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partment of creative and dramatic arts school and is living at Apt 319, 1901 MATSUOKA is finishing his studies at at the College of St. Scholastir.:a. . .. Minnehaha Ave S, Minneapolis 55404. Sophia U in Tokyo. His address: clo DERYCK RICHARDSON is continuing ... JOSEPH WONG is beginning dental Mrs. Matsumuro, 4-6-7· Hongo, Burkyo­ his graduate studies in psychology at studies at the Georgetown Medical ku, Tokyo, Japan. . .. Backpack trips Ohio State. His address: 372 E Oakland Center. His address is 1417 N Quinn St, over the Chilkoot Pass and through the Ave, Columbus, OH 43202; phone: 614- Apt 4, Arlington, VA 22209 .... JAMES Coast Range of Alaska from Skagway 263-4565. YU is continuing his graduate education to Bennett, British Columbia, kept at the U of Minnesota and has been DANIEL J. MILLER busy this summer. awarded an assistantship to do research He also guided month-long float trips Tom A. Thibodeau, Chm. work for the Dept. of Finance and In­ 700 miles down the Yukon River. He 1973 Prince George, British Columbia surance. Address: Middlebrook Hall is now in the Peace Corps in Nepal. 1236, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis ... CRESWELL STURRUP returned for DON CARLINI is a fireman in Mel­ 55455. Phone: 612-376-6724. Homecoming this year. He currently rose Park, IL. ... JOSEPH CHENG and works in the section of naturalization his wife, Mary, live at 328 W 15 St, and citizenship of the ministry of home New York 10011. Phone: 212-929-2119. 1974 affairs in the Bahamas. Address: PO They both have been admitted as per­ Box N7669, Nassau, Bahamas. manent residents of the US and Joe GEORGE WANG is doing graduate has been accepted into the graduate MANUEL BORJA is teaching social study in biology at the U of Nebraska. department of business administration studies and counseling at Marianas His address is Room 4204, International at St. John's U, Brooklyn. . .. GARY High School. Address: PO Box 721, House, 540 N 16 St, Lincoln, NE 68508. EUSTICE is working at the Minnesota Saipan, Mariana Islands 96950. . .. BILL ... ALBERT WONG has begun his Sheriff's Boys Ranch in Izati. ... TOM CAHOY is presently living at 354 Can­ studies at George Washington Medical FRANKMAN is a second year law stu­ ner St, Apt 623, New Haven, CT 06511. School. His new address is 1002 22nd dent at the U of South Dakota. . .. He is attending school at Yale and St NW, Washington 20037. Phone: 202- ADRIAN FUNG is continuing his grad­ reports that he has been working for 785-0967. . .. ALTON WONG is en­ uate education at the U of Minnesota. the Development Office there. . . . rolled in the U of Wisconsin Medical Address: 425 SE 13th Ave, Apt 1101, ANTON CHRISTIANSEN was given the School. Address: 936 N 15th St, Apt 16, Minneapolis 55414. Phone: 612-376-6724. Elijah Watt Sells Award recently for Milwaukee 53233. . .. DAVID YEH is ... MIKE HUBER is practicing account­ his outstanding achievement on the with the executive development program ing at Fischer Sand and Aggregate Co. national Certified Public Accountant at the First National City Bank in Hong in Apple Valley. . .. DALE JACKSON examinations taken this spring. Tony Kong. His address is 138 Argyle, 8/b, has enrolled at American Graduate finished in the top 53 of the 33,320 Kowloon, Hong Kong. . .. STEPHEN School of International Management, persons who took the test. . .. RENE YEUNG is beginning graduate work in Glendale, AZ. . .. WILLIAM KEMP and DARVEAUX 'presently lives at Alumni accounting at the U of Toronto. He his wife, Sharon, live at 1485 12th Ave Hall, Room 213, Meharry Medical Col­ lives at Tartu College, Apt 1226, 310 N, Apt 24, St. Cloud 56301. Bill is a lege, Nashville, TN 37208. . .. BILL Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada graduate student at st. Cloud State in FOLEY as well as JOHN HENKE and M5S 1W4 .... HOWELL ZEE has begun urban planning and is working part­ his wife, Hilda, are presently living at his graduate studies in the College of time at St. Cloud Housing & Redevelop­ 1015 Jackman Ave, Apt 1, Avalon, PA Business Administration at the U of ment Authority as the relocation coun­ 15202. Phone number: 412-761-4090. Nevada. He is a research assistant for selor. . .. IL HYON KIM's address is John and Bill are both beginning grad­ the Bureau of Business and Economic 100 Leeward Glenway, Donmills, Onto uate studies in philosophy at Duquesne Research there. Address: PO Box 8991, M3C 2Z1, Canada. He is the manager U, Pittsburgh. . .. JAMES HOOD is University Station, Reno, NV 89507. of a franchised superette in Toronto, presently employed as a teacher of Phone: 702-784-4570. Onto ... SAMUEL LUM is continuing biology and chemistry at St. Joseph's his graduate education at the University High School in the Virgin Islands. Ad­ of Toronto. His address: Tartu College, dress: Box 517, St. Joseph's High School, 1975 Apt 1226, 310 Bloor St W, Toronto, Frederiksted, St. Croix, US Virgin Is­ Ont., M5S 1W4, Canada. lands 00840. . .. YASUO KOIKE is fin­ TIM TOUHY is in his second year ishing his studies for a Japanese degree Coast Guard Quartermaster Third at Boston College Law School; he lives at Sophia U in Tokyo. His address is Class CRAIG TROUT was promoted at 48 Hardwick St, Brighton, MA 02135. clo Sugiyama, Akasaka 5-2-46, Minato­ to his present rank aboard the cutter ... PHILIP TSUI of 150 Emerson Rd, ku, Tokyo 107, Japan.... ROGER LIND­ Sundew home-ported at Charlevoix, MI. Somerset, NJ 08873; (phone: 201-545- MARK is now attending graduate school He assists the ship's. navigator by 7515) is continuing his graduate studies in psychology at the U of New Orleans. plotting courses, maintaining naviga­ in sociology at Rutgers. . .. JEFFREY He can be reached there at PO Box 1398, tional equipment, steering and sending VIRANT is now attending medical New Orleans 70122. . .. MICHINORI and receiving messages. FR. DUNSTAN TUCKER: MONK,SCHOLAR,COACH

by Senator Eugene J. McCarthy

Saint John's Vol. 14, No.2 President's message Fall, 1974 If I say °1 mean it," will you believe me? I haven't cried wolf lately nor strained your credulity. Believe me! There is a wolf at the Editor: Lee A. Hanley '58 door. Hunger stalks a billion men and women and half a billion Saint John's is published quarterly (Winter, Spring, of them are expected to die this year of starvation. The enormity Summer, and Fall) by the Office of Public Informa­ tion, St. John's University. Second Class postage of this human disaster is beyond compare or comprehension. paid at Collegeville, MN 56321 and additional entry at St. Cloud, MN 56301, granted January We· cannot put this tragedy out of mind nor be unresponsive 28, 1969. to the desperate need that we respond. But that response must be both short- and long-term. The short-term response is obvious. ALUMNI OFFICERS ELECTED Our students, for instance, have fasted to send food to Africa. Richprd Pope '58, President Roger Scherer '58, Vice President The long-term responses will be much more difficult to determine. Clement Commers '57, Secretary Robert Bray '40 More technology alone will not do. One of the fundamental facts Gerald Donlin '55 is that we Americans, 6 per cent of the world's population, consume Gene Koch '51 Dr. Martin Rathmanner '57 over 30 per cent of its resources. Clearly we must moderate our EX OFFICIO Abbot John A. Eidenschink, OSB '35, Han. Pres. expectations if we are to be believable as Christians. Fr. Michael Blecker, OSB, University President For too long we considered that the world's resources were Fr. Alan Steichen, OSB, '68, Senator Eugene McCarthy Father Dunstan Tucker, aSB Preparatory School Headmaster inexhaustable and the genius of our technology unlimited. We thought Paul Mulready '50, Executive Governing Board Representative we could afford "all this and heaven too" because somehow modern Kevin Hughes '58, Past President science and technology would find a way to feed the hungry. We Michael Ricci '62, Development Director David Thorman '69, Alumni SecretarY F.ther Dunstan Tucker was the gentleness of his mother and of his sister, and would not need to give up anything. Now it is clear that Americans the modest irreverence of his brother, Charles, who need to learn again to share, and rediscover the discipline and my professor of English and also my baseball coach. sacrifice a Christian life requires. He had no doubts about my ability to play first base, was postmaster. but occasionally showed less than full faith in my Here in this very small town in Western Minne­ In short, we must be a good Samaritan in a world so complex hitting ability. He usually had me batting about sota was a family of culture, of refinement, of that long-term and complex solutions alone will not work. These sixth or seventh in the lineup despite a slugging strength. They were English and Catholic among solutions must respect life and the priority of humane and spiritual average that was considerably above my batting the Irish - the Keaveneys and the Denerys - ap.d values over comfort and convenience. I want Saint John's to lead Fr. Dunstan Tucker: average. In comparable manner, he thought that I among Germans. The Tucker family names were in this world-wide reordering of priorities. I believe Saint John's Monk, Scholar, Coach 1 was better as a reader, or as a student of English English; his father, Oliver; his brother, Charles; and can lead but this will not be a popular cause. If you believe in it, Father Dunstan's given name was William. When give us your help. By Senator literature, than as a writer. I disagreed with him Eugene]. McCarthy' 33 less on the second count than on the first. These he joined the Benedictine Order at St. John's, he Sin rely, differences were minor. In both the fields of English took the name of Saint Dunstan, abbot of the English "I Think I Can, and baseball, we were long associated in common Benedictine abbey of Glastonbury in the 10th century. ,u '~~<.AJ.I ~~ I Think I Can, effort, appreciation and understanding. Tintah is situated on the edge of the Red River I Thought I Could" ...... 5 I first met Father Dunstan at St. John's. But Valley. The land stretches away from the town in flat expanses in every direction. The horizons are Mic ael Blecker, OSB By Denny Hanley '65 after graduation my first job was teaching in the Pres dent high school at Tintah, the town in which Father absolute, like those of the sea. There are no distant Dunstan was born, where his parents, his one brother mountains, no close hills. The line of the horizon The Diggers, and, as I recall, at least one of his sisters then lived. is broken only by modest trees like boxelders and Editor's note: See related article, page 19. The Ranters, and Spending a year in Tintah helped me, in retrospect, by cottonwood growing along the drainage ditches. The Early Quakers ...... 9 to understand Father Dunstan better. First and most It is a land with few distractions, a landscape well By. Fr. Chrysostom Kim, OSB importantly, I came to know his family. I saw the described in these lines from a poem by Philip Booth: In this far flat land, far from any home ON THE COVER: quiet strength of his father, Oliver, of whom Father St. John's News Review 15 Dunstan has written and spoken with much respect you might come home to, you stand where distance Rich Banasik '65 pauses before boarding Burlington Northern's Chicago­ and affection. Oliver Tucker ran the elevator, a has no end. Give or take a blank white farm Seattle mail train which he regularly pilots between LaCrosse and the St. John's Sports Review 21 position of trust in a grain area exceeding that of in all these square-mapped miles, perspective Twin Cities. When not riding the rails, Rich may be found in his the creamery operator in a dairy area. I experienced is no more than one long narrowing down linear roads LaCrosse art shop, The Hand of Man. See article, page 5. Alumni News Notes ...... 22

Saint 1 or rows of corn. You know that no directive In Tintah, as in baseball, there were no places could, if given, see you further than a county line, to hide, no secrets. Memories were long of life and Both still swi ng ing but only deeper inland then, you'd violate sports and every person was held answerable not a kind of boundary for which there is no sign. only for himself but for his ancestors, for his con­ Tintah was a good place for reading, for reflec­ temporaries and for his relatives, living and prospec­ tion, for imagination - and for baseball. Time in tive. Tintah was unimportant as it is unimportant for baseball and for scholars. Other than the rise and With this background, it is setting of the sun, the principal marker of time in not surprising that Father Dunstan turned out to be Tintah was the twice daily passage of the Empire the full and self contained and controlled person that Builder, then the super train of the Great Northern he is, and that his principal interests should have Railroad, as it sped westwaJ,d for Seattle in the been religion, scholarship, literature and baseball .. morning and again as the night train passed through and that every relationship with other persons­ on its way to Minneapolis. Watches were adjusted whether student, fellow monk, scholar or baseball to the passing of the flyer. The seasons were marked player - would be marked by a deep and continuing by the spring flight of wild geese heading north in respect for the person. early April and by their fall flight as they migrated If Father Dunstan was intolerant, it was of two south in early October. Tintah, like baseball, had a things - stupidity and bad form - especially if they singular relationship to Time. Football and basket­ occurred together, either on the diamond or in the ball may be more popular, but no one thinks of field of scholarship or literature. calling either of them the national pastime. Baseball Father Dunstan came to St. John's in 1920, ignored time rather than be dominated by it. If for received his bachelor's degree in 1925 and was then some reason - dust in the eye, rain or the like­ sent by Abbot Alcuin Deutsch to study theology at the game must be halted, time out is not taken, but Sant' Anselmo, the International Benedictine College time is "called." Football, basketball and hockey in Rome. He never qualified as a "gyro vagus," the games are artibrarily divided into halves, quarters wandering monk described and strongly disapproved and periods. In baseball, an inning could go on of by St. Benedict in his Rule, but, with encourage­ forever (except for acts of God such as darkness ment and support, he was willing to travel for a purpose. While in Rome for the study of theology he took up the study of Italian and became deeply interested in the writings of Dante, particularly the If Father Dunstan was intolerant, it Divine Comedy. Some 52 years later, after he retired Senator McCarthy takes a batting practice swing at an Father Dunstan coached baseball over a period of 40 annual Congressional baseball game. McCarthy was a years at St. John's. The 1969 Jay team won the last of was of two things-stupidity and as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at St. John's in 1967, Father Dunstan returned to Italy and regular in the series which pits Republican members of his four MIAC championships. His final year of coaching Congress against the Democrats. was 1971. bad form - especially if they occurred in Florence continued his study of the life and works of the 13th century poet. together, either on the diamond Among the courses I took at St. John's, I remem­ After this message, Langland continues: or in the field of scholarship or ber three with particular satisfaction. "English Gram­ Then a glutton of language, a scandalous jester Showing through all of mar and Composition" as taught by Father Theodore Answered the angel, who hovered above them. literature. Father Dunstan's studies and travels is his concern Krebsbach was one of them. His standards were such and: and respect for the "word" - in the English lan­ that, long after having had his course, I used them Then the crowd of the commons cried out in guage first, but he supplemented that original inter­ in criticism of examples of good writing included in Latin. est by seeking out meaning and understanding in the late edition of Elements of Style by E. B. White. And in another sequence in which the issue of and rain or cultural or quasi-natural occurrences like other languages. While a student in Europe in the I thought it not bad to be able to quote Theodore belling a cat is discussed by rats and mice and what curfew or midnight in games played under lights.) 205, he spent his first summer at the Benedictine Krebsbach against Strunk and White. Langland calls a "rat of renown, a ready speaker" In Tintah, time was not "taken out" but simply monastery at Aix les Bains in southern France im­ The second was a course taught by Father has proposed the belling of the cat, he continues: "called." Father Dunstan, with this background, was proving his French. The following summer he stayed Conrad Diekmann entitled "Middle English." The "The rabble of rats thought his reasons clever; never hurried. His most common advice to a pitcher at the Benedictine monastery at Beuron, Germany, readings included Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and But when the bell was brought and bound to in trouble was "Take your time." studying German and, in part, correcting his German The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland, the collar there was not a rat in all the rout, Space in Tintah, too, was significant in forming because the German of Beuron was somewhat dif­ a 14th Century cleric of some kind and degree. I for the realm of Louis who dared bind the bell the spirit of the town and of its people - and also ferent from that with which he had become familiar quote regularly and readily from the latter book and, about the eat's shoulders nor hang it on the for baseball. The land around the town is divided by in Stearns County. When Father Dunstan became while still in the Senate, when asked by publishing cat's head to win all England." surveyors into absolute squares or diamonds, de­ interested in Cervante's Don Ouixote he was not associations what two or three books I had found The other memorable course was Father Dun­ pending on your point of view. Each section of land satisfied to have read it in tra~slation. To under­ most profitable or satisfying during the year, I al­ stan's "The Novel." For some unknown reason I had the potential for a baseball diamond in every stand and appreciate it more fully he undertook the ways listed The Vision of Piers Plowman among missed his course in Dante, but to miss the course right angled corner. Projections from that corner study of Spanish, visited Mexico and mastered the them. was not to miss knowing what was being taught point could be extended along the lines of that angle language so well that when he returned to St. John's Among the quotations I've found most useful in it. There were two English courses taught at St. to infinity with no intervention of fences, buildings in 1953 he included the teaching of Spanish in his are these: John's in my day which you didn't have to take in or natural obstacles. A baseball, theoretically, never schedule. Then high in the air an angel from heaven order to know what was in them. One was Father goes out of bounds. On the Tintah diamond where Although his interest in the Romance languages Spoke loudly in Latin, that laymen might never Dunstan's "Dante" and the other was Father Rem­ I played a few games with the town team there was was significant, his abiding interest was in English Either judge or justify or object to opinions, bert's "Cardinal Newman." Both courses prevailed no out-of-bounds either theoretically or in fact. literature and in the English department. But suffer and serve. and pervaded the English department. The course in the novel was another matter and My other point of criticism was that he was a a delight. It ranged from Hemingway (of whom little too respectful of umpires and of the feelings Father Dunstan would say: "For lack of experience of the other coaches. This restraint was somewhat "I THINK I CAN, I cannot say that he has written well of all that he difficult for those of us who were experienced in has written about, but he surely can describe the the ways of the Great 500 League. I THINK I CAN, effect of a good drink of whiskey.") through Dreiser The St. John's team of the 30s and 40s was a and Faulkner, among the American writers, Tolstoy kind of halfway house between the Great 500 League and Dostoevesky, of the Russians, Sigrid Undset­ and the Northern League or others of the lower I THOUGHT I COULD" I remember one of Father Dunstan's baseball players, orders of organized baseball. It was a league in a pitcher, who had little interest in literature but was which little respect was shown for opposing teams by Denny Hanley '65 so moved by his coach's interest that he resolved to or their managers or, for that matter, for umpires. read Kristin Lavransdatter, 30 pages a day. He was Father Dunstan's greatest distress over the issue of a very orderly and disciplined young man who would how opposing coaches should be treated came in the put the book down after he had finished the daily 1942 season and involved the St. Thomas team and 30 pages even though he was only a page or two their coach, "Wee" Walsh - not a man wholly be­ from the end of the chapter or, for that matter, the loved at St. John's. In any case, in the first of the end of the book. His pitches lacked variety. two-game series of that year, a game played at St. At last the course got down to what it was John's, Walsh refused to' put his team on the field really about, the Don Quixote of Cervantes. All that after one of his men had been picked off first base had gone before was not undone, but overshadowed. by St. John's pitcher "Lefty" Clauson. Walsh charged Father Dunstan was so pleased with that book that that the pitcher had balked. (He was wrong. Clauson he found it difficult to talk about it as he did about didn't balk when he threw to first base with a man other novels or to subject it to any kind of scholarly on that base. He would have balked if he had thrown analysis. It was as though he feared that analysis the ball to home plate with a man on first.) The or too much discussion would somehow leave it dis­ umpire forfeited the game to St. John's. honored, that its perfection and wholeness would suffer. He would chuckle in delight over the book Some weeks later the second game was played and leave it with respect that bordered on reverence. at St. Thomas. It was a runaway and when the game got to a point where St. John's was leading by a score of something like 9 to 2, the cry went up from I need not recount the the bench urging Walsh to "take your ball and bat record of his achievements as a baseball coach. I and go home." Father Dunstan asked for quiet. played for him and was his assistant. In both rela­ One day he's the envy of That he relishes his current situation is obvious tionships I found little for which to criticize him. Through all of his varied career (travels, teach­ every five-year-old as he guides the winding freight as he discusses his work and future plans in the I do think that he should have batted me a little ing, scholarship, coaching) Father Dunstan retained along the banks of the Mississippi as an engineer handsome bachelor pad above his art shop. But it higher in the lineup - say third. (He did pay me his underlying and compelling interest in the Church, on the Burlington Northern. The next day, as owner, has not always gone so well. The years after grad­ the high compliment of saying that my batting style in its liturgy and in his monastic vocation - from manager and resident artist of The Hand of Man uation from St. John's in 1965 were filled with set­ was like Rogers Hornsby's, even though the average the day in 1923 or 1924 when, before he entered art gallery-picture framing shop, he's the envy of backs until things began to click four years ago. was somewhat less.) And I think he should have the Benedictine order, he was asked by a scout from many a five-year-old's dad who would like to call At St. John's, Banasik participated in more than moved Phil (Gabby) Gravelle from second base to the Minneapolis baseball club whether he would like his own shots, find a new challenge, or just "stop his share of student activities. When not directly third base a year before he did. This reflects a quite to play professional baseball and he replied that he and smell the roses." involved, he could often be found behind the scenes selfish concern - almost a matter of self preserva­ was flattered by the offer but that he was going to At a time when human resource experts discuss providing the support of his artistic skills in what­ study for the priesthood, to the day in April of 1972 tion - since Gravelle threw so hard from his second the value of sabbatical leaves allowing individuals ever the current project might have been. base fielding position that the first baseman (which when he wrote from Florence, Italy: in all occupations an opportunity to get away from As a member of the Men's Chorus, he toured I was) stood in danger of serious harm every time "Spring is still spring in Italy, as in Minnesota­ their work long enough to think, accomplish some­ Europe in 1965 and took part in the Chorus' triumphs the play was made. In vanity, I suspect Gravelle slow in coming. I am surviving, however, though thing different or develop new perspectives, railroad that year at the International Musical Eisteddfod was moved to the far corner of the diamond the it will be a pleasure to be enjoying the comforts engineer-artist Rich Banasik '65 has found an un­ in Llangollen, Wales. "The tour helped to bring into next year because whoever succeeded me at first of St. John's again. Apparently I am a B~ne­ likely combination which seems to provide similar base couldn't handle the Gravelle throw. dictine!" 0 benefits without taking leave. Unlike the profes­ sional or successful top executive we read about, The Author: Denny Hanley who have dropped-out disillusioned with their suc­ '65 roomed with Banasik cess, Banasik has never really dropped-in. during their Junior and He acknowledges his current job combination Senior years at St. John's. To the Editor: literary skill of the writer perfectly of Abbey and University and in is not part of a long-range career plan and that, A division manager with in fact, he spent better than four years unsuccess­ Prudential's North Central matched the greatness of his sub­ gratitude for Father Dunstan's life­ Home Office in Minneapolis, It is a rare occurrence that the ject. It is my sincere hope that you long contribution to the true spirit fully trying to drop-in. "After a lot of frustration he received his MBA from printed tribute to a great man will find the opportunity to make of St. John's. trying to be someone I probably was never intended the University of Minnesota finds so adequate an expression as this tribute to Father Dunstan ac­ Sincerely, to be, this whole thing just fell into place. I enjoy in 1972. Denny and his wife, in Eugene McCarthy's article on cessible to a wider audience than Julian G. Plante both jobs. They complement each other and provide Pat, live in Maple Grove Father Dunstan in the program of the one the Homecoming program me with an interesting, challenging change of pace with their two sons: Tim, 3, the recent Homecoming game. The could reach - for the greater glory Editor's note: Done! from one day to the next." and Mike, 6 months.

4 Saint 5 future. "I had worked for the old Chicago-Burling ton­ focus the depth of my art studies at St. John's by summer of 1968. His application was not accepted. Admission to dental school again failed to mate­ providing an opportunity to view important originals "At the time it was a big disappointment. I felt I rialize with his second round of applications, though Quincy Railroad as a fireman during the summer in Europe's famous art museums." had spread myself too thin by carrying a heavy he was accepted as an alternate at Marquette and of '66. It had since merged into the new Burlington Northern line and provided one of the few fairly Banasik returned to his hometown, La Crosse, academic load and working a busy part-time job NYU. It was a bitter pill to take after four years decent paying jobs around. A job was available and WI, after graduation and spent the 1965-66 academic schedule. To make matters worse, the Vietnam con­ of hard work and waiting to find a career. year at Holy Cross Seminary exploring his interest flict appeared to have contributed to a larger than I was soon making runs north to Minneapolis and in the priesthood. Soon determining that he didn't normal number of applicants and dental school south to Savanna, IL, on the stretch of track handled have a religious vocation, he enrolled in the Univer­ openings were that much more difficult to land. With jobs tough to find in by Burlington Northern crews working out of La sity of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to study for a However, since some schools advised me to reapply the fall of 1969, he returned to the Milwaukee School Crosse." master's degree in art. the following year, I still had hope." System for the 1969-70 term as a substitute teacher. The railroad freight business was booming, But he became disillusioned with the art pro­ While waiting to reapply for dental school, This period was probably an important turning ]!'oint. Burlington Northern was hiring rapidly and Banasik found himself gaining seniority at an above average gram and began pursuit of yet another profession Banasik spent one semester as a substitute teacher With the academic pressure behind him, Banasik had pace. He was to be promoted to engineer in about -his third in less than two years-by transferring in Milwaukee's public schools. In January, 1969, he more time to paint and seriously consider the notion to the University's pre-dentistry program in January, began an eight-month stint as the only male faculty to open an art gallery which had been in the back three years, an unbelieveably short period only a few years earlier. A busy work schedule filled with 1967. Scheduling problems led to yet another move member of a private school for emotionally disturbed of his mind for some time. Limited financial re­ extra runs soon provided the required financial sta­ to Marquette in September, 1967, to continue pre­ and delinquent girls. He humorously recalls, "I may sources proved to be a major obstacle, however, to dental studies. not have been making much progress toward dental implementing his plan. bility and the normal two- or three-day layovers He completed course work requirements and school, but I was certainly developing some inter­ When the school term ended in June, 1970, he between runs allowed time to develop plans for a applied for admission to dental school during the esting contents for my employment resume." returned to La Crosse with no clear plan for the future art shop.

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Late in 1970, he began renovating a former where. It's an artist's paradise which constantly grocery store in an older section of La Crosse which changes from morning to night and season to season. he had selected for its unique atmosphere, adequate Each run provided an opportunity to get away from THE DIGGERS, space and moderate price. Without benefit of pub­ some of the early frustrations in the shop-I had licity or a grand opening, Banasik's art shop called time to think and plan. When the run was finished THE RANTERS AND I returned with renewed enthusiasm and determina­ THE EARLY QUAKERS tion to make The Hand of Man a success. As the shop began to prosper, the two jobs seemed to be­ "There is a private, peaceful thrill come an even more enjoyable blend. The shop be­ The counter-culture that failed handling the controls of three pow­ came a valuable outlet filling the potentially boring days between runs. It is now a place where I can by Fr. Chrysostom Kim, OSB erful engines propelling a mile long relax surrounded by hopes and dreams that have freight along the winding river banks." become reality.

Editor's note: This is a condensation of an article which "I t may be difficult for .some- will appear soon in The American Benedictine Review. The Hand of Man began operations February 1, one else to understand, .but what I'm doing isn't We include it in Saint John's with the permission of the 1971. The name and trademark of his new shop 'work' to me. It's like having two hobbies with each Review editor. was an inspiration from the previous year in Mil­ an outlet from the other. This combination has what waukee. "While on a substitute assignment teaching I'm sure a lot of people look for in their work. HELL BROKE LooSE a high school art class, I began doodling and pro­ There is a private, peaceful thrill handling the con­ or, The NotoriollS Design oj the Wicked Ranterl• ••• (London, ID II) ceeded to sketch my own hand as it was sketching. trols of three powerful engines propelling a mile As the drawing was completed it occurred to me long freight along the winding river banks. I enjoy that all art was the product of the hand of man that get-away-from-it-all feeling-like being alone on On April 1, 1649, Sunday, sought to escape the burden of theology in search and here was a perfect name for the business I might a mountain top-the railroad gives me. Yet, I enjoy a band of sectaries in England known as the True of "human-all-too-human" moralities. Yet, "However someday run. people very much and my shop brings me into con­ Levellers (or the Diggers) seized the commons on radical their conclusions, however heretical their the­ "The shop had an awkward beginning. I started tact with interesting people nearly every day." St. George's Hill, W alton-on-Thames, just outside ology, their escape-route from theology was theo­ with a hammer, some nails, very few bucks and logical" (p. 147). The latest book by the Master of Banasik has no plans to slow down. He hopes of London, and began digging and planting the waste only a faint idea of what it took to run a business. eventually to expand his business into a complete land there in "a symbolic assumption of ownership Balliol, Oxford, gives a masterful analysis of the I couldn't afford an assistant so the shop ran on interior decorating center; to offer a consulting pack­ of the common lands." Quite possibly on the same three elements common to these sects: class hostility, an irregular schedule, open only when I was not on theological innovation and sexual freedom. In addi­ age of interior design and custom furniture as well Sunday, a group of soldiers invaded the parish church the railroad unless my mother or younger sister were as the final artistic touch of a well-framed painting of Walton-on-Thames during the service, informing tion, the author deftly draws parallels between those available to help. In a few months I was able to 17th-century sectaries and today's counter-culture or drawing. He feels his earlier artistic endeavors the startled congregation that the Sabbath, tithes, hire help and maintain a regular schedule." were too narrow, limiting the opportunity to employ ministers, magistrates and the Bible were all abol­ radicals. Tamen usque recurret, said the philosophic poet: if you may recall, the name "Diggers" briefly Banasik's original concept in opening The Hand his inherent skills and interests. Future business ished. Before long such "sit-ins" and "People's Parks" surfaced in the Hippie communes of the 1960s. of Man was to specialize in showing and selling plans are aimed at establishing new avenues of crea­ sprang up everywhere in England on dozens of sites. original works of regional artists. Picture framing tivity. But as Professor Christopher Hill shows in The The Diggers' name alone, the True Levellers, was to be a sideline. It soon became apparent that World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during betrays the sect's true intent and purpose: to dis­ economic survival was dependent upon picture fram­ As he describes his interest in giving interiors the English Revolution (The Viking Press, 1972, pp. tinguish itself from those Interregnum constitutional ing and he was forced to extend his personal artistic excitement through proper use of color and design, 351),1 the Diggers were only one of many low-class Levellers with their much-vaunted manhood suffrage horizons. "I began learning that proper framing is Banasik's own shop and apartment are impressive radical sects carried away by millenarian enthusiasm (Overton, Walwyn, Clark, Rainborough, Lilburne an art in itself. As my framing experience increased illustrations of his skill. during the revolutionary decades of the 1640s and and others) and to press on where the Levellers had during that first year, a totally new area of crea­ 1650s. There oozed a host of strange new sects­ lost their nerve. The Levellers thought themselves The flat, a near-disaster area when he took levelling but the notion flies in the face of fact. tivity opened up for me. I began to specialize in possession, has been transformd into fitting subject aided vastly by the breakdown of censorship and Anyone who has read C. B. McPherson's excellent unique and innovative framing with an emphasis matter for House Beautiful. He has combined bold, clerical control in the "teeming freedom" of the on color and frame design complementing the art 1640s. And heaven knows, they were an odd lot. analysis of the Levellers will recall that, although painted patterns of numbers, arrows or, in one in­ their franchise demands were considerably wider in work and preparing it for the environment in which stance, a ';reflected" image of the bare light bulb They dreamed of restoring prelapsarian liberty and scope than allowed by Cromwell and Ireton, the it would hang. I now have clients who may spend that hangs in the center of the room, with a dif­ of creating an egalitarian utopia while resolved at Levellers persistently excluded from their franchise several hundred dollars for an original on the East ferent monochromatic color theme in each room. the same time to hang onto the fundamental protes­ proposals two very substantial categories of men: Coast and bring the painting in to be reframed here." And, believe me, his purple living room looks much tant doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. What servants or wage-earners and those in receipt of alms better than it sounds. linked these sects was the political opposition to the At first the railroad job was a necessary source tithes, to the state church and its ministers, to the or beggars.2 So ingrained in their minds was the of funds to keep the shop out of hock, hopefully "Sure I'm very busy," agrees Banasik, "but it's law, to the existing franchise. Predictably, the ruling idea of sanctity of property that the Levellers "saw only a temporary burden. As the early hectic months fun and the railroad provides me the escape I need classes and the theological topsiders called them no inconsistency between this exclusion and their of maintaining two diverse jobs went by, Banasik to get away from my art shop ventures. It forces "the rabble," "the churls," "the plebeian rout," "the assertion of the natural right of every man to vote."s became aware of their almost magical combination. me to retain what I believe to be a healthy perspec­ basest and the vilest of men," etc. But, despite a There was something refreshing about the pace and tive of what I'm doing, and helps me to remember bewildering variety of individual responses given in change of pace they offered. a personal promise that when what I'm doing be­ those years of incredible luxuriance in political spec­ The Author: Fr. Chrysostom Kim is Associate Professor "The section of track we work along the Mis­ comes either boring or laborious, I will be looking ulation, the quintessence of these sects was not so of Social Thought· and Director of the Honors Program sissippi between Minneapolis and Savanna is sur­ for something else. I never want to become too busy much political as theological. True, they variously at St. John's. rounded by some of the most beautiful scenery any- or too successful to enjoy what I am doing." 0

Saint Saint The Diggers, on the other hand, Lilburne was among the first to upsurge of utopian spirit. But some­ (p. 186) when many still looked upon As I said before, the early Quakers claimed that "all the earth is the understand the real conditions of how the steam had run out on them. Nayler as the "chief leader," the were indistinguishable from the saints'" and went from "the reign of democracy, and the obstacle to its Feckless and disorganized, these sects "Head Quaker." Ranters and the Blasphemy Act of the saints" directly to a community success in England. Equality of were all effectively silenced, leaving August 9, 1650, was passed specif­ of estates (p. 92). Since press ac­ power could not be preserved, ex­ behind hardly a trace. One exception ically with the Ranters in mind. We counts invariably failed to distinguish cept by violence, together with an was Quakerism. Yet, as the mille­ must also bear in mind the extent the Diggers from the Levellers, dis­ extreme inequality of possessions. In 1656, a feisfy Quaker named narian enthusiasm cooled and the and strength of millenarian expecta­ owning in public of the Diggers' There would always be danger, James Nayler made his symbolic messianic hopes faded-with all the tions in the 1640s and early '50s. anarcho-communist tenet was one of if power was not made to wait on entry into Bristol, riding on a donkey, exhuberances that went with those The execution of the King, a hor­ the Levellers' preoccupations. property, that property would go acclaimed by the hysterical hosannas hopes and enthusiasms-the inner rendous deed, made sense to many Noting the levelling tenet among to those who had the power. This of his followers, with women strewing light which formerly spoke of the only as clearing the way for King the Fifth Monarchists, Cromwell idea of the necessary balance of palms before him. Arrested and tried, perfectibility of the saints now came Jesus. But to go on, the Ranters were made this remark in 1654: property, developed by Harrington, he was flogged through the streets to re-emphasize sin. "The treachery known in 1650 also as Coppinites, Notions will hurt no one but those and adopted by Milton in his later of London, his tongue bored with hot lurked in the inner light," says Hill. so named after their leader, Abiezer that have them. But when they pamphlets, appeared to Toland, iron and his forehead branded, fol- "In time of defeat, when the wave Coppe, who told the rich to "have come to such practices as telling of revolution was ebbing, the inner all things common, or else the plague us, for instance, that liberty and voice became quietist, pacifist" (p. of God will rot and consume all that property are not the badges of the But somehow the steam had run out on them. 299). Above all, the Quakers had to you have" (p. 170). Coppe delivered kingdom of Christ . . . this is dissociate themselves from that drink­ his pantheistic message, in a language worthy of every magistrate's con­ Feckless and disorganized, these sects were all ing, swearing and womanizing sect almost bewitching at times, from "my sideration.4 effectively silenced, leaving behind hardly a trace. called the Ranters. The Blasphemy most excellent majesty and eternal The Earl of Leicester, the powerful Act of August 9, 1650, was specifi­ Oliver Cromwell glory (in me) ... who am universal Puritan peer in Elizabeth's court, was cally aimed against the Ranters, and love, and whose service is perfect infruriated by a press item which and even to John Adams, as im­ lowed by exposure in the pillory. The contemporaries did not always dis­ freedom and pure libertinism" (p. said that property was "the original portant as the invention of print­ second Protectorate Parliament which tinguish the Ranters from the early honey ... without money" (p. 274). 168). He taught that "adultery ... is cause of any sin between party and ing, or the discovery of the circu­ took up the case was in a thoroughly Quakers. Realizing that God was no Thus, an alternative solution to 1688 no sin" and that "community of party" and of "most sins against the lation of the blood. At least it in­ ugly mood. To spare Nayler's life was longer served by going naked for was indeed envisioned by the "lunatic wives was lawful"; he exhorted his heavenly deity." dicates the true explanation of the all Cromwell could do. Yeats has said signs and miracles, Fox's Journal had fringe" in the 1640s and 1650s but followers to "give over thy stinking In contrast, the Digger Gerrard strange completeness with which that "the swordsman throughout re­ to play down James Nayler. Never­ it, alas, fizzled! Professor Hill is al­ family duties and thy Gospel ordin­ Winstanley said with his unwavering the Republican party had vanished, pudiates the saint, but not without theless, Fox's -Journal was not sup­ most wistful as he writes: ances ... under (which are) all lies lucidity, "All your particular churches a dozen years after the solemn vacillation." But this particular pressing the past nor rewriting his­ The idea that the bottom might snapping, snarling, biting, besides (Presbyterian or Independent) are like trial and execution of the King. swordsman in his particular God­ tory, says Hill; it was merely that come to the top, that the first covetousness horrid hypocrisy" (p. the enclosures of land, which hedges No extremity of misgovernment obsessedness was no ordinary swords­ Fox's inner voice was telling different might be last and the last first, 268). Coppe was ecstatic in pro­ in some to be heirs of life and hedges was able to revive it. .. The Rev­ man: Cromwell treated the saints things in the 1680s from what it had that "community ... called Christ claiming his harmony with God ("My out others" (p. 81). For him, if sola olution of 1688 confined power to with great lenience. told him and James Nayler 30 years or universal love" might cast our spirit dwells with God, sups with Scriptura was the password of the the aristocracy of freeholders. The George Fox, with his invincible earlier. And what was Fox's voice "property, called the devil or cov­ him, in him, feeds on him, with him, Puritan Revolution, the idea that "the conservatism of the age was un­ power to calm as well as stir the soul, saying in the 1680s7 That "what had etousness," and that "inward in him") and with man ("My hu­ first might be last and the last first" conquerable.5 would eventually commence to tame looked in the Ranter heyday as bondages of the mind" (covetous­ manity shall dwell with, sup with, was in the scriptures, too. Moreover, and quite unwittingly, the frenzy of the Early Quakers, but though it might become a counter­ ness, pride, hypocrisy, fears, des­ eat with humanity"). But he was also Winstanley's lofty pronunciamento Lord Acton pinpoints for us the Fox was operating in the world of culture became a corner of the bour­ pair and mental breakdown) might quick to add, "And why not (for a to lords of manors was that "the period covered in Professor Hill's the second Charles so fundamentally geois culture whose occupants asked be "all occasioned by the outward need) with publicans and harlots?" power of enclosing land and owning book, i.e., "a dozen years after the different from that of the first. only to be left alone" (p. 300). bond ages that one sort of people (p. 161). Rude and coarsely jocular, property was brought into the crea­ solemn trial and execution of the There was no denying that a new Fox's achievement was indeed im­ lay upon another"-such ideas are the Ranters were known to wench tion by the sword" (p. 106)-contrary King." In short, Hill's book deals spirit was abroad after the Restora­ mense, but Hill wonders whether the not necessarily opposed to order; openly, blaspheme, curse, drink, to the mind of Christ, the Head with the Puritan sectaries' last fling tion: Charles II aptly caught the Quakers ever really wanted to over­ they merely envisage a different smoke, dance round maypole, sing Leveller-while the likes of the Earl as God's poor and radical democrats mood of his time when he remarked turn the world any more than the order (p. 312). bawdy songs to the well-known tunes of Leicester made no bones about before the Republican party vanished that the only "visible church" he constitutional Levellers wanted to Yet, as Hill knows all too well, the of metrical psalms, crowing that "it the time-honored triple entente of the "with the strange completeness." knew was the hilltop church at overthrow the sanctity of private "different order" was glimpsed into was better for Christians to be drink­ crown, the mitre and the landed Charles I was executed in 1649 and Harrow. property (p. 302). What comes only by a freak accident, as it were. ing in an ale-house, or to be in a gentry. Unlike the Levellers who an anonymous pamphlet said in the But let us note again the date of through here and elsewhere in the Triumphing over the King, the gentry whore-house, than to be keeping never pretended to represent "the same year, "God made men and the the Nayler episode - 1656 - which book is Hill's poignant feeling of and merchants who sided with Parlia­ fasts legally." poor," the Diggers argued with pas­ devil made the kings" (p. 99). But was several years prior to the regret for what might have become ment had fully expected to impose Coppe's cry of "overturn, over­ sion that "the poorest man hath as the monarchy was restored in 1660 Quakers' first public declaration of a counter-culture which differed both their values on the reconstructed in­ turn, overturn" was the seventeenth­ true a title and just right to the land and in vain did Milton cry on the absolute pacifism which occurred in from the traditional aristocratic cul­ stitutions of society: if they had not century equivalent of "burn, baby, as the richest man" (p. 106). The eve of the Restoration, "Where is January of 1661. Professor Horton ture and from the bourgeois culture been impeded in this, England might burn," addressed to the down-and­ Diggers remained republicans precise­ Davies remarks how it seems as if this goodly tower of a common­ of the protestant ethics which re­ have passed straight to something outs of this world, bidding them to ly because "monarchy for them was wealth, which the English boasted the Beatitude "Blessed are the peace­ like the political solution of 1688. placed it. rise and establish "parity, equality merely the chief captain of the army they would build to overshadow makers" was reserved especially for But instead, says Hill, "It hath been ... mine endeavour," and community" in "universal love, of landlordism" (p. 98). kings, and be another Rome?"6 But the advent of the Quakers.7 How said the Digger Henry Denne in 1645, There was a period of glorious universal peace and perfect freedom" But there is no question about it, as the workaday world closed in on beautifully put! But before the flux and intellectual excitement, "to give unto every limb and part (p. 169). This, of course, no Calvinist the Diggers were tampering with these sects after the Restoration, Quakers could become proverbial in when, as Gerrard Winstanley put not only his due proportion but also Establishment could countenance, for something nigh "mystical" in the what appeared imminent in the mid- their sincerity, Fox's problem was due place" (p. 11). Men must hasten it, "the old world ... is running "no Calvinist could logically have any English souls, i.e., their innate rever­ 1650s (Le., the fall of Antichrist, the precisely that "their eccentricity to "spiritual Canaan," wrote Ranter up like parchment in the fire." confidence in democracy: his religion ence for property. It was surely this second coming and the millennium) rather than their sincerity impressed Abiezer Coppe in 1649, "which is a Literally anything seemed possible; English sense of property which seemed no longer so imminent. As his contemporaries." Professor Hill land of large liberty, the house of not only were the values of the was for the elect, by definition, a prompted Lord Acton to make the long as the steam lasted, these sects rather thinks that the Quaker move­ happiness, where, like the Lord's lily, old hierarchical society called in minority" (p. 128). But as long as following comments apropos of the rode high on the back of chiliastic ment by 1694 was clearly Fox's move­ they toil not but grow in the land question but also the new values, Coppe's Ranter-phase lasted, he was Whig Revolution of 1688: militancy accompanied by a hectic ment but not so clearly in the 1650s flowing with sweet wine, milk and the protestant ethic itself (p. 12). unabashedly a True Leveller.

10 Saint Saint 11 But there is a pathetic aside to all The Ranters were also known as trouble with Ranters who joined his can well appreciate the political im­ itinerant craftsmen became itinerant to their villages, or like Bunyan this. Coppe had resisted an obsessive Claxtonians in the 1650s - after community and "caused scandal" : plications of the Diggers' stance that preachers, itinerant preachers itiner­ went to gaol. Levellers, Diggers, urge to swear for 27 years and then Lawrence Clarkson who preached that (a) The Ranters attached too much no statute deprived the common ant messiahs. Ranters and Fifth Monarchists one day he swore for an hour on "there is no such act as drunkenness, importance to "meat, drink, pleasure people of their rights in the common And, during the revolutionary dec­ disappeared, leaving hardly a trace. end in the pulpit, "A pox of God adultery and theft in God." The and women"; (b) lack of work "in­ lands "but only an ancient custom ades of the 1640s and 1650s, the Coppe changed his name and be­ take all your prayers" (p. 162). It Claxtonians favored divorce and tol­ flames their hearts to quarrelling, bred in the strength of kingly pre­ hallowed tradition of the presumptive came a physician. Salmon, Perrot shows, if nothing else, what the legal eration for the Jews. They justified killing, burning houses or corn" ; rogative" (p. 44). The propertied wickedness of the rich was given a and many others emigrated. Nayler calculations of covenant theologians the rights of sons against fathers (c) sexual promiscuity broke the peace classes hissed that "the poor increase new theological twist by the sectaries. and Burrough died, Fox disciplined and the gruesome despair of pre­ and the rights of women to preach. in families and led to idleness, to like fleas and lice, and these vermin They asserted that "God hath now the Quakers: they succumbed to destinarian doctrine can do to an They attacked monogamy in praise a Hippie-like existence, for which will eat us up unless we enclose" (p. opened their eyes and discovered the protestant ethic. Property tri­ unbalanced mind. of polygamy. "They say that for one others had to pay by labor; (d) it 42), but Winstanley coolly argued unto them their Christian liberty" umphed. Bishops returned to a The desperate oaths were his writ man to be tied to one woman, or also led to venereal disease, the in­ state church, the universities and of severance with all moral restraints, one woman to one man, is a fruit of cidence of which in England had tithes survived. Women were put a thumbing of his nose at sin and the curse; but, they say, we are freed presumably increased in the wake of 11 Bishops returned to a state church, the universities back into their place. The Island transgression altogether. "Sin and from the curse, therefore it is our armies and camp followers; (e) the of Great Bedlam became the island transgression is finished and ended," liberty to make use of whom we high-flown Ran t e r generalizations j and tithes survived. Women were put back into of Great Britain, God's confusion said Coppe. The point is, however, please" (p. 256). Another Ranter, confused the simpler members of the their place. The Island of Great Bedlam became yielding place to man's order. that Coppe and his followers were Thomas Webbe, too, had something community; (f) finally there emerged Great Britain was the largest free­ by no means alone in this. Faced like a philosophy of free love. He the need to have laws and rules­ the island of Great Britain. trade area in Europe, but one in with the deadlock inherent in Cal­ claimed to "live above ordinances, and punishments to deal with the which the commerce of ideas was vinism, "many active spirits, whose and that it was lawful for him to idle and the ignorant, the unruly and again restricted. Milton's nation of minds were above their means" (the lie with any woman," allegedly as­ the "self-ended spirits" (p. 185). All that "all copyhold lands are parcels (p. 31), insisting that the master­ prophets became a nation of shop­ quaint phrase is Thomas Fuller's) serting that "there's no heaven but in all, Hill's true hero in the book hedged in or taken out of the com­ servant relation had· no sanction in keepers (p. 306). found a bold solution in simply de­ women, nor no hell save marriage" is this Digger visionary, theoretician mon waste land since the (Norman) the New Testament. They also as­ But what was then the point of it claring that they could not sin-or if (p. 182). The Ranters' penchant for and organizer, Gerrard Winstanley, Conquest" (p. 44), the prevailing law serted that "the interest of the people all? Why, for that matter, did the they did, Christ sinned with them­ the love-in, says Hill, was "a cry for who said, among other things: "im­ being "but the declarative will of in Christ's kingdom is not only an Master of Balliol make such a stren­ "sin and righteousness (being) all human brotherhood, freedom and uni­ moderate ranting practice of the conquerors" (p. 216). interest of . . . submission, but of uous effort to understand those "ob­ one to God." But what deadlock? ty" against the harsh divisive forces senses is not the true life of peace" Consider, too, how ships' crews consultation, of debating, counselling, scure men and women, together with The deadlock between an official of market ethics and discipline. (p. 228). and armies (including the famous prophesying, voting" (p. 47). Some some not so obscure," who stood for theology flaunting a minority as the Many regard Christopher Hill as New Model Army) were recruited assertion! Some insistence! We are "rogues, vagabonds and beggars," elect and its stern moral precept de­ the spiritual heir to R. H. Tawney, from those footloose elements tramp­ speaking of England where Lord the sort of people seemingly so re­ signed to coerce all. Yet, social pres­ I n sum, it is to un­ the doyen of English economic his­ ing the roads of England: vagabonds, Herbert of Cherbury, shipwrecked at mote from the ivory-tower of Oxford? sure ensured that sin survived. The derstate the case to say that the torians, to whom is parcelled out as tramps, beggars, itinerant trading Dover in 1606 while still a mere I for one feel immensely grateful to preachers did "roar up for sin in Ranters ethics, as preached by Coppe "Tawney's century" the entire period population (from pedlars, carters, gentleman, leaped into the only rescue Professor Hill for having given us their pulpit" and conservatives rallied and Clarkson, was a subversion of between the Dissolution of the Mon­ badgers, tinkers to merchant middle­ boat, used his drawn sword to pre­ this book. First of all, for his funda­ to defend sin and property together the existing society and its values. asteries and the Great Rebellion. men), the unemployed seeking work, vent anyone from coming aboard mental decency in treating the acts even while prebeian materialist scep­ As for Hill's own judgment on the Tawney did for history what Marx strolling players, jugglers and quack except a Sir Thomas Lucy and rowed and convictions of other men with ticism and anticlericalism surfaced Ranters, he let it be known through had done for sociology, and what doctors-in short, every shade of away in their gentlemanly twosome­ fairness and respect, those of the freely, fusing with theological anti­ Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of the Tawney had done for Tudor society, riffraff, congregating at country inns ness-an action admittedly motivated "lunatic fringe" not excluded. nomianism. Diggers, who apparently had some Hill has been doing for Stuart society. and taverns as centers of news and by the upperclass disdain towards As for my second point, we must And if it is impossible to conceive discussion. One of those famous the lower.s But autre temps, autre go back first to Hill's earlier work, of Tawney without Marx, it is im­ marginal notes in the Geneva Bible moeurs: a 1641 sermon given before Intellectual Origins of the English possible to conceive of Hill without has this entry for Acts 17 :6, the House of Commons seemed to Revolution (Oxford, 1965). There, he Marx and Tawney. Thus, following Vagabonds ... which do nothing capture a new drift of wind. The told us how those of the gilded circle squareley in the Marx-Tawney tradi­ but walk the streets, wicked men, sermon said in part: "The vox populi of Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville, tion of social analysis, The World to be hired for every man's money is that many of the nobles, magis­ Giordano Bruno, Peter Ramus and Turned Upside Down is quintessential to do any mischief, such as we trates, knights and gentlemen, and the like were thoroughly disgusted Christopher Hill on Stuart society. commonly call the rascals and very persons of great quality, are arrant with Oxford men "qui dum verba Discontent was rife below the sur­ sink and dunghill knaves of all traitors and rebels against God" (p. sectantur, res ipsas negligunt" and face of Stuart society, Hill reminds towns and cities.... Into what 28). And the vox populi shrilled it­ how Francis Bacon and others assidu­ us again, especially among those rural country and place soever they self into a tipsy topsy-turvydom of ously advanced natural sciences as a equivalents of the London poor­ come, they cause sedition and the mid-century as the radicals talked remedy for the consequences of ori­ cottagers and squatters on commons, tumults (p. 32). incessantly of "turning the world up­ ginal sin. To cite only one short pas­ wastes and in forest lands. Suscep­ Hill points out that the "lewed fel­ side down." sage from Bacon, tible to the radical sectaries' agita­ lows of the baser sorts" in the Man by the Fall fell at the same tion, they would easily become the Authorized Version become the "vag­ time from his state of innocency rural equivalents of the notorious \ abonds" in the Geneva Bible-to UE very thing That and even from his dominion over "London mob." In addition, there 1 direct the charge of sedition to lower­ Rises Must Converge" and "The created things. Both these losses was a tradition of plebeian anti­ class itinerants, and away from reli­ Violent Bear It Away": this article can even in this life be partially clericalism and irreligion among gious radicals. But this, says Hill, is comes to an end because the story repaired; the former by religion rogues, vagabonds and beggars in rather pointless because religious rad­ of those sectaries comes to an end and faith, the latter by arts and their Robin Hood atmosphere of icals were all too often itinerants as after "a fantastic outburst of energy," sciences.9 sylvan liberty. And given the fact well. Hill's point is well taken: Fox after their trudging backwards and From Bacon on, through Kant, down that the economic policy of disaffor­ was an itinerant, Bunyan a tinker, forwards across Great Britain for 20 to our own era, men spoke incessant­ estation and enclosure was at the Winstanley a hired laborer, Clarkson years. In the words of Professor Hill, ly of "torturing" nature to make her same time a socio-religious policy of an itinerant preacher, Coppin also a After the restoration officers of "own up" the secrets she possessed THE RANTERS as imagined by their &Ont8mporarus. This &nlde but curious woodcut seems to show clearing out "nurseries and receptacles clergy-turned itinerant, to mention the New Model returned to their that would advance man's science and fhal smoking ranked aJongside 'lree JOlie' as an expression of anlinomianism. of thieves, rogue.s and beggars," we only a few. And at a drop of the hat, crafts, preaching tinkers returned technology. 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especially by that self-styled fI chanter of Adamic songs," Walt Whitman. ST. JOHN'S I will cite one more passage from The American Adam insofar as it is germain to this article. According to NEWS REVIEW Lewis, if the helplessness of mere innocence has been a primary theme of novelists in almost every decade, and if the vision of innocence stimu­ New Regen~ and Dean announced lated a positive and original sense of tragedy, America, since the age of University President Michael Blecker, OsB, announced in October Emerson, has been persistently a one­ that Dan J. Brutger '52 has been elected to the St. John's Board of generation culture. Then, he goes on Regents. to say, Fr. Michael also said Dr. Edward L. Henry was re-elected to the The unluckiest consequence, how­ board, Fr. John Kulas, OSB, was elected as a monastery representative ever; has not been incoherence, and Mrs. Richard Schall of Minneapolis joined the board this summer. but the sheer dullness of uncon­ Brutger, a St. Cloud-area businessman and father of a current scious repetition. We regularly re­ Johnnie, has been active in many civic and community affairs as presi­ turn, decade after decade and with dent of the Board of Education, director of the Chamber of Commerce, the same pain and amazement, to United Fund associate chairman and director of a local bank, among Brutger Mrs. Schall all the old conflicts, programs and discoveries. We consume our other roles. RANTERS powers in hoisting ourselves back In 1971 Brutger was appointed to the Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority by Gov. Wendell Anderson and in 1964 was named experiences of its predecessors (p. to the plane of understanding tiam. And we of the revealed religion one of the state's Ten Outstanding Young Men. were incessantly reminded of the In­ 13). reached a century ago and at in­ ll quisition of Galileo-as though it My final point is more apropos of tervals since. Dr. Henry rejoined the St. John's faculty this fall after serving were a new original sin. But today's the American scene. Some years ago, In one of those "intervals since," as president of st. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Mrs. Schall, ecology and counter-culture rhetoric R. W. B. Lewis wrote a book the having barely come out of "the same whose husband is a senior vice president of the Dayton Hudson Corp., wish that this same religion had neg­ title of which is a giveaway of what pain and amazement" vis-a-vis the is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and has had a long-time lected the res ipsas even more, blam­ I intend to say, The American Adam: Flower Children of the last decade interest in st. John's and higher education; she is currently studying ing it for having believed with too Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition of and their "innocence, tragedy and ways to interpret and translate for lay people today's rapid technol­ great a rigor the Biblical injunction the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, tradition" seriatim, we may perchance ogical developments. of "dominion over created things." 1955). The period covered by the need to contort ourselves a bit less At their meeting Oct. 18, the Regents approved appointment of Which makes Professor Hill's latest author runs from about 1820 to 1860 with pain in the next round in the Sister Mary Anthony Wagner as dean of the Graduate School of book rather timely, especially in an -with the main theme that "the future if we grasp better the nature observation such as this one: image contrived to embody the most and genesis of "the old conflicts, Theology. Acting dean the past year, Sister Mary Anthony succeeds History has to be rewritten in fruitful contemporary ideas was that programs, and discoveries" by hoist­ Fr. Aelred Tegels, OsB. She has been affiliated with the graduate school S. Mary every generation, because although of the authentic American as a figure ing ourselves back to the plane of since its founding in 1963 and on the faculty of st. John's University the past does not change, the of heroic innocence and vast poten­ understanding reached, not one cen­ since 1964. Anthony present does; each generation asks tialities, poised at the start of a new tury ago, but three. Towards this end, new questions of the past, and history."lo And in a Bible-reading Professor Christopher Hill of Oxford finds new areas of sympathy as generation, that myth of a radically has provided us with a valuable it re-lives different aspects of the new personality was most easily iden- guide. 0 MIAC names newall-sports traveling trophy after George Durenberger George Durenberger '28 may not be affiliated directly any longer with the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Association but the league , i

NOTES won't forget him. ! I 1 Professor Hill's new book again manifests his phe­ tory 1509-1660 (Oxford, 1971), p. 361. Through the efforts of the Board of Directors of the J-Club, the nomenal knowledge of 17th-century pamphlets, broadsides, 5 Lord Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power (Boston: MIAC has adopted a traveling trophy for the conference's most suc­ sermons, tracts, newspapers, ballads, etc. For reason of space, Beacon Press, 1948), p. 149. cessful overall college. The prize is the George Durenberger All-Sports however, I will simply indicate Hill's quotations from these 6 John Milton, Prose Works (London, 1848-53), II, p. 114. Award. sources in the book-and his own observations as well-by 7 Horton Davies, The English Free Churches (Oxford, page-numbers in the body of the article after I quote from 1963), p. 110. The trophy, which has a plate engraved with the name(s) of his book. Sources other than Hill's book will be footnoted. 8 Lawrence Stone, The Crisis of Aristocracy: 1588-1641 the winning school, was designed by the St. John's art and wood­ 2 C. B. McPherson, The Political Theory of Possessive (Oxford, 1956), p. 30. working departments, Fr. Martin schirber, OsB, J-Club secretary! Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford, 1962), ch. 3, The 9 Bacon, Works, VI, 21, cited by Hill in Intellectual treasurer says. Levellers: Franchise and Freedom. Origins, p. 89. The organization's directors "wanted to make an award which 3 Ibid., p. 111. 10 Lewis, p. 1. 4 Conrad Russell, The Crisis of Parliaments: English His- 11 Ibid., p. 9. would give recognition to George's specific and distinctive contribution to sports-especially his life-long devotion to promoting all sports and particularly those which would carryover into adult life," Fr. Martin reports. He regretfully adds the first school to hold the trophy is the College of st. Thomas. George, trophy

14 Saint Saint 15 II I National Alumni Board meets, Frank Herring, SJU music professor, dies I Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Herring, 54, music professor at St. elects officers, discusses 'plan' John's, died September 20 at the University of Minnesota Hospital of an apparent heart attack. He was in the hospital and underwent The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Alumni what was considered successful surgery the previous day. Association was held October 11-12 in conjunction with Homecoming. A faculty member at St. John's since 1955, Mr. Herring served The Board elected Richard Pope '58 President, Roger Scherer '58 as chairman of the music department and band director while at St. Vice President and Clem Commers '57 Secretary. In addition to Scherer, John's. In 1965 he was appointed director of the St. Cloud Municipal Gene Koch '51 and Marty Rathmanner '57 were elected to the Board Band by the Mayor of St. Cloud, and he served in that post until the in September. Gerry Donlin '55 and Bob Bray '40 are continuing two­ time of his death. year terms. He was active in numerous professional organizations including At the Friday and Saturday sessions the Board reviewed the the Music Educators National Conference and was president of the Saint John's Plan of Liberal Education which was submitted for dis­ National Catholic Bandmasters Association from 1963 to 1967. He cussion by St. John's President Michael Blecker. In addition, the continued to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the NCBA. Board reviewed policies related to the use of the St. John's alumni Mr. Herring taught in public elementary and secondary schools mailing list and reaffirmed its confidentiality and exclusive use by in Texas and Colorado before joining the St. John's staff. He had University personnel. Additional discussion centered on the Annual a master's degree in music and education from Texas Technological Alumni Fund and communications with alumni living outside the State University. of Minnesota. Other agenda items included current and future academ­ Approved by the State High School League for adjudicating music ic, administrative and student life programs and policies. contests, Mr. Herring had judged many contests throughout Minnesota Several of these topics were explored in a series of meetings with Pope during the last several years. the University's three vice presidents. Mr. Herring is survived by his wife, Mary Rose, and eight chil­ dren: James, 26; John, 24; Judy, 22; Jane, 21; Joseph, 18; Jeffry, 15; Kathleen, 13; and Peggy, 6. Hill Foundation grants St. John's $23,000 for peer-counseling program The Hill Family Foundation of St. Paul has awarded St. John's University $23,152 for establishment of a freshman year peer-coun­ seling program. Announcement of the grant, part of the Foundation's compre­ hensive independent college program, was made Nov. 27 by SJU President Michael Blecker, OSB. The new program involves upperclassmen who are trained to serve as counselors/advisers to freshmen living in their residence halls. "Informal peer counseling is not new to St. John's," Fr. Michael explained. "The Hill Foundation grant, however, will enable us to formalize it and assure proper training of dorm floor leaders in helping new students get acclimated to college life here." The program is directed toward achievement of student education objectives and improvement of retention. Frank Herring 1920-1974 Fr. Jerome Theisen joins Ecumenical Institute staff St. John's receives $84,000 from state Fr. Jerome Theisen, OSB, has been appointed associate director private college fund; $846,700 since '51 of the St. John's Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research by its board of directors. In his new position, Fr. Jerome will be respon­ St. John's received $84,427 from the Minnesota Private College sible for the development and direction of programming at the In­ Fund last year, MPCF officials have announced. The University has stitute and will act as a "liaison between the Institute's resident-scholars received $846,787 since the organization was founded in 1951. and the University community," he said. Through the Private College Fund, St. John's joins the state's 14 In addition to the duties of associate director, Fr. Jerome is cur­ other private, liberal arts colleges to present a single, coordinated re­ rently teaching two courses at St. John's University and serving in quest to business and industry for financial support of their current his last year as chairman of the theology department, a post he has operating budgets. held since 1969. MPCF officials point out one request (and one gift) for the 15 For the future of the Institute, Fr. Jerome is optimistic about the institutions has proven good for them and popular with business; they possibility for group scholarship on a single topic. "We are con­ feel alumni who are in a position to influence their own company's sidering proposals to invite teams of scholars to address themselves policy can do both St. John's and the Fund a good turn by encouraging to a particular topic of concern in the area of religion and society, support of the coordinated annual drive. research it and then publish their results," he said. Fr. Jerome

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Elmer Kohorst leaves St. John's Fr. Roger Botz named director for Albany bank position of church and civic service Elmer Kohorst, head baseball coach and intramural director at St. John's University has named Fr. Roger Botz, OSB, its first St. John's University, resigned his position in the athletic department director of church and civic service. Announcement was made in mid­ here to join the Albany State Bank, athletic director Jim Smith said November by President Michael Blecker, OSB. September 5. Succeeding him as financial aid director is Br. Paul Fitt, OSB. Kohorst, a former All-American catcher at the University of Notre Fr. Roger will now work with church organizations on the diocesan, Dame, had been affiliated with St. John's at the University and Prep state and national levels and with area civic groups so they may make School for 15 years. best use of St. John's resources and programs; he will also represent "Losing Elmer puts a big hole in our program," Smith said. "He their interests to the University. was very valuable as a coach and director of the University intramural Fr. Michael said Fr. Roger will coordinate all programs which program but was also a strong asset as a physical education teacher. can serve educational associations, welfare organizations and other "Because he was so dedicated and loyal to St. John's and because church groups as well as the civic communities in Stearns County with of his tremendous popularity with our students, Elmer will be espe­ particular emphasis on Collegeville Township, St. Joseph, Avon, Al­ Fr. Roger cially tough to replace," he said. bany, Freeport, Melrose and Alexandria in Douglas County. Kohorst, who also served as Smith's assistant basketball coach, led the baseball team to the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Con­ ference championship last spring. Freshman plans radio stint for hungry Classes 1964 to 1900 Classes 1974 to 1965 A St. John's University freshman is going to lose some sleep so READ THIS READ THIS others may eat. The Bush Foundation of St. The Bush Foundation of St. Connie Graff will host a 50-hour radio marathon show Dec. 15-17 Paul will match your in­ Paul will match your in­ on KSJU, the campus station, to promote efforts to ease the world creased contributions to the creased contributions to the hunger situation. Annual Alumni Fund from $5 Annual Alumni Fund from $5 He will go on the air Sunday at 3 p.m., play some rock and roll to $5,000 on a one-for-one to $5,000 on a two-for-one and easy listening music, talk to guests about the food problem and basis, up to a maximum of basis, up to a maximum of broadcast old time radio shows. By 5 p.m. Tuesday, he hopes to have $20,000. The Foundation will $10,000. The Foundation will solicited pledges for food for the needy. also pay $7,500 per percent­ also pay $1,500 per percent­ Before he goes on the air, he hopes to have contacted St. Cloud­ age point increase in alumni age point increase in alumni area residents, businesses and students; alerted them to the food crisis; participation in annual giv­ participation in annual giv­ and seek support from them. The money will be collected by the SJU ing, up to a maximum in­ ing, up to a maximum in­ Campus Ministry. Graff crease of six percentage crease of seven percentage points (371 new donors) or points (277 new donors) or $30,000. $10,500. Coming events • If you contributed $50 in fiscal 1974 and now • If you contributed $50 in fiscal 1974 and now December January contribute $100 to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund, contribute $100 to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund, 3 Basketball at Marquette 8 Basketball at Gustavus the Foundation will contribute $50 - matching the the Foundation will contribute $100 - matching the 4 Willem Ibes piano recital; 8 p.m.; Main Auditorium 10 Swimming vs. River Falls; 7 p.m.; Palaestra amount of increase one-for-one. amount of increase two-for-one. 4 Hockey vs. Hamline; 8 p.m.; Ice Arena 11 Hockey at St. Thomas; 7:30 p.m. • If you did not contribute to St. John's in fisca! • If you did not contribute to St. John's in fiscal 4 Wrestling at St. Thomas Triangular 11 St. John's Wrestling Takedown Tournament; 1974, but now give $25 to the 1975 Annual Alumm 1974, but now give $25 to the 1975 Annual Alumni 6 Basketball at St. Cloud Palaestra Fund, the Foundation will contribute $105 - $25 Fund, the Foundation will contribute $88 - $50 7 Swimming at Hamline for Minn. Relays; 8 a.m. 11 Basketball vs. Concordia; 7:30 p.m.; Palaestra 7 Hockey vs. St. Mary's; 2 p.m.; Ice Arena matching your gift one-for-one and - $80 as a bonus matching your gift two-for-one and - $38 as a bonus 14 Hockey vs. St. Cloud; 8 p.m.; Ice Arena 7 Wrestling at St. Cloud Invitational 15 Basketball vs. St. Olaf; 7:30 p.m.; Palaestra because you represent a new donor over last year. because you represent a new donor over last year. 8 Hockey vs. St. Mary's; 2 p.m.; Ice Arena 16 Wrestling at Augsburg • If you work for a firm which matches contribu­ • If you work for a firm which matches contribu­ 10 Swimming vs. St. Cloud; 4:30 p.m.; Palaestra 17, 18 Swimming at Stout for Bluedevil Invitational tions to higher education, and you contribute $50 tions to higher education, and you contribute $50 12 Christmas tree blessing and lighting; Great Hall 17 Hockey at Air Force; 7:30 p.m. to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund; your firm will to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund; your firm will 13-14 St. John's basketball invitation with Bemidji, 18 Basketball at Augsburg match your gift (making you eligible for membership match your gift (making you eligible for membership Luther and Southwest Minnesota; 6 :30 p.m., 18 Hockey at Air Force; 2 p.m. in the Associates), the Bush Foundation will match in the Associates), the Bush Foundation will match 8:30 p.m.; Palaestra 22 Basketball vs. Hamline; 7:30 p.m.; Palaestra your gift or the increased portion of it on a one­ your gift or the increased portion of it on a two­ 13 Hockey vs. Macalester; 6 p.m.; Ice Arena 24 Wrestling quadrangular at Whitewater for-one basis and, in addition, contribute a bonus for one basis and, in addition, contribute a bonus 13 Swimming vs. St. Thomas; 4 p.m.; Palaestra 24 Swimming vs. Duluth; 4 p.m.; Palaestra of $80 if you're a new donor over last year. of $38 if you're a new donor over last year. 14 Hockey vs. Gustavus; 4 p.m.; Ice Arena 25 Basketball at Duluth 14 Swimming vs. Southwest Minnesota; 1:30 p.m.; 25 Hockey at Augsburg; 7 :30 p.m. • If you contributed $25 in fiscal 1974 and now • If you contributed $25 in fiscal 1974 and now Palaestra 25 Swimming at North Dakota State; 1 p.m. contribute $25 to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund, contribute $25 to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund, 16 Beethoven Birthday Party; 8 p.m.; Main Aud. 25 Wrestling quadrangular; Palaestra the Foundation will not match your gift; but your the Foundation will not match your gift; but your 17 Hockey vs. St. Cloud; 8 p.m.; Ice Arena 28 Hockey at Gustavus; 7:30 p.m. gift will aid the participation and dollar increase by gift will aid the participation and dollar increase by 19 - Jan. 6 Christmas vacation 29 Basketball vs. St. Thomas; 7:30 p.m.; Palaestra maintaining the base on which new gifts and donors maintaining the base on which new gifts and donors 26-28 Basketball at St. Cloud for Granite City Classic 29 Swimming at Gustavus; 4 p.m. can be built. can be built. 31 Hockey at St. Olaf 31, Feb. 1 National Catholic Wrestling Invitational

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SJU SPORTS In his 26th year of coaching, John Gagliardi led his football squad to a 7-2 overall record, a 5-2 MIAC REVIEW tally and a tie with Concordia for the conference crown. The Johnnie offense rolled up more than 340 yards per game, nearly half of them via the arm by Matt Wilch, SJU Sports Information Director of senior quarterback Mike Kozlak. Kozlak's 1322 yards, 51.3 per cent completion rate and 16 touch­ down strikes were the marks of a man rated thir­ teenth in national NAIA passing statistics. Kozlak There was success this fall in St. John's athletics. had able targets in junior split end Todd Watson Two Cindarella teams, football and soccer, placed and senior tight end Mike Messerschmidt. The pair first and second in conference, respectively, and after combined for more than 850 yards and earned all­ a slow season the Johnnie cross country team rallied conference honors. Other All-MIAC choices included Homecoming, 1974 for an 11th place finish in the NCAA Division III junior offensive guard John Herkenhoff, senior de­ Meet. fensive tackle and captain Greg Miller and senior There were a variety of Homecoming activities Oct. 12. Old linebacker Nick Lynch. The Johnnies will be losing friends returned to campus (1); current students participated in nine starting seniors from this year's championship the annual AKS raft race (2) and other refreshing pastimes (3). team. Fr. Dunstan Tucker, OSB, dean, professor and coach, was pre­ sented the Fr. Walter Reger Distinguished Alumnus Award (4) by out-going Alumni President Kevin Hughes '58. There were dinners, dances, reunions. And, oh yes, football against UM­ Duluth; the scoreboard (5) says enough about that. SOCCER Photos by Stanley M. Wasilowski. 1 The miracle of miracles this year has been the St. John's succer team. They posted a 3-8-3 mark last year and were expected to finish about the same this year. Instead they posted an 11-2-3 regular season mark and placed second to Augsburg in MIAC play. In post season competition, the Johnnies have upended the Auggies to capture the District 13 title and have earned a berth in the Area III playoffs. As of this writing the kickers are still alive in the NAIA national soccer playoffs. Marty Cella carries against Augsburg. Other lays: Mark Muederking (52), Mike Messerschmidt (83), Tim Schmitz Coach Matt Sikich attributes the success this (44) and lim McClellan (63). year to a solid defense led by captain and goalie Tom Rocheford and fullbacks Jim Sawyer, Jim Mc­ Gough and Joe Speltz. Rocheford, a senior, has reg­ istered eight shutouts thus far this year and is one of five Johnnies named to the All-MIAC team. Also honored were fullback McGough, the team's number one and two scorers, Mike Lilly and Geoff Murphy, 2 3 and roving back Brian Murphy. Sikich was selected as MIAC Soccer Coach of the Year. All the Johnnie starters will be returning next year save the goalie, Rocheford.

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The Johnnie thinclads ran eight times this season and finished fourth in the conference race, placing three runners in the top ten. The trio of junior Tim Heisl and seniors Mike Fahey and co-captain Greg c:'" Carlson thereby earned all-conference laurels. In his !!:" first year as coach, former Johnnie All American ::rs-"" Fullback loe Speltz pursues the ball as the lay soccer Dave Lyndgaard led his runners to an 11th place o squad tangles with Lakeland. finish in the NCAA Division III meet. 4 5 20 Saint Saint 21 l

his wife, Rita, live at 1909 6th Ave NE, Rev. Ray Schulzetenberg, Chm. College of Saint Benedict faculty in 1943 St. Cloud, MN 56301 Austin 55912. . .. WILL DOMBROVSKE the sociology department. . .. THOMAS has been teaching in the U of Minnesota ROST of 1312 Clara Lane, Davis, CA ALUMNI Dr. EDWARD HENRY has rejoined Graduate School of Business in addi­ 95616, is assistant professor of botany tion to working as an accountant with the St. John's faculty after serving the at the U of California, Davis. He is NEWS NOTES past two years as an electronics firm.... JAMES SCHU­ also chairman of his parish Liturgical president of St. MACHER lives at 1112 Magnolia St, Commission. Mary's College, Colorado Springs, CO 80907 (home Notre Dame, IN. He phone: 303-598-5477). In addition to his work for the state Dept. of Social John Chromy, Chm. will spend full-time 1964 Oak Park, Il 60301 in the classroom af­ Services, Jim is training to earn a clin­ ter 18 years of com­ ical membership in transactional analy­ bining teaching with sis which would permit him to do T A BERNIE BECKMAN, Golden Valley, administrative work therapy .... JAMES VAN HERCKE of has been elected vice-president of the both on the college the Minneapolis Star and Tribune was J-Club. . .. ROBERT KLEIN is now level and publicly; elected executive vice-president of the living at 1109 State Aid Rd 4, St. Cloud AI Siebenand, Chm. Sales and Marketing Executives of Min­ 56301. A science teacher at John XXIII 1930 Avon, MN 56310 he will continue to serve on the SJU neapolis. School, he has three sons: Jason, Daniel Board of Regents and Philip. His home phone is 612-252- MELVIN FORD retired as an officer Henry 6131. ... DIO ROCKERS is now living of the Wells Fargo bank in San Fran­ and as the only 1952 non-college president on the 12-member at 10662 Utica Rd, Bloomington. He is cisco in 1973. He and his wife now a sales manager at National Starch & live at 11316 NE 28 St, SP-12, Van­ board of the National Catholic Educa­ PETE HERGES, athletic director of Chemical. His home number is 612- couver, WA. tional Association. . .. BOB STEVEN­ SON is a wholesale executive in St. Albany High School, coached the Hus­ 831-0082 .... The WAGNER brothers­ Cloud. He lives at 1106 Riverside Dr SE. kies to the state championship football ROGER, J. F. ('48) and Daniel (Prep grad) - of Wagner Brother Ranch, Donald Kolb, Chm. tourney this year. As grid coach there, 1932 Holdingford, MN 56340 he has won 130 games and lost fewer Nashua, MT, sold half interest in their 1944 than 40. grand national champion bull, Golden Msgr. STEPHEN ANDERL is the Treasure, to actor John Wayne's 26 Bar Ranch for $30,000. pastor of St. Mary's Parish, Durand, Fr. DONALD BERG, pastor of St. Robert L. Forster, Chm. WI, and dean of the Durand Deanery. Wenceslaus Parish, Milladore, WI 54454, 1954 Edina, MN 55436 Myron Hall, long time ST. CLOUD DAlLY TIMES photographer, is presented He is also on the Diocesan Board of Sf. John's President's Citation as a tribute to his dedicated efforts in picturing is also the president of the Priests' 1965 Education; Executive Board, West Cen­ Senate of the Diocese of La Crosse. CHARLIE CAMMACK works in At­ life and events in the St. Cloud area. President Michael Blecker, OSB, con­ tral Wisconsin Community Action lanta for IBM. He lives at 4549 Kings­ gratulates him and thanks him for the many services he has done for St. John's. Agency, Inc., and Executive Board, gate Dr, Chamblee, GA. ... DICK Capt. JOHN BIERDEN is presently Chippewa Valley BSA Council. 1949 CHRISTOPHERSON is presently the An associate professor of history at stationed in Germany where he has just vice president of administration and James Gephart, Chm. completed his first year in systems man­ 1957 White Bear Lake, MN 55110 St. Catherine's College, he earned his GEORGE REISDORF of Dan Marsh finance of Burger King in Miami. agement. His address is Headquarter, Drugs has been elected to the St. Cloud doctorate at the U of Minnesota, writ­ 1933 Address: N Kendall Dr, PO Box 783, ing a dissertation on reform in the SUPACT, APO, New York 09189 .... Chamber of Commerce Board of Direc­ Biscayne Annex, Miami 33152; home Fr. JOSEPH KEATING is chaplain at Fr. JOHN DAVIS, a priest of the tors. VA Hospital (#124), Canandaigua, NY Russian Orthodox Church, 1900-1906. Fr. LAWRENCE EDWARDS has de­ phone: 305-274-7305. . .. MICHAEL Diocese of Fargo, received the Mission DONAHUE has been promoted to as­ 14424. His home phone number is 315- Cross from Bishop Justin Driscoll at a voted his entire priesthood to the Sioux 394-3226. Arthur Schmitz, Chm. sistant vice president of the Burlington John MCKendrick, Chm. ceremony in Fargo, ND, on Oct. 13. Indians of western South Dakota. A 1950 Sauk Centre, MN 56378 1961 Jesuit, he resides at Mother Butler Northern. Most of his work is concerned Minneapolis, MN 55402 Reception of the with personnel administration. Mission Cross will Center, Box 788, Rapid City, SD 57701. MAURY BRITTS, a resident of Brook­ Wm. Sullivan, Chm. ARDELL (CASEY) VILANDRE of 11 E 1958 Richfield, MN 55423 New address for THOMAS JOYCE: commission him to lyn Center for 15 years, has been re­ Conklin, Grand Forks, ND, owns Vil­ 37 Lenox Road, Summit, NJ 07901. ... serve in the South elected to the city council. He is an andre Fuel and Heating. His home phone American Missions Clarence A. laSelle, Chm. Fr. JOHN BORGERDING, OSB, has KEVIN MADDEN has been appointed 1937 Burnsville, MN instructor at St. Thomas and a member number is 701-772-2915 and his office for the next five been teaching pastoral psychology at assistant professor of English at George­ of the Minnesota Education Council. number is 701-775-4675. years. Father left for St. John's Seminary and College, Cama­ town U, Washington. He earned his CLARENCE LASELLE of 2700 Selkirk ... Judge DOMINIC KOO of Dade Lima at the end of rillo, CA, since 1972, at the request of PhD at Trinity College, National U of Drive, Burnsville 55378, has just pub­ County, FL, has been featured in the October and is en­ Cardinal Manning, archbishop of Los Ireland and wrote his dissertation on New York Times and The Stars and Jerald L. Howard, Chm. rolled in a language lished his third book: Who's Kicking 1956 St. Cloud, MN 56301 Angeles. William Butler Yeats. the "P" Out of the PTA (Vantage Press, Stripes for his cooking abilities. He school. Since ordi­ reports that when he moved to the U.s., New York. $4.95). Clarence, who teaches Dr. LESLIE CHEN has been working nation Fr. Davis has math at Prior Lake Senior High, draws so many people asked him to make 1962 served as associate Oriental dishes that he became a skilled as a psychiatrist in Hong Kong at the Dr. Thomas Hobday, Chm. on his long experience as a teacher anq 1959 St. Cloud, MN 56301 pastor of Nativity Chinese cook by reading the labels on Castle Park Hospital for the past few Fr. John administrator to paint a lively picture years. Last year he was given the op­ Parish in Fargo. of the way things really are in "Any­ cans of Chinese food. Mr. Koo started Br. LEWIS BRAZIL, CSC, 13500 De­ cooking in the 1950's as a student. Mr. portunity to complete his specialization WILLIAM O'BRIEN, 16559 Citadel PI, troit Ave, Lakewood, OH 44107, is town" USA. in psychiatry in London and passed his Koo's proudest moment came when he Cincinnati 45230, has been promoted to teaching instrumental music full time 1966 Thomas L. Tucker, Chm. earned $250 for a public television specialty exam this summer. He lives at assistant general manager for the Hart­ and is an associate director at St. Madison, WI 53704 6 Ede Rd, Flat loA, Kowloon, Hong 1942 John O'Connell, Chm. channel that auctioned him off as a ford Insurance Group's regional office. Edward High School in Cleveland. St. Paul, MN 55116 cook-for-a-night during a fund raising Kong; is married and has one child, ... GARY SAUER is a lieutenant com­ Dr. JOHN NEI, a dentist, lives on telethon.... ARTHUR KREMER, 4406 a daughter.... JAMES MASTERJOHN mander in the Navy as supply officer. Rte 2, Long Prairie 56347. . .. MIKE is the agency manager for State Farm KONALD PREM of 4806 Sunnyside N Drew Ave, Robbinsdale 55422, is an He and his wife, Judith, and family live 1963 Daniel Lynch, Chm. SPITTLER is presently living at 2125 E Rd, Minneapolis 55424, continues as a aviation teacher at School Dist #281. Auto-Life-Home and Business. He lives at 564 Mariposa St, Chula Vista, CA Santa Clara, CA 95050 River Terr, Minneapolis 55414 (phone professor for the department of ob­ He notes that his wife, Margaret, re­ at Rte 3, Box A37, Woodland Heights, 92011. 612-332-2078). He is working as an stetrics and gynecology at the U of cently earned her pilot license. Fergus Falls 56537; his phone number JACK DAUGHERTY is presently instructional aide at Edgewood Junior Minnesota School of Medicine. The first is 218-736-3991. ., .Fr. PAUL (ALCUlN) living at 3213 Dana Dr, Burnsville. He High School; playground instructor for gynecologist in the state, he is president SIEBENAND, OSB, St. Gregory's Col­ Dr. Everetle Duthoy, Chm. 1960 felix Mannella, Chm. is a dentist at the Village Medical Cen­ the city Park Board; and self-employed of the Minnesota Obstetrical and Gyne­ 1951 St. Paul, MN 55101 lege, Shawnee, OK 74801, is currently Coon Rapids, MN 55433 ter in Southtown Target Center. Jack fishing tackle dealer. He is the vice­ cological Society. He also has been director of public information there and and his wife, Judy, have two children: president of Minnesota Trout Unlimited promoted to brigadier general in the G. M. LANDHERR is presently a teaches journalism and cinema. His JAMES CUNNINGHAM is presently Shawn, 7; Patrick, 4.... MAURICE and coordinator for Minnesota and Wis­ medical corps of the Army Reserve. pharmacist at Landherr Drugs; he and phone number is 405-273-7492. living at 2010 Jefferson, St. Paul 55105. REYERSON has been appointed to the consin chapters.

22 Saint 23 ordained at the Crosier House of at the U of Minnesota Medical School. SJU Alumni Studies, Fort Wayne, on Sept. 7. He Deaths ... TOM STEIDL, 13609 Avebury Dr, is currently com­ t HUBERT SCHINDLER '14 Apt 22, Laurel, MD 20811, is with the at St. Gregory's pleting in in-serv­ t HERBERT HOFFMAN '22 Judge Advocate's Corps at Fort Meade. ice training at St. tALBERT A. STEIN '22 Twenty four Benedictine monks of Cyprian's Parish in St. Gregory's Abbey, Shawnee, OK t MYRON WIEST '31 Detroi t. ... JAMES t PAUL MORIN '41 Pal Evans, Chm. 74801, are alumni of St. John's. They MAHAN received 1972 Beaver Dam, WI 53916 are Abbot Robert Dodson'42, Fr. Augus­ t RICHARD W. SLADEK '47 the MA degree from t NEIL BOTZ '48 tine Horn '42, Fr. Brendan Helbing '61, St. Thomas College WILLIAM BISHOP and his wife, Fr. Claude Sons '27, Fr. Denis Statham t MICHAEL J. ETTEL '57 Cathy, live at 5615-7 Old Dover Blvd, in St. Paul. ... Br. t MIKE LOUDEN '71 '41, Fr. Joseph Murphy '58, Fr. Louis CLETUS RAUSCH, Fort Wayne, IN. He is the assistant Vander Ley '62, Fr. Paul (Alcuin) FSC, received a M manager of customer relations at North Siebenand '56, Fr. Theodore Seneschal Ed degree from St. American Van Lines. Phone number: '65, Fr. Victor Roberts '65 and Fr. Thomas College in KROETSCH is presently living at 2520 485-3389 .... PAT FOLEY's present ad­ Vincent Traynor '39 living at St. St. Paul. ... RICH­ 9th St NW, Canton, OH 44708 and is dress is Box 119, St. Paul Seminary, Gregory's; Fr. Edmund DeCabooter '64 Fr. Glen ARD WEIER is liv­ a chemist for Ashland Petroleum Co. 2260 Summit, St. Paul 55105 .... PAUL and Fr. Francis Simon '42 at St. Bene­ ing at 14441 Range Park Rd, Poway, CA GOTA Y currently lives at 3031 Ewing dict's Rectory, 1022 W. Cleveland Ave., 92064. He is a pharmacist at University Ave S, Apt 154, Minneapolis 55416. Montebello, CA 90640; Fr. (Chaplain Hospital of San Diego. He and his wife, Paul is continuing his studies in law and Lt. Col.) Anthony Bumpus '49 at Bonnie, have been married three years. at the U of Minnesota. . .. ROGER Goose Bay Airport, Goose Bay, Labra­ Their phone number is 714-748-5592. HUMBERT is living at 1417 16th St S, dor, Canada; Bro. Bernard O'Rourke '43 ... BERNARD WIXON's address is 4125 St. Cloud. He is presently marketing at St. Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, PA Village Court, Annandale, VA 22003. representative for R. K. Humbert & 15650; Fr. Blase Schumacher '30 at Our Associates. He and his wife, Tricia, Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Sterling, The four Stovik brothers, St. John's University alumni, represent 104 years in have two sons: Shannon and Nathan. OK 73567; Fr. Gerard Nathe '35 at the priesthood. From left they are Fr. Jordan Stovik, OSB, '39, of St. John's Jay Simons, Chm. ... ROBERT LIETZKE of 328 Edmund St. Teresa's Church, Harrah, OK 73045; Abbey, pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Moorhead; Fr. Louis C. Stovik, '40, 1970 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Ave, St. Paul 55103, attended graduate Fr. James Murphy '43 at St. Benedict's associate pastor of Christ the King Church in Pueblo, Colo., and director of school for one year and is now with Church, 632 N. Kickapoo, Shawnee, the diocese Development Fund Office there; Fr. Bartholomew Stovik, OSB, '40, STEVE FORRESTELL has joined St. International Travel Arrangers in the OK 74801; Fr. John Bloms '44 at St. monk of Assumption Abbey in North Dakota, chaplain at St. Francis Nursing John's Center for the Study of Local sales department .. ,. BARRY MALCOM Stephen's Church, Holdenville, OK Home, Breckenridge, N.D.; and Fr. Raphael Stovik, OSB, '51 of Assumption Government as a law clerk for the new Forrestell McShane visited St. John's while on a vacation 74848; Brother Manuel Magallanes '66 ready-reference hotline on judicial prob­ trip through the USA and Canada. He at St. Mark School of Theology, South Abbey, chaplain at St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings, Mont. Their six brothers lems offered Minnesota county judges. The Kroetschs have one daughter, Beth is personnel and immigrant supervisor Union, KY 42283; Fr. Mathias Faue '48 did not attent St. John's but sister Mary Ann is a 1949 graduate of the College This is the first reference system of its Ann. Phone: 216-454-8815 .. ,. MICHAEL for the Bahamas Oil Refining Co. His at St. Wenceslaus' Church, Prague, OK of St. Benedict. kind for the county court.... JOSEPH McSHANE has been appOinted person­ address is PO Box F-2604, Freeport, 74864; Fr. Philip Berning '42 at St. nel officer at First Bank System in Grand Bahamas Island, Bahamas. He Minneapolis. His duties will include Joseph's Church, 1300 E. Beverly, Ada, the yearbook.... JAMES (PETE) AT­ can be reached at 809-352-5821 or 809- Ave S, Minneapolis 55417 is presently recruiting and employment related liason OK 74820; Fr. Thomas Rabideau '40 WOOD of 902 13 Ave, NE #27, Brainerd 352-9811. . .. THOMAS MARTIN in a Seasons of Leisure sales representa­ Marriages with First Bank System affiliate banks. at Immaculate Conception Church, 56401, has accepted the position of presently living at 3884 Dakota Ave, tive. He and his wife, Linda, have two He has been active in the Billings, MT, Seminole, OK 74868; and Fr. Stephen registered representative for IDS. He JAMES SCHUMACHER '51, to Nancy Cincinnati 45229. He is a second-year children, a girl and a boy. After grad­ Chamber of Commerce, Billings Jaycees, Kelley '53 at Mother of Sorrows Church, and his wife, Pat, have one child, graduate student at Xavier U, majoring uating from St. John's, Jim spent six Degnan, July 6, 1974. United Way, Billings Kiwanis Club (as Apache, OK 73006. Melissa. His home phone is 612-829- RICHARD HECOMOVICH '66, to in clinical psychology. .,. MIKE MUR­ years of active duty as a US Air Force board member), YMCA and the Rocky 0756. '" THOMAS ENGELS of 41 S PHY is the youth minister at St. pilot. . .. WILLIAM FOGARTY started £lain Mohrmann, September 22, 1974. Booster. New address: 3035 Glenden Ruth St, St. Paul, is presently the pilot Michael's Catholic Church in Duluth. teaching biology and physical science WILLIAM FOGARTY '68, to Kath­ Terrace, Golden Valley 55427 .... FRED plant supervisor of a 3M synthetic Mike is also an instructor in the de- this year at Thief River Falls. He and erine Miller, July 13, 1974. THIELMAN has been involved in U Greg Bouleke, Chm. his wife, Katherine, live at 1236 Edge­ leather project. He and his wife, Sharon, 1967 Minneapolis, MN 55404 STEPHEN SCHAEFER '68, to Diana of Southern California's International have a son and a daughter .... THOMAS wood Dr, Apt #18, Thief River Falls Duke, November 11, 1972. Public Administration Program which 56701. ... JOSEPH GAIDA was elected FREUND, 5902 3rd St NE, Fridley 55432, GARY SCHIRMERS '69, to Nancy HAROLD V. PEARSON, MD, joined took him to France for two months and a fellow in the Gerontological Society is a salesman for Real Estate 10. He Marvin, May 25, 1974. Births the Greeley St Clinic in Stillwater this to Tunisia for seven months on an section on social research, planning and and his wife" Claudia, have two daugh­ STEVE LEPINSKI '70, to Ellen Baker, Daughter, Jennifer Helene, to Mr. and summer.... NORBERT WIELENBERG, internship. He is now leaning toward practice. At 28, he is believed to be one ters: Rebecca and Christine. . .. DANIEL September 14, 1,974. Mrs. ARDELL (CASEY) VILANDRE Upsala, received his PhD from the U international banking. of the youngest ever selected for this GALLES is living at 8434 S Oakland ANTHONY FIKE '72, to Jazelle Doose, '54, April 16, 1974. of Minnesota at commencement exer­ honor. Fellowship requirements include Ave, Bloomington. He is employed by August 3, 1974. Son, Andrew William, to Mr. and Mrs. cises in August. JAMES CUNNINGHAM '60, Novem­ an advanced degree, more than five Robert G. Engelhart & Co as a CPA. PAUL GOTAY '72, to Theresa Turner, William Moeller, Chm. years of responsible work in the field Dan is a member of the Hospital finan­ August 10, 1974. 1971 Fairmont, MN 56031 ber 24, 1973. of gerontology and unique contributions cial Management Association and he Son, Joseph Peter, to Mr. and Mrs. James Shiely, Chm. KIMCULP '73, to Carol Rothestein, 1968 Roseville, MN 55113 in the areas of gerontological academics and his wife, Kathryn, are moderators August 3, 1974. Dr. MICHAEL BENNETT is asso­ JOSEPH SCOBLEC '62, July 2,9, 1974. and practice.... PETER NOLAN, MD, for the CYC premarriage class at Fiat JOSEPH DIRKSEN '73, to Mary Ryan, ciated with Dr. Boyd Langseth, DDS, Daughter, Catherine Mary, to Mr. and Mrs. RICH CHALMERS '63, August Fr. BEN BACHMEIER has just moved and his wife, Mary, are now living at House. _He is also a member of the July 27, 1974. in Sandstone. A graduate of the U of to a new assignment at St. Francis 11116 Avenida Del Gato, San Diego St. Paul Jaycees. His home phone is TOM FRANKMAN '73, to Beth M's School of Dentistry, Mike and his 31, 1974. Son, Daniel Ronald, to Mr. and Mrs. Church, Marion, ND 58466. . .. DON 92126. He is working for the Navy at 881-5456 .... Dr. PAT HERMANSON Green, Summer, 1974. wife, Nancy, live in Sandstone. .,. ROBERT KLEIN '64, July 25, 1974. BRAGER became Fairmont's new city Balboa Hospital. Their home phone is lives with his family at 104 Lakeview MIKE HUBER '73, July 27, 1974. WILLIAM CHAN has moved to 10 finance director and treasurer in Septem­ 714-566-6404 .... MICHAEL PAQUETTE, Dr, Pierre 57501. . .. MICHAEL HUP­ DONALD LONGPRE '73, to Lisa Sunny Glenway, #1902, Donmills On­ Son, Joseph, to Mr. and Mrs. JAMES ber. He and his wife, Kathryn, an St. Cloud, has been named chairman of PERT, PO Box 2, Brookfield, MA 01506, MacKay, October 19, 1974. tario, Canada M3C 2Z3. . .. Although TEGEDER '66, July 7, 1974. elementary school teacher at Welcome, St. John's Prep School's 1974 fund drive. is presently the executive director of JOHN POSSIN '73, to Marilyn Le­ JON KALLMAN was called to active Son, Peter Mark, to Mr. and Mrs. JOHN live at 220 S Prairie Ave, Fairmont. His ... STEPHEN SCHAEFER is now living the Great Brook Valley Health Center, doux. duty in the Army in May, 1974, he was VAN DE NORTH '67, July 14, 1974. new duties involve all city financial at 1710 Alameda St, Austin, TX 78704. Inc. He and his wife, Louise, have three WAI KEUNG YEUNG '73, to Cecilia able to return recently to his job as Son, Ryan Owen, to Mr. and Mrs. accounting, payroll work and investment children. Phone number is 617-867-6772. Mak (CSB '73), August 24, 1974 . maintenance man at Maple Manor DANIEL GALLES '69, April 2, 1974. . . . ROBERT JOHNSON of 11701 67th Son, Evan Nord, to Dr. and Mrs. PAT­ of excess funds to maximize interest 1969 Chuck AchIer, Chm. MICHAEL BONACCI '74, to Judy Nursing Home in Anoka. . .. JOHN return..... EDWARD CHAMPA is in Minneapolis, MN 55443 Place N,Maple-Grove 55360 is a phy­ Smith, July 20, 1974. KNAPP received his JD from the U of RICK HERMANSON '69, August 29, the Air Force stationed at Misawa Air sician at Hennepin County General JAMES WACHLAROWICZ '74, to Iowa at the close of the summer ses­ 1974. Base, Japan. His new address is 6920 ROGER AMIOT of 1426 Elmwood, Hospital. His wife's name is Bonnie; Lynn Vassar, August 10, 1974. sion. .,. STEPHEN P A VELA is present­ Son, Michael David, to Dr. and Mrs. SCTY Gp, Box 3;94, APO San Francisco Grafton, ND 68237, teaches senior high their phone number is 612-425-7029 .... JEFF WACHLAROWICZ '74, to Rox­ ly living at 408 22nd Ave NE, Minne­ JOHN RHOADES '69, September 25, 96210 .... JAMES FLICK of 5920 14th accounting and typing and is moderating Fr. GLEN LEWANDOWSKI, OSC, was anne Meschke, January 5, 1974. apolis 55418. He is in his fourth year 1974.

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