Vol. 2, No. 4 March 1983

University of St. Jerome's College

interpersonal relations, marriage and the family. It is an excellent preparation for those Mark your who have a crucial role in Family Life pro­ grams in the school and in the community," calendars ­ says John Theis, director of the program which is now in its twelfth year. Theis Alumni Picnic! expects about 200 people to be enrolled this The date has been set for an alumni reunion summer. picnic on Sunday, June 26, 1:00 p.m. at The Institute for Studies in Learning Waterloo Park.It has been two years since the Disabilities will be offered from July 4 to 22, College's last alumni gathering, and a picnic This Summer at providing courses at the introductory, in­ is a great reason to come together with old termediate and advanced levels, says pro­ friends and classmates. gram director John Orlando. A number of The College decided on a single-day event St. Jerome's visiting experts will participate in this rather than a weekend of activities as has The majority of summer courses to be offered summer's program. been done in the past. "We hope that this will at the University of Waterloo this year will be The Just Society, a credit course to be encourage more people to attend and that taught at St. Jerome's. A variety of full and offered July 4-22 by the Institute for Studies they will feel free to bring their families," half-credit courses in English, history, in Theological Renewal, will examine the says Rob Donelson, assistant to the registrar religious studies, psychology and philosophy involvement of the Roman Catholic and and one of the organizers. will be available, as will the College's special Protestant churches in issues of poverty, Waterloo Park is adjacent to Seagram summer programs and institutes. unemployment and prejudice; their reaction Stadium and is an ideal location for the picnic Courses in religion and politics, women to socialism and capitalism; their social - a large adult and children's swimming in literature, commonwealth literature, me­ activities in Latin America and their attitudes pool, baseball diamonds, playing fields, shad­ dieval church history, adolescent psychology towards women. Last year's course, The ed areas, free parking and more. and western philosophical tradition among Religious Experience of the Young, was im­ Don't miss the fun! There will be games others will provide a wide variety ofofferings mensely successful, and Institute director and prizes for everyone and free refresh­ for summer students. Doug Letson expects an equally enthusiastic ments. Bring your own table, barbeque and The Studies in Family Life and Sex Edu­ response to this year's offering. chairs. But above all, bring yourself, your cation program will run from July 4 to For more information about summer family and friends. Let us know if you can Augus t 12. "This program is aimed at courses and programs, tuition fees, course attend by completing theenclosed coupon or providing participants with a sound under­ requirements and residence, etc., fill out the by calling the College at (519) 884-8110, ext. 81. standing of basic issues in human sexuality, enclosed coupon.

Toronto this fall, says Rob twentieth century. A report on Livesay and the Evolution of Donelson. "We have a large body of alumni in Canadian Poetry can be both of these cities, and we feel this is a good found inside. starting point for the development of an alumni association," he says. The chapter gatherings will be an effort to bring the College to the alumni and to reacquaint classmates and old friends. Each chapter gathering will likely consist of a dinner and guest speaker. We hope to have some faculty on hand, and possibly a photo display of college life and information table as well. "These chapter events may also prove to be a catalyst for other alumni sponsored activities," adds Donelson. More information will be available in the June Update! If you would like to suggest ideas for these events or possibly lend a hand in their organization, contact Rob Donelson - (519) 884-8110, ext. 81. Feature Article The Bishops, The Economy, and the University by Kenneth Westhues ment. The Polish government, after all, is There is a lesson in this for a Catholic communist. Even last year, when the U.S. university. So long as the church ignored bishops criticized the Reagan administra­ history and portrayed the Cities of God and tion's preparation for nuclear war, Catholics Man as worlds apart, one of the hallmarks of in the Great North were not perturbed. With a Catholic school was reluctance to find fault our meager weaponry we couldn't even get with existing political and economic realities. into such a war, much less win it. These were but a vale of tears to be under­ But then came the first week of 1983, and stood and patiently endured until entry at a 10-page statement from the Canadian death into the divine kingdom. Criticism of bishops entitled "Ethical Reflections on the public policy and attempts at social change Economic Crisis." It was not the work of the were in fact thought dangerous, since a entire national episcopate, but only of its preoccupation with reforming this basically 8-member Social Affairs Commission. Some unreformable world might distract a good bishops, moreover, publicly disagreed with Catholic's attention fr~m the eternal verities. it. Besides, that short document said little that Today's Catholic university has a differ­ ordinary Canadians had not already thought: ent character. Its mission is to encourage a that the unemployment rate is a moral out­ critical awareness of the status quo, indeed to rage, that Ottawa's austerity program is facilitate and hasten the process of becoming unjust, and that to place profits before human called for in church documents. And true to rights is wrong. Against the background of its tradition, to serve these ends in light of a cries in Quebec and the West to put an end to gospel of peace and justice. This means an Canada itself, the bishops' statement indeed end to rote learning and an insistence on the sounds tame. harder discipline of reasoned, creative Then why all the fuss? Why the headlines thought. It means new courses and programs from St. John's to Victoria, the page in like those at St. Jerome's in the Institutes of Dr. Kenneth Westhues, former chairman of the Newsweek, the cover-story in Maclean's, the Family Life and Sex Education and for Studies Department of Sociology at the University of annoyance of Trudeau, and heated debates in in Theological Renewal, and in the Centre for Waterloo, is a lecturer in the Institute for Studies parishes across the land? Clearly not because Catholic Experience. The new mission gives in Theological Renewal at St. Jerome's. In recent of the specific ideas proposed. These are no a new and critical slant to the classic courses years he has given a course here in Catholic more or less debateable than any other plans in history, philosophy and literature. Above Sociological Thought. For 1982-83 he is Visiting for escape from the economic doldrums we all, it makes the Catholic university come Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of are in. The reason for the uproar is simply alive as more truly Christian, and more truly Newfoundland. that the church has entangled itself in the a university. complexities of everyday Canadian life, has Canadian Catholics barely stirred in 1968, come down to earth and pointed out a need Do you have a comment or question about this when a conference of bishops in Medellin, for social change. This one little document article? Why not offer your own views on this Colombia, condemned the status quo in Latin brought home to Canadians what people in topic or submit an article on a topic that interests America and called for radical change. That Poland and Latin America already know: that you? Responses from readers will be published in southern continent, after all, is a long way the Catholic Church has at last accepted the June Update! Submissions should be no more from here. Nor were Canadian Catholics history, plunged itself into history, that it than 500 words in length and are subject to now pointedly asserts that the City of Man upset when the Polish bishops made editing. common cause with the Solidarity move­ could become through responsible human effort the City of God.

Faith and justice linked, says Baum Gregory Baum, the internationally-known society from the perspective of the poor and Baum. "It is through the grass roots networks Canadian theologian and professor of Re­ marginalized. God is seen as just in the that people begin to think and act differently. ligious Studies and sociology at the Univer­ scriptures when he is merciful to the poor They eventually move to the top." sity ofToronto, gave a talk on "Justice and the and oppressed." Modern Encyclicals" at the St. Jerome's Baum acknowledged, though, that our Centre for Catholic Experience on February instincts cause us to look at society from the 25. viewpoint of the middle class. But he warned In the course of his spirited lecture, Baum that to view society from the perspective of provided an overview of the challenges the poor means that we are at odds with raised in papal encyclicals concerning justice modern culture. He called on people to reread in modern society. He spoke of the new the Bible and discover Christ's call for social religious experience that has emerged in justice. many parts of the world during the past Since 1971, he concluded, the Canadian twenty years. Bishops have joined other Christian "It is the union of faith and justice; the churches to pursue social justice in an realization that faith must include social ecumenical context. He sees this as a hopeful commitment," he said. "Faith and justice are development. "We cannot change institu­ intertwined when we are ready to look upon tions from the top down," acknowledged Campus News ' For the l?ve ?£ Livesay .- :a major contribut.ion .Jt-· li v-0CJJ-f to Canadian literary studies l)crw--t - ~ I The work of one of Canada's most distin­ hand to read selections from her many works, Depression at the School of Social Sciences in guished poets, Dorothy Livesay, was the including her latest volume, The Phases of Toronto and eventually worked with the subject of a two-day conference at the College, Love. Earlier in the day she had autographed Family Welfare Agency in Montreal. Friday and Saturday, March 4-5. copies of the new work at a book-launching She published her first collection of po­ party held at the College by Toronto's Coach etry, Green Pit cher, before she was 20. Ten House Press. The audience also heard tapes of volumes of poetry were to follow, most no­ a musical version of Livesay's long, lyrical tably Selected Poems (1957) and Collected Poems poem, Disasters of the Sun, prior to the poet's (1972). She is twice winner of the Governor reading. General's Award for Poetry. Livesay's poetry University of Waterloo drama students has always been linked with her social produced "Times Were Different?", one of the activism. She is a founder of Amnesty In­ poet's 1930 radio-plays. Livesay's literary ternational (Canada), the Committee for an executor, Dr. David Arnasen of the Univer­ Independent Canada, and an ardent pro­ sity of Manitoba, and her biographer Dr. Lee ponent of women's rights and the peace move­ B. Thompson, head of Canadian Studies at the ment. She was also involved in the Canadian University of Vermont, each presented Civil Liberties Union and was an early critic papers. Arnasen spoke on "The Rise of Mod­ of the Canadian government's internment of ernism in Canada" and Thompson addressed Japanese Canadians during World War IL herself to "Livesay: The Poet as Journalist." The Conference was jointly sponsored by Livesay attended all presentations, but in the University of St. Jerome's College, the the interests of ensuring a frank appraisal of English departments of the University of her work, did not attend a panel discussion at Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, and A relaxed moment for poet Dorothy Livesay and the conclusion of the conference. the Canadian Studies department at St. Paul's Conference chairperson Lindsay Dorney. Livesay was born in Winnipeg in 1909 and College. was educated at the University of Toronto "The many speakers who took part indi­ Dorothy Livesay and the Evolution of Cana­ and at the Sorbonne. Her father, John F.B. cates not only Livesay's importance to Ca­ dian Poetry was the theme of the symposium, Livesay, was the first general manager of nadian literature, but also the renaissance of which attracted scholars from across Canada Canadian Press and a journalist of note. Her interest in her work," observed Lindsay and the United States to discuss various as­ mother, Florence Randall Livesay, was a Dorney, conference chairperson and a pects of Livesay's poetry, prose, drama and popular and prolific writer of prose and lecturer in English at St. Jerome's. "We are radio-plays. A screening of an NFB film, poetry. As Livesay pointed out during her sure this conference has made a major "Woman I Am," on the life of the poet opened reading, both parents had a major influence contribution to Canadian literary studies." the conference. The 73-year-old poet was on on her writing. Livesay trained during the

News Briefs • College cagers The Men's Residence is • Prominent Canadians coming to SJC home to two Waterloo Warrior basketball May 24-25, the College will host • CP picks Smith Peter Smith, Associate players this year. Paul Van Oorschot and "Canadian Culture: International Professor of Latin American history at St. Steve Atkin have been strong all season Dimensions." a two-day conference Jerome's, recently became the accredited and played key roles in the Warrior's sponsored by The Centre on Foreign correspondent in South America for Ca­ OUAA Championship win over York, Policy and Federalism at the University of nadian Press. The stories he files from the March 5. Not only is Van Oorschot co­ Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. region over the next few months will be captain of his team, but he also maintains Many well-known Canadians will take available on CP and other wire services for a 93% average in his computer science part, including Claude Ryan, Hon. Paul publication in newspapers across Canada. program and a place on the Dean's List. Martin, Hon. Gerard Pelletier, Sondra "I'll be keeping an eye on the Falklands," Coach Don McCrae calls Atkin the "power Gotlieb, Louis Applebaum and others. The says Smith. "That region is still a powder producer of the team," while Van conference will focus on the impact of keg, given that Argentina is beefing up its Oorschot is McCrae's "favourite worker". federalism upon Canada's cultural diplo­ military presence in bases close to the Both players displayed a fine effort in the macy. Islands." CIAU final, in spite of their 63-52 loss to the University of Victoria, March 19. • Uncovering the Ottawa connection • New book by Van Evra In February Dr. From 1947 to 1959 St. Jerome's College was Judith Van Evra, Psychology Department • $2,000 more! The Seventh Annual St. affiliated with the University of Ottawa. Chairperson, published "Psychological Jerome's-Notre Dame Colleges 1600 km We have been in contact with U of 0 in Disorders of Children and Adolescents" charity run reported on in the December order to locate our alumni from that (Little, Brown, 1983), an advanced un­ Update! exceeded its goal of $5,000 and period, and we soon hope to develop a dergraduate text providing both a theo­ actually raised over $7,000 for the mailing list of their names. Eventually retical and applied approach to the psy­ Kitchener-Waterloo chapter of the you'll read about them in Update! Can you chological disorders of young people. She Multiple Sclerosis Society. Given today's help us? Send any information you may provides an historical background to this economy, this total makes the students' have about this "Ottawa Connection" tc field, discusses diagnostic issues, focuses effort all the more remarkable. Great Update! on treatment and examines a wide range Work! of specific psychological disorders. Alumni Profile Grad's novel adapted to screen a novel written by a graduate of the Uni­ whereas in the book his character dies. versity of St. Jerome's College - David Generally the characters were simplified in Morrell. the movie in order to emphasize Stallone, "I can date my determination to become a and I think the action was somewhat more writer to a Friday in September, 1959 when subdued in the film. Overall, however, the the television program Route 66 first came on film is remarkably close to the plot of the the air", recalls Morrell. "I used to write novel, and I think the direction, cinema­ imaginary episodes for pleasure." The show tography, and musical scoring are all first had made a lasting impression on Morrell rate." and he wrote to its principal screenwriter, Today Morrell is a professor of English at Stirling Silliphant. To Morrell's amusement the University of Iowa. He teaches modern and surprise, Silliphant replied, and the two fiction and American literature. He is mar­ continued a correspondence which served as ried, and he and his wife Donna have a the impetus for Morrell to study and write daughter, 16, and a son, 11. He writes at home fiction. on a personal computer with a word pro­ Morrell pursued his interest in writing cessing disc. "The time I spend on my writing when he enrolled in an Honours English depends on when I teach; but one way or program at St. Jerome's College in 1962 - a another I try for at least six hours a day, often natural field of study for one who was to take seven days a week," says Morrell. his writing seriously. While a student at the With five novels under his belt and a sixth What would you say about a Canadian-born College, Morrell wrote for a campus literary due in the fall of '83 from St. Martin's-Marek writer whose first novel is now in its tenth magazine known as Jabberwocky. Press, what's next for David Morrell? printing in paperback, was published in After graduating in 1966, Morrell moved "There continues to be the ongoing re­ hardback and paperback in Britain, and has on to Pennsylvania State University, where search for my novels, hence my interest in been translated into 13 languages? he received an MA in American literature in weapons, outdoor survival, scuba diving and You might say, "Great work!" 1967 and a PhD in 1970. really anything that involves what I'm And what would you say if the film Most can only imagine the experience of writing about." version of the novel would become Sylvester watching their own creation on the screen. "There's a possibility that another novel, Stallone's first non-Rocky hit and be tied for For Morrell the experience was very real ­ Testament, will be filmed this year. Contracts the eleventh most successful movie of 1982? and quite enjoyable. "I had a good time have been signed, but since I waited ten years You might say, "Fantastic, tell me more". watching it," he says "especially because of to see First Blood on the screen, I'm not And if you knew that this film earned $46 the spontaneous outbursts from the audi­ holding my breath, though I am crossing my million in the U.S., is expected to reach $60 ence. They cheered and clapped and became fingers." million, has broken twelve international box remarkably involved." "In the meantime," adds Morrell, "I keep office records and in most countries rates Morrell acknowledges that his original busy working on more short stories, on re­ second only to ET. - you might phone home! novel is different from the movie in some visions for my next novel and on a new one The movie is First Blood, and it is based on ways. "Stallone, for example, lives at the end that I hope will come out in 1984." First Blood - First Rate First Blood by David Morrell is definitely not except that the sheriff of Madison, Wilfrid experienced by many Vietnam vets. He for the squeamish. Teasle, is a Korean War veteran, Distin­ questions society's treatment of them when From the moment 'first blood' is drawn by guished Service Cross winner and trained he observes that Rambo "gave up three years the central character, Rambo, the reader can boxer. to enlist in a war that was supposed to help safely assume that it will not be the last. The Teasle views Rambo as a vagrant and his country, and the only trade he came out action of this overpowering novel progresses attempts to escort him out of town. But with is how to kill. Where was he supposed on a path of relentless violence and destruc­ Rambo is tired of being pushed around and, to get a job that needed experience like that?" tion. Its immediacy and vitality, however, in defiance, scoffs, "I have a right to decide for As a psychological study, First Blood make it difficult·to put aside. myself whether I'll stay .. . or not. I won't focuses on the thoughts and motives of the But it is more than a novel of slaughter have somebody decide that for me." He is at central characters. Rambo and Teasle fre­ and rampage. First Blood is also an indictment once arrested and taken to prison. It is here quently engage in interior monologue, of America's treatment of her Vietnam war that the title takes on its significance. Rambo usually at the critical points of the chase veterans. We are introduced to Rambo, an slashes and kills a guard and escapes. The where they often question their actions. ex-Green Beret soldier, Medal of Honour ensuing manhunt leaves a trail of death They are reminded of their war experi­ winner and survivor of torture in a Vietnam causing authorities to question over and over ences as the bloody manhunt unfolds. In­ prisoner of war camp. His body shows the again, "how many others are going to die deed, their struggle is really a personalized physical scars he has endured; the novel is a before this is over?" war, a war of wills and a war of sheer physical study of his psychological scars which make Both characters rely on their war expe­ and psychological endurance. Both men are it so difficult for him to re-enter society. The riences to sustain them during the chase. of a similar breed. They ultimately develop a path he chooses to follow forces him to "get Morrell displays an astute knowledge of respect for one another - a respect born out used to death again." weapons and a keen sense of survival in a of a strange sympathy for the other's cir­ Rambo has clearly been a drifter since his rugged landscape. cumstances that comes only from having return from the war. Already he has been run Throughout First Blood, Morrell is really shared similar experiences. out of "fifteen goddamn towns" and there is commenting on the horror of war and man's Morrell's penchant for realism and action no reason to suspect that his arrival in capacity for violence. He convincingly shows make First Blood a novel to remember. As Madison, Kentucky will be any different ­ the difficulties of reintegrating into society popular fiction, it is first rate. The Editor Campus News Merton workshop: insight into an extraordinary man The St. Jerome's Centre for Catholic Nazareth College, Rochester, New York; Experience sponsored on January 29 the Deba Patnaik, a close Indian friend of Merton largest gathering ever convened in North and Director of Third World Studies at America commemorating the late American Oberlin College, Ohio; and Centre Director monk, Thomas Merton. Appropriately, it was Michael Higgins. Talks dealt with Merton as the weekend which marked his 68th birth­ peace-maker, as contemplative, as poet, and day. in the concluding presentation, as visual "Thomas Merton: A Monk for All artist. Seasons" proved to be a "celebration of the life A Roman Catholic monk who converted of an extraordinary man," as one participant to Catholicism at the age of 23, Merton lived aptly described the day-long workshop. from 1915 until 1968. Much of his life was About 300 people took part in talks and spent in the Trappist Monastery at discussions which centred on the life of this Gethsemani, Kentucky. It was here that he influential Catholic monk, author, poet, lived as a contemplative, withdrawn from social activist, photographer and mystic. The the world, but not isolated from it. Merton program included an exclusive screening of a saw in his silence "a foundation for action Michael Higgins spoke of Merton as poet and CBC Man Alive film "A Monk on the Run," and joy." made particular reference to the late monk's fina l which contained footage of Merton taken His prolific writings remain a rich legacy poem, the lengthy and fragmented "The Geo­ hours before he was accidentally electrocuted and his views on nuclear war, civil rights and graphy of Lograire". while on a speaking tour in Bangkok, the role of religion in the twentieth century Thailand in December, 1968. were truly prophetic. "Judging by the Guest speakers included Donald overwhelming response to the workshop," Grayston, Rector of All Saints Anglican says Higgins, "this could well become an Church in Burnaby, B.C.; Monsignor William annual event." Shannon, professor of Religious Studies at

Left to right: William Shannon, Deba Patnaik, Donald Grayston and Michael Higgins.

A display of some of M erton's own photographs provided another view of his diverse life.

Deba Patnaik discussed "Merton's Visual A refreshing break for one of the day's speakers, People from Kirkland Lake, Niagara Falls, Imagination" with a slide presentation of original William Shannon of Nazareth College in . Hamilton, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo and other photographs. "Dull and seemingly useless objects Rochester, N. Y., and a chance to mingle with some communities registered for the workshop, the were transformed by Merton into icons and given of the 300 participants. largest Merton event ever held in North America. a sense of individuality," said Patnaik. Campus News #A university education is worth more than dollars," says President The following is the conclusion of a two-part gument. One of the things that is happening President's Committee who are associated with interview with the President of the University of in university education in Ontario and in St. Jerome's (those who have donated $1000 are St. Jerome's College, Fr. Norm Choate, C.R. Fr. Canada is that student accessibility is being recognized by the UW President). If the Norm, who celebrated the third anniversary of his limited. I think we can expect to see that campaign realizes its goal, the benefit will be installation as President on March 23, concludes continue for the next few years. St. Jerome's $750,000 for the College. That will almost pay the interview by offering his thoughts on students College is not an elite school; it's not in our for our recent addition. Other things that we and on the unique relationship he has maintained tradition and history. For 120 years this hope to be able to do are outlined in the with them over the past three years. school has been educating the sons and W ATFUND brochure including staffing and daughters of blue collar workers. It may well research support for our various institutes. And Update!: Some people will argue that a BA degree be that in the future co-op programs might be we must find a way to build up our scholarship is really not worth too much today. How do you the vehicle for their education. In the ideal funds so that we can support some needy respond to that? liberal arts education, I don't think ofco-op as students. the best situation, but I think it's an excellent Fr. Norm: The data still shows that univer­ Update!: You've been President of St. Jerome's form of professional education. But if the sity graduates are still the most employable for about three years. You 've overseen the building question is maintaining accessibility for segment of the population. Itmay take students program, the opening of the St. Jerome's Centre, the middle and lower middle class students, then graduating in these times a little longer to get establishment of a new Institute for Theological we'll do what's necessary to maintain it. started, since job recruiters are not lined up at Renewal this past summer. What 's next? the university gates as they were ten years ago. Update!: Turning to alumni affairs, what do Fr. Norm: I think there are several things that But they all get started. I have never heard a are next. I continue to encourage the faculty not university graduate tell me that he or she you feel is the state of our alumni association? What are your hopes for its future? only in their teaching but in their research and regrets their time in school .. . it used to be scholarship. The next step, beyond my words of said that a university education is a good Fr. Norm: I think that the alumni associa­ encouragement, is to try to put some vehicle in investment because your earning power will tion is definitely in its childhood or infancy, place for realizing that support in a concrete probably increase dramatically. Today that and I think that its development will take a manner. I don't even know at this stage what economic advantage is shrinking. There are a number of years. My hope is that there will that looks like but I know that it will cost lot of people who make more money than be a very strong alumni association as time money. Becuase we are a Catholic liberal arts many university graduates when first starting goes on, both for the benefit of the alumni college which is part of the University of their careers. But I think a university education and the benefit of the College. I have no Waterloo which is part of the provincial uni­ is worth far more than simply the dollars; the doubt that there will come a time when I will versity system in Ontario, I think we need to quality of a person's living is enormously have to turn to the alumni for financial and look at our focus and to look at our values, and important. for moral support of the College. I have al­ our own orientation. There is an enormous ready done so, but I will have to do it in an advantage in being part of this system, but Update!: Are you in favour of universities even more vigorous and direct ·manner. there is also an enormous danger - the danger introducing their own standard entrance re­ of being 'swallowed up'. We must therefore quirements, as in the case of the University of continually refocus and regain our identity as Toronto? a Catholic liberal arts college. Fr. Norm: That's an example of the Update!: You have a unique relationship with the emerging tiering in universities. Let us students of this College. You are known to be a very assume that Toronto is what it says it is, the popular president, and students enjoy spending most elite university in Canada. If it is, then time with you. How would you describe your I think it's quite legitimate for U of T to use relationship with students and how does it sustain that kind of screening method. The you as President? assumption is that U of T is going to attract more and better students with a very high Fr. Norm: The simplest and easiest answer is academic ability. So it can afford to introduce that it sustains me because I like students. another level of competition. That's legiti­ I have always enjoyed the company of students mate if there are alternative schools to which and I still do. It's not difficult to spend students can apply. I don't believe that every time with people whom you like! Secondly, student has a right to go to Harvard or to go they are a source of refreshment to me because to Oxford. . . . But I think it's terribly they are really not concerned about the things important for this country to do everything that I worry about in the course of any given we can to ensure that every man or woman week - ·budgets, for example. They are not who has the academic ability and interest has even aware of a lot of the issues in higher access to university education. education, so they refresh me by introducing me to the concerns of their lives. And thirdly, it's very easy in a job like this to forget why you Update!: Do you see any extension of co­ Update!: Our alumni recently received a do the job. This is a teaching institution. operative programs at St. Jerome's in the next few WATFUND appeal. How will St. Jerome's years? Teaching always focuses on students, people benefit from this fund-raising campaign? who learn. Because I am constantly .preoccu­ Fr. Norm: I wouldn't find it terribly Fr. Norm: We have thus far received about pied with organizational issues of one kind or desirable, but I don't know that in the long $17,000 in contributions. A very small part of another, it is very helpful for me to continue to run we will have a whole lot of choice in the that has come from the alumni. The bulk has be looking at, talking to, laughing with, lis­ matter . . . But I can also make a counter ar­ come from faculty, staff and members of the tening to the people who are what St. Jerome's is all about: the students. Alumni News

Marian (Van Berlo) O'Connor (BA '80) re­ Where are they now? ceived her BEd from U of Tin 1981 and taught French for the York Region Separate School 1962 taught elementary school in London until Board for one year. She is married to Frank Rev. William "Bill" Strachan (BA '62) was 1976 and now serves as a guidance counsellor O'Connor (BA '80) who works in sales with ordained a priest for the diocese of Sault Ste. at St. Martin's High School in Mississauga. Kerni Corporation. In May 1982 Frank and Marie in 1966 and has been stationed at He is married to Ruth (BA UW '73), also a Marian became parents with the birth of their various parishes since then. He is presently teacher, and enjoys skiing and coaching daughter, Jessica. They now live in Hamilton pastor of St. Gregory's Church in the Soo and volleyball. Bill and Ruth have two daughters and are active in community athletics. enjoys sailing. He remembers Fr. Lavigne aged 4 and 2. "Kicking guys out of residence for infractions Judith Benninger (BA '73) received a Master 1981 - a punishment much enjoyed by the of Library Science from the University of Ron Mendes (BA '81), a deacon with the victims", he says. Toronto following her graduation from SJC Spiritans (Holy Ghost Fathers), is the Dioc­ Howard Schmidt (BA '62) is Head of the and is currently a librarian with the Calgary esan Youth Co-ordinator and General Sec­ History Department at Wiarton District High Public Library. She was formerly with the retary of the Diocesan Youth Commission on School. Howard and his wife Marilyn (nee Northwest Territories Library Services. the Island of St. Vincent. Ron will be Liss, a member of the SJC class of '63) live in Judith is an active puppeteer in her spare ordained a priest in his native Trinidad in the Owen Sound and have a son, 12, and a time and also enjoys calligraphy, needlework spring of 1984. You can drop him a line at daughter, 9. Howard is the founder of the tennis and hiking. Co-Cathedral Presbytery, P.O. Box 860, St. Bruce History and Social Science Teacher's Vincent, West Indies. 1976 Association. Jane Smith (BA '81) is now teaching grades 1 Mary Ellen (Eckert) Vanden Broek (BA '76) and 2 at St. Raphael's Elementary School in 1965 teaches Grades 4 and 5 in Mt. Forest, Ontario. Malton after receiving a BEd from Queen's Danny Bishop (BA '65) taught in Barrie and She is married and recently gave birth to a University in 1982. Jane coaches basketball at baby girl. Hamilton and is now Vice-Principal of Notre her schoool and participates in a creative Dame College School in Welland, a position Julie Ann (Barker) Horne (BA '76) received a dance class. he has held since 1978. Dan coaches football BEd from Western in 1977 and taught ele­ As a prefect in the Men's Residence, Michael and is past-president of the Welland Minor mentary school full-time until her first child Cockburn never really thought of himself as Basketball Association. Dan and his wife was born in 1979. She now works occasion­ a law enforcer. But when he graduated with Bernice have three children ages 15, 14 and ally as a temporary and substitute teacher. a BES in 1980 he decided to train to become a 12. Julie and her husband David enjoy curling police officer. Today he is a Constable with and own horses. They have two children. C. Ian Kyer (BA '72) practises law with the the Peel Regional Police Force and finds his firm of Fasken and Calvin in Toronto. He re­ 1980 work challenging. In his spare time, Mike is ceived an MA in History from UW and a PhD a volunteer with the Dufferin-Peel Separate Phyllis Maher (BA '80) counsels and tests and LLB from the University of Toronto. He School Board. Mike was married in the has received a research grant from the clients at the Webster County Mental Health Centre in Webster Springs, a region of West summer of 1982 to Susan Kardos (BA '81). Osgoode Society to enable him to write a book Susan received a BEd from Queen's Uni­ on the history of legal education in Ontario. Virginia with severe poverty and unem­ ployment. Phyllis received an MA in Psy­ versity in 1982 and today teaches at St. chology from Duquesne University in Charles Garnier Elementary School in 1973 Mississauga. The Cockburns are expecting Bill Webster (BA '73) Following his gradu­ Pittsburgh. Living so close to the mountains, Phyllis likes to hike and cross-country ski their first child in May and when not busy ation from SJC, Bill received a BEd from the with pre-natal classes, like to cross-country University of Western Ontario in 1974. He and she does photography for a nearby publication. ski. Mike Reilly (BA '81) is teaching grades 5 and 6 at St. Mary's Elementary School in Port Credit. He also received a BEd in 1982 from Queen's University. He coaches athletics at his school. Mike recently experienced some good fortune when he won a car with a single Calling the Class of '63! raffle ticket. We would wish Mike happy motoring - but he sold the car! This year marks the 20th anniversary of the graduation of the class of '63. They have been contacted by mail, and many have replied with information about what they are now doing. We'll have a feature on them in the June Update! Watch for it! Thanks to everyone who has written to us with news for the "Where Are They Now?" John Joseph Calnan Louis Anthony Mataresse section. If you haven't written yet, why not Vincent James Calzonetti Sharon Anne Murphy drop us a line? Tell us where you are, what Theresa Gayle Clark (Mrs. S.D. Geens) you're doing and what you think of what Hubert Orner Den Tandt William Maurice Murphy we're doing. Why not send a picture, too? A Roger Joseph Dufresne Patricia Anne Nowack head and shoulder shot would be fine, a James George Gleason (Mrs. J. McNeil) good sharp print of you would be finer. William Gerald Godfrey David Jerome Sehl Photos will be returned on request. Black &: Paul Joseph Heffernan Richard Joseph Weiler white preferred. Lawrence Anthony Hyrners Michael John Whitney Marilyn Viola Liss (Mrs. H.C. Schmidt) The University of ST. JEROME'S COLLEGE Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G3

Great debates a great success!

Over 150 high school students and their All winners received plaques or trophies coaches descended upon St. Jerome's Febru­ donated by the College, and each participant ary 24 for the 1983 Central Western Ontario received a commemorative certificate. The Regional Debating Finals. Teams from eleven day ended with a packed house for dinner in Waterloo County high schools were the men's residence cafeteria, a lively exhi­ represented. bition debate by the UW debating club, and Students matched · wits on two topics: the presentation of awards to the happy 'Resolved: that the influence of technology in winners. the world be reduced' and 'ls technology the master rather than the servant of man?' Top junior division honours went to the team from Kitchener Collegiate Institute, while a strong second place showing came from the I> St. Jerome's High School team also of Top junior debater, Shung Chieh, receives trophy Kitchener. Senior division honours were from College English professor Eric McCormack, claimed by the Waterloo-Oxford team. as registrar Kevin Donelson looks on.

Update! is published quarterly and mailed Writeback free of charge to all alumni, students, faculty and friends of the College for whom we have I thought I'd send some information for your Like others who have written in to reliable addresses. If your address has Where Are Th~y Now? section. I really enjoy Writeback, I'd like to congratulate you on a changed or if you would like to receive in­ reading news about the good old days at St. very fine newsletter. Receiving and reading formation from the College, please complete Jerome's and hearing about old friends. Keep it brings me back to my years at SJC with a and mail the enclosed coupon. We welcome up the good work! smile and fond memories. Although some 3,000 miles prevents me from visiting SJC, letters for Writeback and general alumni Mary Ellen (Eckert) Vanden Broek (BA '76) your Campus News articles keep me in touch news for Where Are They now? Drop us a Mt. Forest, Ontario line! with events so that I feel a sort of continuity with SJC. I'd like to include a little something I was thrilled to receive the recent issue of in the Alumni News page and am enclosing Editor: R.J. Donelson Update! while spending Christmas with my same. All the best for the New Year, Consulting editor: S.A. Jones parents in New Jersey. Since leaving Canada Photography: R. Wickens I have often wondered how things were at St. Ron Mendes (BA '81) Layout: D. Keller Jerome's. It was terrific to read about the St. Vincent, W est Indies opening of the St. Jerome's Centre, as it was just under construction when I left. Thanks It's been great receiving the Update! and so much for keeping me informed of life at keeping in touch with the people and many • Community service Both the Notre Dame SJC and the new life-circumstances of old events at St. Jerome's. It sounds as though the Women's and St. Jerome's Men's Residence friends. It's nice to know that, although many College is as vibrant and exciting as ever. continue their active community in­ of us have drifted so far, Update! brings us Keep up the good work, Update! I enclose volvement. Notre Dame hosted a day for together throughout the year. We're with you some accurate addresses of alumni. Big and Little Sisters of Kitchener­ in spirit! Waterloo on March 12. They were treated Paul "T.P." Mahoney ('79) to a lunch, tours of campus museums, Phyllis Maher (BA '80) Toronto computer facilities and observatory, mov­ Webster Springs, West Virginia ies - undeniably a day of fun. The men hosted a Big Brother - Little Brother Fun Day for the third consecutive year on Remember ... ALUMNI PICNIC March 5. Over 30 Little Brothers took part to send in the enclosed in a day of movies, magic, a wrestling JUNE 26 match featuring "The Executioner" and coupon. We'd love to hear "Mountain Man" Volpe, tours and lunch. from you! WATERLOO PARK