranean Countries’’ Kerlin, Dr. Michael J., professor, philosophy, appeared in Citrograph, November, 1978. In presented his paper “ Karl Marz and the Life of addition Dr. Buch’s article on “Japanese the World to Come” at the 1978 meeting of the Protectionism’’ appeared in Tradelook American Academy of Religion in New Jan./Feb., 1979. Orleans. Cleary, Dr. C. Richard, professor, political Finn Hornum Dr. Michael Kerlin Lambert, Marilyn, chairperson, education, science, has published “ U.S. Foreign Policy,” a participated in the Forum on Future Studies in teaching module, 36pp. HEW. Guest Appearances: Higher Education sponsored by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Education. Diehl, Dr. George K., chairman, fine arts, has Cleary, Dr. C. Richard, professor, political had his article “The Sound of Glass” accepted science, lectured on “ Espionage: Is It Worth Lashchyk, Dr. Eugene M. associate professor, for publication in Four Quarters. the Cost?” for the La Salle Dept. of Foreign philosophy, was chairperson of a panel Languages, Special Topics Course on discussion on “What Should We Fight For: Literature of Spying, and on “Soviet Human or National Rights?” held at the Education,” for the Special Topics course in Philadelphia branch of the Ukrainian Catholic Slavic Studies. Dr. Cleary is also serving as University. consultant for Air Products Incorporated, Allentown, Pa., in preparation of A National Lowry, Atherton C., lecturer, philosophy, Conference on Energy, to be held at Franklin presented a paper “ Merleau-Ponty and the Pierce College, Rindge, N.H., in August, 1979.