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DON'T FORGET ! CONTENTS Vol. VII No. 2 LOYOLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
HARRY J. HEMENS, Q.C., '32 President
DONALD W. McNAUGHTON, '49 1st Vice-President
ROSS W. HUTCHINGS, '45 Page 2nd Vice-President 2 Editorial : Limitless Horizons J. DONALD TOBIN, '36 3rd Vice-President 3 Higher Education Tomorrow ARCHIBALD J. MacDONALD, Q.C., '26 Honorary Secretary 4 President's Acceptance Address
Maj. Gen. FRANK J. FLEURY, 5 Annual Meeting CBE, ED, CD, '34 Honorary Treasurer 6 Time Out KENNETH F. CASSIDY, '56 7 Campus Profile Councillor 8 Convocation 1963 PAUL GALLAGHER, '50 Councillor 9 Challenge and Acceptance EDWARD F. LENNON, '32 Councillor 10 A Christian Sense of Responsibility
DONALDJ. NEWTO~~O 14 The Lookout Councillor
Very Rev. PATRICK G. MALONE, S.J. Rector
Rev. THOMAS M. MOYLAN, S.J. Moderator EDITORIAL BOARD Leo MacGillivray Editor ROBERT J. BRODRICK, M.D., '43 Mrs. Dorothy McGee ...... Managing Editor Past President Larry Boyle, '57 ...... Advertising Manager PATRICK J. KENNIFF, '6·1 Phil Content '63 ...... layout Manage r SAC Representative Maj. Norman Dann '40 ...... Chairman Donald W. McNaughton '49 Mrs. DOROTHY McGEE Dr. Robert J. Brodrick '43 Executive Secretary
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-1- Editorial
THE late Holy Father was a man upon whom people foundation is tmth, whose measure and objective is liked lo confer titles. He was variously the Pope of justice, whose driving force is love and whose method the People, the Pope of Peace, the Pope of Unity; he if attainment is freedom." was even tabbed the Protestant Pope by Protestants to whom he had endeared himself. One title that he m erited NotiJLg a lack of Christian motivation among even beyond dispute was " the Pope of Optimism." Christians engaged in secular enterprises of one sort or another, Pope John found a lack of consistence which he John XXII[ was the r.omplete optimist. He could attributed to "the lack of a solid Christian education." not bL£l grieve al conditions ancl silL£alions that obviously were coJLtrary lo God's plan, bL£t he refused to abandon " It is indispensable, there/or e," he wrote, "that in himself to grief. Rather he expressed confidence that the training of youth, education should be complete and people of good will cot£ld and would make the neces without interriiplion, namely that in the min.els of the sary adjtistments. H e was aware of divisions and was yonng, religious values should be cultivated and tl_,,e con.f idenl that unity coL£lcl be achieved. He was aware moral conscience rejiJLecl in a manner to keep pace with of the prevailing warlike spirit and was confident that the .::ontinuous ancl ever more abundant assimilation of peace coL£ld be attained. He was aware of social distress scientific and technical knowledge." and sL£f f erin g ancl was confident that jL£stice coL£ld be made to prevail. He was aware of hate and pinned his Pope John admits the difficulties of applying prin hopes on love. ciples io concrete situations, especially in view of the pronoL£n ced dynamism of our times. "For this reason," he added, "the problem of bringing social reality into Nowhere was this optimism better expressed than line with the objective requirements of justice is a in his last great letter to the whole world, Pacem in problem which will never admit of a definitive solution." Terris, where he tackled the problem of peace from every angle, always having in mind that every man is Still lookiJLg onward and upward, he cautions people a person with rights and The fulfilment of this duty requires formation: There is 1h e challenp;e of the times, the challenge to scie11tif ic competence, technical capacity and professional be accepted by men of i11tep; raled scientific and spiritual experience as well as a synthesis between these element., for111alio11 , by men who have been formed in such schools 0 11 the one hand and spiriltial values on the other. of higher learni11 p.: as Loyola. A nd there is the futtire as Genuinely human rclalionshi/JS require "an order whose vie11•ed by !h e greatest oplimist of our times. -2- HIGHER EDUCATION TOMORROW by GEORGE W. JOLY '38 HEN LOYOLA opened its doors at the end of W the nineteenth century, it offered only one degree as did almost any other college at the time -a degree based solely on the humanities. In 1996 GEORGE W. JOLY when it celebrates its century it is highly likely that -A'ssistant Dean of Engineering at Mc:Gill it will still be offering only one degree as in the beginninc-. But it will not be the same one. It will be a new award based on science-engineering-human different from that of society in the past. In the ism. nineteenth and the early twentieth century a man If one examined the curricula of 19.63, one of intelligence and initiative, though formed in the might be tempted to say that such a development humanities, nevertheless could grasp, control and had already taken place, because a science-engineer develop any industrial enterprise. Today, it takes ing-hum2.nism type of program has been offered since more than intelligence and initiative to grasp the about 1945. But this would be a misunderstanding meaning and the operation of Telestar, nuclear of the prophecy. The prediction is not that there power, the orbiting of man-made satellites, planetary will be such a curriculum when the twenty-first exploration, automated production. Professor Parkin century arrives but that it will be the only one. son has epitomized the helplessness of today's leaders This prophecy is founded on the dynamic nature in his story of the Board of Directors meeting of the of education. Natural Gas Heating Company. The meeting w1.s Broadly speaking, education seeks to civilize called for eleven o'clock and there were two items man, to make him more human and less animal, to on the agenda. The first was the opening of tenders make him self-conscious of himself and his environ for a nuclear heating plant. There were two, one for meht, and ot his destiny, temporal and eternal. This 20 million dollars and one for nineteen million. The i_s the prima1 y aim of education and it looks to the Chief Engineer spoke in favor of the higher bid. Then development of man himself. But education has a Brown whu alwa)[S spoke up on finance, came out secondary aim - one which lies outside of the student for the lower bid. After a remark by the chair, the himself. This aim is the formation of leaders for the higher bid was adopted. It was now a quarter past welfare of the society of which the student constitutes eleven. The other item on the agenda was then a part. Only those who go to university participate taken up. It had to do with authorizing the expense in this secondary objective of education, and, with of the employees' coffee at the morning break. When a rare exception all the leaders of society tomorrow the chairman finally brought the matter to a vote, are in college today. The university cannot free itself it was one o'clock. The meeting then adjourned. of this care unless it says that it is indifferent as to Those who lead today are increasingly being how its graduates govern, or unless it rejects the very placed in the same position as che directors in Profes duty of having to form society's leaders. sor Parkinson's example. For a man educated only in If then, the university must organize itself to the humanities, it is not a decision he is making but prepare society's leaders - secondary though this very often only an act of faith in his scientific adviser. purpose is to its main one of civilizing man - then Perseverance and intelligence may solve a financial, the curriculum must be designed with an eye to the an administrative or even a political problem. No nature of the society which it is forming the student amount of homework will enable a man deficient in to lead. scientific background to judge for example whether The nature of society is mainly a matter of opin nuclear fa ll-out is a hazard or not. ion, not of fact, and, hence, to attempt precision in If leaders are to make decisions and not acts of defining it would be to provoke disagreement. But, faith, it is only in university that they can acquire if the few facts available are studied, it is poss ible to the knowledge to prepare them for this. The curricul find for society at any time a predominating character um on the humanities that until the middle of the istic that distinguishes it from other societies. In this century provided adequate knowledge for the major way, it can be sa id that Greek society was agricultural, ity of problems that had to be faced is no longer medieval society was feudal, in the nineteenth cen valid in itself for the new set of problems that have tury society was industrial, and in the second half arisen. General higher education must become scien of the twentieth it is scientific and technological. tific- technologica l-humane. Only by making it so will Now many may grant that technology is indeed the challenges that press on society be met and the the mark of society today, but few are permitted moral and spiritual strength that once marked society the insight that the management of this society is renewed. 3 PRESIDENT'S ACCEPTANCE ADDRESS } DO NOT SUPPOSE that anyone can accept this position without a great feeling of i~adequacy. If I should do half as well as you have: done, Doctor, or your illustrious predecessors in office I would be very happy and content indeed. I am very sensible of the honour which has been paid· me through the acceptance by the members of the Association of the report of the Nominating Committee in this regard. It is, I believe, an honour which reflects rather exceptionally on the class of '32 for I believe that_ I will be the third President chosen from the ranks of that year, Father George Thoms and J. Brendan O'Connor, Q.C., having been my HARRY "HEMENS. predecessors in this office. sensible of the honour The inadequacy to which I referred must be apparent in the light of what has been accomplished by those eminent Presidents under -ARRY J. HEMENS, Q. C., new pres whom I have had the privilege of serving. I refer of course to Dr. Bob H ident of the Loyola Alumni Associa Brodrick, Jim Wilson, Fred McCaffery and John Sheridan. tion is a Loyola eight-year man. I am sure that you will agree that it is not at all improper on thi~ 'From Loyola, Hemens went to McGill occasion to refer more particularly to our immediate past President, and later to the Universite de Paris (Sor bonne) to earn his qualifications in Law. Bob Brodrick, and to express to him my own tribute for his great Leaving private practice in 1939 he joined devotion and loyalty to the Alumni Association and to Loyola. I had DuPont of Canada Limited in their Law thought that doctors were necessarily serious, rather prosaic people, department. He was appointed general wholly medically oriented, and without an iota of imagination. If this counsel of DuPont in 1954, Queen's Coun· sel in 1956 and secretary of his company be true of doctors, then Bob must certainly have been and be of a in January 1962. schizophrenic nature. For his inspiration no less than the creative Thoroughly bilingual, Harry Hemens qualities arising from his imagination have, I am convinced, led the wa chairman of the Canadian Chamber-<\£ Alumni Association to new heights. Commerce pecial Committee on th e amend I referred earlier to a feeling of inadequacy but I should assure ment t.o the Canadian Combines Act in 1960 and in that capacity appeared befor e you that this feeling is greatly t_emperecl by reason of the excellent th e House of Commons Committee on Executive which you have accepted and elected this evening, composed Banking and Commerce. He also chaired of a sound mixture of men tried and proved as former members of a pecial committee of the Canadian Cham l)('r which made representations on Bill your Board of Directors and of new blood which I am sure will circulate C-70, th e Corporations and Labour Statis through the body .a continuing new enthusiasm and desire of accomplish ti cs Act, which was before the House of ment. And then· of course we are most fortunate to have our Executive Commons in 1961. He ha ser vt> d as secret Secretary, Mrs. Dorothy McGee, whose devotion and absolute inability ary to th e Junior Bar Association and is pres id ent of the Association of Canadian to read a time clock at what would normally be the close of the Genera I Counsel. working clay have been and will continue to be of inestimable value. Harry Hemens rf's id es in Rosem re I have a fervent belief in the objectives of the Alumni Association wh ere he has been a Councill or and was both in their general and long term implications and in the particular 1ayor from 1935-59. During his term a~ Mayor, thi community underwent one of approaches which have been outlined to achieve these objectives. I its most vigorous period s of expansion. believe that much has been achieved and that progress has been continu Hemens is an ex-warden of his pari. h, ing and steady. Much of course remains to be done but I hasten to St. Fran9ois Cabrini in Ro emere, and point out that in this imperfect world and in the much greater imper sn ved as a t. Jerome Dioce e official l::i y delegate to the 1963 Regional Lay Con fection of the alumni world much will always remain to be done. gress in Montreal and has ju t completed However, I should like this evening particularly to stress four aspects a chairmanship of th e Rosemere section of of the program of the Association. th e St. Jerome Ar a Diocesan Federated A committee is in existence and h,as been working with respect to Charities. Harry is married to th e form er Sadie adult education and I am informed has in prospect - if not indeed Wright of Montreal and th eir four child already initiated - liaison with the Cultural Committee of the Faculty ren are Mary Margaret, Jack, Paul and of Loyola College. I am of the clear opinion that if Loyola is to be a Eileen Alanna. Jack is a 3rd year Arts university - and indeed it must be a university - it ii.lust be the cultural student at Loyola. Some of his recollections of Loyola? centre of the English speaking Catholics of l\Iontreal and of the Harry says there are so many they crowd Province. The work of this committee is therefore highly important one upon the other but a prominent one and must go forward. is of "Father Cloran waiting at the bot In the spirit of ecumenism which pervades the Church and the tom of th e stairway for the '!ates'," an understandable recollection when 1932 world today I wonder if the time may not well have arrived to approach chronicles tell us that "the long tramway our separated brethren - I mea n of course our fellow alumni elsewhere trip daily from Rosemount over the devious than in Montreal - and to consider eriously with them the early route then prevailing led to Hemens' firm formation of branches of this in such places particularly as Toronto, conviction that cl asses should commence at 9 :30 a.m." Now, wh en he travels, anJ Ottawa, Quebec City and Sherbrooke. he does so widely, Harry flies. ~ontinued on page 7· -4- ANNUAL MEETING Approximately 75 alumni attended the annual gen eral meeting, Wednesday evening, May 15. Retiring president, Dr. Bob Brodrick, reviewed the DON McNAUGHTON a:.sociation's accomplishments of the past year and ROSS HUTCHINGS exp,·essed his appreciation of the increased interest and participation of alumni. Incoming president, Harry Hemens, on behalf of the members and directors, presented Dr. Brodrick with a gold cufflink and tiepin set bearing Loyola's crest. The rector, Father Malone, tQld the alumni that with the second phase of the 13,000,000 expansion pro, gram well underway, Loyola would· continue its IO-year construction plan until all commitments are fulfilled. Father Rector said construction of the new Vanier Library would start within a month to provide accom modation of 600 students and additional lecture space in the 100,-000-volume structure. The 2,000,000 student residences on the north campus wo uld be ready for fall , he said. These two DON TOBIN buildin gs would mark the end of the original develop ARCHIE MacDONALD ment plan. Father Malone revealed the second phase including the purchase of .land in the Cote St. Luc-Hampstead area for a new Loyola high school, freeing the junior build in g for 1,000 new students at the College. Other project s in prospect include a faculty resid ence, a gym nasium, a students' union and an engineering building. The Rector also reported that plans to meet LoyQ la's rapidly-rising academic costs were underway, in cluding an endowment fund "which to date has already provid ed 68,000 for future academic salaries." With the election of officers (see their pictures here) came the announcf' ment that three members of th e executive with valuable service over the years are retiring : Jim Wilson '29, Val Chartier '45 and Eric Kierans '35. While these men will be greatl y missed, we are assured that they will always be wiJling to help I J FRANK FLEURY KEN CASSIDY behind the scenes when needed. It was good to see many new faces at the meeting, among them Miss Loretta Mahoney, one of our first female graduates. Enthusiastic members continued their discussions while enjoyin g the varied refreshments available after the meeting. PAUL GALLAGHER ED LENNON BOB BRODRICK -5- DON NEWTON PAT KENNIFF TIME OUT .. . The Society of J esus, too (like Oxford), is the home of lost causes; what other institution in Excerpts from the sermon preached by the late Monsignor the world looks back on such a long record of fa ilures Ronald Knox at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary that nearly succeeded; from the theocracy of Para of Campion Hall, Oxford, October 30, 194,6. guay to those Christians, come down from Francis Xavier, who were wiped out by the atom bomb at Nagasaki? it, is the object consciously envisaged. And all the humanist in us is ready to rise up and take offence. And were we right in supposing that the Society which began life with such a record (i.e. her founder We are so schooled to an essen tially pagan way was a university man) would fit, as a matter of of looking at things, that we suspect a certain course, without friction, without need for adjust dilettantism, a certain want of naturalness about ment, into the life of a University? With the older the learning that runs thus harnessed to the thought religious orders, not cradled in times of controversy, of eternity. Unconsciously we ass ume a man ca nnot the concordat is easy. The University is ready enough, be a real scholar, a real scientist, a real historian, in an ambition at least, to exchange mottoes with unless he is a monomaniac on his subject. them. (e.g. Benedictine motto "Pax", and Dominican motto "Dominus illuminatio mea"). But AD MAJO An yet we know that we are wrong. We know REM DEi GLORIAM - that sounds a note of that the pursuit of learning, if it goes unchecked, challenge. It limits too narrowly the scope of human can lead to a kind of idolatry. Historical truth, achievement, the range of human motive. As a phrase sci entific truth, the method of philosophy, that it is all right, but the intention of it is more question delicate balance of the mind which we call scholar able. Does it not simplify the whole of life too much, ship, are in themselves values which can claim our by reducing it all to the mechanical hierarchy of reverence; you can think of them as worth cultivating ends and means? Quid hoc ad aeternitatem? ask the for their own sakes, although in fact the light which meditation books - as if that were the only question shines from them is not theirs; God is their Sun, and that mattered. Is not this to reduce the rest of our it is from Him their radiance is borrowed. But all human values, the quest of knowledge for its own these desirable aims, if you see them against the sake, to the level of childish games? ... background of a single human life, are only toys after all, only extras; they are not, taken alone, There is a kina. of holy Philistinism about the worth living for. The scholar who lives only for his Exercises of St. Ignatius; they do preach a kind of subject is but the fragment of a man; he lives in a Utilitarianism in excelsis. They are a counterblast shadow-world, mistaking means for ends. necessary then, and perhaps not quite unnecessary now, to the humanism of the Renaissance. They I would suggest, then that the completeness of disturb our complacent habit of mind, so dear to the being which the very word "University" implies i.5 academies, with an echo of the verse which Saint not achieved, in this modern world, unless the Fathers murmered to Saint in the crowded classroom of Paris: of the Society are there to leaven it ... They warn "How is a man better for it, if he gains the whole us that human learning is only a part of life, not world at the expense of losing his own soul?" life's end or life's essence. They will make, to be sure, a brilliant and varied contribution to the Notoriously, there is no department of human academic perfection of your institute. But all that learning which does not reckon Fathers of the Society will be, from their point of view, a by-product; on the list of those whose labours have adorned it. sparks struck out incidentally from the anvil of a Notoriously, there is no Order in the Church that dedicated life. Predominantly the Fathers of the cultivates. so generously, and utilizes so fruitfully, Society are with us as University demonstrators, the varied talent which is to be found among its demonstrating what is, to flesh and blood indemons members. But always, or so the world reasonably trable - that all our studies are, in a certain sense suspects, there is a hesitation, not Learning as such, toys; their subject matter passes with the passage but the glory of God as these can serve to promote of time. -6- President's Address From Page 4 A word about the graduating cl ass in each year: Dr. Brodrick has succeeded in establishing a closer liaison with the graduating class this year and I believe th.tt the spirit of co-operation between that class and the Alu[llni Associati•Jn is better than has sometimes been the case in the past_ But young men are impatient and may even have a right Dr M. Blanar to be impatient. I should have some doubts as to ·the future success of any young man who was not somewhat impatient. I believe therefore that this liaison must be made closer still and that some of the effort of this Association should be ben_t towards aiding the mem JF YOU WERE to call the switchboard of Loyola College any bers of the graduating class. Their num sunny day of the week and ask for "the jocular doctor", you bers are greater than in an earlier day would be connected without hesitation with Dr. Michael Blanar and their enthusiasm is I am convinced of the English Department. no less than existed then. With their numbers and that enthusiasm and with Dr. Blanar probably began radiating his ineluctable brand a knowledge 11nd appreciation of the of jocularity on his birthday in Montreal on April 26, 1933, and objectives of the Alumni Association, a began sprinkling it around Loyola in his college days. After receiv great deal may be accomplished. ing his B.A. in 1954, he spent a year at St. Joseph's to obtain a B. Paed. He received his M.A. in English at the University of Mont 1 And finally, since the sermon is almost real in 1956 (cum laude) and his doctorate there four years later. at its end I should in accordance with what appears to be local tradition refer He has done one year of post-graduate work at University to the collection. The Alumni Fund for College, University of London, under Professor James R. Suther Loyola College is not only d~airable, it land, " the Defoe man". In 1962 he received a Canada Council is essential. It is essential both with grant to study in London, where he spent two and a half months respect to the College itself that we, doing research on an eighteenth century fur trader, John Long, the alumni of Loyola consciom of our and is now in the process of editing a book on the travel of John obligation, but more particularly of our Long that was originally published in 1791. responsibilities should assist generously in this necessary progress and it is essen. He began teaching at Loyola High School in 1956. It was at tial with respect to the work ef this this time, after coming in contact with other teachers, that he Assocation. As you have been informed formulated his opinion that "at the secondary school level many this evening, bursaries granted by this teachers are oyerpaid in their function as glorified baby-sitters". Association - while still too modest - After he had received his Ph.D. in 1960, he began teaching at the have been increased and the Student college level. Loan Fund set in operation only three Presently, he is an assistant professor in the English Depart years ago has proved itself invaluable ment, a student councellor to freshmen, and chairman of the although the funds available to it for Scholarship Committee. In this last position, Dr. Blanar's com purposes of loans to worthy students arc mittee has helped to increase aid to students, has developed an clearly insufficient to meet the increasing information centre on scholarships and government assistance in demand. Genial Ken Cassidy has taken post-gradua~e studies, and has improved liason with the Alumni over chairmanship of the Fund for this Association. year. You have undoubtedly already heard from him and you will certainly From his vantage point as professor, counsellor, and committee hear from him again. I ask you to be head, Dr. Blanar notes that .the calibre of the students has gone generous while remembering that the up in the past two years, due to entrance requirements as well as greatest investment you can make today to the higher demands impos~d upon ,the students once they have in the future of your College and your been accepted and begun the1r courses. country is in the field of education. He notes, too, th.at no small part of the improvement is tht: Do not, however, permit your conscien. ever increasing professional attitude, as opposed to the cliquish ces to be assuaged or your guilt feelings ness of days past. Contributing to this new personality is the to be alleviated merely by large contribu diversity of background of the faculty, the scope offered by speciai tions of money. There will be a great ized courses, buildings, and increasing library facilities. Closer to demand and need for your contribution home, he also approves the increased wage level of the fj\culty, of ideas and of time and I look forward which permits professors to study during the summer inst~ of to the opportunity to solicit those working. ,contributions, and I am confident that they will not be refused_ -7- CONVOCATION 1963 Graduates and Guests: a reflection of confidence. (See text of Fr. Abbott's address on page 10.) -8- CHALLENGE AND ACCEPTANCE by PHIL CONTENT '63 Jf[T IS painfully obvious that any- As the graduates walked· ih one entering the world at large procession up the middle aisle of nowadays is confronting a formid the quadrangle on May 25th, they able challenge. It was made took a detached look at themselves pleasantly obvious to this year', and their compatriots. Most of 175 Loyola graduates on May 25th them were able to ca~ch the eye PHIL CONTENT that there is hope of meeting the of a mother, father, or loved one self amid the isms challenge. in the seats at the side. At that Challenge was the keynote of moment, they were grateful that summately capable of developing the day. It was on the lips of the they were close enough to catch their individuality to the heights Salutatorian, the guest speaker, that one meaningful glimpse. of its powers. and the Valedictorian, who add The graduates remembered the And as they looked at the solid ressed the graduates and their one advantage that was long lost block of graduates, this collective guests amassed in the sun-splashed, to the other institutions which had cell of single units bound together breeze-refreshed quadrangle. J t been envied for their charters. by friendship, the graduates were was on the lips of an out-of-town They were grateful that Loyola also grateful to Loyola for ac uncle who would slap his gradu was still small. They were grate customing them to participating ating nephew on the back and ful that they had been educated i1: one of their first isms - Loyal chortle, "Well now, lad, what lies in an institution that was so con- a1sm. ahead of you tomorrow?" And it was on the tip of the tongue, if not quite on the lips, of every graduate, who, every once in a while, was conscious of a throbbing pulse racing somewhere in the back of his head, which might also have been the pulse of the world. It was impressed upon each graduate that the challenge with which he would be confronted would be one or another aspect of some mass movement. The fight is not so much with this or that opposing force, not so much with Communism or materialism in particular, as it is with ISM's in general. As each graduate heads into the world. he stands alone. The isms have already been formulated and hurtled into irrevocable move ment. The challenge to the in dividual is how to relate to them, how to be absorbed by the right ones and to stand militant against the wrong by REV. WALTER M. ABBOTT, S.J. Associate Editor of AMERICA FR. ABBOTT a n optimistic presence Part of the Commencement address given to the 1963 Loyola graduates on the campu.s on May 25 Rio de Janeiro says the selfishness of the rich is "a ~ore ..ser ious and urgent problem than communism itself. ... GJ'HE N~W buil~in~s. of Montreal, like the new App_arently'. even the great Catholic country of ones mother big cities of Canada and the United Ireland 1s runnmg the same downhill course. In the States, certainly reflect confidence. Whatever else coming issue of th_e Catho~ic Mind, the monthly one !nay say about their style, the lofty buildino-s docun:ientary mag:azme published by the edirors of certai!lly SJ?eak. of se:enity, soaring as they do abo;e America, you will read an article by Desmond chaotic soCiety m a time 9f mass neurosis .. . Fennell clai!11ing t?at "in Ireland today, educated Architects and builders are optimistic still, as and e~on~:>Irnc 1~an is developing according to canons always .. But r1;1odern ~ovelists, playwrights, film and ad c~1 teria. "".hich are not being related effectively TV script writers, pamters and composers of music to his Christian belief." It is an indictment of the clergy for letting Ireland slide down into atheistic Sc_> often seem to keep insi?ting that man is anxiety ridden, lonely and even isolated, restless, frenzied, capi~a l_i sn:i. Fennell ~r~ues ~hat Communist society is earthy, desperate, cynical, numb from the horrors less murncal to Christian life and salvation than the of war and the threat of the nuclear thing. Statistical society of atheistic capitalism, and that the faithful surveys show it, too. I noticed the recent report on should be told so plainly. "To make the analogy the survey of 500 ~ouseho!de~s carried out by the concrete," he writes, "in Poland, Hungary or the Centre of Commumty Studies m Saskatoon, showino Soviet Union the Church has better chances of that a majority of those interviewed expressed ~aki~g _Christ triumph in people's heart~ than it has "frustration and helplessness." m Br1ta111, Sweden or France." When Fennell's article ... ~oder~. architecture, at least, I say, tells us in its first appe~red. in Ireland, some months ago, it was b1g-1mage skyscrapers and multi-level houses that ~reeted with silence, and, as far as I know, nobody lrela_nd has yet commented on it. I must say that ~h~ race is made f~r bigger and better things. Perhaps m It is because architects and engineers build for the I certam1y thought about it when Pope John's fu~~re and for the c~m'?~nity. That is certainly the encycli ca l Pacem in Terris came out. I went back to spmt of another optimistic group which is at work Fennell's article and read ther e: "Part of the current in the modern world: Pope John and the Fathers of Catholic ca nt in Ireland is that the 'Western world' the Second. Vatican Council. They are engaged in from Sweden. to Argentina, is somehow 'good' and the renovat10n of a great, old building. As you will the Communist part of the world 'evil' - or at see, espe~ially ~t the next session of the Council, they le:tst that the former is better than the latter." ... . I do not wa~t to _worry you or discourage you are workmg with the strength of community thinkino0 · and social thinking . . . w 1t~1 . these . considerati ons. My purpose is quite There is a restlessness among our youth and positive. I simply want to show you the need for among _our l~ity whi~h I _interpret to be largely an ·omething that Cardinal Lienart, clean of the French express10n of the drive rn the direction of fuller Ca rdinals, told me recently: "Every one of us must respo1:sibility. The stress on the goal of personal be aware of his responsibility in everything he does. _sa lvat10n - th~ "Jesus-and-!11e" _attitude - is giving Every _one of us must do what depends on him, way to emphasis on the social dimention of religious a~co r?mg to the pl~ce Divine Providence has given life and practice .. . him, 111 order that lus cooperation may be contributed Reports flow across my desk in N ew York: Arch to ~h_e great wor~."- C_ardinal Lienart certainly has a bishop Zoa of the Cameroons sa s the Church has positive and opt11111st1c outlook, in spite of all the 15 years of grace left in Africa; authorities who harsh rea lities he knows are around us. He told me: cannot be named, for obvious reasons, say the Church "In the . light of the Council, the Church appears is losing its hold on the youth of Poland; the more alive than ever and, in fact, emerges as the Apostolic Delegate in England says people are "being true hope of the world." He sa id more alive, how de-Christianized more rapidly than we can make ever, not larger or greater. them Christians· at the font." Archbishop Camara of Continued on page 11 10- Father Abbott, from page 10 The Anglican Primate of Canada sa id recenlly that he believes Canadian Protestants will become a minority to Catholics, and he said he was not worried by the prospect. What he said next impressed me more thant that compli ment. 'Tm more concerned about the vitality of ou,r Church. I believe Protestants can better spend their Lime being good Christians than in worrying about the Catholic Church." I have often marked how, in the Catholic as well as in the Protestant Church, there are those who would rather fight someone than work on the Golden Rule approach. Pope John pulled the rug out from under them when he insisted in the encyclical Pacem in Terris that "we should never confuse error with the person who errs" ... Our hope, of course, lies in you , our Catholic college graduates. If you do not, or cannot, see through the materialistic fog around yo u, then who can? Because you h ave studied thoology and philo sophy, people will expect you to know· what to think and what to say. Your choices involved others you can add to their anxiety and desperation, or you can be the architects and builders of their ideas and idea l .. . As time runs o ut, we lose more and more of our separated brethren, because, more and more, they say think and do things that work toward the destruction of traditional Christian morality. More and more of them approve artificial contraception, sterilization, abortion and eu thanasia. T hey are on the way to eliminating a ll seven capital sins. In th e process, of course, they arc working but a wl1'0lc new co nce pt of the Chrislfan virtues. They must have, and do have, a new co ncept of Divine Providence. They do not, or wi ll not, see that they abandon not only natural law morality but al.m the virtues lhat God meant Lo be super. natura l so urces of strength for us. They do not, or will. not, see that they have Bank of Commerce offers abandonned even the revealed concepts about Himself. l[ you, the products of a special long-term the highest Catholic education, do not show them what they are doing to the Christian virtues and the supernatural EDUCATION LOAN life, how wi ll they ever sec the ligh t? 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Repayments are arranged through a French lawyer and pr·ofessor of law, has flexible system of low monthly instalments of principal and interest. said about lawyers: " We are .. . bes t The period of repayment may extend up to two years longer than the qualified LO ma intain those (basic h uman) rights and solve man"s differ C' n· length of the course. Some repayment periods may be as long as ces at international meetings, guided b y eight years. our moral authority." It may be so . but.I Lhln k you will have,J110re influence This Bank of Commerce Education Loan Plan is designed t o help if you joi n the ranks of the modern you help your child's future. moral theologians - that is to say, 1h c FREE BOOKLET: ones who are the modern wo rld "s mentors For information about the plan, call in at your - writers, p laywrights, movie a nd TV nearest Commerce branch for the free booklet "Education Loan script writers, columnists and ad writers . Plan" or write to 25 King Street West, Toronto 1, Ontario. The non-Ca tholics and pagans whose p laces yo u wi ll take, if yo u move inlo the ra nks of the "new moral tl1 eo logions·• CANADIAN IMPERIAL in the co mmunica tions field, may not ~ like it, but they wi ll have to admit 1hat yo u have as much righ t Lo move in and BANK OF COMMERCE mm•=i•O•·lil Lake over as they had. You can do so 1260 you much then to protect rights, improve Over branches to serve more on page 12 - 11 [email protected]. we extend our sincere sympathy to the following alumni and families of alumni on their bereavement. BIDER Mrs. Frederick A., at Lachine, March 24th, mother of Milton A. '50 of Toronto and Roger '52, Loyola College Faculty. CURRAN James, at Montreal, brother of Patrick '43, on April 3rd. DICKENSON Ernest '07, at New York, brother of Arthur Dickenson of Mission City, B.C. GALLAGHER Eunice Elizabeth, wife of J ames M. Gallagher '34, at 1ontreal, May 3rd. KEARNEY Rev. Francis '13, of St. Ann's Parish, Montreal, March 22nd. LALLY John Edward, father of John '46, at Montreal, April 23rd. MAGANN George L. Magann '11, Canada's former ambassador to Greece and Switzerland, at Toronto. McCAFFREY Clarence F., Q.C., brother of Edward '25 and uncle of Fred '41, at Montreal, May 9th. MURPHY Byron Edward, father of Myron '41, on April 18th at Ste. Agathe. PRINCE Mrs. Albert Edward, mother of Owen '52, on May 5th at Montreal. SLATTERY Mrs. Timothy F., mother of T. P. Slattery, Q.C. '3 1, at fontreal, early in April. WOLFE Sister St. Patrick Mary, C.N.D., aunt of Mr. T. G. Walsh, S. J. '53, March 6th in Stamford, Connecticut. Father Abbott, from page 11 Etnical Problems in Business Seminar at startled some, but you have seen how Boston College recently that moral other bi ·hops have begun Lo move in this race relations and give the world an ex theologians "need the guidance of ex direction. ample that spirit and virtue are more perienced people who are actually deal imporant in this age han anyhing else. ing with these problems (the moral pro blems of business) ." Your great Arch . . . Your Cardinal has said: "Laymen T hose of yo u who go into business have an intell ectual and spiritual con.tri need not feel resigned to a life-long bishop of Montreal, Cardinal Leger, has bution Lo make, and their presence in_ struggle of trying to harmonize Christian set an example in this regard that has the schools is the sign of an awakened ethics and modern business practices, as had reasonance throughout the continent, conscience in the Christian community." if that were all you had to look forward and now, through the Second Va tican I wou Id on Iy add that their presence t•o. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Riley Council, throughout the Church. His J. eve ryw here is vital for the preservation of Boston, Massachusetts, a professor of complete reliance upon the laity in the of the Christian sense of responsibility. moral theoloyy for many years, told an formatiin of his Board of Education Century Electric Company 834 Notre Dome Street West, Montreal Wholesale Electrical Supplies TEL. 866-3647 -12- To the following alumni, their brides and brides-to.be, we extend our ve ry best wishes for happiness. We sincerely hope they will keep in touch with our office as they settle into their new ho mes throughout the land. Norbert John Kevin Donovan '57 - married to Anne H arriet Brady, April 20th, Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury. Paul Sauve '57 was best man. Gordon Bruce English '54 - married Arlene Mae Riclurdson of Vancouver, May 1963, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Calgary, Alberta. Guy Leger '61 - married Lois Shanahan of Toronto, at St. Leo's Church, October 6, 1962. Gerald McQuade '59 - married Diane Jenkevice, March 1963, at St. Barbara's Church, LaSalle, Que. Michael O'Neill '49 - married February, 1963. Leo A. Ryan '60 - married Nicole Barrette of Hull, Que., March 1963, in the Church of St. Germain de L'Au xerrois, Paris, France. Daniel Joseph Sullivan '56 - married Margaret Therese LeBlanc, April 27th at St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Dr. James D. Sullivan '58 was best man; Paul LeBlanc '64 and Lawrence J. Boyle '57 were ushers. David J. Watters '56 - married Katherine Young of English Dept. Loyola College Faculty. ENGAGED Terrence Charles Snyder '53 - engaged to Margaret L:ing of London, Ontario, marriage to take place July 13th, St. Mary's Church, London. J. M. Kane - engaged to Louise Lippe, marriage to take place June 29th. William Kevin Kiely '56 - engaged to Catherine Ann Colthorpe - marriage to take place August 17th at Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, T own of fount Royal. Thomas Edward Kierans '61 - engaged to Inta Frismanis - marriage to take place August 3rd at Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. Paul Charles McDonald '59 - engaged to Patricia Lloyd of Saint John, N.B. - marriage to take place June 8th at St. Ignatius Loyola. Brian Potter '62 - engaged to Penny Marcotte - marriage to take place in June. Allan George Rutter '63 - engaged to Margaret Nancy Gauthier, marriage to take place in June. BROWN &RYAN LTD STEVEDORES Board of Trade Bldg. Montreal, Que. •crystal-dear, friendly 7-Up has become a part of family life in count less Canadian homes. That's because spark ling, wholesome 7-Up is the happy "fresh up" ' drink WHEREVER you are. Vi. 9-8361 71 you Lll(E IT- IT Lll(ES YOU 13- in Buffalo, New York City, Cleveland and Detroit. He is a native of Sacramento, California and served as an officer in the United States Air Force during World War II. lOOllOUl 1938 Stanley D. Clarke has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Catholic Welfare Bure.au of the Fed 1921 eration of Catholic Charities and is general cam D. D. Dineen has been elected to the Board of Direc paign chairman. tors of tne Catholic Welfare Bureau of the Federation of Catholic Charities. 1941 1927 Lucien Cardin, M. P. for Sorel, has been appointed A. J. C. Anglin, Q.C., member of the executive staff Minister without folio in Hon. Lester Pearson's of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, cabinet. Canadian Heat Office, has been advanced to the pos 1943 ition of Counsel of that company. Earl J. Saylor has been appointed Manager, Accounts 1929 Paya ble Dept., Imperial Tobacco Sales. Rev. George A. Foley, Pastor of St. Kevin's, celebrates Dr. Robert J. Brodrick retiring as president of the his 30th anniversary in the priesthood concurrently Loyola Alumni Association after a suucessful two with the silver anniversary of St. Kevin's. He is cur year tenure of office. rently a director of St. Mary's Hospital, director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau and Director of the 1944 Catholic Boys' Services. He is also English-speaking Rev. Russell Schultz, formely chaplain of Boy Scouts representative of the board of directors of the Society and Girl Guides, has been appointed Chaplain of for the Propogation of the Faith. Marymount High School. 1932 1946 Professor John Bland, director of the McGill School A. Patrick Wickham has been elected vice-chairman of Architecture, addressed the Interior Decorators of the Catholic Welfare Bureau of the Federation of Society of Quebec at Desjardins Restaurant on April ~~tholic Charities and is chairman of the parish div- 22nd. His subject was "The Architect and the Interior 1s10n. Decorator". Edmund T. Asselin, M.P. for Notre Dame de Grace, H. J. Hemens, Q.C., Secretary of Dupont of Canada, graduates in law from University of Montreal and elected president of the Loyola Alumni Association will read with the firm of Howard, Stalker & Mc at the recent annual meeting, succeeding Dr. R . .J. Dougall preparatory to Bar examinations. Brodrick. 1933 1949 Victor deB. Oland has been elected to the Board of Robert N. Boyle, president of Shipping Limited, has Directors of Texaco of Canada Limited. Mr. Oland been accorded recognition as Honorary Consul-Ge is also a director of the Canadian World Exhibition neral of Ireland. He has been elected to the Board of Corporation of 1967. He will be among the speakers Directors of the Catholic Welfare Bureau of the at the Atlantic Development Board's discussion forum Federation of Catholic Charities. during the annual meeting of the Maritime Provinces Arthur Wickhalm has been re-elected a director of the Board of Trade meetings in Amherst, N.S. in June. Province of Quebec Society for Crippled Children; continuing as director arrd vice-president of The 1934 Genesians. Rev. Richard E. King, Pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, Edward Gallagher is studying for his Master's degree has been re-appointed Diocesan Chaplain of Ifoy in Psychology at University of Ottawa. Scouts and Girl Guides after an absence of four years Donald W. McNaughton has left Canadian Breweries from the post. Limited to join Canadian Schenley Limited as adver• }935 tising and public relations manager. E,ric Kierans was one of nine rec1p1ents of honorary awards from the students' association of the Univers 1950 ity of Montreal, on May 16th. Mr. Kierans was one ol Dr. John R. Gutelius, assistant professor McGill the speakers at the national conference of the Can University Faculty of Medicine, has been appointe(l adian Public Relations Society in Vancouver in May; l\Iarkle Scholar in Academic Medicine, by the J ohn he also addressed members of the Canadian Citizen and Mary Markle Foundation, New York. The ap ship Council recently. pointment provides a $30,00 grant to the medica l 1936 school paid at the rate of $6,000 a year to supplement Lucien G. Rolland has been appointed a director of Dr. Gute!ius' salary, aid his research and assist in his The Borden Company Limited. Mr. Rolland is pres- development as a teacher and investigator. Dr. Gute- ident and general manager, Rolland Paper Company lius is doing vascular surgery and is in charge of sur- Limited. As we have mentioned in the past, he holds gica l teaching at the R oya l Victoria Hospital. similar positions with many well known firms. Rev. Walter Lallemand has moved from Annuncia- Igor A. Vanderlake has been appointed Manager of tion of Our Lady, Town of Mount Roya l, to St. the Hotel Lafayette in Buffalo, N.Y. Mr. Vanderlake Edmund of Canterbury, Beaconsfield. He is also has served in an executive capacity in Statler Hotels chaplain of St. Thomas More School, -14- Have you replied yet? We are attempting to bring our records up to date and would gr&atly appreciate your assistance by completing the following form and returning it to the Alumni Office-, 7141 ' Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal 28, Quebec, Canada, as soon as possible. NAME (Lost) (First) !Middle! Please underline Christian name used. HOME ADDRESS . No. Street ' • • ' o ••'• ' '•I'' 0 • '' • •' '•' '•' '• o • • o o • O, • ' • • • o • • • City Postal Z-one Province BUSINESS ADDRESS Company No. Street . ' ...... ' ...... City Postal Zone Province OCCUPATION OR TITLE PHONE NUMBERS Residence Business ATTENDED LOYOLA COLLEGE ...... to . LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL ...... to . . . 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