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Conversations Eloquentia Perfecta.Pdf ON JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION Spring 2013 • Number 43 Eloquentia Perfecta We are not made for ourselves alone. Writing and Speaking Well SPRING 2013 NUMBER 43 Members of the National Seminar on ON JESUIT HIGHER EDUCATION Jesuit Higher Education Laurie Ann Britt-Smith University of Detroit Mercy Eloquentia Perfecta Lisa Sowle Cahill Boston College Susanne E. Foster Writing and Speaking Well Marquette University Patrick J. Howell, S.J. Seattle University 2 Vincent O’Keefe, S.J., R.I.P. LEADER AND FRIEND Steven Mailloux Loyola Marymount University Features Diana Owen 3 “Not for Ourselves Alone,” John W. O’Malley, S.J. Georgetown University 6 The Best Training for Public Life, Paul Lynch Stephen C. Rowntree, S.J. 10 A Good Person Speaking Well, Steven Mailloux Loyola University New Orleans 14 Eloquentia Perfecta and the New Media Landscape, Diana Owen Alison Russell Xavier University Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. writing across the Country | Progress Reports on How to Teach and Do It America Magazine 18 Why Students Don’t Write, Kristine Johnson Sherilyn G.F. Smith 20 Spread Out, But Close, Laurie A. Britt-Smith, Lisa Zimmerelli, Cinthia Gannett, LeMoyne University and John Kerrigan William E. Stempsey, S.J. College of the Holy Cross 21 A Course to Blog About, Laura Davies and Erin Mullally 22 Round-Up, John C. Bean 23 Writing-Across-the Curriculum and the Promise of Something More, Conversations is published by the National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Joseph Janangelo Education, which is jointly spon- sored by the Jesuit Conference Board and the Board of the Student Piece Association of Jesuit Colleges and 25 The Art of the Medical Interview, Francis DeMichele Universities. The opinions stated herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the How to do it | Four Jesuit Alumni Share their Experiences JC or the AJCU. 26 How to Write About Crime, Mike Wilson 27 How to Write About Television, Hank Stuever Comments and inquiries may be 28 How to Cover the World, Loretta Tofani addressed to the editor of Conversations 29 The Managing Editor’s Job, Rene Sanchez Edward W. Schmidt, S.J. Institute of Jesuit Sources 3601 Lindell Boulevard Media and Citizenship St. Louis, MO. 63108 30 “Eloquent” Film and TV | How to Quicken a Heart Rate, Mark P. Scalese, S.J. Phone: 314-633-4622 e-mail: [email protected] 31 From Class to Community EP 2.0 and the New Media Legacy of Jesuit Education, Allen Brizee and Jenn Fishman For information about subscriptions to Conversations: 33 How To Talk Ethically | Cultivating the Digital Citizen through Eloquentia Stephen C. Rowntree, S.J. Perfecta, Morgan T. Reitmeyer and Susan A. Sci Secretary to the National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education Loyola University New Orleans Book Reviews 1575 Calhoun Street New Orleans, LA 70118 35 R. Emmett Curran on Loyola Marymount University, 1911-2011: A Centennial History. Phone: 504 865 2781 e-mail: [email protected] 38 Paul Soukup, S.J., on Language, Culture, and Identity: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong, S.J. Conversations back issues are available online at Talking Back http://epublications.marquette. 41 How We Might Move On From Here: A Hope, Claude N. Pavur, S.J. edu/conversations/ Design and layout by Pauline Heaney. Photo Collages Printed by Peacock 24 Saint Peter’s University • 34 Gonzaga University• 43 College of the Holy Cross Communications, Lincoln Park, N.J. Front cover photos, clockwise from top left: St. Ignatius Loyola, Joan Didion, Aristotle, George Orwell, Loretta Tofani, Walter Ong, S.J., Edward R. Murrow, Cicero. From the Editor My Last Lecture y first encounter with eloqentia perfecta was the October 1935) Ernest Hemingway told a young writer to tap tap tap of my newspaperman father upstairs “read everything” — so you know whom you have to beat. typing with two fingers his editorials on his His list included Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Flaubert, Mann, Henry M Underwood. James, Twain, and Joyce. Every day he wrote all the editorials for the Trenton Good writing is true writing, he stressed, and the more Times, plus others for the Brooklyn Eagle, New York Herald experience the truer it will be. For Hemingway, the writer’s Tribune and Philadelphia Record. This overtime sent my life was like an iceberg — the nine tenth under water was brother Dave and me to St. Joe’s Prep, Fordham College and the experience feeding the one tenth prose above the sur- summer camp, plus piano lessons. Because the Trenton face. That’s where risk comes in. For years I traveled alone American Legion baseball team was named after him, my to places in trouble — Vietnam, Cuba, Peru, South Africa, father had an annual team dinner at which everyone at the and Iraq — to test myself, in search of that detail that moved table, including Dave and me, had to stand up and speak. my emotions and would thus move the reader, and come Dad was a distinguished public speaker, and before big back with a story. events I could hear him up in his third floor room memoriz- I built my writing classes around Virginia Woolf, for the ing his remarks in front of the mirror. relationship between memory and detail; George Orwell for Every step of my life I learned to write and speak “Why I Write” and political courage; E.B. White for memory, because an older person — parent, Jesuit, or lay teacher — observation, and wit; James Baldwin for eloquence inspired took the initiative and challenged me to do something diffi- by anger ; and Joan Didion because she writes to find out cult and different. what she is thinking. In fifth grade, I wrote a composition from the point of he best writers, especially war correspondents, are view of a horse galloping across the prairie. My teacher, a moralists. I think of Richard Harding Davis’ picture Franciscan nun, told me, “You can write.” At the Prep my of the German army marching into Brussels and scholastic English teacher, John F.X. Burton, S.J., in front of T burning Louvain in 1914: he had witnessed wars the class, told me to compete in a speech contest. where both sides followed some rules, but, “At Louvain it My father recommended memorizing David Lloyd was war upon the defenseless, war upon churches, colleges, George’s “Shall We Not Sing the Eisteddfod?,” a traditional shops of milliners and lacemakers; war brought to the bed- concert in Wales during World War I. I lost, but learned side and fireside; against women harvesting in the fields, something about George. Burton named me yearbook editor. against children in wooden shoes at play in the streets.” At Fordham Fr. Joe Frese, S.J., whose daily Mass I served, What would he say today about drones? told my parents at the dinner table, “Raymond should go to Your papers are due tomorrow in the first minute of class. France.” In Paris an American Jesuit philosopher, J. Quentin Lauer, later at Fordham, tore my writing apart, convinced me that “such” had no meaning and thus should never appear. From Europe I wrote reports for the Fordham Ram. I After editing Conversations for ten happy years, enjoying the returned named editorial editor and columnist. In senior year friendship of the seminar’s members, forged in all day discus- the Ram’s moderator, Edward A. Walsh, told me I should sions, including dinner and the pub, and listening to faculty publish articles beyond the campus. Two years later, at 23, and students at all 28 Jesuit colleges and universities, I am pass- my first article appeared in America. ing the editorship to an admired colleague, Fr. Ed Schmidt, S.J. After my army service in Germany and teaching journal- During these years as Conversations became more pleasing to ism at five Jesuit and three secular universities, my formula the eye, credit goes to Pauline Heaney, a great artist and dear for eloquentia perfecta boiled down to three steps: read, risk, friend. When I left Saint Peter’s College two years ago I missed write and rewrite. teaching; so it is an extra joy that five authors in this issue are The Jesuit formula in those years was based on imita- friends from my teaching years. ■ tion. — read the best and write and speak like the best do. Asked by a young writer how to improve his novel, Faulkner RASsj replied, “Read Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, and Anna Karenina.” In “Monologue to the Maestro,” (Esquire, Conversations 1 Vincent O’Keefe, S.J. R.I.P. LEADER AND FRIEND ello. I’m Vinny O’Keefe. I’m a friend were doing, intervened and placed his own rep- of Joe Frese [a Jesuit Fordham histori- resentative, a conservative Jesuit who had been an] and he told me to look you up.” I a confessor to Pius XII, to run things — until the ‘H was only a scholastic in studies and Pope realized two years later that he had miscal- O’Keefe was a distinguished theologian, but culated. During all this O’Keefe kept his cool, because he and I had the same friend, he and I helped hold the Society together until its origi- were friends too. Named president of Fordham in nal governance was restored in 1983. 1963, he took the initiative in making Fordham fully co-educational by starting Thomas More O’Keefe’s genius was high intelligence com- College for women. The provincial said he had bined with a leadership style by which he drew gone too far and told him to call it off. O’Keefe you in by listening and really taking you serious- told the provincial that if he canceled Thomas ly.
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