La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications Spring 2009 La Salle Magazine Spring 2009 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Magazine Spring 2009" (2009). La Salle Magazine. 3. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/3 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 Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ILC MAGAZINE !T Ml vm ¥ m Jj j ^s Shapi IVES DF D PATRSDTISM- [\ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasallemagazine532009unse , . the first word La Salle Tradition Influences Career of Service BY MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM F. BURNS, '54 WHEN I LOOK BACK ON MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY, IT IS sometimes difficult to assess what factors most contributed to personal successes—or failures. However, in one segment of my life and career, the positive contribution made by La Salle is not hard to identify. (From left) Maj. Gen. William F Burns, '54, his wife. Peggy Burns, and La Salle In 1950, the world and La Salle College were quite President Brother Michael J. McGinniss, F.S.C., Ph.D., 70, signing the General Burns different environments from today's more complex age. Scholarship for ROTC students. The Cold War, the Korean War, and the stark realization that the Nuclear Era brought with it additional burdens making these choices, but it also created an atmosphere sobered voting freshmen.