Bernard Lee Schwartz Dies Widener College Trustee, Bernard 1

VOLUME 33/NUMBER l3/WIDENER COLLEGE/FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, unu Darga, sheds light on• •Improvem ·enfs by Liz Norville the leaking roofs in the dorms, StaHWriter heating and boiler problems. The roofs were repaired by a private Throughout the course of this contractor over the holidays. school year the Department of New leaks were found this past ' Maintenance has promised to do ~ eek, so the contractor will be many repair jobs that haven't yet making a return trip to repair been done. them. The heating problem is top Numerous complaints 'were' priority now. An outside contrac made because of the poor tor has also been called in·to help lighting on campus in the wake of repair these imperfections. These homes and the adjoining church are a few of the targets of Widener's Development Of· Widener's crime problems. The MacMorland Center was ex fice. According to Robert Bruce, head of the department, the college is attempting to define the biggest complaint is the lack of terminated over the holiday as lighting in the Kirkbride Parking were numerous dorms. This is a campus' boundaries by acquiring property. See story below. Lot. Pete Dargay, head of routine occurence on campus Maintenance, said that the de because of health rules. Deve'o"nie~t partment has been waiting for Work to be done later this year the poles and lights to come in. includes improvement of the "The poles are now in, but the campus sidewalks. This .project lights aren't," said Dargay, "This was started in early fall, but Acquiring moreland to define problem will probably be taken work was put off to be resumed care of ,this week." after the spring thaw. Repeated destruction of the For Ute sports-minded, the lights in the quads is another football field will be closed off in the 'boundries ' problem. Maintenance just re the spring for repairs. "The placed all the lights in the quads Maintenance staff plans to im by John Colabro The school has recently com the overflow from the creek dur this past week according to prove the field before the Eagles Staff Writer pleted a deal in which it pur ing heavy rain, which it now Dargay. _ and Pioneers come back for chased the Knights of Colum does. The lack of lighting around practice; says Dargay'. , . Last week Mr. Robert Bruce. bus Hall next door to Walio's On the corner of" 14th and Providence House is another The bathroom for the Carriage Head of Development ' for Frog Pond. They hope to use it Providence is a parking lot that matter of com pus concern. Light House is still not a reality. It has Widener College, listed som~ of as a computer center, which will soon be paved, lighted and ing there is to be put up by the beEm requested but the budget the projects that he and his- of would relieve some of the over fenced ' free-of-charge. This is city upon the completion of the isn't big enough to undertake the fice have been working on. crowding in Kirkbride. The new' also a result of Bruce's roadwork on Providence Ave. project. Dargay admitted that As anyone wpo has tried to nursing center, which will be a cleverness in the game of (Route 320). The roadwork was priorities are put elsewhere, and e_stablish . housing priority result of the extensive renova monopoly. The College owns supposed to be completed this simply, "We just don't have the knows, the school has had to tioris in Old Main, will also help the land and has been letting past December, but only one lane bucks." keep up wi'th a rising demand relieve conditions in Kirkbride. construction companies who is open. Dargay said, "The way The campus jitney service will for housing. In 1973, 1,365 Bruce sees women's sports as are working on 320 park their things look now the road won't resume this week. It will run students were regjstered at the a big future trend and is already trucks on it, in exchange for the be finished until next fall." from 7-11 nightly and make a school; of those, 603 lived on planning for it. The college improvement services. This Some of the other jobs loop around campus every 1fz campus. In 1978, registration . owns the old quarry adjacent to seems like a good deal for undertaken. by Maintenance are Continued on Page 3 was up to 1,925; and live-ins I -95, next to Schwartz Athletic everyone involved! jumped to 1,067. With 77 p.er Center, which it hopes to con Widener College IS a very cent of its population living on vert into athletic ' fields. This valuable asset and neighbor to campus, Widener has almost would be ideal because it would the City of chester. Any institu Food service 'ooking become a boarding , school. centralize sports in one area. tion that generates $18 to $20 Sharples, Dixon, Widener Court This would also leave room for million dollars a year for a city and Providence house have aU future construction on the pre can't be all bad. By buying land helped to ease ' the ·crunch. sent athletic fields. Before this Widener has saved suburban for director These last two complexes were can be done, an environmental Chester from the deterioration recent Widener acquisitions. impact study is required by the that affliCts much of the city; by James R. Hall not a result of pressure frorp. The average cost for dormitory government. The quarry must and at the same time has been Staff Writer myself or anyone else on the space is $11,000 to $15,000 a be filled in order to build on it insuring its own future. SAGA staff. It was Roy's bed. At these prices, all boar and would not be able to take The SAGA food service outfit decision". ding students should be currently under contract here at -When asked for details con " perfect sleepers"! Widener is experiencing a cerning Christman's resignation, Bruce also has a constant eye change in management. Mr. Roy Dean Lindsley (Vice President of out for the future. He hopes Christman, who had occupied the Student Affairs) also stated that someday to be able to define the demanding managerial position the resignation was a result of borders of the campus by buy INSIDE TODA Y in the Widener cafeteria since outside personal pressures. The ing the necessary land. The early 1977, submitted his resig Dean claimed that lie could add thrust of this movement has nation shortly before Christmas. no further comment on the been in the direction of .Pro SAGA something new , Page 4 Mr. Larry Jones, District matter because 'he "does not vidence A venue (Ro\lte 320). On Manager for SAGA, is tempor have access to inferfuation con 15th Street across from Dixon arily filling in at the helm until cerning the internal matters of the College now owns three of the SAGA personnel department the SAGA corporation." How the four houses, and has been Pop music review Page 4 selects a new manager. Jones ever, Dean Lindsley did add that pr.omised the fourth after the said that this process should take he considered Christman a "first owner's death. Hopefully, the "about a month." class" and "competent" food church at 15th Street and Pro Newsbriefs Page S According to Jones and other service manager and referred to videne A venue, which has a ' SAGA employees, Christman's the addition of the salad bar and dwindling congregation can also departure was brought on by the "express" line as examples of be bought. Bruce would like to "personal problems" outside the Christman's competence. buy the church and let it con Pioneers' Basketball Page 8 small world of the Widener Roy Christman was unavail tinue operating as long as it cafeteria: Jones stressed that able for comment. wanted while the college used "Roy Christman's leaving was the large parish house. 2-THE DOME, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26,1979 " Bernard Lee Schwartz dies Widener College trustee, Bernard 1. later became a world pioneer in the Schwartz of LaJolla, California, died development of a variety of woven December 31, in California, of cancer of polyprophylene products. the company In Memory the pancreas and liver. Schwartz was has since become a wholly-owned subsidi sixty-four years old. ary of Standard Oil of Indiana. Chairman of the board of Sherman, Clay In 1960 Schwartz purchased Sherman, & Company of LaJolla, Schwartz had Caly & Company, a century-old chain of, "Eternity may not the chance repeat,!But. I must tread my single joined Widener's board of trustees in 1968 retail stores specializing in pianos and way alone,! In sad remembrance that we once did meet,! and was the principal donor of the organs along the west coast. And know that bliss irreuocably gone. " - Thoreau College's Bernard Lee Schwartz Physical Since • his retirement from active • Education Center, a $2.9 million sports business, Schwartz had devoted much of • * complex completed in 1971. his time to portrait photography and this The Staff of the Dome extends its sympathy and regrets to the A native of New York city, Schwartz past fall a volume of his works of fam<.)Us friends and loved ones of these members of the Widener family: attended Lehigh University and in 1937 persons, called CONTEMPORARIES, Frank Balawjder after four ' years as a sales engineer for was published by Collins, St. James, John DeMarski London. Electro Chemical Engraving Company, he Booker Ferguson founded Pilot Products, an advertising His most noteworthy humanitarian display firm which designed and manu activities had been on behalf of.

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