Contracting & Material Company Engineers and Contractors * 1235 Dodge Ave., Evanston, Ill. ROgers Park 4-U95 GReenleaf 5-6960 W. P. Cagney Jr. '35 F. X. Cagney '36 D.P. Cagney '50 ·.. .. eOR(lETOWD UDIIJERSITq LUmDI mA(jAZIDE Member of the American Alumni Council e EDITORIAL BOARD NOVEMBER 1957 VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4 OF ALUMNI MAGAZINE WILLIAM S. ABELL, '36 CONTENTS R oBERT J. AvEIIv, '32 The First Ten Years ------------------------- ------- 2 LEO A . CoDD, '22 Intercollegiate Competition ------------------- ------- 4 REV. DANIEL E. POWER, S,J. Football Again ------------------------------------ 7 DR. ]AMES S. Runv, '27, Editor Georgetown History -------------------------------- 9 EuGENE L. STEWART, '48 Letters to the Editor -------------------------------- ll DR. JoHN WALDRoN,''30 Champion Pitcher --------------------------------- 12 Anniversary Mass ---------------------------------- 14 RuTH K. SMITH, Managing Editor Alumni Achievement ------------------------------- 15 RUTH KETTERMAN, Advertising Manager Class Notes --------------------------------------- 18 Con·tributors to this issue: THOMAS A. DEAN, '20 President 1944-1948, Georgetown University Alumni Association EucENE L. STEWART, '48 Chairman, 1957 Alumni Annual Giving Fund The Presidents of the Georgetown University Alumni Association since VERY REV. EDWARD B. BUNN, S.J. s A. Dean, President, Georgetown University its incorporation: Thoma '20, president 1944-1948; Thomas C. JosEPH E. ]EFFS, '49 Mee, '17, 1948-1950; Thomas C. Member of the Library staff, Egan, '17, 1950-1952; John J. Tun­ Georgetown University more, '31, 1952-1954; Joseph B. P. FRANCIS STANN Brennan, '25, 1954-1956; Eugene Member of sports staff, Washington Evening Star McCahill, '21, 1956-1958. Copyright 1957 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine Return Postage Guaranteed GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE: published each two months by the Georgetown University Alumni Association Inc., Washington 7, D. C. • Sustaining Membership $25.00 per year, Regular Membership $5.00 per year, of which $3.00 is for subscription to the Alumni Magazine. • Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as Second Class matter February 24, 1948 under the act of March 3, 1879. • Editorial and Executive offices: GEORGE­ TOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Alumni House, 3604 0 Street, N.W., Washington 7, D.C. ASSOCIATION ANNIVERSARY The First Ten Years By Thomas A.. Dean, '20 This issue of the Alumni Magazine celebrates the first the Board of Governors was keenly aware of the needs of ten years of the incorporation of the Georgetown Univer­ Georgetown, and every demonstration had been given that sity Alumni Association, a period marked by steady prog· Georgetown's sons were willing and· able to "run their ress and solid accomplishment. The decade is important own show" without asking for a subsidy from the Uni­ for those reasons, but more important still for the promise versity. it gives of even greater things to c<_>me. Several factors influenced the Board in its decision It was my honor to have served as President of the to incorporate. Incorporation would remove the danger Alumni Association at the time the decision was made by of personal liability from the Officers and Directors of the Board of Governors of the Association to seek cor· the Association, it would insure continuity of policy in porate status. In 194 7 our Association had existed as an Alumni matters, and, possibly of greatest importance, it arm of the University for nine years, with a campus office would help develop within the Alumni body a sense of and a paid Secretary. The establishment of that office in responsibility for the stability of the Association. 1938 brought to an end a very long period in which there Details of the incorporation were worked out with had been no effective organization of the Alumni what· the University's Directors to insure complete coopera· ever. But in 1947 our present pattern was well established, tion, and on August 15, 1947, the Secretary of State of Delaware issued the Certificate of Incorporation at the The patio at Alumni HozLSe request of the original incorporators, Clair J. Killoran, '32, Dr. H. Thomas McGuire, '32, and Hon. Francis A. ·- Reardon, '31. So began an era. For more years than most of us could remember, the students, the faculty and the alumni were in agree· ment on Georgetown's need for an adequate campus gymnasium. Accordingly, in the fall of 1947, after care­ ful plans had been made to insure the financial sound­ ness of the new corporation through an expanded active membership, the Board of Governors of the Association appointed Charles J. Milton, '35, of New Jersey, to or­ ganize a Gymnasium Committee to raise $860,000 for the construction of McDonough Memorial Gymnasium. 2 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGi\ZINE Alumni House, the first portion o/ which was made available by the University for our use in 1950, houses the offices o/ the Association and the records of its members. It also serves as a headquarters for all alumni activity on campus. Its spa­ cious patio and the handsome Alum­ ni Lounge are in constant use /or meetings and /or the entertainment of returning alumni. The members of the Board of Governors and the from which the monumental 1957 Alumni Directory was Chairman of the Committee were, from the beginning assembled, the editorial offices of the Georgetown Uni­ determined to go through with the project, no matter versity Alumni Magazine, which was started immediately what difficulties might arise. McDonough Gymnasium after our incorporation became a fact, and here also stands todi!Y as the Association's major gift to the Uni­ are held the numerous committee and class meetings verstiy only because of that determination, and as a which have resulted in the success of so many of the promise of what organized Alumni efforts can do by Association's projects. patient plodding. A brilliant Dedication week-end in Perhaps the most _significant evidence of the value D~cember of 1951 brought back to the campus more of the corporate entity of the Association is the steady Alumni than it had seen in history. growth in its membership. In our first year as a corpora· The second major contribution of the Alumni Cor· tion, we could claim 3,105 members, who contributed a poration was the inauguration of the Alumni Annual total of $24,200 towards the management of the Asso­ Giving Fund. This Fund, started in 1954, is designed to ciation's activities in the form of Annual dues. As of this help the University bridge the gap between tuition income tenth anniversary, our membership has grown to 6,203 and educational expense. Each school in our country's whose dues payments in our last fiscal year came to $44,- vast system of privately supported Colleges and Univer· 430. This is most heartening, since we are limited in sities is confronted with that 'problem. Georgetown is what we can do for Georgetown and one another only no exception. Therefore, the Association calls upon every by the amount of cash we have available to meet the alumnus to make some contribution every year to offset rising costs of labor, printing, postage, and travel. the looming deficit, the amount of the contribution to In these ten years we have given through our cor­ be determined solely by the means and the heart of the porate efforts more donor. The Fund started well in 1954, and each succeed· than a million and a quarter dollars, ing year has shown an increase both in money and in and in addition we have expended, entirely in George· donors. town's behalf, more than another third of a million re­ We were fortunate in 1950 to obtain from the Uni­ ceived as membership dues. That is important, not so versity the use of the property at 3604 0 St., N.W., a much for what we have done, but as a portent of what block from the main gate, as Alumni House, to serve as we can and will do in the future in building an Alumni an attractive and efficient headquarters for the Corpora­ Association of which all Georgetown men will be proud tion's many and varied activites. Here are the records because they are active participants in its success. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE 3 ANNUAL GIVING FUND Intercollegiate Competition By Eugene L. Stewart, '48 Beginning with the discontinuance of Georgetown's par­ Number of Years ticipation in varsity football, Hoya alumni have stepped School Fund in Operation into a league of intercollegiate competition which includes Georgetown ---------------------­ 4 nearly every major University in the United States. Boston College -------------------­ 9 51 Shortly after President Hunter Guthrie, S.J., wrote his Dartmouth ----------------------­ 32 now-famous Saturday E.vening Post article of October Harvard College ------------------­ Holy Cross ----------------------­ 13 13,' 1951, entitled "No More Fo?tball for Us," the alumni Notre Dame ---------------------­ 15 began laying plans ~or competing with hundreds of other Princeton ------------------------ 17 U. S. institutions of higher learning in soliciting annually Ya~ -~--------------------------- 67 funds from Georgetown alumni to keep her in big-league the American education. The reader should not get the impression that schools listed above are the only one's with Annual Giving Today, in the fourth full .year of that competition Funds. Actually, in 1954, 352 institutions had such funds. Georgetown's al~mni stack up respectably with the pro In 1955 this number increased to 391, and in 1956 it outfits, though as is the case with many a new team "the jumped to 466! best is yet to come." The following table shows at a The problems affecting institutions of higher education glance Georgetown's Alumni Annual Giving results in which lead to the establishment of annual giving funds are comparison with her "competition." by no means unique at Georgetown. In fact, Georgetown At the moment, Georgetown occupies the cellar in the has struggled · along for many, many years without both­ "league" .depicted on page 6.