The Alumni Lounge
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Georgetown University Alumni Association OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT The John Carroll Dinner TO HONOR Outstanding Georgetown Men 1n the National Scene Will be Held in Washington On April 26, 1952 AL the Hotel May fl ower Gra nd Ball Room $10.00 per plate Black Tie Make Reservation ow for yo urself, yo ur wife, yo ur guests, to insure the best eating A GEORGETOWN NIGHT YOU WILL NEVER FORGET For yo ur convenience use the co upon below and return it with your check to: J ohn Carroll Dinner Committee Alumni House . 3604 0 St. N.W., Washington 7, D. C. Enclosed is my check in the amount of $ _______________ to cover ____________ Dinner Reservations for D Self and wife 0 Self onl y 0 Self and guest (s) D Guest (s) only Checks should be drawn to GEORGETOW U IVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCJATJON, TNC. EOR(lETOWn UUilJERSIT~ LUmnl UlRqAZIIlE e EDITORIAL BOARD WINTER 1952 VOL. 4, NO.-1 OF ALUMNI MAGAZINE JOHN c. BRUNINI, '19 DONALD F. FLAVIN, '28 CONTENTS Jot-IN T. FLYNN, '02 Editorials 2 MARTIN s. QUJCLEY, '39 The Georgetown Seal .. ...... 3 DR. TIBOR KrnEKEs- Faculty Georgetown Regent Honored . 4 REv. GERARD F. YATES, S.J.-Faculty JAM ES S. RunY, '27, Executive Secretary and Co-Curricular Activities ....... .. 6 Editor The Library and the Alumni .. ............... 3 Athletics .... 9 Class Notes 10 e CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE VERY REv. HUNTER GuTHRIE, S.J., is Presid en t of -the University. The Cover Picture: PntLLIPS TEMPLE is the University Librarian. The first athletic R~::v. WtLLIAM C. REPETT I, S.J., is the University Archivist. event in McDonough Gym FRANK PRIAL, is Director of Publicity for the Department of Athletics. DR. HucH J. FECAN, '01, is Dean of the Law chool. Cop,-right 1951 Georgetown Unipersity Alumni Magazine ]AM~: s S. RunY, '27, is the Alumni Secretary. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUM I MAGAZINE: Pnblished each two months by the Georgetown University Alumni Association, fn. c., Washington 7, D. C. o Snstaining Membership $25.00 per year, Regnlar Membership S5.00 per year, of which $3.00 is for subscription to the Alttmni Magazine • Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as Second Class matter February 24, 1948 under the act of March 3, 1879 • Publication Office: Graphic Arts Press, Inc., 914 20th Street, N. IP., Washington 6, D. C. o Editorial and Executive offices: GEORGETOW U IVERSITY ALUM I ASSOCIATION, Alumni Hou se, 3604 0 St. N.W., Washington 7, D. C. mon remark made by the guests was that two thousand Election Year people were all but lost on the extensive floor. Under your Constitution, the Officers and one-third Eight hundred couples attended the Formal Dedica of the Board of Governors of your Alumni Association tion Ball on Saturday night. Tables and refreshments will go out of office on April 30, 1952. For the past four were provided for all in attendance, and continuous months, a ominating Committee named by your Presi music was provided. From the reactions gathered from dent has been studying the problem of providing a slate the Alumni present, there can be no doubt that the of new Officers and Governors to propose to the mem annual parties now being planned for the Gymnasium bership ,in early April. The Committee has not as yet will be annual successes. The building has everything made its report hut it will be forthcoming very soon and necessary to make such affairs sparkling events in the information concerning the proposed new slate will reach University calendar. you at the earliest practical date. At the low Mass celebrated for the Alumni and their Many things had to be considered by the Committee, families by the Very Reverend David Nugent, S.J., Pro among them the demonstrated interest in Georgetown vincial of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, on the part of the men proposed, the availability of those present, who had attended the Ball the night before these men for the quarterly meetings of the Board, a were astounded at the complete transformation of the proper regard for the representation of all Departments gymnasium overnight, from a ball room to a church, a· and all age groups, and naturally, a serious consideration feat accomplished by a crew of volunteer students who of the good of all of the membership. worked until dawn to clear away all evidences of the In every organization the charge is frequently made dance and arrange seating and stage for the Mass. that things are run by a small clique. In the Georgetown The final test, witnessed by eighteen hundred, was the University A lumni Association the charge is definitely Sunday afternoon concert by the National Symphony untrue. No member willing to work (and election guar Orchestra. The acoustical qualities of the Gymnasium antees a chance to work) is ever passed by. Your best had a splendid test and were pronounced perfect. guarantee of the growth of the Association and respon The thanks of the entire Georgetown family are due sibility on the part of your Officers and Directors is the to Father Joseph F. Cohalan, S.J., Chairman, ·to his mailing of your ballot, either for or against the Commit Dedication Committee, and to the volunteer student Com tee's slate. Remember that when the Ballot arrives. mittee which worked each night at the hard manual job of preparing the Gymnasium for the next day's cere monies. Thanks are also due to the members of the The.Dedication of McDonough Fund Committee, now headed by Thomas C. Mee, '17 of Rhode Island, who are still working with enthusiasm Gymnasium and determination to finish the task which the Associa The three thousand Georgetown men who attended tion assumed four years ago, to raise $861,000 for a all or part of the Dedication Week-end ce'remonies at campus gym for Georgetown. They still have $250,000 to Georgetown, witnessed something which they will not go. Your interest will make their job a less difficult one. readily forget. From the opening basketball game on December 7th, through the Solemn High Mass of Dedica The Alumni Lounge tion, the President's Reception, the Formal Dedication Ball to the closing Symphony concert on December 9, On February 11, the furniture for the Alumni Lounge the returning Alumni saw the various uses to which the in , McDonough Memorial Gymnasium was installed. building may be put, and what they saw pleased them The Lounge is, perhaps, the most impressive portion of very much indeed. the building aside from the great central arena, and is of Although we lost the opening basket-ball game to paramount interest to the members of this Association Fordham, the realization that at last we had a court as it is for our exclusive use. of our own took the sting out of the defeat. More than The Lounge is beautifully paneled in oak with a beamed four thousand Alumni and students saw the game and ceiling. It is floored with oak parquet. The room is were amazed at the size and the beauty of the building. dominated at the west end by a large fire-place, faced One Alumnus who had flown in from Tulsa, Oklahoma, with brick which was purchased from the White House for the Dedication, took his first look at the magnificent at the time of its remodeling. The brick shows plainly arena and said to your Editor, "The trip was worth it." the scars of the fire which was set by the British invaders Twelve hundred people attended the Solemn High during the War of 1812. The fireplace is the gift of the Dedication Mass on December 8th. The Mass was President of Georgetown to the Alumni Association as a celebrated by the Most Reverend John M. McNamara, mark of his gratification for the effort which the Asso Auxiliary Bishop of Washington. To make it truly a ciation has made to provide the Gymnasium for the Georgetown family affair, the other officers of the Mass University. A brass plaque set into the floor in front were all Alumni, Monsignor Edward L. Stephens, '16 of the fireplace tells its history. Over the mantle a was Archpriest, Rev. Edward H. Roach, '16, Deacon, magnificent seal of the University, finished in gold leaf, and Rev. Raymond P. Cahill, '43, Subdeacon. The has been set into the paneling. Preacher of the Dedication Sermon was Rev. Louis M. Adjoining the Alumni Lounge is a service pantry, O'Leary, O.P., '26, who spoke of the proper place of the which will eventually contain a refrigerator, grill and athletic program in Catholic education. warming ovens, so that Alumni returning to the campus More than two thousand donors to the Gymnasium may have a meeting place with every convenience. Fund were guests of the President of Georgetown at the Beyond the pantry, and directly connected with the reception on Saturday afternoon, where they met the Lounge is a similar room, also paneled in o~k , called the President, the Regents and Deans of the University and "All Purpose Room" which may on occasion be used in the members of the Ladies' Committee responsible for the con junction with the Lounge to take care of larger social activities of the week-end. Perhaps the most com - crowds. 2 The Georeetown Seal GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON 7, 0, C. '\t. <I } ! ~l U!It:: ra:~d my art1elo o.n .- 'the GQo:r~et m uc 1 ·.n r o4l4-, vol ... 4. 0-f the klu..1Jll:i. 1:Cca ... in.o. nf1 I i~ ercatlJ dis~;.:~t .s ied., ioturQ l'-lhio:h you ha.v pub..