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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Alumnus University Publications 4-1954 Alumnus: April 1954 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/alumnus Recommended Citation La Salle University, "Alumnus: April 1954" (1954). La Salle Alumnus. 2. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/alumnus/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Alumnus by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Father Janies Keller Is Signum Fidei Medalist Brother George Lewis College Alumni Dinner Is Golden Jub ilarian Feature Event of Season La Salle alumni of two world This year’s La Salle College wars and between, gathering for Alumni Dinner, annually the As­ the Association’s dinner on April sociation’s blue ribbon event, 20, will find among the honored bids fair to be most highly suc­ guests Brother George Lewis, cessful. Highlight of the eve­ F.S.C., Sc.D. who this year com­ ning of April 20 will be the pletes his fiftieth year in the awarding of the Alumni SIGNUM religious life. FIDEI MEDAL to be bestowed A native of Washington, D. C., on Father James Keller, M.M., Brother George Lewis received founder and director of the his B.A. from La Salle College Christophers. Readers will find and his M.A. from the Univer­ elsewhere in this issue the story sity of Pennsylvania. Duquesne of the 19 54 medalist and the University, Pittsburgh, awarded work that has won him this cov­ him the doctorate in science. eted award. The La Salle basketball team, the nation’s 195 4 intercollegiate champions, will also be the ob ject of Alumni attention. The Association will offer its expres­ sion of esteem and congratula­ tions to the NCAA titleholders following the SIGNUM FIDEI ceremony. Brother George Lewis, F.S.C. Sc.D., professor of mathematics and former La Salle dean and Founder of "Christophers" vice-president will also be hon­ ored. This year marks Brother’s Recipient at Alumni Dinner fiftieth in religion. Alumni from La Salle’s Broad and Stiles To La Salle’s bustling campus on April 20 comes one of the most Streets days will join with more dynamic figures in American Catholic life. On that evening Father recent Blue and Gold graduates James Keller, M.M., founder and driving force of the Christophers, ALUMNI DINNER on Page 6 and this year’s SIGNUM FIDEI medalist interrupts the dizzying pace that marks his work to dine with La Salle alumni and receive Irish Scholarship their coveted award. Through his school years at St. Patrick’s in Menlo Park, Cali­ Open To All Alumni fornia, the Maryknoll Seminary and the Catholic University where As a means of promoting he received his B.A. and M.A., Father Keller’s personality has been international good will and From 1917 to 1922 Brother characterized by an instinctive liking for people. Meeting an in­ scholarship, the Society of the was assistant professor of phy­ tensely belligerent young woman recently in New York, Father Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of sics and mathematics at La Salle Keller was startled by her: “Now listen, you— before you start any Philadelphia will award bi­ and rejoined its faculty in 1931. discussion I want you to understand that I don’t believe in God.” annually and beginning in Sep­ The intervening years were spent Undismayed Father Keller replied: “Now listen, sister— I want you tember, 1954, a scholarship for successively as dean, vice-presi­ to understand that I do believe in God. Because I believe in God I a maximum of three years of dent and president of St. Thomas believe in you—you alone are worth more than the rest of the study on the post graduate level, College, Scranton. That insti­ world.” Coupled with the sacramental grace of Holy Orders this in either the National University tution, now the University of deep-seated respect for his fellow-men has expressed itself in the of Ireland or Trinity College in Scranton, will award the doc­ spectacular movement that cuts through the pessimism, the fear and Dublin. torate honoris causa to the ju- the intolerance gripping the post-war world. The following requirements bilarian at its academic convoca­ Sparked by the notion that “YOU can change the world,” hun­ are necessary: tion this spring. dreds of thousands of Americans have embraced the Christopher 1. The candidate must have Brother George Lewis served movement in a positive effort to better morally their sphere of had a high scholastic standing as as dean of La Salle from 1938 activity, business and social. Father Keller’s purpose is to combat an undergraduate. to 19 44 and was its vice-presi- the lament that the world is hurrying off to hell in a hansom. 2. He must be nominated by BRO. GEORGE LEWIS on Page 6 FATHER JAMES KELLER on Page 6 SCHOLARSHIP on Page 2 Page 2 LA SALLE ALUMNUS April, 1954 LaSalle Alumnus G. E. Robertson C antributes $10,000 Weed the Roth erd ents I’ll be very happy.” Published 9 times yearly in the inter­ Mr. Robertson, president of ests of the General Alumni of La Salle The Roxborough Company, full- College. fashion hosiery manufacturers, is the father of Glen Robertson, Jr., Class of ’49. Glen Jr. was a member of La Salle’s Dad Vail championship crew, president of SBK Fraternity, and is now studying for the priesthood in Belgium. Another son, John is a Freshman at La Salle. OFFICERS OF The $10,000 gift is only the LA SALLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION most recent of a series of con­ John P. Ryan, '49 ............... President tributions made by Mr. Robert­ John J. Finley, '24 ....... Vice-President son to the Brothers since 19 46. Thomas E. Burns, '50 .......... Treasurer His drive and enthusiasm for La John J. Lumsden,'49, Editor of Alumnus Salle have provided added values Executive Sec. of Alumni Affairs which will be felt for years to Brother F. Raymond, F.S.C. come. With Joseph Schmitz, Moderator of Alumni Affairs Jr., ’20, he organized the La Please address communications to Salle Endowment Foundation in the Alumni Office. 1946 and raised $265,000 for La Member of the American Salle since then. He was Foun­ Brother D. Adelbert, F.S.C., Alumni Council Glendon E. Robertson, Sr., dation president during the Li­ joined the English department prominent Catholic layman and brary Building campaign years, again last September after a six industrialist, presented securi­ and secured a major percentage years’ absence. A native of ties valued in excess of $10,000 of the corporations and non­ Baltimore, Brother entered the Msgr. Fitzpatrick Dies, to the college through the La alumni gifts. novitiate of the Brothers of the Distinguished Alum nus Salle Endowment Foundation, “La Salle is young,” Mr. Ro­ Christian Schools after being at the March meeting of the bertson said in a recent inter­ graduated from Calvert Hall The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fenton J. Foundation Board. Brother view, “and most of its alumni High School in the Monumental Fitzpatrick, P.A., rector of the Stanislaus received the gift for are too. If the older alumni and City. Church of the Incarnation of Our La Salle. we outsiders can keep La Salle He received his B.A. magna Lord, 5th st. and Lindley ave., “It is my fond hope,” said Mr. growing and give the younger cum laude with the class of 19 44 Philadelphia, died on Wednes­ Robertson, “that the alumni will alumni time to get organized be­ of the Catholic University of day, March 10, in Misericordia catch the spirit of progress at hind La Salle, then in ten years America. He is at present a Hospital. His death came just La Salle and do whatever they or so they will be in a position to candidate for the Ph.D. in Eng­ two weeks before his 8 4th birth­ can to help the school along. The take over the work of the Foun­ lish at his alma mater. day. Brothers are doing a wonderful dation and keep La Salle secure. Brother Adelbert’s academic Although Monsignor Fitz­ job, and they deserve as much Education by the Christian achievements while an under­ patrick had been in poor health support as we can possibly give Brothers at La Salle is well graduate at the Catholic Univer­ for some time, death came rather them. If this gift will stimulate worth working for, and I only sity earned him election to the suddenly. Shortly before noon the interest of alumni and par- wish I could do more for them.” national honor society, Phi Beta he was walking on the porch of Kappa. He also served as sec­ the rectory when he was stricken SCHOLARSHIPS (Continued from Page 1) retary of the Catholic University suddenly with a cerebral hemor­ the proper authorities of his include: Arts, Psychology, So­ Chapter of the society from 1950 rhage. He collapsed and was to 195 2. Brother holds member­ college. ciology, Celtic Studies. These brought into the rectory and ship in the English Institute, the then rushed to the Misericordia 3. He should have demon­ subjects require two years of strated by participation in stu­ study for the Master’s degree. Catholic Poetry Society of Amer­ Hospital. He died shortly after ica, and the Renaissance Society being admitted. dent organizations and athletics The courses in Science, Engin­ the resourcefulness, self-confi­ eering, Architecture and Com­ of America of which he is one of One of the best known and the founders.

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