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Volume 4, Number 2 ALUMNAE NEWSLETTER Winter, 1966 Elected to Board Development Enters Phase Two - Architects Complete Study The Notre Dame College of the future Their study concerns the projected growth is an almost tangible reality these days in of the college and how much existing the minds of two young architects, Robert faciiities must be altered and increased to J. Pi scioneri and David Castro-Blanco. meet the need of the coming decade. During the summer and ea,rly fall, they Partners in the architectural firm of completed their survey of the existing Robert J. Pi scioneri and Associates, these facilities of the college, secured topo two young men have already attracted graphioal surveys of the 22 acre hilltop considerable attention with many of their campus and -completed what they describe impressive and imaginative buildings. as the preliminary phase of their work. Mr. Pi scioneri has a bachelor of arts Their survey disclosed what students and degree from Columbia College' and a faculty may have suspected unofficially, bachelor of architecture from the Colum that N otre Dame is among the top ten. bia University School of Achitecture, per cent of institutions of higher educa where he was president of the student tion when it comes to making maximum body. Columbia awai:;ded him the Alpha use of available space and facilities. Rho Chi Medal, the Lila Van der Smissen New facil,ities are a must. How much; Medal and the William Rinne Fellows how soon? Phase two in which the Travelling Fellowship ,which permitted him to travel ·in Europe for six months, New Trustee-Most Reverend George H. architects are now engaged consists in Guilfoyle, D.D .. who was honored at a re programming the development plan. studying architecture there. His extensive ception and dinner following Investiture, De (Continued on next column ) experience in design and production has cember I I. centered chiefly around .religious, institu The Board of Trustees recently an tional, school and residential building. no,mced the election of the new ident of the National Conference of Mr. Castro-Blanco is a native of Sooth Episcopal Vicar for Richmond, Most Catholic Charities and continues as a America; he graduated from Jesuit High Rev. George H. Guilfoyle, D. D. as a member of its board. His involvement in Schoo·! in Bogota, Columbia College and member of the Board of Trustees of metropolitan organizations is extensive; the Columbia Universi ty School of Notre Dame College. he has served as secretary of the Boa.rd AKhitecture. The American Institute of Appointed by Cardinal Spellman in of Directors of the Kennedy Child Center, Architects conferred their Henry Adams September as one of the first episcopal as a member of the Archdiocesan Com Fund Award on him for excellence in vicars in the post-Conciliar Church, mittee on Housi g and Urban Renewal, the study of architecture. Among the Bishop Guilfoyle has already shown his of the Advisory Board of St. Vincent's buildings he has designed are the strong interest in the people of Staten Hospital (Manhat tan) and the Citizens Brooklyn Community College, St. Joseph Island, their interests, their needs and Advisory Panel to the Mayor's Council by-the-Sea High School, Adelphi Univer their aspirations. against Poverty. sity Science Center and the Science Build The former Executive Director of Trained as a lawyer and admitted to ing for the State University College at Catholic Charities, he was consecrated the New York Bar before beginning his Plattsburg. bishop in 1964. He ·is a member of the studies for the priesthood, he was or Mr. Castro-Blanco and Mr. Piscioneri American Bishops Committee on Ecu dained in 1944. He received hi s under are impressed with the beauty of the cam menism and the newly ·appointed national graduate degree from Georgetown Uni pus and the natural grandeur of the spiritual d i r e c tor of the Society varsity and law degrees from Fordham setting. They promise that beautiful and of St. Vincent de Paul. and Columbia Universities. The honorary imaginative buildings worthy of the set A nationally know figure in the field degree of·Doctor of Laws has been con ting will begin to appear on their draw of social work, the bishop is past pres ferred upon him by Manhattan, Iona and ing boards when the preliminary plan ( Contin11ed next colttmn) St. Francis colleges. ning phases have been completed. Return to Campus Across the Years Notre Dame Women "Operation Second Chance" got un 1949 Mary Ryan Gallagher recently der way this fall as Notre Dame began she became the mother of •a daughter, John Dugan Jr. in July. She is a appeared in an amateur production of its first formal continuing education Ellen Agnes. candidate for ·the master's degree at Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-win program for women who have had at 1963 In August Barbara Kerans be W·agner College. ning play, Our Town. She played the least two years of college training and came Mrs. Roger Lussier. A teacher at 1965 Mary Joan Cassidy, daughter of role of Mrs. Gibbs and her daughter who wish to return to the academic Dreyfus Junior High School, she is a Mary Buckl ey Cassidy '38, was married played the part of Rebecca Gibbs. Mr. world. Im pressed by national s.tatistics candidate for the master\ degree. on April 10, to John Roach in Blessed Gallagher appeared in ,the role of Dorothy Cugini received an M.A. de Sacrament Church. Mary Joan •is a kin indicating that 50 per cent of the wo Professor Willard. 'men who ·enter college leave befo·re re gree in the behavioral sciences from dergarten teacher at P .S. 20 and her 1950 Mary Ann Reilly Staines re ceiving their degrees, Sister Rita Dona Newark State Teachers College last husband is ,a hi story teacher at Augus ceived a Mas,ter of Science degree in hue designed this program to facilitate June. She teaches at P.S. 44 in Mariners tinian Academy. Social Work from Fordham University the return to .the ·campus of women Harbor. 1966 Edna Laub, studying guidance in June 1964. She has been appointed whose children are now in school and Diane Hunter ·is now working as a under a Columbia University fellowship Supervi-sor in the Mineola branch of who plan a second career. With careful microbiologist for the United States at Teachers College, was recently in Angel Guardian Home's foster care 1f~j,- co unseling by the career guidance and Naval Applied Laboratory, Naval Base, iti ated into Pi Lambda Theta, national division. Tne open,ng scene of Bl ood Wedding is a presage of tragedy. As her son sets out to r t he placement director, Dr. Carlton J. Box Brooklyn, New York. honor and professional association for vi neyards, the mother sees in the pruning knife a symbol of t he _fate of her husband and 1954 Constance Ayers Denne is an Catherine Carroll was married to Ed o'der so n. Constance Cucchiara '67 a nd J oseph Bar rone play the lead in g roles. hill, and a semester or two for evalua women in education. Qualifications for tion, -it is expected that most of these assistant professor ·of English at the ward M. Coppers on June 11. Mr. membership include: a high scholastic Studio Theatre Opens with Garcia-Lorca Play older studenlts will matriculate and com Pennsylvania State University, the Mc Coppers is the brother of Carol Coppers average (Edna has been achieving A plete the work for their degree. Keesport Campus. She is writing her '63. at T.C.), the recommendation of two One of the first public events in the The setting itself was as interesting The program has several speoial fea dissertation on "The European Novels Florence Goracy married Michael J. faculty members and evidence of per N ew Humanit:es Center was the in as Mr. Edward Purrington's production, tures: afternoon classes scheduled be of James Fenimore Cooper." She ex W alsh on May 21. Florence is employ sonal and professi·onal integrity. The auguration ·of the studio theatre there wi.th the ingenious lighting effects from tween the hours of one and five to pec,ts to receive her doctorate this year, ed as a caseworker for the Department Greek letters are ,initials for the motto with the presentation of Garcia-Lorca's the highly professional equipment of take advantage of the hours when the when her husband will also complete of Welfare and her husband is studying of the society which may be translated, Blood Wedding, December 1, as Little the theatre, the soft gray mirrnred walls housew ife may have comparative lei his Ph.D. in English. for his doctorate in Englis,h at Rutgers "Education en li ghtening womanhood." Theatre'·s fall production. and the jet black s:tage. sure ; per;missiveness to ,the extent of 1957 Virginia Oster Gough received University. Mr. Walsh received the Lois Ricciardi is continuing her studies In the new experimental theatre, set At other times, the room is a class allowing each student to set her own the Master of Science in education from bachelor's degree from St. Peter's Col in hi story under a fellowship at Oh!o up and equipped with funds from a room for speech and drama, part of pace toward the attainment of her de Wagner College on June 5. lege and his master's degree from Rut State University, Kathleen Darcey m government grant for the Humanities the $23,500 project which fitted up rthe gree. 1958 Capt.

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